VINAYAK NARAYAN KANADE
Houston
Summary
- Highly accomplished Senior Data Architect with 18+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade data solutions across diverse industry domains, including Telecom, Banking, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance, Healthcare and Automotive.
- Specialized in Cloud Technologies ( Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, Google Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, Data flow, etc. ), with experience in designing, implementing and optimizing cloud-based data architectures for scalability and performance, and enable advanced analytics.
- Proven success in leading large-scale cloud data migration projects and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native solutions.
- Adept at building cloud-native data pipelines, optimizing data warehouse performance, and implementing data governance frameworks to ensure security, compliance, and scalability.
- Expertise in data warehousing architecture, data engineering, data modeling, and project management.
- Good experience in designing FinOps solutions for large scale customers and building monitoring solutions.
- Developed ‘Data Platform Effectiveness' model to benchmark data platform implementation against industry best-in-class standards.
- Skilled in integrating modern data solutions with business intelligence tools like Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, Looker, SSRS, to empower strategic initiatives and improve business outcomes.
- Working experience in cloud applications i.e. Salesforce, Oracle Eloqua cloud.
- Good understanding of Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Snowflake, Databricks.
- Committed to leveraging emerging technologies and best practices to deliver innovative, scalable, and secure data solutions that drive business value.
- Demonstrated leadership in managing large, geographically distributed teams of Data Architects, Data Engineers, QA Specialists, and BI Developers across multiple project tracks.
- Actively managing co-ordination, reporting & growing customer relationship.
- Collaborating with executives on day-to-day basis.
- Partnered with business stakeholders to create a vision and roadmap for analytics by understanding their use cases and data needs and helping them solve problems.
- Responsible for managing schedule, planning, risks for complex projects, writing SOWs, conducting interviews.
- Working knowledge of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps practices and tooling.
- Identify Web Analytics requirements for Customer 360 reporting and implement using Piwik (aka Matomo) & Google Analytics.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Architect
Persistent Systems Ltd - United Health Care
Houston, TX
01.2025 - Current
- Spearheading Cloudnova program for cloud (Snowflake and Databricks) transition from Teradata, ensuring seamless integration for one of the largest healthcare customers in the industry.
- Directed tracking and analysis of Cloudnova program goals to enhance user adoption and achieve T-Core hours efficiency.
- Designed dashboards for efficient tracking and executive reporting for the CloudNova program.
- Orchestrated the design and deployment of a scalable FinOps model, ensuring effective transition and integration of data systems from Teradata to Snowflake and Databricks.
- Analyzed Teradata consumption patterns to define optimal warehouse and cluster compute sizing.
- Managed PI and cohort planning initiatives, facilitating effective cloud integration for a user base exceeding 4000.
- Developed and optimized automated systems for efficient cloud access identification and provisioning, significantly cutting timelines from 8 weeks to 2 weeks.
- Engineered automated solutions for subscription upgrades, significantly reducing manual effort across thousands of accounts.
- Designed and implemented dashboards for financial operations to enhance detection of anomalies and spikes in Snowflake credit and Databricks DBU consumption.
- Spearheading end-to-end asset migration of DS3 assets from Teradata to cloud infrastructure.
Principal Solution Architect
Tech Mahindra – Brightspeed
USA
07.2023 - 01.2025
- Led the successful greenfield implementation of Lumen to Brightspeed data infrastructure, delivering scalable, high-performance system from concept to completion
- Managed TSA Exit for Brightspeed and end-to-end delivery for Mass Market application DWH setup.
- Successfully led the large-scale cloud data migration from Lumen to Brightspeed application stack, including comprehensive data reconciliation to ensure accuracy and integrity.
- Managing Data Discovery, Data Pipeline, Integration Layer Design for ~20 applications: Address Master, Product Catalog, Buyflow, Inventory Management System, Order Orchestration, Field Ops, Technical Support, Network Operations Control System, Billing System, Community Management, Contact Engine, Account Management, etc.
- Leading team of ~15+ SDA, Developers, Testers.
- Establish & maintain Google Cloud Platform to migrate data from legacy applications (Oracle, Salesforce, etc.), KAFKA Topics, API, GCP MySQL, Service Now, etc. into GCP.
- Identify and implement industry standard best practices for Data Governance, Data Security, Data Quality, Real-time data enablement, Automation and Monitoring.
- Monitor GCP billing and identify cost saving opportunities.
- Achieved 75%+ BigQuery usage cost reduction by switching to ‘Flex Slot based PAYG' model.
- Identify AI/ML opportunities.
- Manage SOW Budgeting and resource allocation.
Director - Program & Project Management
LTI Mindtree - Wolters Kluwer Lien Solutions
USA
11.2016 - 07.2023
- Assessed current landscape for Customer and prepared gap analysis documentation.
- Defined short-term, long-term goals to meet Customer 360 vision for customer & digital transformation and proposed technology stack needed.
- Led SLA reporting to identify operational gaps and saved thousands of dollars in penalties for customer.
- Automated complex process of Sales Commissions which saved 360-man hours per month and $200K savings annually for customer.
- Leading multiple teams/projects (MIS Tactical & MIS Ops, Sales Commissions Automation, Manage GTM).
- Implemented Golden copy – Single Version of truth. This data is also used by Lien Insights Report which was awarded as New Product of the Year 2020. With this Customer had a Compounded Annual Growth Rate of 25%+ for the past three years. This includes an impressive 20% growth in 2020, during a worldwide pandemic.
- Collaborated with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations executives on day-to-day basis and provided several presentations to executives on new dashboards, gap findings which helped to improve the efficiency of respective business areas.
- Developed and support over 300+ Tableau dashboards for customer.
- Improved vendor customer ratings from 2 to 4.2.
Senior Application Developer
Mastech Digital - Verizon Wireless
USA
06.2014 - 11.2016
- Performing role SME for forward logistics with Verizon Wireless, which helped to bridge gap between business and technical teams.
- Design SCM dashboards to support & management on-hand inventory levels for Verizon stores.
- Build logical and physical data model to support SCM dashboards which can help optimize Verizon warehouse and store inventory levels.
Lead BI Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation - Merck
USA & India
10.2010 - 05.2014
- Perform Service Request management, Incident Management and Problem Management.
- Leading a team of 12 members from onsite.
- Providing production application support for more than 250+ Cognos Applications from onsite single handedly.
- Actively managing product upgrade activities (Cognos 10.2.1 Upgrade)
- Gather minor enhancement requirements from users and provide estimates for the same & prepare estimates for the application support and share it with customer.
- Planning and prioritizing the day-to-day work items for the team.
- Successfully performed role of Cognos & Informatica application Production Support onsite lead wherein supporting 250+ applications, 27,000+ users.
Cognos Application Developer
IBM
India
06.2010 - 10.2010
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Inc
India
08.2007 - 06.2010
- Migrating reports from Cognos 7 to Cognos 8 platform
- Built framework manager models & developed dashboards.
- Preparing test cases and perform unit testing.
- Created FS (Functional Specification) and TS (Technical Specification) for dashboards based on business specification.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sinhgad College of Engineering
Pune06.2007
12th - undefined
Yashvantrao Chawan Institute of Science
Satara05.2003
Skills
- Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Lakehouse
- Snowflake, Azure Databricks
- Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL
- Cloud Applications: Eloqua, Salesforce, Azure
- Software/Database: Oracle 11g, Teradata
- Cognos 8x/10x, Impromptu (Cognos7), SSRS, Tableau
- Informatica PowerCenter 9x
- Python
- Google Cloud Platform
- Client Relationship
- Client Needs Assessment
- Building & Account Growth
Accomplishments
Awarded with 'Excellence Award' at UHC (Optum) for leading PI and Cohort planning for large scale and complex CloudNova program, building complex FinOps model for end user access provisioning over 400 users and building FinOps monitoring solutions.
Certification
- Cognos 10 BI Author and Cognos 10 BI Metadata Model Developer certified
- Google Analytics Individual Qualification Certified
- Successfully completed 'Google Analytics for Beginners' and 'Advanced Google Analytics'
- Azure Fundamentals certified.
Timeline
Principal Architect
Persistent Systems Ltd - United Health Care
01.2025 - Current
Principal Solution Architect
Tech Mahindra – Brightspeed
07.2023 - 01.2025
Director - Program & Project Management
LTI Mindtree - Wolters Kluwer Lien Solutions
11.2016 - 07.2023
Senior Application Developer
Mastech Digital - Verizon Wireless
06.2014 - 11.2016
Lead BI Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation - Merck
10.2010 - 05.2014
Cognos Application Developer
IBM
06.2010 - 10.2010
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Inc
08.2007 - 06.2010
12th - undefined
Yashvantrao Chawan Institute of Science
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sinhgad College of Engineering