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Arvind in a few words
A UK national from birth, with a well-balanced possession of interpersonal and technical skills. Likes to have responsibilities and attains positive results, self-confident as a result of methodical way of working.
Recent engagements include architecture a transformational programme of work for Ofwat. Allowing for automating and streamlined processing of regulatory data and analytical capabilities, resulting in huge gains in analytical productivity.
A proven ability to adopt into different environments, firstly performing more than satisfactory in industry and returning into postgraduate education and completing the MSc Information Technology & Management programme (incorporating Oracle Certifications). Secondly having eighteen years exposure to industry, and a member of The Institute of Management Consultancy. In an attempt to stay more up to date with changes in the data and analytical field, currently working on Big Data and Cloud based solutions.
A hybrid consultant, having a good mix of client facing and business analysis skills and technical exposure.
During commercial engagements has gained exposure to extensive data warehouse and business intelligence methodologies and technologies. Coupled with premier consulting background allows me proactively deliver business objectives.
Extensive data warehouse, business intelligence methodology and data migration and integration strategies, technical knowledge using Amazon Redshift, Hadoop, AWS, No Sql, Oracle DW, MS SQL, Postgres, Python, Spark SQL.
Experience
- Anlytics ITS LtdCloud Data Solutions ArchitectFebruary 2020 - Today (4 years and 10 months)Data Solution Architect Shaping the data integration and insight roadmap for a UK government body. Working with current systems to understand "as is" process and architecture, defining future architecture vision. Outlining transition architectures through the journey, identifying potential opportunities. Defining the cloud requirements, prototyping potential technologies that would fulfil the user requirements. Working with business stakeholders to understand pain points and functional requirements for a modern data landscape. Use of Togaf deliverable artefacts. Technologies for PoC – Snowflake DB, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Python DataBricks, Power BI, Airflow. ETL selection process, technologies: dbt, Azure Data Factory, Mattillion
- Packt.comData & Analytics Delivery Lead – Ecommerce BusinessAugust 2019 - February 2020 (6 months)Data & Analytics Delivery Lead – Ecommerce Business Design and hands on build of analytics solution on ASW / Redshift stack. ETL (Matillion), Airflow, Python, Redshift, Dynamo, S3, Netsuite, MS SQL, Postgres, Netsuite. Source systems include: Magento, Zuora, Mailchimp. Working with Finance, Marketing (SCV), Data Analyst to achieve the data integration and insight into the business. Migration of legacy data to DW instance. Containerisation using Docker and Kurbernetes. Managing recourses to build and deploy to provide solutions as required.
- Analylitics ITS LtdData ArchitectAugust 2017 - August 2019 (2 years)Kingston upon Thames, UKArchitect of reporting solution for a re-insurance company. Solution analyses insurance product performance, claim analysis and financial reporting. Ingesting third party data and MS SQL on a Lambda batch process into an Amazon cloud based DW Working with the business, stakeholders, infrastructure.
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Education
- MSc, Information Technology & Management (Incorporating Oracle DBA Certification)Sheffield Hallam University2004MSc, Information Technology & Management (Incorporating Oracle DBA Certification)
- Bachelor of ScienceSheffield Hallam University1999BSc (Hons), Computing & Management Sciences