Data Management Governance

Balaji Garuda

Greater Phoenix Area 862-***-**** ******.******@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/garudas/

DATA ANALYTICS DIRECTOR

Data Governance Management Policy Quality Architecture Warehousing

Accomplished, innovative, and forward-thinking professional with demonstrated experience leading and managing all aspects of data governance, data management, and data quality. Engage with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to develop and implement data strategies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Repeated success guiding sizable, cross-functional engineering and project management teams in the design, redesign, and launch of leading-edge data management solutions in collaboration with both the onshore and offshore structure in an Agile Environment. Core competencies include:

Enterprise Architecture Data Warehousing Data Management Data Quality Data Analytics Data Lake Cloud Data Modeling Data Integration Application Development Implementation Reporting Testing

Team Leadership and Development Stakeholder Management Operational Excellence Project Management

Data Warehousing: Ab Initio (GDE, EME), DQE, Express>It, Acquire>It, Conduct>It, IBM Datastage. Experienced in Data Modeling skills using Power Designer and Erwin.

Database environments: Teradata, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server utilized across the Wells Fargo environments.

UNIX Shell Scripting for File validation, Scheduling jobs, AutoSys and Oracle PL/SQL programming.

Professional Experience

Wells Fargo, Chandler, AZ May 2017 – Present

Executive Director, APP Data Governance (Corporate Risk and Corporate Functions)

Performed the Application Business Owner (ABO) responsibilities for five APPs – Channels & Interaction, Wells Fargo Administration, Human Resources, Marketing and Relationship Management, and Legal. Ensured compliance with Data Management Policy in the areas of Business Metadata, Data Quality controls, Data Quality Metrics, Control Procedures, Risk Self Assessments, Front Line Defense activities, Data issues, and Data Privacy.

Aligned applications to business strategy, advocating for financial investment in the applications, and acting as stakeholder for data related projects.

Provided input or approval to data management-related policy and procedures, strategies and reporting.

Log and resolve material data issues as defined by the Data Management policy and leading resolution of data issues and partnered with the DMI Corporate Functions Data Asset leader to provide additional support for APP and non-APP data assets on an as-needed basis.

Executed market risk governance and oversight routines including frameworks, policies, councils, and committees to support independent risk management activities.

Executed the data sourcing and data intake initiatives across the Risk product landscape by streamlining the data requests in accordance with the subject areas addressing the use cases, models, reports, and applications.

Participated in data management/control environment assessments and fit for purpose reviews to address the Tier1 and Tier2 use cases for a successful execution.

Audited and attested existing Business Continuity Plans to support the critical business needs and implemented the strategy to uplift the Key and Standard Applications providing the golden source of data.

Partnered with senior DMI leaders on alignment to data management strategy (i.e., data governance, data issue remediation, data sourcing and consumption, regulator commitments) to ensure visibility and to support the transformation of Target Data State at Wells Fargo.

Coordinated across Authorized Provisioning Point product owners to ensure compliance with Wells Fargo’s Data Management Policy in the areas of business metadata compliance, sufficiency of data quality controls, completeness of data lineage, resolving data defects and issues, and supporting data privacy requirements for all the applications within the Corporate Functions Domain.

Providing independent risk management over counterparty risk across all lines of business, both domestic and international.

Measure and monitor regulatory capital for traded products including the Global Market Shock (GMS) for Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) Dodd Frank Act Stress Test (DFAST).

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Managed the information delivery supply chain to enable new strategic capital initiatives to provide risk intelligence and trusted reporting for senior leadership decision-making and regulatory reporting.

Implemented the Data Management Policy and Procedures for the CIB Trade Surveillance platforms and Market and Counter-party Tier1/Tier2 deliverables.

Performed the function of primary engagement point for 1st and 2nd line reviews, audits, and/or testing for the Corporate Functions and owned the RCSA activities addressing the SHRP’s and MRA’s within the CDO.

Executed the Enterprise strategies in identification and approval, as needed, of material changes to the data, controls, permissible data use, data distribution policies of the Enterprise Data Governance.

Acting as the data owner as required by the Governance & Oversight Framework as per the COSO standards.

Ensured/Implemented existing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Technology Life Cycle Policies and requirements are followed, including user acceptance and regression testing, to support successful production installations.

VP Enterprise Architecture – Enterprise Marketing -Human Resources -Legal

Analyzed current practices to identify areas of opportunity and develop sustainable solutions. Led projects as part of the Enterprise Marketing Data (MRM domain) and HR APP application; providing expertise in enterprise metadata management, conceptual / Logical database design, data integration, data provisioning, blueprint APP, SOR determination, Information Security and governance.

Owned the results of the development of the MDM data management project components, including governance, metadata, DQ control framework, data modeling, and data remediation plans.

Provided strategic leadership and support to team focused on provisioning source data with accountability for the strategy, execution, and management of the MDE/HR and 3rd party vendors.

Reported on risks and recommended resolutions. Defined control DQ framework focused on continuous improvement of data.

Designed and data modeled a Hadoop, Ab Initio, Hadoop Data Lake Ecosystem, utilizing Teradata and Big Data in collaboration with a dynamic team, serving as the Enterprise Data/Core Services Architect.

Led the efforts for data quality and metadata standards for the Enterprise Marketing Ecosystem complying with all security and regulatory policies.

Enhanced the marketing data layer through the design of the SAS (Conceptual and Logical Models) for a Teradata and Hadoop solution.

Spearheaded the design of automation in the continuous improvement of DataMart framework.

Created the DQ rules and automated reporting structure on Hadoop layers, within the Big Data and Teradata platforms Marketing, HR Domains.

Implemented the BCBS-239 principles, GDPR and CCPA as part of the Restricted Data Reporting.

Launched the Business and Technical Metadata Implementation.

VP Enterprise Data Analytics – Enterprise Architect, May 2008 – May 2017

Worked with multiple Lines of business to help them maximize Marketing ROI through the development, maintenance and support of the enterprise database marketing & analytics platform (Hemisphere). Assisted with medium to large development project implementations, provided strategic consultation on marketing solutions including campaign planning, execution, analytics, reporting, data sourcing and file transfer capabilities to internal and external vendors; seek out opportunities for process improvement.

Led the development and migration of the Hemisphere ETL platform into the EDA Shared Services platform which involved 600+ Ab Initio processes and contributed a great deal in mentoring the EGS development/QA teams consisting of 15+ members to meet the SLA’s and automate the whole process.

Configured different source databases in the Ab Initio platform for the smooth transition into the Linux servers which involved utilization of all the new tool set (Autosys, Anthill pro, UDeploy, and Jenkins).

Achieved greater performance and response time during escalations in coordination with the production support team.

Enhanced and rewrote the execution of the Enterprise Deposit Marketing’s (EDM) Campaign Response Tracking system with the whole project involving upwards of 750+ objects and thousands of lines of code, and reengineered the application by shrinking the processing time saving EDM approximately $5.2MM to $7.8MM annually.

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Served as lead architect on the development, maintenance and administration of the ETL Server which involved the decommissioning of the IBM Datastage and the re-deployment of around 250+ ETL processes in the new Ab Initio environment on BMG which decreased the process time by 50%.

Led various functional/technical teams within Hemisphere, Business Direct, Integrated Data Store, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Home Equity and Acxiom (external platform host) to develop and implement the customized and data driven initiatives in the Hemisphere ETL environment; Leveraged business insights and data analysis in consultations with all LOB’s to successfully create and drive the data needs for the datamarts that are used in campaign execution for the various LOBs.

Created, maintained, and trained team (8+ team members) on the Hemisphere ETL platform – a group of technologies and methods that enabled the rapid design, development and scheduling of production ETL/SAS processes.

Wrote the application used to build and create the Market/Wallet Share reports benefitting the enterprise marketing platform’s capability to produce the needed metrics for Business users which determined Wells Fargo’s share in the market at a point in time, cutting the typical time taken for this task by upwards of 70% and improved its data precision.

Wrote standards documentation for both ETL systems and implemented the best practices and automation guidelines and involved in updating the Security plan for the application.

Additional Experience

Acxiom Corporation, Phoenix, AZ

Technology Manager- Sr. Industry Solutions Architect

Assisted the company’s healthcare clients with sales and marketing needs by defining the requirements for data processing and customer segmentation, thereby achieving sales goals and improving the client’s market share.

American International Group (AIG), (NJ/DE)

Industry Solutions Architect/Technical Lead

Assisted client in capturing the features and requirements needed for a successful implementation of the Assigned Risk autoloan application using Cognos ReportNet which would give flexibility for the field representatives in accessing the reports. Participated in the review and discussions of Technical, Transformation Requirements with Team leader, Group Members, Technical Manager and End Users regarding all technical and Business aspects.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance, PA

Data Warehousing Specialist

Developed data marts for business performance statistics in the domains of life, home, auto and commercial insurance. Primary lead in developing and productionalizing all the processes associated with the project and in mentoring the team members.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, EMBA

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Consultations

Coleman Research Atheneum NextonX SincUSA Guide Point

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