Madhav Ghimire
Technology – AI & Data Data Architecture Manager (Life Sciences)
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Professional Summary
Data Architecture Manager with 11+ years delivering enterprise data platforms across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake for Accenture client engagements. Leads the design, governance, and modernization of data architectures that unify, enrich, and surface insights for healthcare and life-sciences–adjacent programs. Deep experience in conceptual, logical, and physical modeling; integration architecture; and end-to-end delivery from analysis through testing, UAT, and production. Trusted partner to business and technology leaders—facilitating workshops, aligning data strategy to outcomes, and mentoring cross-functional teams (data engineers, BI, QA) to ship secure, scalable solutions.
Skills & Attributes for Success
Stakeholder Collaboration: Workshops with business leads, data scientists, BAs, and IT; translate use cases/personas into data strategies
Architecture: Blueprints on AWS/Snowflake/Databricks/Azure; platform modernization; cloud reference architectures
Modeling: Conceptual, logical, physical layers; ER & dimensional; schema-on-read; semantic layers supporting BI/ML
Integration: Data acquisition and basic transformations; ETL/ELT patterns; event-driven pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis)
Design Reviews: Usability, efficiency, naming conventions; source-to-target mapping and transformation logic
Leadership: Manage timelines/cost/quality; mentor engineers; code/design reviews; sprint ceremonies
Security & Governance: Data security in motion/at rest; lineage, sensitivity labels; RBAC/ABAC; compliance
Innovation: Big-data patterns (Lambda/Kappa); performance benchmarking; AI/metadata enrichment awareness
Core Technical Skills
AWS: Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena; cost/performance tuning
Azure: Synapse, ADF, ADLS Gen2, Databricks; Microsoft Purview for governance
Snowflake: Warehouses, schemas, Streams/Tasks; medallion (Raw/Bronze/Silver/Gold); SQL optimization
Databricks: PySpark/Spark SQL; orchestration; CDC and batch pipelines
BI & Analytics: Power BI semantic models, Direct Lake, RLS; curated datasets
DevOps: Azure DevOps/GitHub - CI/CD for SQL/DDL, notebooks, pipelines
Modeling Tools: ER Studio, Erwin; data dictionaries; lineage diagrams
Professional Experience
Data Architecture Manager / Data Architect Accenture – Client Engagements (Healthcare & Life Sciences Company) Dec 2022 – Present
Organized and led stakeholder workshops to capture requirements, personas, and key processes; produced domain roadmaps and architecture blueprints.
Led source-system analysis (structures, business rules, data quality constraints) and authored source-to-target mappings and transformation logic.
Designed end-to-end architectures on AWS, Snowflake, and Azure—ingestion transformation consumption—aligned to enterprise standards.
Owned conceptual, logical, and physical model development; enforced naming conventions, semantic consistency, and documentation in central repository.
Defined extraction and refresh strategies; guided engineers on pipelines (ADF/Glue/Databricks) and performance tuning.
Conducted design/code reviews across SQL, pipelines, and notebooks to ensure quality and alignment with architecture.
Supported QA/UAT with test strategies, validation rules, and reconciliation; led go-live readiness and post-deployment monitoring.
Championed security and governance (lineage, sensitivity labels, RBAC/ABAC) and performance benchmarking for enterprise applications.
Presented architecture proposals and solution options to senior client technology leaders; influenced adoption and delivery sequencing.
Data Architect / Data Engineering Lead Accenture – Client Engagements May 2020 – Dec 2022
Modernized data platforms on Azure and AWS; aligned domain models to semantic layers for BI and ML workloads.
Implemented standardized practices for data acquisition, transformation, and analysis using big-data technologies (Databricks, ADF, Glue).
Authored data dictionaries, lineage diagrams, and ETL specifications; established naming standards and governance-by-design.
Delivered CI/CD for pipelines and SQL/DDL with Azure DevOps/GitHub; enforced quality gates and peer review workflows.
Partnered with BI teams and business stakeholders to ensure usability and efficiency of datasets; iterated rapidly on prototypes.
Senior Data Engineer / Data Modeler Accenture – Client Engagements Mar 2019 – May 2020
Designed cloud-native analytics platforms (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub) and mapped patterns to AWS/Snowflake equivalents.
Built relational and analytical models; implemented governed ingestion frameworks and curated semantic layers for reporting.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams on requirements; validated prototypes and improved model usability.
Data Modeler / Data Governance Specialist Accenture – Client Engagements Feb 2017 – Mar 2019
Implemented metadata lineage and stewardship workflows using Collibra and Informatica Axon.
Developed optimized Oracle schemas; standardized keys and definitions to support analytics and reporting.
Facilitated design sessions, code reviews, and architecture boards to drive consistency and best practices.
ETL Lead / Data Engineer Accenture – Client Engagements Feb 2015 – Feb 2017
Led ETL development with Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle DW; implemented data quality and audit-ready processes.
Embedded lineage and naming standards in pipeline design; authored comprehensive technical documentation and ERDs.
Coordinated onshore/offshore delivery and sprint planning to maintain delivery timelines and quality.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Science – Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Databricks Accredited Generative AI Fundamentals
Scaled Agile (SAFe)
Cloud Modernization: Data Warehouse & Data Lake
Leadership & Delivery Highlights
Managed multi-disciplinary delivery (architecture, engineering, QA/UAT) with strong risk management and quality assurance.
Mentored junior modelers/engineers; established review checklists and modeling standards.
Drove continuous improvement—performance tuning, cost optimization, and adoption of modern patterns.