Senior Data Platform Architect & Lead DBA (H1B, I-140) for C2C Roles

Mehul Bhatt

Johns Creek, Georgia

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Professional Summary

• Senior Data Platform Architect & Lead DBA with 19+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-class Teradata, Hadoop, Vantage, and Aster platforms.

• Strong expertise in database administration, performance engineering, cloud architecture, and distributed data systems.

• Proven ability to lead customer-facing engagements, presales solutioning, platform migrations, and cross-functional delivery for Fortune 500 clients.

• Adept at driving operational excellence, platform stability, and strategic technical guidance. Technical Skills

• Teradata & Aster: SQL Assistant, BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, PMON, Teradata Administrator, Viewpoint, Data Mover, QueryGrid, Teradata DB 12–17.20.03.16; Aster Tools: ACT, AMC, Ncluster_loader, Ncluster_export, AFS, NCLI, Aster Lens

• Big Data & Hadoop: Hortonworks HDP 2.7, Cloudera CDH4/5.x, Apache Hadoop 1.2.3, Aster 5.10/6.0; Hive, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie, HCatalog, Flume, HBase, Ranger, Sentry, Kerberos, Knox, YARN, Spark, Storm, Kafka

• Monitoring & Administration: Ganglia, Nagios, Ambari, Zabbix, Viewpoint, Web UI

• Databases: Teradata 12–16, Aster 6.x, PostgreSQL 9.2, MySQL, Oracle 8i/9i/10g

• Operating Systems: RHEL 6/7, Sun Solaris, AIX, SLES 11, Windows

• Languages & Tools: Shell Scripting, Oracle PL/SQL, HiveQL, HDFS & AFS commands, Python

• Backup & Recovery: NetBackup, Arcmain, ncluster_backup (Aster), TARA GUI, ABU GUI Education & Certifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics), Pune University, India — 2004 Certifications:

• Cloudera Certified Administrator on Apache Hadoop

• Hortonworks Hadoop Certified Administrator

• Teradata Certified Implementation Specialist

• Teradata Certified SQL Specialist

• Teradata Certified Professional

• Oracle Certified Professional (Java SE 6 Programmer)

• Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Associate Professional Experience

Teradata Corporation — USA

Lead DBA Jan 2023 – Present

• Operational lead for enterprise cloud and hybrid data platform deployments. Direct 24x7 support alignment for critical accounts with structured escalation governance.

• Command high-severity production incidents, ensuring rapid resolution and executive transparency. Drive system availability reporting, KPI dashboards, and formal RCA programs.

• Conduct executive reviews centered on reliability, performance, and long-term platform health. Partner with Engineering and Product to resolve recurring architectural issues and improve platform stability.

• Support both pre-sales validation and post-sales production stabilization for enterprise customers.

• Influenced expansion by identifying new AI/ML, cloud, and compliance use cases through technical assessments and executive engagement, translating platform value into incremental revenue growth beyond retention.

• Teradata database Administration & operations for 110 node cluster.

• Support multiple Teradata environments (development, test, and production) including enterprise data warehouses and application-specific marts.

• Monitoring and diagnostics: using Teradata tools and logs to analyze spool, CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, BYNET contention.

• Backup, recovery & high availability

• Best practices for backups restore procedures, and disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing.

• Knowledge of fallback, AMP resilience, replication methods and physical vs logical protection.

• DB and platform-level security: roles, privileges, LDAP/Kerberos integration, encryption (at rest/in transit), auditing and compliance.

• Secure configuration and hardening practices.

• Networking & infrastructure

• Network architecture for Teradata clusters, VLANs, link aggregation, low-latency requirements, and BYNET tuning.

• Integration with enterprise infrastructure: DNS, NTP, monitoring stacks, and identity providers.

• Automation, scripting & tools

• Automation using Shell Scripting & Python

• Configuration management and automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform

• Experience with data protection, audit, user management and implementing security controls and compliance on Teradata database as per policy and standards.

• Utilize Teradata Manager, SQL Assistant, BTEQ, DBQL, and Alerts for daily operations.

• Experience on object storage integrations, backup/restore (BAR Management) and data archival strategies.

• Monitor system resource utilization and optimize performance.

• Working with different Line of Business by monitoring the performance of application jobs. Provide Performance recommendations and help them tune & optimize their application tuning.

• Ensuring critical application meets the SLA. Also making sure non-critical application, reporting, ad hoc user queries are completed by performing workload analysis and efficiently managing the workload using TASM by defining the rulesets.

• Generating PDCR reports on weekly, monthly, quarterly basis. Monitoring the capacity. Working with relevant stakeholders to plan for the growth by efficient capacity planning.

• Participating in Teradata platform upgrades, patching, and migration initiatives, Support data center exit, cloud alignment, or hybrid modernization efforts involving Teradata and object storage, Contribute to documentation, standards, and operational best practices.

• Deliver weekly IRA and monthly performance reports to client leadership.

• Configure and tune Viewpoint alerts and dashboards. Automate customized alerts using shell scripting and python.

• Work with application team to troubleshoot job failures and provide operational support, incident triage, and root cause analysis in partnership with infrastructure to resolve system level issues and application team.

• Strong working knowledge of TPT, BTEQ, Fastload, Mload.

• Support database architecture, design, and performance tuning initiatives.

• Automation using Python scripts.

• Migration experience from Teradata to Databricks. Automating the cold data to NOS using automated scripts using python and shell scripts. Saving data on Azure Blob Storage on NOS. Creating OTF on the external data (NOS) on Azure blob storage. Allowing access to users through views on OTF. They can use external data for analytics with the data in Teradata tables for their analytics.

• Working with different file formats like JSON, Parquet, Avro.

• Optimize physical database design including primary indexes, partitioning, compression, and statistics strategies. Protegrity — USA

Customer Success Engineer Mar 2021 – Jan 2023

• Trusted advisor to Fortune 1000 enterprise clients navigating data security, compliance (GDPR, HIPAA), and cloud modernization.

• Managed 21 enterprise accounts with 95% retention, overseeing NRR, churn prevention, NPS, CLTV, and TTV metrics. Led executive-level engagement through monthly and quarterly reviews focused on adoption, risk mitigation, and growth.

• Partnered with Sales, Account Executives, and Product teams to drive expansion and technical adoption. Leveraged telemetry, support trends, and sentiment analysis to proactively identify at-risk and growth-ready accounts.

• Built architecture designs, POCs, and technical enablement programs across cloud, data lake, and AI/ML ecosystems. Influenced internal teams to close architectural gaps and enhance customer outcomes.

• Expanded enterprise footprint by advancing customers along security maturity roadmaps, addressing regulatory compliance, cloud risk, and AI/ML data protection requirements beyond initial deployments.

• Guided enterprise customers in implementing strategic initiatives using Protegrity products.

• Built PoCs across major cloud platforms and presented technical architectures.

• Communicated technical advancements and influenced internal teams to align with customer needs.

• Conducted architectural analysis and resolved product gaps.

• Authored best-practice documentation for customer adoption.

• Built demos to support expansion within existing accounts and new prospects. Teradata Corporation — USA

Solutions Architect Aug 2017 – Mar 2021

• Led technical response efforts for high-value RFPs, translating client business goals into tailored, scalable technical solutions.

• Orchestrated cross-functional teams (Sales, Delivery, Legal) to deliver comprehensive RFP responses, increasing win rates by 95%.

• Authored complex technical proposal sections, including system architecture, integration strategy, security, and data flow diagrams.

• Evaluated RFI opportunities and provided high-level solution recommendations to shape future customer RFPs.

• Architected and deployed Teradata/Vantage on VMware across the Americas region.

• Collaborated with customers, sales, and presales teams for sizing, design, and solution architecture.

• Contributed to SOW creation, risk identification, and RACI development.

• Addressed customer technical queries during presales cycles.

• Led post-implementation issue resolution and coordinated with engineering teams.

• Managed change control, implementation planning, and customer technical alignment.

• Led knowledge transitions for managed services teams.

• Drove performance tuning, capacity planning, and workload optimization.

• Supported BAR/DR implementations and open-source tool migrations.

• Delivered monthly reports and drove continuous improvement initiatives. Teradata India Pvt. Ltd.

Technical Lead – Teradata DBA / Big Data COE / Transition Manager Jan 2014 – Aug 2017 Clients: American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Vodafone UK, HGST, Mayo Clinic, SCJ, Chubb, Warner Bros, Globe Telecom, Anthem

• Led transition of platform and application support projects to offshore teams.

• Reviewed SOWs and collaborated with presales and account teams for new contracts.

• Managed offshore delivery teams ensuring SLA compliance and platform stability.

• Conducted customer meetings to review SLA performance, cluster health, and workloads.

• Designed and implemented Hadoop clusters and open-source solutions.

• Drove problem resolution and coordinate with vendors for issue fixes.

• Implemented Agile and DevOps practices for deployment and sustainment.

• Improved change control, incident management, and problem management processes. Teradata India Pvt. Ltd.

Lead Teradata DBA Apr 2011 – Jan 2014

• Managed user, space, and security administration for Teradata environments.

• Utilized Teradata tools including SQL Assistant, BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, PMON, Viewpoint.

• Performed BAR operations using TARA and ABU utilities.

• Generated PDCR performance reports and monitored resource utilization.

• Delivered weekly and monthly performance reports to clients.

• Tuned performance, configured Viewpoint alerts, and resolved job failures. 3i-Infotech / Vodafone / IBM

Lead Data Warehouse Consultant / System Analyst / Oracle DBA Oct 2006 – Mar 2011

• Monitored, developed, and optimized ETL jobs.

• Resolved ETL failures and enhanced performance through code optimization.

• Created data mapping documents and implemented new business logic.

• Developed SQL queries and stored procedures for business reporting.

• Led Chordiant operations for CRM and campaign management.

• Managed ETL scheduling, data quality, and database growth planning.

• Maintained Oracle security, backups, recovery planning, and schema management.

• Utilized tools including PMON, Teradata Administrator, FastLoad, MultiLoad, FastExport, Pro*C, RMAN, NetVault, NetBackup, Business Objects, TOAD.

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