Nilesh Desai

Senior Data Architect 17+ years experience in Data landscape across Insurance/Finance/Oil & Gas Industry. Passionate about Architecting/Modelling data warehousing platforms and building ETL/ELT frameworks/pipelines to ingest/curate and distribute data across heterogenous platforms(Teradata/Hadoop/DB2/Oracle/SalesForce Cloud). Strategising Finance Reference Data target state vision on Cloud and leading hands on proof of concept across SnowFlake/Azure Databricks. Proud to be part of various Digital initiatives including Environmental/Social/Governance (ESG) and Next Best Action(NBA) flagship programs. Champion for Data Policy and leading implementation for Data governance/lineage/metadata. Deep experience in building greenfield datawarehousing applications and performance tuning. Reduce tech debt by modernising application to be cloud ready. Take ownership and accountability of deliverables, ensuring quality products. Lead/grow/build matrix team of high performing individuals through empowerment/mentoring/guidance/career management and delegation to be next generation leaders. Giving back to society through various firm initiatives. An Environmentalist at heart, Leading advocate for Light Pollution regulations in personal capacity Avid wildlife/bird photographer Love to shoot night sky and Milky Way.