Technical Architect | Data Platforms | Azure & Cloud

Hello, I'm Saurav.

Architect by title, Coder by craft, Engineer by soul.

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15+ years data and cloud architecture

Enterprise CoE reusable engineering frameworks

Azure + Data platform modernization at scale

Career journey

Built through enterprise data, cloud platforms and engineering leadership.

01 | Current

Feb 2025 - Present | Enterprise Data Engineering CoE

Leading reusable data engineering frameworks, cloud modernization, developer experience and data governance initiatives.

Apr 2017 - Jan 2025 | Cloud & Data Platforms

Owned cloud data platforms, built Azure-based lakehouse, Kafka pipelines, Terraform provisioning and secure reporting systems.

May 2016 - Apr 2017 | ETL & Hadoop

Designed ETL and Hadoop data lake solutions, supporting multiple global Vodafone markets.

Oct 2012 - May 2016 | Data Warehousing

Built enterprise DW pipelines, banking analytics, and gained deep Ab Initio and warehouse expertise.

Mar 2010 - Oct 2012 | ETL/Data Engineering

Started my career in large-scale banking data engineering, metadata, lineage and ETL pipelines.

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Certifications

AZ-305 | Azure Architect AZ-500 | Azure Security AZ-400 | DevOps Engineer DP-203 | Data Engineering Azure Administrator Associate Azure Fundamentals

Skills snapshot

Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), OpenShift, Azure App Services, Azure Networking & Storage

Snowflake, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Cosmos DB, Databricks, Kafka, Azure Event Hub, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Streaming

Python, Scala, Bash, Spark, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Terraform, ARM Templates, Ab Initio, ADF Pipelines

Power BI, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Collibra, Datahub, Data Governance, Security & Compliance

Education

Jagannath Institute of Technology & Management (BPUT, Odisha) | 2005-2009

Built core foundations in computer science, algorithms and software engineering that now support large-scale data and cloud architecture work.

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