Arun Boghra

About Arun Boghra

Seasoned data professional and a thought leader in Data Analytics and, architecture with 25+ years of solid IT experience. Exceptional Problem-Solving capabilities with proven experience in solving business problems with innovative enterprise solutions.• TOGAF certified enterprise architect, an expert in Information Modeling, Integration, Governance, Management and Big Data and Data Science.• 15+ years of leadership experience in building and running end to end data solutions with years of management experience managing data platform and the team of varying team size with direct and matrix reporting structure.• Inherent strength in technical skill with an apt to identify business value of technology.Specialties: Information Architecture, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Data Virtualization, DW, Data Lake, BI, AnalyticsData Governance: Data Quality, Data Lineage, Business Glossary, Data Catalog Metadata ManagementMaster Data Management: MDM Strategy, MDM ArchitectData Modeling: ER Studio, Erwin, PowerDesigner, Dimensional Modeling, NOSQL data Modeling, Canonical ModelingNoSQL: CassandraRelational DB: Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, SQL, T-SQLBig Data: Hadoop Ecosystem, HIVE, Sqoop, Impala, Presto, Data Engineering & Integration: ETL, Integration Competency Center (ICC), SOA, API, Informatica, webMethods, ODI, EDI, Kafka, Mulesoft, Azure Service Bus, Azure Data FactoryEnterprise Architecture: TOGAF 9 Framework & Methodology & Enterprise ModelingApplication & Technology Portfolio Rationalization and Application DecommissioningInformation Lifecycle Management, Informatica ILM, Records ManagementAgile Development, DevOps Exposure: Semantic Modeling, Protégé, TopBraid ComposerGraph DB, OrientDB, Document DB, MongoDB, HBase, Essbase, QlikSenseData Science & Machine Learning, Python, ScalaCloud: Azure HDInsight, Cosmos DB, AWS solution architectureMicro Service Architecture

Experience

1. Enterprise Data Architect

   PwC

   Sep 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Architecture and Innovation Lead: Led for Data Architecture and Innovation solutions for Global Chief Data Office. Also, evangelize AI strategy as member of PwC AI Champion.• Architected and piloted a Generative AI (LangChain) powered end-to-end re-platforming accelerator tool to migrate Data Virtualization analytic solutions (TIBCO Data Virtualization) to Data-Mesh architecture on Databricks• As a firmwide AI Champion, evangelized and promoted PwC’s AI tools and strategy by coaching senior leadership, delivering training, and developing Generative AI use cases. • Evaluated tools to re-platform data analytics environment from a virtualized platform to a data mesh architecture, comparing Databricks and Microsoft Fabric for scalability, performance, and integration. • Designed and implemented a compliance-driven automated ingestion framework that dynamically build ingestion pipeline based on compliance approved dataset.• Developed a plug-and-play Audit & Balance Control component to validate and reconcile data ingestion and curation processes, ensuring alignment with evolving compliance need.• Configured and rolled out the Purview 3 for Compliance and External Data (LSEG) Use-Case, built data products and data service catalog. Enriched the data products by natively integrated ER-Studio Glossary and data models. Built lineage and relationship with Glossary, CDE, Models, Scanned Data Assets using Apache Atlas APIs.Data Architect and Delivery Lead: Led Data Architecture and Data product delivery for Global Chief Data Office. Led multiple scrum teams to end to end deliver data analytic solution.• Implemented a Data Analytic solution for Independent Assessment and Cross-border Engagement use case in TIBCO Data Virtualization. Solution keeps source data in original format and all curation and integration done using virtualized view. Defined and implemented data sourcing and ingestion strategy for the Data Lake on Azure Synapse using ADF

Education

• Dowling College

  MBA, Banking and Finance

• Dowling College

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Banking and Finance

• M.S. (Maharaja Sayajirao) University, India

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

• Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science