Balakumar Srinivasan

About Balakumar Srinivasan

Strategic and hands-on BI leader with 12+ years of experience architecting enterprise data solutions and delivering analytics that drive decision-making across sales, finance, and operations. Proven track record of building scalable data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics platforms. Expert in data modeling, visualization, stakeholder engagement, and BI systems administration. Passionate about translating business needs into impactful technical solutions with a strong focus on data lineage, automation, and cost efficiency.KEY EXPERTISEData Warehousing | Business Intelligence | Dashboard Development | Data Analysis | Data Modeling | ETL | Visualization | SQL/PLSQL | AWS | Microsoft SQL Server | Python | MicroStrategy | Tableau | MS Power BI | Analytical Skills | Agile & SDLC

Experience

1. Lead Data Engineer & Business Intelligence Engineer

   MassMutual

   May 2021 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Enterprise Data Lineage Database: Architected an end-to-end data lineage solution for the enterprise data warehouse, covering 200+ data sources. Modelled schemas, built tables/views, and implemented robust data pipelines to trace data flow from raw source files to final BI cubes and reports.•Data Lineage Dashboard: Developed a comprehensive dashboard enabling leadership to visualize the full data flow—from source to final reports. Reduced data load delays by 85% through improved visibility, SLA definition and pro-active root cause identification.•Advisor Progress Reporting: Designed and implemented the daily distribution process for Advisor Progress reports to over advisors. Achieved $4.8M/year in licensing cost savings through automation.•User Access Management Database & Dashboard: Developed data pipelines to consolidate user access data from 35+ sources. Modeled schema and built tables/views to centralize access control data, including roles, AD groups, and security filters for users. Developed a dashboard to proactively monitor and troubleshoot access issues, reducing resolution time by 92%.•BI Data Catalogue Database: Built ETL pipelines to extract and centralize metadata for all BI assets (reports, cubes, dimensions, measures, etc.), including business & technical owners, development squads, documentation, etc. Reduced redundant development efforts and developmental inefficiencies by 45%. •BI Data Catalogue Dashboard: Created a MicroStrategy dashboard with in-line editing capabilities via Transaction Services, cutting release planning time by 70%

Education

• The University of Toledo

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2012 — 2014

• ANNA UNIVERSITY - India

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE