Ganesan Gowrikanthan

About Ganesan Gowrikanthan

With over 20 years at Capgemini (Including former IGATE), I contribute to managing technical teams, delivering complex solutions, and overseeing the full lifecycle of data engineering projects. My focus includes data architecture, disaster recovery, and warehouse operations, alongside fostering collaboration with business and IT stakeholders to align technical solutions with organizational goals. Certified in SnowPro Core and AWS Cloud Practitioner, I specialize in Snowflake and Teradata platforms, supporting cloud migrations and data warehousing initiatives. I am committed to optimizing processes, ensuring system resilience, and delivering scalable solutions to empower business decisions.

Experience

1. Senior Manager Senior Architect

   Capgemini

   Apr 2016 — Present

   Responsible to manage a technical team(s), Deliveries, project plan creation/ tracking, prioritization, Handling escalations, review the full scope, proposed solutions, Functional documents, Design documents, Estimations, Schedules with business/IT leaders on periodic basis and adjust according to the outcome of the meeting. Engage with various business users, understand the business needs/ issues and convert the same into \"Use Case\", Business/Functional documents. Regularly meet with stake holders and inform the progress of the software development, risks. Maintained development in snowflake & Teradata platforms. Understand the various application needs and provide a suitable architecture/tech solutions. Responsible & owned Teradata to Snowflake migrations. Propose an effective design/solution to solve the business request with the understanding of existing business domain/model, business processes, current tech stacks, make sure the solution will integrate with existing system/Tools and prepare an Enterprise level architecture using industry standard design patterns. Provide demos to business and IT leaders for their buy-in on the technical solutions. Participate in agile sprints planning, create technical \"user Stories\" and provide estimates Create Logical / Physical Data models. Ensure all project governance artefacts are created and maintained. Participate in yearly SOX audit and navigate/walk-through the required artefacts. Evaluate Upcoming tools & perform POCs to determine the fitment of the tools in the project.

Education

• Bharathidasan University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General

  1998 — 2001

• AVVM Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous) ( Affiliated to Bharathidasan University)

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  1995 — 1998