Harshath Budida
Data Architect @Principal Financial Group
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WORK HISTORY
Data Architect @Principal Financial Group
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Designed and governed enterprise-wide data architectures, ensuring scalability, resilience, and alignment with corporate financial systems.• Architected complex data integration frameworks connecting multiple transactional, analytical, and regulatory platforms to support real-time decision-making,IAM, role-based access, encryption-in-transit/at-rest across cloud platforms to ensure compliance with SOC 2 and HIPAA.supporting high-volume financial transactions, improving throughput by 40% while reducing downtime.• Partnered with data science teams to deploy ML-ready datasets, accelerating AI/ML use cases such as fraud detection and credit risk modeling.• Led data modeling initiatives conceptual, logical, and physical to enforce consistency, optimize query performance, and improve enterprise reporting accuracy.• Established data governance standards, including metadata management, lineage tracking, and access control to maintain compliance with financial regulations SOX, GDPR.• Directed cloud modernization strategies, migrating legacy data warehouses into secure, high-performance cloud-native ecosystems (AWS/Azure).Reduced data pipeline cost by 25% through optimized ETL schedulingDelivered executive dashboards and KPIs leveraging Power BI/Tableau, improving decision-making speed for financial • leadership teams. pipelines for data workflows using Git, Jenkins, and Airflow, reducing release cycles by 25%.• Optimized ETL/ELT pipelines and implemented data quality frameworks to reduce latency, increase reliability, and ensure precision in critical financial reporting.• Collaborated with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into data-driven architectural solutions.• Mentored and guided technical teams, fostering best practices in data engineering, security, and architecture to elevate delivery standards across projects.
EDUCATION
University of North Texas
Master's degree
Vignan Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelors
ABOUT HARSHATH BUDIDA
Data Architect & Engineer with over the 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data solutions across Finance, Healthcare, and Retail domains. Skilled in building cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks) and optimizing data pipelines using Hadoop, Spark, and Airflow. Proven track record of reducing costs by 25% and improving query performance by 40% through scalable architecture design. Strong communicator with experience leading teams, collaborating with business stakeholders, and delivering data-driven solutions that support strategic decision-making.
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