Jayakumar Sekar
Director | Data, AI & Analytics Strategy Leader | Driving Revenue, Margin & Enterprise Transformation
- Role
- Director at Wavicle Data Solutions
- Location
- Chennai, TN, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jayakumar Sekar
I am a Strategic Data & AI Leader with 20+ years of experience partnering with business leaders to translate complex problems into measurable business outcomes - revenue growth, margin improvement, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage.Over the years, I’ve evolved from building systems to building businesses enabled by data. Today, my focus is on owning outcomes and not just delivery - aligning Data, AI, GenAI, and Analytics investments to enterprise strategy.I have led $10M+ portfolios, managed 100+ member global teams, and worked closely with CXOs across Insurance, BFSI, Oil & Gas, Retail, and Manufacturing to: • Drive large-scale cloud and analytics transformations • Enable executive decision-making through data platforms • Monetize AI and advanced analytics use cases • Improve margins through delivery optimization and governanceAs a leader, I operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and people - shaping roadmaps, influencing stakeholders, mentoring leaders, and building future-ready capabilities.Current focus areas: • Data & AI Strategy • Enterprise Analytics & BI Transformation • GenAI & Agentic AI Enablement • Operating Model & Governance Design • Scaling High-Performance Data TeamsI believe technology succeeds only when it is simple, scalable, and tied directly to business value.
Experience
Director
Apr 2025 — Present
Own delivery and business outcomes for enterprise analytics and BI transformation programs across Insurance and Financial Services.• Led large-scale BI modernization and cloud governance initiatives, improving delivery predictability, cost control, and stakeholder confidence.• Drove margin optimization, exceeding forecast through capacity planning, delivery discipline, and execution governance.• Led organization-wide GenAI enablement strategy, including curriculum design, leadership alignment, and capability rollout.• Spearheaded Agentic AI accelerator strategy, shaping market-ready solutions and supporting go-to-market positioning.• Actively contribute to thought leadership through internal sessions and external GenAI publications, enhancing brand visibility.
Education
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Diploma, Data Science
2017 — 2018
Madurai Kamaraj University
Bachelor's degree, Information technology
2000 — 2004
Liverpool John Moores University
Master's degree, Data Science
2019 — 2020
Skills
- Program Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Sql
- Cobol Ii
- Machine Learning
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Ca7
- Unix
- Oracle Applications
- Software Development
- Python
- Job Control Language (Jcl)
- Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
- Easytrieve
- Data Analytics
- Vsam
- Eclipse
- Visual Basic
- Ibm Mainframe
- Autosys
- Html5
- Microsoft Office
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