Pawas Pant

About Pawas Pant

A visionary Data engineering & AI leader with over 21 years of industry experience delivering Data products spanning across various domains- BFSI, Food Tech/QSR, Retail- Omnichannel, Digital commerce, CPG, Healthcare, Industrials, Supply Chain, EdTechExperience working with global/ multi geography teams. North Americas, Western EU, APAC/ ASEAN, MENA market experience – 14+ yearsDelivery excellence, pre-sales, GTM, Practice and competency building End to end data lifecycle management- including creating the roadmap, solutioning,technical oversight, architecting, data modelling & finally leading the deliveryWorked & partnered with all major cloud platforms- AWS & Azure being top 2.Expert in building medium to large scale enterprise grade data landscapes end to end,data ingestion using batching, micro batching, streaming, APIs. Transformation with new age stack – Kinesis, Spark, DBT, EMR, Flink, Storm. Worked with structured,unstructured & semi-structured dataExpertise working with data lakes, DWHs, Lakehouses & most recently open file & tableformats like – Delta Lake, Iceberg.Implemented holistic data management – DQ, Governance frameworks, A data engineer & architect at core who loves to solve complex data challenges using modern cloud based, cloud agnostic & open-source tech.Fostering culture of continuous upskilling, certifications, innovation & adoption to emerging tech.Instrumental in building strong partnership with business stakeholders (including C-suite),core engineering/IT teams, product owners, business partners (Customer support, Finance,Marketing, Operations, Supply chain, external technology partners, AI & ML ops teams.Directly responsible for auditing, monitoring & controlling the cost of data assets & infra & hence showcasing ROI on data infrastructure.Core Competencies- Data modernization, Data acquisition & DaaS (Reverse ETL) Unified & federated (domain centric) data hubs/marts Data architecture & transformation Core data/ dimensional modelling best practice- Data vault, Erwin, ER Studio etc. Data governance & DQ Frameworks Data democratization, Enterprise dashboarding & Self-serve analytics Data literacy- enterprise data catalogue, Data glossary & MDM Data privacy, access control, compliance & regulations ( GDPR, HIPA, PII encryption) Data assets & infra cost control & management. Agile Engineering & CI/CD- AWS code build, Git, Jenkins Familiarity with Gen AI/ML models - Regression, classification, NLP, random forest, Neuralnetwork, Mistral 8 X, Llama 3, Gemini

Experience

1. Senior Asoc Vice President - Data Management & Analytics

   EXL

   Nov 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

Education

• Govind Ballabh Pant Krishi Evam Praudyogik Vishwavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Business Intelligence
• Technical Architecture
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Crm
• Engagement Management
• Team Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Account Management
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Pmp
• Project Planning
• Scrum
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Client Development