Rajendra Samant

About Rajendra Samant

Data Analytics | Data Engineering | Data Strategy | Data Management | Data Governance |…

Experience

1. Director - Data Analytics

   Equitable

   Oct 2018 — Present

   This is one of the critical enterprise roles with direct reporting to Chief Data & Analytics Officer and dotted line reporting to CTO. Key responsibilities include creating and implementing data strategy, championing data governance, building data domains and creating data products to support Actuarial and Accounting modernization • Led initiative to define enterprise data strategy, identified roadmap including data domain creation • Proactively promoted data as a key strategic business asset and championed data governance cause • Defined data governance strategy, established data governance council, documented policies and procedures • Identified and documented data owners and stewards; established effective stewardship and trained them • Increased awareness by conducting sessions for IT & Business on data governance processes and tools • Defined strategy for implementing IT and SOX controls to meet audit and compliance needs • Defined data retention strategy to reduce redundancy & achieve cost saving while ensuring compliance is met • Led initiative to define change and access management procedures for enterprise data lake • Created inventory of internal and external data available in enterprise and mapped to business functions • Led most critical enterprise data sourcing project, collaborated with various policy admin systems to identify most authentic raw data and sourced in data lake (Hadoop environment) with required data controls • As a product owner, led Policy data domain creation project (Agile); identified critical data elements, standardized the field names and data, created data models, defined test strategy and built data domains • Led team of data stewards and build robust data governance for Policy domains including Business Glossaries, Data Dictionaries, Lineage and data quality controls • Embedded data governance strategy and created roadmap for other critical data projects and provided support

Education

• University of Mumbai

  BE, Computer Science/Electronics