Suman Gopalan

About Suman Gopalan

Strategic Data & AI Leader with 21+ years delivering transformative Data, Analytics, and AI solutions across global markets. Recognized for building and scaling multidisciplinary teams (50–100+members), architecting cloud-first platforms, and driving data monetization and governance for Fortune 100 clients.Global Team Leadership: Strong Expertise in leading global data engineering, data science, and MLOps teams in complex multi-lingual, multi-country digital transformations across North America, EMEA, and APAC.Strategic Roles: Successfully served in high-impact leadership roles, including Sr. Director – Data Engineering, Practice Head, and Lead Architect for top-tier organizations like Visa, Cox Automotive, Accenture, and Cognizant.Cloud & Data Modernization: Designed and executed migration strategies for Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS/Azure data stacks (S3, Redshift, Synapse), leading to multi-milliondollar savings and accelerated analytics delivery.Big Data Expertise: Implemented enterprise-grade Hadoop/Spark/Kafka ecosystems, optimized ETL pipelines, and supported high-volume ingestion, streaming, and ML workflows.Innovative AI Solutions: Spearheaded Gen-AI initiatives using GPT‑4, RAG/LangChain, and conversational assistants—enhancing client performance and accelerating document and portfolio intelligence.Strategic Governance & Delivery: Led multimillion-dollar programs with robust data quality frameworks, GDPR/CCPA/PCI-DSS compliance, and SAFe/PMP methodologies to ensure secure, reliable data operations.Executive-Caliber Certifications: Holds distinguished certifications from Wharton (4Leadership), MIT Sloan (AI), Oracle, Alteryx, and PMI (PMP®), reflecting a strong blend of strategic leadership and technical depth.

Experience

1. Sr Director - Data Engineering, Global Data Science

   Visa

   Jan 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Artificial Intelligence

  2021 — 2021

• National Institute of Information Technology

  DNIIT, Information Technology

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Electronics & Communication

• The Wharton School

  Leadership & Management Program, Organizational Leadership

  2020 — 2020

Skills

• Project Management
• Data Warehousing
• Hive
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Hadoop
• Pmp
• Business Intelligence
• Alteryx
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Bi Publisher
• Obiee
• Data Modeling
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• Big Data Analytics
• Amazon Redshift
• Big Data
• Requirements Gathering
• Telecommunications
• Cloudera Impala
• Analytics
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Etl
• Pl/Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Informatica
• Siebel
• Management Consulting
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)