Vishal Gadhia
Director of Data Engineering & Enterprise Data Platforms | Cloud & Customer Data Strategy | MarTech Transformation| Product Centric Leader | CapitalOne (Discover Financial Services)
- Role
- Director, Data & Analytics Engineering at Capital One
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vishal Gadhia
I am a Director at Discover Financial Services overseeing a multi-million dollar budget for data engineering and operations teams focused in financial and MarTech domains. Passionate about data science, big data, marketing automation, and emerging technologies, I have leveraged my technical subject matter expertise and a solutions-based, customer-centric approach to drive technical decisions and overall business strategy. I have led multiple migration initiatives aligned with digital transformation from on-prem to cloud, delivering an annual $5M+ cost savings. My Solution Architecture team worked one of the most coveted enterprise initiatives directly impacting the company’s bottom line reserves. By integrating with a Metadata-driven approach, we reduced raw data ingestion time by 50%, improving data quality and data governance, resulting in faster time to market, engineering automated solutions, building generic data ingestion patterns and frameworks using open-source tool and technologies. As a strategic leader, I have managed multiple product-centric, agile, autonomous data engineering strategic projects, developing and implementing top priority initiatives, collaborating with business stakeholders to achieve their expectations and meet our company’s growth targets.Leadership Core Competencies:• Senior Data Engineering Manager• Digital and Cloud Transformation Expert• Product-Centric Engineer• Strategic Technology Roadmap Leader• Dedicated and Responsive Customer Advocate• Collaborative Business Developer• Analytical Thinker• Transformation Partner• Data and Analytics Enthusiast• Cross-Functional Team Manager
Experience
Director, Data & Analytics Engineering
May 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Education
Bangalore University
Master's degree, Computer Science
2001 — 2004
Skills
- Transact-Sql (T-Sql)
- Database Administration
- Data Warehousing
- Xml
- Database Design
- Sql
- Requirements Analysis
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Microsoft Bi Suite
- Software Project Management
- Business Intelligence
- Business Analysis
- Sdlc
- Agile Methodologies
- Microsoft Sql Server
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