Suds Kumar

Suds Kumar

Google Cloud Solution Architect | Pre-Sales | Go-To-Market | Consulting | Advisory | Data & AI | 5xGCP

Watford, London Area, UK 07933020075 suds123@gmail.com

About Me

I am a Data Cloud expert and technologist who enjoys solving complex data & design challenges and architecting and engineering solutions on Cloud. With extensive experience in advising and architecting for customers in cloud data transformation, I provide solutions and recommendations for making the best use of the Cloud platform.

My expertise spans solutions architecture, data engineering, data platform infrastructure, databases, data ingestion, data strategy & roadmap, data warehouse, data lakes, data modeling, data migration, data movement, data governance, metadata management, data provenance, data mesh, data virtualisation, data catalog, analytics & insights, AI & ML, DevOps, and security.

I lead data technology consulting, thought leadership, technical evangelism, design sessions, solution workshops, and architecture engagements for Financial Services customers. I'm also experienced in pre-sales, go-to-market offerings, assets, products & solutions, ideation, working with product managers, enhancements & innovations.

I bring best practices and experience from various industries including Payments, Investment Banking, Telecommunications, Leasing & Financing, Retail, and more.

Work Experience

Senior GCP Architect
August 2023 - Present
EPAM Systems
London, England, United Kingdom
Data Lead | GCP Architect | Director | Financial Services
May 2021 - July 2023
Capgemini
London, England, United Kingdom
  • Drove accelerated growth in Capgemini global Google Cloud portfolio and advised customers in making the best use of the GCP platform
  • Created GCP data offering and solutions for Capgemini Financial Services
  • Led GCP chapter of tech practitioners in UK
  • Led technology consulting and architecture engagements through pre-sales phase for Financial Services customers
Senior Cloud Architect | Data Tech & Analytics
June 2019 - May 2021
Sky
London, United Kingdom
  • Accountable for the design of Google Cloud Platform solutions, and other on-prem platforms, to meet Sky's objective to use data for the benefit of our customers and internal stakeholders by designing platforms that store and process data
  • Delivered Jobs-as-code automation, which significantly reduced time by 70% for productionizing workflows
Data Solution Architect | Digital
March 2016 - June 2019
Worldpay
London, United Kingdom
  • Redesigned Digital POS (point-of-sale) backend database and REST APIs which improved the performance of the application by 40%
  • Designed data architecture and integration of Digital Platform with New Acquiring Platform
  • Led the architecture, design and implementation of key portal based strategic products such as merchant dashboard and point-of-sale application
  • Contributed to portals and data related strategy road mapping
  • Architected and designed data movements through messaging, ETL, application transformations
  • A key member of the Data Working Group and Technical Design Authority boards
Senior Tech Architect | BI & Big Data
January 2013 - February 2016
Infosys
London, United Kingdom
  • Positioned and designed solutions for financial services customers with Infosys Big Data platform and services; involved in 6 pre-sales opportunities, with 4 converting into the sale of Infosys services
  • Designed Data Archival (WORM) platform for Investment Banking client resulting in client able to comply with Dodd-Frank Record retention regulations within six months, thereby avoiding the risk of penalties
  • Designed EU Financial Transaction Tax reporting solution for Investment Banking client, allowing the client to report and pay tax, thereby avoiding the risk of penalties
  • Led Finance, Risk, Treasury Analytics for retail banking giant under their multi-million transformation programme of their retail banking business
Business Intelligence Architect
January 2011 - January 2013
Peak Indicators Limited
  • UK wide Oracle BI Consulting in the areas of OBIEE, OBIA, Informatica and ODI
  • Conducted 5 Oracle University training programs for ODI 10g & 11g
Business Intelligence Solution Architect
June 2010 - November 2010
Logica
  • Involved in pre-sales and BI practice support
  • Customer presentations, demos & workshops in Logica's Oracle BI capabilities
Business Intelligence Specialist
April 2009 - May 2010
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc
  • Implemented Retail EDW using foundation model provided by ORDM (Oracle Retail Data Model)
  • The system used ODI & PL/SQL as ETL and OBIEE as Reporting tools and provided advanced Analytics capabilities using Oracle OLAP and Data Mining
Senior Consultant | BI/DW
March 2008 - April 2009
Oracle
  • EMEA + APAC customer consulting in BI & DW area
  • Key projects: DataHub solution for H3G (Milan, Italy), MIS Reporting Solution for Wilkinson (UK), Corporate Reporting Solution for Romtelecom (Romania), DW Architect for BCR Bank (Romania), Solution Assessment for Raiffeisen Bank (Romania), DW Health Check for MTRC (Hong Kong), Oracle Mobile Knowledge Solution for Celtel
Technical Architect
June 2006 - February 2008
Tech Mahindra
London, United Kingdom, Hon-Atsugi, Japan
  • Service provisioning and service delivery datamarts and dashboards using OWB & OBIEE tools at British Telecom Global Services, UK
  • CRM Data Hub, Single View, CRM for Sky Broadband Launch - for ClarityBlue, UK
  • Supply Chain Management Data Hub for Nissan, Japan using Ab-Initio
Advisiory IT Specialist
December 2004 - June 2006
IBM Global Services
Kolkata, India
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse for AOL using Ab-Initio, Netezza, Redbrick, Perl
System Analyst
September 2000 - October 2004
Churchill Insurance
  • Data integration, Batch & MIS projects using PL/SQL and Pro*C for Churchill Insurance, UK

Education

MBA, Finance
2010 - 2013
Amity University
Executive Program in Business Management, General Management
2005 - 2006
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Science & Engineering
1996 - 2000
Utkal University

Certifications

Oracle 11g Data Warehousing Certified Implementation Specialist
Oracle Business Intelligence Certified Implementation Specialist
PRINCE2 Foundation

Skills

Top Skills

Data Migration Machine Learning Vertex AI Google Cloud Platform Solution Architecture

Cloud & Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Architecture Data Platform Infrastructure Cloud Migration DevOps

Data Technologies

Data Warehousing Data Lakes Data Modeling ETL/ELT Data Governance Metadata Management Data Mesh Data Virtualization Data Catalog

AI & Analytics

Vertex AI Machine Learning Business Intelligence Data Analytics BigQuery

Business & Consulting

Pre-Sales Go-To-Market Strategy Solution Design Technical Leadership Data Strategy Financial Services