Santosh K
Enterprise Data & AI Platform Architect, Cloud Data Platform Leader , Data Platform Engineering & Enterprise Informatica Platform Leader (US onsite Experience)
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Cybersecurity and AWS-Certified Enterprise Data Architecture Leader and Data Platform Engineering leader with 15 years of progressive experience designing, securing, modernizing, and governing large-scale enterprise Informatica ecosystems and data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Recognized as an enterprise owner of Informatica platforms including PowerCenter, IICS (CDI/CDQ/CDGC/CDIPC), EDC, Axon, IDQ, MDM, and B2B, driving platform strategy, lifecycle governance, cloud migration, performance optimization, and security alignment. Combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with strategic leadership in enterprise data integration, metadata governance, MDM, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity-aligned architecture.
Proven track record of architecting high-availability (HA), GRID, and multi-region disaster recovery ecosystems supporting mission-critical workloads, 30M+ record batch processing, real-time integrations, and regulated data exchange frameworks (HIPAA-aligned). Experienced in leading cross-functional initiatives, influencing infrastructure and security strategy, implementing IAM-based access governance, enforcing encryption standards, and partnering with executive stakeholders, compliance teams, and vendor leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise data ecosystems.
Experience
Enterprise Data & AI Platform Architect, Cloud Data Platform Leader - Enterprise - Hyderabad, India
Enterprise owner of Informatica PowerCenter, IDMC ecosystem including CDI, CDGC, CDQ, CDIPC, EDC, DPM, Advance Scanner, Axon, IDQ, Address Doctor, Operational Insights MDM, and B2B DX DT HIPAA platforms.
- Led cloud modernization by migrating legacy PowerCenter workloads to AWS-native CDI-PC environments aligned with governance and cybersecurity standards
- Designed secure metadata ingestion pipelines integrating Snowflake, BigQuery, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Salesforce, and NetSuite
- Implemented secure API and token-based authentication for Axon–EDC synchronization with encrypted communication
- Architected multi-region HA/DR frameworks and environment segregation with secure access controls to ensure resilience, continuity, and regulatory compliance
- Enabled AI-ready governance and automated policy enforcement for metadata, lineage, and sensitive data management
- Expertise as Informatica Administrator to setup new Informatica environments and Upgrade existing Informatica environments to new versions on Unix, AIX/linux servers, AWS and Google cloud servers
- Utilized Informatica cloud instance to build the different connectors/connections and resources i.e SQL/ORACLE/DB2 ZOS/DB2 MAINFRAME/SALESFORCE/SHAREPOINT/CUSTOM MODELS/AMAZON S3/Snowflake
- Performed MDM 10.2hf1/10.3 setup on Linux servers
- Setup and configured HA/GRID on nodes
- Configured API integration connectivity in IICS, IDMC for various business needs
- Created VM snapshots from Aws/GCP cloud instances during upgrades/patching activity
- Monitored VM's on AWS/ Azure/GCP cloud instance during high CPU utilization/performance issues
- Maintained EC2 instances and implemented start-stop on AWS
- Maintained and managed the Security-groups, IAM, load-balancers, Hosts, Secret Manager on AWS
- Managed on resizing the AWS instance volumes as per requirement and monitored service health of AWS instances
- Managed Amazon machine images
- Managed and Administered SQL server Databases from cloud instances on access/space management for different databases and executing the SQL scripts for database backups, tables creation, tables results and verifying the performance
- Experienced configuring license, certificates, connections related to Salesforce
- Hands on experience with Creating folders, Groups, Roles, Users in Admin console and granting them permissions
- Configured LDAP/SAML for SSO integration for PowerCenter and IICS/IDMC
- Experienced in creating/updating TNS/ODBC entries as part of informatica process
- Created and configured Power Exchange, HDFS connectivity
- Good experience with ITSM (Service-Now) change management, deploying code from DEV to TEST and PROD – using deployment groups in Informatica Repository manager
- Provided guided support for the teams involved in B2B DT for deployment and resolving issues on B2B DX side
- Responsible in Installing/administering the 'Denodo' and 'RightData' Applications
- Good understanding and usage of Qlikview
- Setup Roles/Users in Denodo application
- Configured the AD groups for different roles for different application teams
- Configured various database connections in Denodo application
- Configured various jobs for different line of business
- Performed an Upgrade on Denodo to latest version
- Setup Users/Roles/query chains in RightData App
- Installed/Configured /Administered 'MoveIT-Automation App' on Azure cloud
- Performed FTP/SMTP and PGP transfers
- Installed, configured Snaplogic and its components on environment
- Utilized Snaplogic for cloud data integrations
- API management with Snaps
- Scheduled tasks using pipelines via Snaplogic
- Managed Performance, Monitored schedules via Snaplogic Dashboard
- Configured IICS and setup domain/repository for alerts/monitoring
- Setup users assign permissions as per project groups in IICS/IDMC
- Worked on configuration of Snowsql and AWS tokens and profiles
- Configured and Enabled different connectors/connections and runtime environments for various projects in IICS/IDMC
- Managed Secure agent groups in IICS/IDMC
- Migration of assets between repositories in IICS/IDMC
- Migrated Powercenter jobs/workflows to CDI-PC cloud
- Worked on managing and maintaining Github Repository for Enterprise projects
- Worked on Enabling the version control in IICS
- Experienced in Setup and Configuration of Metadata Manager and Metadata command center and performed lineage
- Knowledge about Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile, Application Maintenance Change Process (AMCP), Change Management (JIRA)
- Documented informatica related Runbook, Procedures, Best Practices on 'CONFLUENCE'
- Build automated Scripts to have Informatica server startup/shutdown via 'JENKINS'
- Installed and Configured 'SPLUNK' on Informatica servers to have logs dumped on Splunk dashboard via Forwarder
- Maintained Sompo's Splunk cloud
- Responsible for managing SAN, NAS mounts storages and interacting with dependent teams
- Coordinated with information Security team for new AD user setups and access related concerns
- Coordinated with the 'End-User' application team for packing the 'Informatica' Products to Stakeholders machines
- Well-exposed and problem solver for Business Glossary, Analyst service issues
- Pertinent experience using heterogeneous databases such as Oracle 9i/10g/11g, DB2/UDB, MS SQL Server 2012/2008, XML and various Flat File (Structured, Unstructured) systems for integration into Enterprise/Business Analysis DWH
- Experience in writing shell scripting for various ETL needs
- Used Auto Sys/UC4/Control M for automatic job management, event driven scheduling and programmable error recovery
- Utilizing SCCM for SQL queries executions for reports
- Coordinated with Release Management Teams for any infrastructure changes
Education
Masters In Computer Science (Jan 2014-Aug 2015), California, USA
