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title: "Rohit K. - Vice President - Sustainability & Climate Engineering in Pune Division | Tal"
description: "Meet Rohit K., Vice President | Cloud & Big Data Engineering Leader | AWS | Azure | GCP | Databricks | Spark | Kafka | Driving Digital Transformation based in Pune Division. AI stack includes antigravity, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Rohit K\. on Tal

## Headline

Vice President \| Cloud & Big Data Engineering Leader \| AWS \| Azure \| GCP \| Databricks \| Spark \| Kafka \| Driving Digital Transformation

## About

Results\-driven Technology Leader with 14\+ years of global experience in cloud computing, big data engineering, and enterprise software development, delivering scalable and secure solutions for financial institutions and technology organizations across the US, UK, Europe, and APAC\. I specialize in multi\-cloud environments \(AWS, Azure, and GCP\) and advanced data engineering frameworks, including Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, HDFS, ADLS, and GCP Dataproc\. With a proven track record in cloud migration, infrastructure optimization, real\-time streaming pipelines, and enterprise data solutions, I help organizations achieve cost efficiency, high performance, and regulatory compliance\. As a Vice President at MSCI, I lead cloud\-native big data solutions, driving the transformation of ESG and risk analytics\. Previously, at UBS, RBS, Synechron, and EY, I architected and delivered mission\-critical systems for risk, market data, and financial analytics\. Recognized as a strategic problem\-solver and mentor, I guide cross\-functional teams across India, the UK, USA, and Poland, ensuring alignment between technology initiatives and business outcomes\. My leadership approach focuses on innovation, collaboration, and removing technical barriers to accelerate digital transformation\.

## Location

Pune Division

## AI stack

antigravity

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Vice President \- Sustainability & Climate Engineering at MSCI Inc\., Oct 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, • Leading the cloud migration for applications and infrastructure from AWS to GCP\. • Led the development of big data solutions using Apache Spark in GCP • Spearheaded the redesign of cloud architecture, enhancing scalability, security, and performance\. • Managed project timelines, coordinated with stakeholders, and optimized cloud costs\. • Managed and guided cross\-functional technical teams, delivering high\-quality software solutions within project timelines\.

Associate Director, NEURON Platform Development Lead at UBS, Mar 2021 \- Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Working as a Big Data and Cloud Engineer Lead to migrate ON\-PREM legacy applications into a new world of technologies involving Big Data and Cloud\. Responsible for designing and developing the applications for Reporting and Business Intelligence, to support all Regulatory & Data Services needs under CDIO \(Chief Digital and Information Office\) Operations\. Responsible for handling recruitment and onboarding the candidates into the team for making a better working team culture\. Responsible for being a good Mentor for all people across global team to maintain a good collaboration and good colleagues relationships Tags: Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Java, Scala, Python, Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Event Hubs, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics\.

Specialist \- Technology \(Client \- CitiBank\) at Synechron, Apr 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Design and develop techniques for Data Ingestion in Investment/Private Bank area of business data to Hadoop/GCP cluster\. Mentor juniors to help them to vision their careers path into Big Data side Helping in recruitment and establishing a great Big Data Developers talent pool in the Organisation Tags: Kafka, Spark, Hive, HBASE, HDFS, GCP, Scala, Java, GCP, Dataproc

Associate Specialist\-Technology \(Client \- CitiBank\) at Synechron, Jul 2019 \- Mar 2020 · 9 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Design and develop techniques for Data Ingestion in Investment/Private Bank area of business data to Hadoop/GCP cluster\. Tags: Kafka, Spark, Hive, HBASE, HDFS, GCP, Scala, Java, GCP, Dataproc

Senior Software Designer, Market Risk, IB Technology at RBS, Nov 2017 \- Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, As a Senior Designer responsible to design and develop the complex Risk Data Aggregation Services according to FRTB regulations using Big Data technologies for Risk Compliance & Supervisory \(RCS\) Technology platform in CIB domain\. Tags: Java, Spring, RestFul, Scala, Spark, Kafka, HDFS, HIVE, Cloudera CDH, ElasticSearch, MongoDB technologies\.

Lead Engineer at Ephesoft, Inc\., Jul 2016 \- Nov 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, As an Engineer responsible to develop the complex Analytics platform for the end users to perform Data Analytical activities\. Tags: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Big Data, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, OrientDB, JSON, Scala

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Computer Software Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

BCA, Computer Applications, Panjab University, Chandigarh

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