As more focus shifts to modernizing new platform solutions and leaner approaches, product data architects are leading the way. They help create a data strategy to migrate from older systems to new innovative product solutions. Kameswara Rao Gattupalli has been working in these roles for over 7 years, giving him a unique perspective of having seen technology's evolution over the last decade.
As a Product Data Architect, Kameswara Rao Gattupalli acts largely as an advisor, assisting his clients and employers in the design and building process of complex technical data architecture. He focuses on using high-end data strategy, hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions that can change the landscape of migrating their legacy system to a new product system. Many technological advancements and assessment tools, such as artificial intelligence, automation, data, and sizing analysis, need to have updated data systems to be optimized. As organizations aim for Core Platforms that can support Digital Enablement, better data reliability, availability, and capabilities, Product Data Architects play a key role.
Kameswara Rao Gattupalli has served customers that offered services in life insurance, and even software. Sometimes, these projects take place within a single country, and other times, Kameswara Rao Gattupalli supports massive multinational transformation for his largest clients.
At an insurance company, the priority was modernizing the legacy systems to new technology product systems and bringing them into the 21st century. The company wanted IT to have a faster response while also modernizing the legacy system and lowering company costs through migration and maintenance costs. Kameswara Rao Gattupalli proposed the consolidation of the organization's 3 legacy systems into one new product solution. His efforts saved his client $2 million per year on system maintenance and reduced the need for maintaining the data center, saving another $300,000 each year. Kameswara Rao Gattupalli proposed a customized data migration methodology, strategy, and techniques to migrate legacy system data to the new data center without impacting the critical production environment. He also ensured customer deadlines were met, freeing up data center space and saving millions of dollars.
Today, Kameswara Rao Gattupalli works as a Product Data Architect at Lincoln National Corporation, where he advances insurance product solutions, works with clients to achieve their goals, and refines insurance practice as needed. Product Managers are often looked at as purely technical resources, and while the role requires a large technical skill set, Kameswara Rao Gattupalli is evidence that product data architects do so much more. They are business consultants who help bring organizational goals to life using technology. In today's landscape, organizations will need to adopt cutting-edge technologies and tools, but the right infrastructure must be in place before creative and innovative solutions can be brought to life.
