ConnectVice President — Data Solution Architect
JPMorgan Chase & Co. · Oct 2023 – Jul 2025
Led Data Management strategy for the Global Banking Platform covering architecture, engineering, governance, and security.
Durga Analytics
Founder & CEO · Trade Risk · Data Strategy · AI
Prajesh Jha — Portfolio
20+ years building and leading data platforms and analytics for BFSI, Energy Trading (ETRM), and Retail. Focused on outcome-driven strategy, modern engineering, and responsible AI.
Snapshot
- VP & Data Solution Architect — JPMorgan Chase (2023–2025)
- Senior roles across Tredence, G‑Force (rue21), AlphaCentrix, Tesco Bank
- ETRM & Capital Markets architecture for ADNOC, ENI, Centrica
Recent Positions
Senior Manager — Data Engineering
Tredence Inc. · Jun 2023 – Oct 2023
Migrated a large CPG data catalog from Hive to Azure Databricks Unity Catalog across 100+ workspaces.
Senior Data Architect — rue21
G‑Force Solutions · Nov 2022 – Apr 2023
Designed retail sales analytics platform; collaborated with product teams on end‑to‑end architecture.
Lead Data Architect
AlphaCentrix · Sep 2021 – Nov 2022
Built capital markets data products with lakehouse architecture and governance protocols.
Enterprise Data Architect
Tesco Bank · May 2021 – Sep 2021
Led Customer MDM for savings, loans and credit card data across platforms.
Senior Data Architect — ADNOC
Mar 2020 – May 2021
Owned ETRM data strategy, metadata, and analytics platform. Delivered full‑stack ETRM solution for trading operations.
Data Architect — Baker Hughes
Sep 2019 – Mar 2020
Delivered MDM framework via APIs, Informatica MDM, Tableau and microservices for Customer 360.
Data Architect — ENI Trading & Shipping
Jan 2017 – Sep 2019 · London
Defined trade risk and ETRM models across P&L, Greeks and metadata; built scalable conceptual‑to‑physical data models.
Data Integration Specialist — Cambridge Associates
Oct 2015 – Dec 2016
Delivered analytics platform for debt instruments with end‑to‑end strategy and integration.
BI Specialist — Franklin Templeton Investments
Jun 2015 – Oct 2015 · California
Implemented strategic analytics platform for asset‑management insights.
Data Specialist — Barclays Plc
Feb 2014 – Jun 2014 · London
Developed EMIR‑compliant automation framework for data quality and governance.
Data Architect — Centrica Plc
Aug 2012 – Nov 2013 · Windsor, UK
Deployed trading analytics and pipeline for gas/power futures, options and swaps with OpenLink.
Lead ETL / BI Developer — European Data Warehouse
Jan 2012 – Aug 2012 · Noida
Built debt‑instrument ETL pipeline processing 50GB+ XML/JSON.
Data Architect — NatWest Group
Feb 2009 – Jan 2012 · Gurugram
Architected capital markets ETL platform processing TB‑scale data.
Lead Data Engineer — RBS (via Satyam)
Oct 2006 – Feb 2009 · Gurugram
Built capital markets data warehouse and pipeline using QlikView & Cognos.
Lead Database Engineer — Open Solutions / Fiserv
Mar 2006 – Sep 2006 · Gurugram
Developed Loan Origination System (LOS) platform.
Application Developer — GE Real Estate (via Nelito)
Jun 2005 – Mar 2006 · Noida
Built web platform on .NET (C#), ASP.NET with Oracle backend.
Core Expertise
- ETRM Leadership & Architecture (OpenLink Endur, multi‑commodity)
- Cloud & Lakehouse: Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, GCP
- MDM, Data Governance, Lineage & Quality
- AI/ML — model risk, analytics products, MLOps
Approach
Business‑aligned strategy, pragmatic architecture, and hands‑on leadership. Bias for measurable outcomes: time‑to‑value, cost efficiency, and decision uplift.