About

Raunak Rudra is an accomplished Director of Enterprise Business Intelligence at American Express with over 12 years of experience in the financial services domain. He has worked across multiple global locations and possesses diverse technology exposure. Raunak is an assertive team player with strong analytical skills and has the capability to offer innovative solutions to business partners. Raunak's expertise lies in requirements analysis, data analytics, and agile methodologies. He is flexible with the ideology of overcoming challenges at all levels and performs well under demanding situations. Currently, at American Express, he is responsible for enabling BI and analytics at scale on-premises and cloud. He leads BI tool strategy and COE, ensuring that the organization has the right tools to support its business objectives. In his previous role at American Express, Raunak served as a Technical Project Manager and led the Tableau COE. He engaged with leadership and diversified stakeholders to understand their analytical needs and recommended and delivered BI solutions. He continuously evaluated tools and provided strategic recommendations for next-gen BI tools. Prior to American Express, Raunak worked as a Technology Lead and Data Architect at Infosys. Here he worked with a team of 20+ people distributed globally to develop and maintain an online commerce platform that followed Visa's industry-standard 3D Secure protocol. He facilitated the design and build solutions to enhance the current platform to the 3DS 2.0 specification, the next-generation industry standard for payment authentication and fraud prevention. Raunak also has extensive knowledge of digital point of sale capabilities and interfaces. Raunak holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and has completed a PGP in Data Science and Business Analytics from Texas McCombs School of Business and GLIM. He also holds an All India Senior School Certificate Examination in Maths, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Raunak's technical skills include Senior Software Engineering and QA. He has relevant experience of 12.44 years. Raunak is an excellent stakeholder manager and has proactively managed diverse stakeholder groups such as business users, development, QA team, application security, and architecture. He empowers his teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality and prepares and manages project Agile charters. Raunak also coaches developer, architect, and product team members in Agile practices, values, and principles.