Ajaykumar Birdavade

AI Data Quality Advisor | Helping SMBs Fix Their Data Before AI | Enterprise Data Governance Leader

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

About

I am a Data Leader specialising in enterprise Data Governance, with seven years of experience across private and public sector environments. My expertise spans Critical Data Elements (CDEs), data quality frameworks, data controls, authoritative data sources and end-to-end data lineage. My work focuses on establishing data that is accurate, trusted and well-controlled for regulatory reporting, analytics and operational decision-making. Over the past two years, I have led governance efforts supporting Consumer Duty compliance, partnering with business, technology and control stakeholders to strengthen data ownership and embed governance into day-to-day workflows. In the last year, I have also been responsible for governing data products on a cloud platform (AWS), supporting an organisation-wide transition to cloud-native analytics. This includes adapting traditional governance standards to modern architectures while maintaining robust oversight of data quality, lineage and critical controls. I am particularly interested in how organisations modernise governance as they adopt cloud, decentralised platforms and AI-driven use cases, and how CDO functions evolve to support these emerging capabilities.

Experience

  • Senior Data Governance Lead at Independent Consultant
    May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

    Lead enterprise-wide Data Governance initiatives across business domains for policy & regulatory compliance with responsibility for CDE definition & ownership, data quality, lineage, authoritative sources and cloud governance. Act as a bridge between business, technology, and control functions to ensure data is trusted, well-designed and compliant

  • Solutions Architect at TC&AS
    Dec 2019 - Apr 2020 · 5 mos

    Evaluate data warehousing solution using GCP BigQuery, AWS RedShift and Azure Data Warehouse. Design data migration solution involving migration strategy roadmap.

  • Business Solutions Architect and Data Governance Analyst at Barclays
    Jul 2014 - Nov 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Delivered successfully multiple projects in role of Solutions Architect and Data Governance SME

  • Senior Data Analyst, Solutions Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
    Aug 2012 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Consulted at Barclays as Cards SME, Sr. Data Analyst

  • Vice President of Global Services at Tradepaq TRM
    Jan 2010 - Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible for product implementation and services globally. Product focused on Commodity Risk Management