Sathish Siva Shankar

Sathish Siva Shankar

Executive Director  ·  Architecture & Engineering Leader  ·  JPMorgan Chase

Seasoned Cloud & Data Modernization Director with 15+ years driving digital transformation at scale. Expert in AWS, Azure, and GCP — leading organizations from legacy complexity to cloud-native clarity. Currently building ground-up intelligence platforms at JPMorgan Chase, powering AI and data product creation across 50K+ data assets. Passionate about unlocking measurable business value through observability, FinOps, and modern data architectures.

Executive Director – Head of CCB Data State Intelligence, FinOps & Reliability & Efficiency Engineering
JPMorgan Chase
Jun 2025 – Present
  • Built ground-up organization delivering a 360° Data Insights engine across 50K+ data assets powering AI product creation.
  • Designed polyglot, model-driven framework for data asset lifecycle — metadata cataloging, taxonomy, semantic search, and value insights.
  • Deployed AI-driven capabilities: intelligent search, drift detection, anomaly identification across Data Exchange & Marketplace.
Executive Director – Head of Data Platforms Reliability & Operational Excellence
JPMorgan Chase
Jun 2024 – Present
  • Led enterprise reliability & observability strategy across AWS, GCP, Snowflake, EMR, Teradata — supporting 25K daily pipelines.
  • Deployed full-stack observability via OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog; reduced MTTD/MTTR from days to hours.
  • Established 100+ PB multi-region data lake with tiered resiliency, HA/DR, and regulatory compliance.
Executive Director – Head of Cloud Nerve Center (Architecture & Engineering)
JPMorgan Chase · Wealth Management Technology
Jul 2022 – Jun 2024
  • Built CNC organization from scratch; transitioned 40% of application landscape to cloud within two years.
  • Defined reference architectures, migration accelerators, Day-2 operations frameworks, and FinOps function.
  • Ran the firm's first Generative AI use cases, integrating two major hyperscalers for model consumption and insight rendering.
Specialist Master – App Modernization & Cloud Migration
Deloitte · Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, Media
Jul 2017 – Aug 2022
  • Established Cloud Center of Excellence (Business Office, Architecture, Security, Operations) driving cloud adoption maturity.
  • Led end-to-end mainframe modernization: discovery → pilot → migration → cutover using strangler fig, anti-corruption, ambassador patterns.
  • Architected event-driven execution engines and decision platforms for major U.S. retailers on Azure, GCP, and PCF.
Senior Cloud Migration Engineer
Comcast · 8K Miles Software Services
Nov 2013 – Jun 2017
  • Developed and migrated SOA/Microservice applications to AWS and Cloud Foundry; leveraged Docker, Spring Boot, Ansible, ELK.
  • Key contributor to Comcast's PCF-based cloud transformation highlighted in Pivotal case study.