Gaurav Bhatnagar

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About Gaurav Bhatnagar

Digital transformation and data engineering leader with 15+ years of deep experience delivering enterprise-scale data and AI platforms in regulated environments. I specialise in designing and delivering AI-enabled data pipelines, AI agents, and conversational bots that power modern data products—accelerating discovery, insight, and decision-making for data producers and consumers.Currently working with Lloyds Banking Group, I bring extensive experience across major UK banks including Barclays, RBS, and Lloyds, with hands-on delivery across core banking, credit-card processing, and large-scale analytics platforms.I have led and built high-performance engineering teams to deliver complex ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines, legacy-to-cloud migrations, and cloud-native analytics solutions across GCP and AWS. My work consistently bridges business outcomes with robust technical design, from incubation and build through to production support.Key strengths* Delivery of AI-driven data pipelines, including AI agents and conversational interfaces integrated with enterprise data products* Design and implementation of large-scale Big Data pipelines using Spark, Scala, Kafka, Airflow, and cloud-native services* Leadership of Agile (Scrum/Kanban) teams as Engineering Lead across AI, Big Data and Cloud programmesMigration of legacy and mainframe-based workloads to modern cloud architectures* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication across technical and non-technical audiences