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Sougata Bhattacharya

Sougata Bhattacharya

Tech Lead & Architect

TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect with an MSc in Data Science (AI/ML) and over years of experience in financial services, including insurance, pension, banking, and savings. Combine technical expertise and business acumen to guide architecture decisions, manage roadmaps, and ensure engineering execution aligns with organizational objectives. Ramp quickly on unfamiliar domains and technologies. Experienced in building and mentoring high-performing teams.

s0u9ata@gmail.com +47 967 05 198 Oslo, Norway linkedin.com/in/bhattacharyasougata github.com/s0ugata kaggle.com/s0u9ata

Experience ↑

Team & Tech Lead, Bank – Digital Retail

Storebrand • Oslo, Norway
  • Lead a cross-functional team of senior engineers; co-own the product roadmap with Product, Operations, Sales, Legal, and Security stakeholders
  • Represent engineering in tech guilds, contributing to technical direction and governance across Digital Retail
  • Champion team adoption of AI coding assistants — use Claude Code and GitHub Copilot daily and coach engineers to adopt them
  • Pioneer Spring AI in product development — e.g. a marketing engine that ingests multi-source customer data, recommends each customer's next best action, and adapts from feedback
  • Designed Datadog observability dashboards that reduced customer onboarding issue resolution from days to hours
Technical Leadership • AI Champion • Stakeholder Management • Java • Spring Boot • Spring AI • GCP • Datadog

Team Lead, Shared Services – Digital Retail

Storebrand • Oslo, Norway
  • Led a cross-cutting team delivering shared services adopted by all product teams in Digital Retail — establishing the reference architecture for the broader GCP migration
  • Drove the re-architecture of document-signing and virus-scanning pipelines for cloud readiness, removing a key blocker for the organization-wide GCP migration programme
  • Designed and delivered Customer Document Archive and Customer Master replica, providing fast & scalable customer data access across all digital applications, using Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Firestore
Technical Leadership • Mentoring • Java • Spring Boot • GCP • Firestore • Pub/Sub

Team Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Cognizant (for Storebrand) • Oslo, Norway
  • Coordinated 30+ engineers distributed across Oslo and India, spanning pension, insurance, and savings; owned sprint planning, estimation, and delivery quality
  • Mentored offshore engineers on coding standards and code review practices
  • Led document-signing migration from NETS to Signicat with zero-downtime cutover
  • Drove multi-year platform modernization: Siteminder → Keycloak, Dropwizard → Spring Boot; established CI/CD pipelines with Docker and Jenkins
Technical Leadership • Mentoring • Java • Spring Boot • Docker • Jenkins • Keycloak

Senior Software Engineer

Cognizant • India
  • Took over a delayed insurance policy administration project at Delta Lloyd Life and delivered it within the remaining timeline
  • Redesigned file-handling architecture, reducing memory consumption by 80%
  • Developed a configurable policy-sales engine for AXA Belgium
  • Built, as sole developer, a PDF/TIFF generation library with Thai script support for AXA Thailand using Apache FOP
Java • Apache FOP • Oracle

Senior Software Engineer

Cognizant • Brussels, Belgium
  • Coordinated an offshore engineering team onsite; owned delivery quality for multiple insurance applications
  • Rewrote the Corporate Insurance Policy Administration backend within a tight timeline
  • Implemented TELEBIB2 protocol, standardizing intercompany data exchange across AXA Belgium's partner network
Java • Oracle • TELEBIB2

Programmer

Cognizant • India
  • Migrated legacy Lotus Notes workflows to Java-based web applications
  • Enhanced and maintained Oracle Insurance Policy Administration platform
Java • Oracle • Lotus Notes

Professional Ethos ↑

  • Ethics first — Transparency, honesty, and accountability are non-negotiable, especially under pressure
  • Purposeful work — Energized by solving problems that matter
  • Quality over speed — Sustainable delivery through clean code, sound architecture, and disciplined engineering practices
  • Ownership & dependability — See it through when it's mine; a steady hand when the team needs one
  • Pragmatic leadership — Balance long-term architectural vision with immediate business realities; push back when needed, adapt when warranted

Skills ↑

Leadership & Strategy

  • Engineering Team Leadership
  • Roadmap & Delivery Ownership
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Agile (Scrum & Kanban)
  • Mentoring & Talent Development
  • Financial Services Domain

Architecture & Design

  • Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF)
  • Microservices, REST & SOAP APIs
  • Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub, Azure Service Bus)
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Migration & Modernization

Data & AI

  • Generative AI & LLM Apps (Spring AI)
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Knowledge Graphs & Graph Analytics
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Statistical Modelling & Data Analysis

Cloud & Platform

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
  • Identity & Access (Keycloak)

Programming

  • Java & Spring Boot
  • Python
  • R

Databases

  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Couchbase
  • Firestore

Certifications ↑

Architecture

Insurance

Education ↑

Affiliations, Contributions, Languages & Interests ↑

Professional Affiliations

  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Data Science Society

Open Source Contributions

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • Bengali (Native)
  • Hindi (Native)

Interests

  • Reading (Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction)
  • Photography
  • Horology (Mechanical Watches)
  • Gaming
  • Embedded Systems (Raspberry Pi)