Anusha Kota
Quebec City/Montreal,Quebec
Summary
Strategic Data & Analytics Leader with 15+ years in developing enterprise data capabilities that convert complex data into actionable insights. Led global teams to deliver scalable data products, modernise cloud platforms, and establish standards for data quality and governance. Drove data transformation initiatives and developed analytical methodologies that enhanced operational performance and supported data-driven decision-making.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director of Data Analytics and Governance
TalentNeuron
Quebec
04.2025 - Current
- Lead a globally distributed functional leads responsible for enterprise data quality, analytical methodologies, governance, AI-enabled products, and operational excellence supporting 400+ enterprise customers and contributing to a multi-million-dollar SaaS business.
- Established enterprise data governance and quality framework for TalentNeuron's cloud data lake modernisation, embedding validation, observability, and quality controls to ensure trusted data for downstream products, analytics, AI models, and client-facing applications.
- Advise Product, Engineering, ETL, and AI teams on enterprise data quality, governance, and architecture decisions, driving long-term solutions that improve data reliability, platform scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, ETL, and AI/ML leaders to define product roadmaps, modernize the enterprise data architecture, and deliver scalable data capabilities that improve product quality, accelerate feature delivery, and support long-term platform growth.
- Develop repeatable analytical methodologies that transform large-scale raw data into standardized, production-ready insights powering workforce intelligence products across 140+ countries, 65K+ skills, 80+ AI/ML models, job architectures, and automation potential metrics.
- Built enterprise-scale monitoring capabilities for millions of data points collected weekly, introducing statistical process control (SPC), automated observability, operational dashboards, and proactive alerting that significantly improved production stability.
- Established root-cause analysis and cross-functional remediation processes that reduced recurring data quality incidents by 35%, improved engineering response times, and strengthened customer confidence in data products.
- Defined enterprise KPIs, quality scorecards, and governance metrics that provided leadership with visibility into product health, operational performance, issue trends, and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Served as primary escalation point for complex client data issues, partnering with Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams to protect customer relationships and support revenue retention during new client implementations.
Director of Data Excellence
TalentNeuron
Quebec
02.2023 - 03.2025
Director of Data Excellence
Gartner
Quebec
09.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Principal, Quantitative Analytics and Data Science
Gartner
Quebec
06.2019 - 08.2022
Senior Principal, Research and Data Science
Gartner
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 05.2019
Senior Research Analyst
CEB
Bengaluru
04.2017 - 03.2018
Research Analyst
CEB
Bengaluru
05.2015 - 03.2017
Associate Consultant
CEB
Bengaluru
04.2014 - 04.2015
Associate Consultant
Zinnov
Bengaluru
01.2013 - 03.2014
Senior Research Analyst QC
Seek Research Solutions
Bengaluru
07.2012 - 10.2012
Associate Analyst
GlobalData
Hyderabad
05.2011 - 06.2012
Education
Master’s Program - International Business, Specializing in Marketing and Finance
Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
Hyderabad, India12-2011
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Information Technology
JNTUH College of Engineering
Hyderabad, India12-2008
Skills
- Data Strategy Roadmap
- Analytics Strategy
- AI Strategy
- Data operating model
- Organisational Leadership
- Functional Team Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Literacy
- Data lake modernisation
- Data Architecture
- ETL/ELT Collaboration
- Data modelling
- Data Observability
- Pipeline Quality
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Advanced Analytics
- Data Science
- Statistical modelling
- Predictive Analytics
- Data visualisation
- Power BI
- Python
- SQL
- PySpark
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Metadata Management
- Master Data Management
- Data Privacy
- Risk Management
Custom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anusha-kota-97617943/
Timeline
Senior Director of Data Analytics and Governance
TalentNeuron
04.2025 - Current
Director of Data Excellence
TalentNeuron
02.2023 - 03.2025
Director of Data Excellence
Gartner
09.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Principal, Quantitative Analytics and Data Science
Gartner
06.2019 - 08.2022
Senior Principal, Research and Data Science
Gartner
04.2018 - 05.2019
Senior Research Analyst
CEB
04.2017 - 03.2018
Research Analyst
CEB
05.2015 - 03.2017
Associate Consultant
CEB
04.2014 - 04.2015
Associate Consultant
Zinnov
01.2013 - 03.2014
Senior Research Analyst QC
Seek Research Solutions
07.2012 - 10.2012
Associate Analyst
GlobalData
05.2011 - 06.2012
Master’s Program - International Business, Specializing in Marketing and Finance
Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Information Technology
JNTUH College of Engineering