Somayajulu Dhavala is an experienced technology professional currently serving as Associate Director and Executive Architect for Unica at HCL Software since November 2021. Previously, Somayajulu held the position of Senior Solution Architect and Senior Managing Consultant at IBM from July 2011 to March 2018, specializing in IBM Watson Marketing Solutions. Somayajulu's extensive career includes roles such as Vice President of Application Development at JP Morgan Chase, Principal Consultant at Fidelity, Sr Database Architect at Investors Bank and Trust, Consultant at Stride Rite, Database Consultant at Software Pundits Inc, and Software Engineer at Birlasoft. Somayajulu holds an MBA in Leadership and Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and an M.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad.