Director Data Engineering
• Led a team of 11 on-shore/off-shore data engineers across three pods on re-platforming and overhauling data pipeline to event based microservice architecture data warehouse and data lake using Informatica, Python, Airflow and GC. • Improved scrum practices and aligned product and project goals while training new technologies and collaborating with the Data Science Team’s AI and ML models. Team delivered increased productivity measured by department OKRs and reduced cycle time from over 30 days to under 18 days.• Implemented department’s incident management system by automating and monitoring and defects and escalations and improved JIRA reporting. • Improved team collaboration and code reviews which reduced defects by 66% and hours to resolve by 78% and improved ability to prioritize defects accurately and increased SLA adherence for P1/P2 incidents from 68% to 100%. Championed data platform team’s adoption of CI/CD and improve process orchestration documentation. [Formerly AbleTo acquired by Optum Aug 2023]