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Vienna, Austria

Wien, Österreich

Raiffeisen Bank International is a leading corporate and investment bank operating in 12 Central and Eastern European markets. It serves 18.7 million customers with 45,000 employees and 1,500 outlets. Established in CEE in 1986, RBI is ATX-listed, holds EUR 206 bn in assets, and offers services in leasing, asset management, and M&A.𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Requirements Collection & Alignment: Gathered project requirements and aligned them with stakeholders at multiple levels to ensure seamless execution.• Technology Selection: Evaluated several cloud options for the project and selection of the target solution, meeting all technical and business requirements.• Solution Architecture: Designed and developed the solution and data architecture, utilizing Medallion Lakehouse architecture for data integration and analytics. • Hands-on Data Engineering & DevOps: Contributed in the solution implementation with Spark, Databricks, and AWS tech. stack, handling data engineering tasks and DevOps responsibilities. Responsible for unit and integration tests, CI/CD processes, and reference architecture development.• Team Leadership: Acted informally as a dev team lead, overseeing the hiring process for developers, defining team members' growth paths, creating skills assessment methodologies, providing feedback, and aligning with vendors, partners, and stakeholders.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:• Solution Impact: Delivered a solution that became a reference design, now being reused internally across the organization.• Efficiency & Performance: Successfully utilized Amazon S3 backups to meet RTO/RPO targets of a Disaster Recovery process.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Raiffeisen Bank Russia, a subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, is one of 13 systemically important banks in Russia. Operating since 1996, it has 5 branches and 115 outlets. Recognized as Russia's most reliable and best bank by Forbes, it posted a 2020 profit of 552.13 million EUR and holds top credit ratings: ААА(RU), ruААА𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Conducted customer development and researched product use cases to identify strategic business needs.• Designed concept of next-gen real-time stream data processing platform, aligining use cases positioning with the existing data analytical landscape• Communicated the product development strategy with the key stakeholders (CDO, CBDOs) to ensure roadmap transparency and collaboration synergy.• Formed and lead a high-performing team of developers𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Successfully launched to Production the platform framework with the first pilot use case using streaming-based Change Data Capture (CDC) from a mission-critical Oracle source application, reducing data latency for analytical systems.• Decreased the workload on the Oracle source application by decommission of legacy and creation of an alternative lightweight data processing pipeline through Streaming Data Platform• Significantly improved the time-to-data user experience from T+2 to real-time for a critical data domain

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Data Lake product architecture design and implementation based on the stakeholders use cases and demand analysis, including selection of tools, vendors, and features to meet strategic business needs.• Communication of product strategy and development milestones on different levels including C-suite (CIO, CTOs, CBDOs) to ensure roadmap transparency and collaboration synergy• Onboarding of users to make sure seamless migration experience • Collection of team productivity metrics, identification of delivery bottlenecks and consistent data-driven development process improvement• Mentoring and providing regular feedback to the product team members to achieve personal development and team performance𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Delivered a fully operational Hadoop- and Spark-based Data Lake, supporting 200 data sources, 400 active users, and 50 developers, with externally validated data protection and governance.• Enabled organisation-wide data-centric transformation by delivery of decentralised platform operational model, empowering business teams with autonomous data processing tools, from scheduled ETLs to exploratory data analysis instruments and MLOps.• Streamlined stakeholder alignment by effectively communicating milestones, roadmaps, and results through community events and demos.• Ensured compliance with disaster recovery standards and governance policies, earning recognition for platform reliability and security.

Moscow, Russian Federation

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Organised and lead an efficient team to tackle complex tasks, ensuring recruitment, onboarding, goal setting, and identifying growth potential. Fostered a servant leadership environment that drives team engagement, inspiration, and excellence.• Ensured the delivery of high-impact projects, allocating resources based on projects portfolio priorities.• Facilitated cross-functional teams alignment to provide the optimal achievement of strategic company goals.• Established regular communication with stakeholders, leading to transparent projects execution.• Promoted continuous improvement culture, making sure elimination of bottlenecks and employment of development best practices.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:• Led a successful delivery of over 20 major projects, including Basel II, FATCA, CRM, KYC, etc, improving the company’s PnL through the implementation of advanced risk models and increasing the quality and coverage of operational and managerial reporting on top of data from DWH• Transitioned the team from a waterfall to Kanban delivery model, addressing various risks and improving project flow, productivity, and efficiency

Moscow, Russian Federation

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Business Requirements Gathering and Analysis: detailed business requirements collection and documentation for the Group Data Warehouse (GDWH) initiative in close collaboration with stakeholders• ETL and DWH Architecture Design: Designed efficient incoming ETL processes architecture to support integration of 30+ heterogeneous data sources.• Data Mapping and Transformation: Defined data mapping rules, transformation logic, and ensured data consistency across sources.• Primary Results Verification: Ensured the accuracy and integrity of ETL data flows and the resulting data warehouse outputs.• Stakeholder Communication: Aligned objectives and expectations between technical teams and business users.• Continuous Improvement: Identified opportunities for product optimization in the data pipeline and presented them to the product owner.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:• Successfully launched the Group Data Warehouse product in a Russian subsidiary of RBI Group, ensuring timely risk and finance data collection on a Group level in a unified way over stable daily/monthly data delivery from 30+ heterogeneous sources across 9 timezones.• Provided constructive feedback as a new user of the Group Data Warehouse product, leading to improvements in critical features such as load performance, data quality, and disk space usage optimization at the Group level.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Diasoft, a TOP100 global fintech vendor by IDC with an annual revenue €80M in 2023, provides digital transformation and banking solutions to 150+ financial institutions in EMEA and APAC. Key offerings include Digital Front Office, Loan Origination, and Channels, supported by a cutting-edge Digital Banking Platform. Serving top global banks, Diasoft executes 200+ projects annually with 1,500 experts.𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Collaborated with stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document functional and non-functional requirements using workshops, interviews, and surveys.• Documentation: Created comprehensive requirements artifacts, including user stories, use cases, process diagrams, and specifications.• Requirements Management: Maintained traceability, prioritized requirements, and managed changes to minimize scope creep.• Stakeholder Communication: Acted as a intermediary between business and technical teams, ensuring alignment and shared understanding.• Development & Testing Support: Assisted developers and QA teams by validating requirements, supporting UAT, and ensuring compliance with specifications.• Regulatory Compliance: Ensured alignment with industry standards and regulations in highly governed domains.• Problem Solving: Resolved conflicts, clarified ambiguities, and identified gaps in requirements to align technical feasibility with business needs.𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:• Implemented new accounting regulation of the Central Bank of Russia through a portfolio of the company's products (payment cards, deposits, loans), which helped the customers to migrate to a new chart of accounts and to adopt a new accounting scheme.• Created a new release supporting payment messages exchange updates with Visa/Mastercard and other regional transaction processing centers• Successfully migrated users from a legacy to up-to-date Core Banking System version