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Led the development, implementation, and management of a comprehensive data platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and data integrity. Oversaw the migration of data infrastructure from on-premises to the cloud, resulting in increased agility and cost efficiency. Directed the architecture and operations of enterprise data warehousing, data lakes, and real-time data streaming platforms. Spearheaded the deployment of advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities for data-driven insights and decision support. Established and enforced data governance practices, ensuring data quality, privacy, and security. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align data platform capabilities with strategic business goals. Managed a team of data engineers and data analysts, providing leadership and professional development. Perform ROI analysis in comparison of as-is vs. to-be state of environments and processes Mentor, coach, evaluate and support data management team. Able to handle pressure associated with critical issues and provide timely updates to upper management Manage and lead Outage call, supporting 7x24, SLA driven Ecosystems Involved in Business-IT collaboration & Roadmap initiatives, task prioritization, work assignments, recruitment, planning, KPO’s and performance appraisals

- Primarily responsible for leading the build of Analytical, Machine Learning and BI solutions, - Managing the team roadmap and backlog, and delivering actionable data insights- Manage the overall data warehouse architecture across multiple data warehouse platforms- Sphere heading the machine learning infrastructure and operations on Google Cloud Platform - GCP- Ownership of data consumption, ingestion and quality checks- Mentor, coach, evaluate and support data management team. - Manage and lead Outage call, supporting 7x24, SLA driven Ecosystems- Creating CI/CD pipelines for EDW production deployment- Sphere head the data governance strategy across the organization.- Managed 12 direct reports and 4 indirect reports and a co-op student- Thought Spot Installation, Administration, Data Modeling and development- Developing test plans and generate data driven targeting strategies for customer acquisitions and retention- Evaluate new technologies and lead continuous improvement of EDW - Establish and cultivate strong relationships with end users, IT professionals, other internal stakeholders and external business partners.- Oversees the design, development, unit testing and implementation of EDW and Data Analytics projects,enhancements, support and maintenance.- Conduct impact analysis on new initiatives and enhancements.- Lead performance tuning efforts and data quality reporting- Ensure availability of the EDW / Marketing Automation and BI infrastructure.- Lead, coach and develop teams, bringing energy and passion for the business.- Conduct performance assessments with direct reports.- Empowering the team to take sensitive decisions and be accountable for their actions- Converted 2 consultants into Full Time Resource- Experience in handling employee departures- Involved in conducting frequent 1:1 meetings to address Team Member needs effectively- Good Exposure to Team Conflict management

-Design end-to-end solution for different projects.-Leading/managing a team of data analyst (4) and data architect (1)-Developed solution for integrating different downstream and upstream systems.-Involved in Logical Data Model and Physical Data Model discussions and provided valuable inputs for the data model.-Architect the Hadoop solution using IBM Big Insights for landing data from operational systems and pricing engine.-Involved in reporting requirements and architected the reporting solution for Cognos.-Integrated different legacy systems and developed solution for automating the manual process.-Liaison with different business users across many divisions for the data analysis clarification.-Sphere headed the use of new DI tool (Diyotta) to load data into Hadoop.-Provided Technical guidance to different project stake holders – Modelers, DBA, BA, SA,QA and development teams.-Involved in creating many BSTM (Business source-to-target) And ETL source –to-target mapping documents.-Created ETL architecture document for the project-SME on the new DI tool (Diyotta) and defined solution to bring huge volume of data into IBM Big insights Hadoop cluster.-Created many Diyotta streams for landing the source data into Hadoop.-Created ETL mappings to load the data from Hadoop into the DB2.-Defined solution to for SAS integration-Liaising with External Vendors and Internal project stakeholder.-Involved in business discussion to identify all the campaigns and define the criteria/rules for each campaignattribute.

- Managed a team of 6 Full Time Employees and 2 External Contractors and few co-op students- Involved in Task Creation, Prioritization, Allocation and Tracking.- Participated in Goal Creation, Bi weekly 1:1, Calibration and Performance Appraisal - Managing the Operational Data Integration activities - Managing development activities for KANBAN & SCRUM Agile projects- Ensured the System uptime of 99.5% for all ETL processes- Oversee the administration of the Operational Data Integration applications - Involved in process improvements such as work intake process, Communication with business and setting standards and applying industry best practices- Taken ownership and accountability for all the Operational Data Integration Initiatives- Managed change control implementation and coordinating daily, monthly releases and reruns.- Participated in all the new sponsor engagement initiatives - Leading the Collaboration Committees and Training Initiatives- Architect and Design ETL solutions for the core Air Miles Program- Involved in creating Dimensional Data Marts for the core Air Miles Program- Involved in developing ETL routines primarily using Informatica for our Structured, Semi-structured and unstructured data integration needs.- Involved in creating ETL architecture documents and conducted architecture review walkthrough sessions.- Guided the team by suggesting many performance improvements and involved in creating the best practices and design standard documentations.- Hands On development experience on the new trends and experimentation with Hadoop and Amazon Cloud Services.- Extensively Involved in SAS Query tuning- Providing tactical/ Adhoc solutions for the business- Involved in various POC's

• Leading a team of 2 developers• Involved in building the technical architecture and framework for Risk Strategic Initiative.• Designed and customized data models for Data warehouse and Operational Data Stores.• Designed Batch and Real-Time Web services (SOAP Over http) using Informatica• Extensively used Power Center to design multiple mappings with embedded business logic.• Migrated all the existing DTS and SSIS packages to Informatica Mappings.

• Leading a team of 10 direct reports and 30 indirect reports • Designed and customized data models for Data warehouse and Operational Data Stores.• Extensively used Power Center to design complex mappings • Involved in design and development of Web Applications using .NET technology.• Handled Post Production support and involved in UAT and Release management• Managing Offshore and Onsite teams• Writing queries and stored procedures to access data and for various data transactions.• Developed various reports using Microsoft Reporting Services.• Designed and developed Oracle PL/SQL scripts for Data Import/Export.• Created List Reports and Cross Tab Reports and Drill Through reports.• Project and Program Management

B.Sc. (Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Pg Diploma, Web Programming Athene Software

M.C.A (Master, Computer Applications