Analytics and Data Science Manager with 2.5 + years of managing data teams and 14+ years of overall experience in Design, Development, Data Analytics, Maintenance, and Release phases of Business Intelligence / Data warehousing applications. Extensive experience in data analytics, data engineering and data science while collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business stake holders to identify & solve user pain points. Expertise knowledge in Retail, Insurance and Supply Chain Domain. Experience in Google Cloud Platform/ Hadoop / Big Data development /Spark / Solution Design in data lake architecture.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Project Manager in Analytics and Data Sciences
Malvi Technologies
12.2021 - Current
Leading a team of 8 analysts by developing and quantitatively analyzing product metrics and usage trends to measure product success all the reports/models that got migrated from onprem to Google Cloud Platform
Developing analytics team’s charter & roadmap to align with Product initiatives & achieve OKRs while managing team bandwidth looking after prioritization & drive data initiatives
Building cross-functional relationships with Business, Engineering Teams and Product Teams to understand the data needs and identify the key areas of product improvement
Defining success and designing metrics for enabling data driven decisions
Understanding and translating Legacy system design into new technology procured by stake holders
Responsibilities include Scoping, Resourcing, and Estimation, Capacity tracking, Data management, Communication and people aspect of the team
Proficient in process and system enhancement resulting in efficient systems utilization, productivity & process improvement and organization goals’ achievement
Responsibilities include developing and implementing policies for the use of cloud services, managing requests for new technology, establishing a secure cloud environment, and ensuring appropriate availability of services, also known as uptime
Responsible for Ingesting data from on-prem services to Google cloud platform using batch ingestion framework and Data Collection framework
Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
Modifying and improving existing systems
Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives
Designing, developing, and deploying modular cloud-based systems
Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices
Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security
Responsible to deploy and run application software on virtual machines
Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements
Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on client needs
Actively participate in addressing non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, continuous integration, migration and compatibility
Lead Data Analyst
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd
08.2020 - 11.2021
Deriving key metrics from third party Info nexus Team's input and built business critical metrics and visualizations for stake holders to take better decisions
As a Lead Data Analyst, assisted development team to build certified datasets, through which business critical reports are built upon
Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand the new data elements and identify required mapping keys to validate with internal repository
As a Lead Data Analyst, Understood and translated Legacy system design into new technology procured by stake holders
Architect and proposed multiple Technical Designs to Middle Mile Fill Rate Team Technology leads and gain agreement
Responsible for creating the effort estimation, Source to Target mapping, interface and design documents
Leading the complete project from the requirement analysis phase till production implementation Handling feasibility study, solution the best approach considering the constraints and guiding team members during implementation of data pipelines
As a Lead Data Analyst, Regular Discussions with client technology Leads to understand legacy state and confirm new design aligns to their standards and expectations
Coach onsite team constantly so that the build aligns to client expectation and toolkit
Collaborate with Business Team to understand their need and get solutions for issues faced by onsite team
Provide technical solutions for few moderately complex problems faced by team.
Sr. BI Engineer
Target Corporation Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 08.2020
Developed Big Data applications using Hadoop, Scala, Hive, Oozie and other big data technologies
I have led the team and provided the technical direction to deliver the project successfully
Mentor and guide team members on technology front and design
Provide consultation on technical issues or any domain related questions
Enhanced and supported Target's Enterprise Data Warehouse in Teradata
Enhanced and supported Target's MicroStrategy based reporting solution MerchIQ
Build End to End solution where the ETL DataStage data pipeline, Teradata foundation table as well as the MicroStrategy metrics was built by me, giving me a complete understanding of data flows and design needs
Developed the Pricing Denormalized Dataset in Target's Hadoop ecosystem - bigRED2, replacing multiple normalized datasets in Teradata
Designed and mapped the Pricing Datasets and attributes in bigRED2 to numerous normalized tables in Teradata
Designed CICD process for development in bigRED2 in Jenkins, with automated deployments to edge node and data node and was certified at level 3
Goto person on the team for any Pricing Domain related questions and technical challenges
Added many key features into the dataset and brought in many key metrics to aid key decision making
Picked up Scala Spark quickly which key to the performance of data processing
Designed datasets and provided recommendations to other datasets to partition and bucket on right attributes keeping in mind the data and consumption patterns of data
Built a CI/CD pipeline in the Target's Internally built tool Vela and explored and evaluated many features of it and currently serving as a go to guy for Data Engineering
Utilized the Target Inhouse tools – RedEx, DataStream, Grassroots and Greenfields within the projects to deliver the data needs in various formats
Championed certification of datasets across Merch space
Got all critical datasets of Pricing team certified and mentored teams across merch to get their datasets certified.
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Software Services ltd.
08.2006 - 10.2010
Lead and collaborate with multi-functional technical and business teams, across multiple products, to develop integrated enterprise solutions
Effective Data production for Data science teams with a specific focus on aggregated analytical datasets
Having good skills in automation testing, manual testing & knowledge of QA concepts & methodologies
Extended work experience in Agile technology, developing and executing software test cases
Experience in developing, executing Test cases and reporting Defects using Version One, Jira, Quality CenterJ, Oracle Bug DB
Experience on Functional, System, Regression, User Acceptance Testing and Integration Testing.
Education
DUAL degree - Master of Sciences: Physics
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
12.2006
Bachelor of Engineering: Civil -
BITS PILANI, INDIA
12.2006
Skills
Functional: Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Experimentation, Statistics, Data Storytelling and Machine Learning (Big Query Analysis)
Databases: GCP Bigquery, Hive, Teradata, SQL server Oracle, Db2
Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Green Field (Target Proprietary tool), DOMO, Airflow, Git, Vertex AI
Languages: - SQL, Python, Scala, Shell scripting
Timeline
Senior Technical Project Manager in Analytics and Data Sciences
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