Monika Parashar
Senior Manager, Data & AI
Toronto
Summary
With over 16 years of experience in Data Analytics, Monika is a Senior Manager in the Consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLP. Specializing in empowering businesses and bridging the gap between business and data, she excels in navigating clients through successful implementations of data engineering, data science, and GenAI workloads on Snowflake. Monika's expertise also includes supervising smooth and secure migrations of legacy systems to the cloud, while upholding top-notch data governance and privacy standards. Her commitment to staying ahead of the curve ensures that organizations are always informed about the latest Snowflake innovations and updates.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Manager, Data Analytics & AI
Ernst & Young
07.2022 - Current
- Serve as the primary point of contact and lead engagement manager for the Client’s Enterprise Data Office (EDO) project, ensuring effective communication and collaboration between all stakeholders
- Lead, Develop and oversee the strategic planning of the data conversion roadmap, ensuring alignment with client’s business objectives and technical requirements
- Architect a robust and scalable data infrastructure that supports the organization's long-term vision
- Lead and direct the efforts of team members including Data engineers, Business Data Analysts and Data Scientists from both the Client and EY, effectively allocating resources and managing cross-functional teams to deliver on project milestones and objectives
- Devise and implement cutting-edge solutions to tackle intricate challenges and streamline operational efficiency by automating repetitive and manual processes
- Engage with the Sobeys leads to implement new solutions and increase EY footprint
Senior Solution Architect
National Bank Of Canada
10.2021 - 06.2022
- Lead setup and implementation of new Snowflake environment
- Research and setup new data integration tool for the Delivery team
- Lead solution design for data Virtualization platform for a legacy system in mysql
- Collaborate and define solution for Business API management
- Present and get buy-in from Directors and other delivery teams for the solution
- Lead a team for designing solution for Customer360 project, collaborate with the business stakeholders, the vendors and suppliers and manage the data model to define unicity
Senior Solution Architect
Gensquared Inc.(Acquired by EY)
09.2019 - 09.2021
- Leading DW modernization initiatives for various clients by moving to the cloud (Snowflake) for various clients
- Leading a team to build a data warehouse for an ecommerce platform
- Lead the team as solutions lead by analyzing and understanding source data, ETL Design and development, Data Modelling and ensuring stakeholders are on the same page with regards to the solution design
- Leading a team to analyze requirements, designing, and building cloud infrastructure and architecting ETL pipelines via Informatica Cloud
- Design and build interactive tableau dashboards to analyze supply and demand demographics for Marketing team
- Provided guidance/coaching on BI Engineering to members on the client team
- Engineered a comprehensive end-to-end solution for a prospective client, addressing a critical migration challenge that impacted over 3,000 workflows. This innovative approach provided Gensquared with a significant competitive advantage by resolving a complex issue that could not be addressed by the ETL vendor's standard offerings.
- This innovative solution reduced implementation time from 1 year to 1 month
- Demonstrate expert level competency with Informatica cloud including usage of Rest API calls to pull data from modern data sources like adobe analytics, google analytics, zuora and salesforce
- Lead the project team by analyzing the project scope, tasking out the work and project estimation
Sr. BI Consultant
TD Bank
09.2018 - 09.2019
- Built a user managed data platform, designed ingestion patterns in the acquisition phase for the data lake and handled transformations into subsequent layers with talend
- Designed and built BI dashboards with tableau for the small business banking team
- Designed Accessibility compliant dashboards to democratize data across user base
- Received Quarterly Award for designing innovative solutions to make Tableau dashboard accessibility complaint
Sr. BI Consultant
University Of Toronto
11.2017 - 07.2018
- Worked in a techno-functional capacity with the HR business users for requirement gathering and convert the requirements into technical design
- ETL and BI lead for a critical HR application that modeled employee behavior and conveyed actionable insights
- The application entailed acquiring data from various sources and preparing an interactive BI dashboard in tableau
- Created technical design, deployment, test documents for ETL and Tableau
- Identified and implemented system improvement solutions like redesigning the HR data model to be start schema compliant and understanding tableau backend to monitor user activities and event to cater to business users better
Technical BI Lead
Stryker Corporation
04.2012 - 04.2017
- Demonstrated capabilities in developing and refining project plans, estimations, resource loading and utilization, and scheduling of project deliverables in the analyze, develop, deploy, and debrief phases of various projects, code reviews
- Identified and implemented ideas for system overhaul which helped in improving the existing Informatica ETL solutions and Cognos reports
- Coordination with Offshore team members and vendor partners
- Coordination with business analysts around the globe, Europe, Japan, North America
- Experience on working with Oracle (e-business suite), get the queries behind a form and build Informatica solution according to the specifications provided
- Lead Installation, Configuration, and Administration of Informatica Power Center 9.x
- Designed and developed complex mappings by using Lookup, Expression, Update, Sequence generator, Aggregator, Router, Stored Procedure, etc., transformations to implement complex logics while coding a mapping
- Worked on the enhancements of complex existing Informatica solution and translating business requirements to Informatica solutions
- Developed and designed new Facts, Dimensions and Data marts, report studio reports
- Researched and implemented new Informatica feature called Meta data manager for various BI platforms
- Experience with building complex Cognos reports using Cognos report studio, query studio and framework manager
- Experienced in Performance tuning of Informatica (sources, mappings, targets, and sessions) and tuning the SQL queries
ETL Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2008 - 04.2012
- Worked on migration of a project coded in PL/SQL to Informatica
- Impact analysis of replacing the already existing database
- Design the staging area database after collaborating with SMEs
- Developed Informatica ETL solutions for new database
- Redesigned various downstream applications as per new requirements
- Coordinating with all the downstream subscribers, helping them out in their testing
- Created Technical requirement documents and Production support documents
- Took knowledge sharing sessions for the entire team for the design and development of the project
- Created a UNIX shell script which checks for all the scheduled and running workflows at a particular instant and raises an alarm if need be
- Designed and developed new Informatica ETL solutions based on business requirements
Education
Bachelor Of Technology - Information Technology
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
08.2004 - 06.2008
Skills
ETL: Informatica Cloud (IICS)
undefinedLeadership Experience
- Gensquared Inc., Technical Architect, Toronto, ON, 09/01/19, Present, Lead the conversations with a prospect client., Developed an end-to-end solution for the client., Lead a team on analysis, design, and development for an ecommerce client.
- Stryker Corporation, Technical BI Lead, Amsterdam, 08/01/14, 04/30/17, Lead a blended team of vendor and offshore Stryker colleagues., Lead a BI project implementation in Japan., Conducted user trainings for Japanese users.
Certification
Tableau Desktop Specialist
Personal Information
Citizenship: Canadian citizen
Timeline
Senior Manager, Data Analytics & AI
Ernst & Young
07.2022 - Current
Senior Solution Architect
National Bank Of Canada
10.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Solution Architect
Gensquared Inc.(Acquired by EY)
09.2019 - 09.2021
Sr. BI Consultant
TD Bank
09.2018 - 09.2019
Sr. BI Consultant
University Of Toronto
11.2017 - 07.2018
Technical BI Lead
Stryker Corporation
04.2012 - 04.2017
ETL Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2008 - 04.2012
Bachelor Of Technology - Information Technology
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
08.2004 - 06.2008