SUNITA MARINGANTI
San Ramon
Summary
Business and Data Analyst with over 15 years of experience in translating complex data into actionable insights for HR and compliance stakeholders. Expertise includes benefits data analysis, compliance, and process automation, contributing to a significant reduction in ad-hoc requests. Strong capabilities in SQL, Power BI, and stakeholder engagement facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Business & Data Analyst /Senior Program Manager
Microsoft
12.2024 - 07.2025
- Served as point of contact for implementing business processes within supply chain management system, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Highlights include requirement gathering, data analysis, data filtering and document requirements for supply-chain data modernization; produced functional specs and process flow diagrams that reduced ambiguity and rework.
- Facilitated communication between business stakeholders and engineering teams, clarifying requirements during sprints, addressing ambiguities in daily standups, and overseeing scope change requests.
- Authored acceptance criteria, definition-of-done checklists, and sprint-ready user stories; managed backlog grooming and sprint reviews across Agile delivery cycles.
- Defined KPI and report specifications for Power BI dashboards used by business operations teams to check SLA's,trends and operational risks.
- Defining the user stories for migrating the data in the ETL flow from metadata-driven, governed data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric.
- Identified roadblocks in ETL process and collaborated with developers and business groups to resolve issues, enhancing data flow efficiency.
Sr Data Management Lead
Wells Fargo
04.2014 - 11.2024
- Owned the full BA lifecycle across multi-year programs ,business case, stakeholder elicitation, BRD authoring, use case documentation, functional specifications, traceability matrix, UAT, and sign-off.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies ,sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives and post release analysis acting as the single point of contact between business owners and cross-functional delivery teams of 10+ engineers.
- Gathered reporting requirements from Finance, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders; translated needs into report designs, validated outputs against business rules, and reduced ad-hoc data requests by ~30%.
- Authored and executed UAT test plans for a real-time data reporting platform (94% accuracy); scripted test scenarios, maintained defect log, coordinated business sign-off, and managed go- live communication.
- Identified and documented manual process bottlenecks through structured workshops; produced to-be workflow designs and requirements that enabled automation and measurable cycle time reductions.
- Managed RAID logs, change control processes, status dashboards, and executive communications for complex cross-functional programs with multiple workstreams and regulatory deadlines.
- 10-year tenure across data, analytics, and compliance programs in financial services
Senior Data Analyst
Kaiser Permanente
02.2013 - 03.2014
- Elicited requirements from clinical and administrative stakeholders for healthcare analytics and fraud detection programs; produced BRDs, process maps, use case diagrams, and UAT scripts for production deployments.
- Analyzed enrollment, billing, and fraud datasets using SQL and Excel; identified anomaly patterns and presented findings to compliance and operations leadership with clear data narratives and visual summaries.
- Partnered with QA and engineering teams to validate data outputs against business rules, ensuring accuracy targets met regulatory audit requirements; achieved 90% fraud detection accuracy on time and within scope.
- Healthcare benefits, fraud analytics, and regulatory reporting
Business Analyst Membership Data Warehouse
Kaiser Permanente
12.2009 - 08.2011
- Gathered and documented requirements from HR, benefits, and compliance stakeholders for a Member enrollment Data Warehouse; consolidated multi-source business rules into a unified data specification document.
- Supported benefits and HR operations teams with ad-hoc reporting, data validation, and root-cause analysis for enrollment and billing discrepancies, translating findings into plain language summaries for non-technical audiences.
- Translated regulatory reporting business rules into clear data specifications, enabling automated pipeline development that reduced manual effort and improved data accuracy for member coverage reporting.
- Member membership, benefits enrollment, and regulatory data
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance & IT
Osmania University
Data Warehousing Certification -
Madison Area Technical College
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals -
Google Cloud Digital Leader -
IBM Data Science Professional -
Prompt Engineering -
Vanderbilt University
Skills
- Stakeholder Interviews & Workshops, Backlog Grooming & Sprint Planning
- Requirements Elicitation & Analysis, User Story Authoring & Acceptance Criteria
- Process Mapping, UAT Planning, Scripting & Defect Management
- Gap Analysis & Impact Assessment
- Data Analysis & Insights Reporting
- Business Case & BRD / PRD Authoring
- Agile / Scrum / Kanban Facilitation
- SQL Querying & Self-Service BI Reporting
- Cross-functional Team Collaboration
- JIRA, Confluence & Agile Tooling
Technical Skills
SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau, Advanced Excel, DAX, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, GCP, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Informatica, Ab Initio, Kafka, Oracle, Metadata Frameworks, Agile/Scrum, Jira, Kanban, BRDs, UAT, OKRs, Roadmapping, Risk Management, Data Governance, Lineage, Access Controls, Regulatory & Compliance Reporting
Personal Information
- Citizenship: US Citizen
- Title: Business & Data Analyst
Timeline
Business & Data Analyst /Senior Program Manager
Microsoft
12.2024 - 07.2025
Sr Data Management Lead
Wells Fargo
04.2014 - 11.2024
Senior Data Analyst
Kaiser Permanente
02.2013 - 03.2014
Business Analyst Membership Data Warehouse
Kaiser Permanente
12.2009 - 08.2011
Master of Business Administration - Finance & IT
Osmania University
Data Warehousing Certification -
Madison Area Technical College
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals -
Google Cloud Digital Leader -
IBM Data Science Professional -
Prompt Engineering -
Vanderbilt University