Sep 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• got promoted to Principle Enginner and responsible for defining data strategy and engineering standards for multiple data lakes for Fraud, Financial Crime and Payments
• Managed response to critical situtions like surge in DSAR requests dealing with ambiguity at various levels
• Responsible to evangelise and develop common data capabilities like Data Ingestion, quality, management and transformation.
• responsible for Risk management for the department including support for Risk policy development, assessment, Data Loss Preverntion and intelligent risk taking practices

Nov 2017 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• responsible for driving data based decisions in Tax opertions team and thier submission to HMRC
• Managed a team of 30+ people in a role two grades above me as interim manager in a difficult time of Covid
• Responsible for implementation of production grade controls and governance for the first time in the team. Lead as an example of federation of data engineering from Data Technology to Business team.

Oct 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• As AVP for Data Engineering in Retail Banking
• developed strategically designed solution for Customer Decisioning System (CDS) and Closed Loop Feedback (CLF) working closely with the analysts as well as the data technology and platform teams
• Lead the data deployment for implementation of PEGA for customer contact decisioning in Retail banking
• Partnered with data technology on implemention and user adoption of Hadoop

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr

• As Assitant Manager,
• Engineered retail banking data on Teradata, sourcing them from Mainframe COBOL files and DB2 tables using a self developer tool on SAS (Teraloader)
• responsible for user adoption for Teradata. Conducted many training sessions to ensure responsible and safe usage of the platform. Ensured right data as per governance was put on the platform
• Developed a mechnism to compress Terabytes of data on Teradata to make space for EDW

Jul 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• As an Assistant Technical Architect with the Foundation Team,
• designed Sand databases, built organizational capabilities, and derived insights from complex data.
• developed front-end tools with HTML/CSS/PHP, deploying complex products,
• streamlined Linux file system security,
• lead IT outsourcing and ITIL implementation for a third-party company.

Dec 2009 – Jul 2010 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Projects undertaken with Data Team as a developer are:
• Development of segmentation for a US based non-grocery retail client

May 2009 – Oct 2009 · 5 mos

• Projects undertaken with PQG as a tech lead are:
• 1) Testing of DTE (Data Transformation Engine) and Creation of a process around it.
• 2) Formal testing of 16 'Broad Use Modules' used in the DTE process.

Dec 2008 – Apr 2009 · 4 mos

• The purpose of the PQG team is to explore and device new and better ways to improve quality and efficiency of the entire process including ADS TFL and MLA.
• Noticeable projects completed with this team involves:
• 1) Development of macros of code header and standardization automation.
• 2) Development of broad use ADS Lums for Trial Level Safety Reports

Jan 2008 – Nov 2008 · 10 mos

• As ADS team member, my role included devoloping analysis datasets as per the specified details.
• I also devoloped limited used modules for higher reusability.

Sep 2007 – Dec 2007 · 3 mos

• As a part of Initial Learning Program, I received learnings for Process (SDLC, systems thinking etc), Soft Skills ( Like Leadership) and technology( Mainframes and COBOL with DB2).