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Scrum Master A Team

Location:
Edison, NJ
Posted:
March 17, 2025

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Manju Rao (PMP) Work Status: Green Card 203-***-****

************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/manjunatha-rao-pmp-00455b5/

SUMMARY:

15+ years of hands-on E2E Project, Product & Program Design, Planning, Execution, Delivery. Strong analytical, innovative, dedicated, problem-solving skills experience in cutting-edge engineering solutions, stakeholder, Budget & SOW management, financial budgeting, overseeing OKR, KPI milestones on a wide range of JAVA, .Net & Custom based enterprise software applications for a large/complex business driven development & migration initiative across various domains.

PMP and AWS Solutions Architect Certified professional with knowledge of Agile Scrum Master, cross functional multiple collaboration multiple projects E2E, products & programs increment plan, gap-analysis, Identify Improvements, execute, monitor, delivery, adapting critical path & estimation techniques to plan, execute & control of applications, applications & data migration onto internal private and external public cloud service providers’ network. Ensuring entire team apprised on progress RAG status, Impediments, mitigation solutions onto SharePoint.

Adapt best practices to build a high-quality AI- driven algorithmic Big Data patterns across AI/ML datasets, Data Warehouse Operations, Data & Cloud migration Solutions, designing Proof of Concepts for all aspects of Commercial, private banking, Wealth & Asset Management, cross-functional domain teams, Market Reference Data, Regulatory, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Analytics effectively, drive multiple programs from concept to launch as per DAMA framework, ongoing application modernization, data dictionary standards using NIST CSF framework & BAPM tools

Extensive expertise & proven track record of Strategic & BAU programs, Applications, data center Infrastructure modernization, migration, data mapping, profiling, stewardship, modeling, metadata management, master-data management, data migration, Centralized canonical data governance models, Change Management process by planning, tracking overall impact, change readiness assessment, deploying changes & establishing feedback mechanism, monitoring timelines, critical paths, suggesting solutions, continuous improvement across the project, program, product verticals using tools & building tracker process, related business areas with Cloudera Big Data &, JIRA/Confluence JQL queries, Master Data Management of other databases.

Specialized technical knowledge of Financial Banking, Market Data, Shared service Data governance, regulatory risk, Operational Risk management, regulatory reports & Business Intelligence analytical metrics using Power BI, MicroStrategy, Tableau visualization tools.

Ability to design and manage cloud-based infrastructures to E2E delivery of business requirement including process, performance, National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) standard Cybersecurity framework and policy, latency, meeting performance metrics, application redundancy requirements, diving deep to understand of the platform’s capabilities, resolving impediments and adapting best underlying emerging technologies.

Ability to understand and implement OnPrem, Private & Public cloud migration requirements and bridge the gaps, define and build cloud-native software, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, serverless technology products as a platform at scale. Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services.

Successfully Lead, guide, support team engaged, removing roadblocks, mitigation risk in development of advanced analytics segmentations, transform data into information, information into insights, insights into action, presentable Dashboards, & continuous improvement of delivery & analytics, using Agile, Kaban and SAFe methodology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

JPMorgan Chase Bank - Technical Project Manager (VP) - NYC Apr. 2017 – Till date

Provide technical leadership, hands-on planning architect design, develop, delivery Project, Program & Product solutions planned milestones, create & publish roadmap while influencing development, transparency E2E Project Charter Planning, Execution, RACI, RAID Charts, Traceability on one-to-one requirements, capturing KPI, OKR metrics, generating coverage reports and sharing with the stake holders of Digital Unified Data Services in Big Data Cloudera Hadoop eco-system, Chase digital Pay across Payment Gateway, ACH, SWIFT, Trading, Mortgage Loans, M&A deal process, Auto Loans, Personal Loans, Debt Consolidation Loans, Business Loans, Secured Loans, Unsecured Loans, Auto Lease Loans, Commercial Lease Loans, Corporate, Consumer, Credit & Custody Securities Lending Risk, Credit & Debit Card integration, AML applications Integration, Modernization and migrating on-prime to Public Cloud of Chase web & mobile, Chase Pay, Credit & Debit card enterprise applications, onboarding new chase customers, applications onboarding, new customers enrollment, Integration, Modernization, migration using SAFe Enterprise Framework.

Successfully lead Application Solution Huddle with Enterprise Architects, Developers, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineers, SME, on Cloud migration mitigation challenges & resolution strategy, AWS partners, stakeholders’ meetings to understand each application migration pre & post requirements, enhancements, evaluate RAID document, track & communicate multiple project progress RAG status to the team, stake holders to ensure E2E migration to multi-cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP) Data Center exit process

Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans, backlogs, meetings and scrum sprints to ensure on time & within budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise. Plan, Design, develop, Implement E2E Product development and pitch ideas to senior management on Cloudera big data Unified Data Services (Enterprise Data Lake) across various Commercial, private banking, Wealth & Asset Management applications from registration, Ingestion, Curation, cybersecurity framework and policy, Governance Policy of metadata solution across enterprise big data environment, monitoring the E2E splunk logs to identify data movement issues from Source to Sink, towards enterprise data warehousing, data visualization, analytics reporting tools.

Participate in client and stakeholder meetings to understand their requirements, evaluate risks, build RAID charts and to communicate progress

Utilizing tenant concept to address data quality & data governance around enterprise level data access, create and modify metadata & datasets by ring-fencing, cause & effect techniques

Build a consistent, streamlined and highly automated RBAC security administration policy and enforcement platform for the enterprise level using big data platform,

Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across Digital Chase teams

Lead JAD session and actively participate in building out living documentation of the latest customer-facing and technical product functionalities.

Translate business and design requirements into technical requirements for development team - back-end service developers, framework developers, UI developers and big data engineering team

Groom stories to a level of detail that will enable code to be written and tested without defects; write acceptance criteria and generate test scripts, break down high-level information into detailed workable requirements, stories, tasks, creating reports and decks for stake holders

As Scrum Master enable teams to embrace Agile values, adopt, apply Agile principles, conduct Sprint Planning, Tech Design Review, Sprint Planning and Sprint retrospective meeting on product teams on Agile methodology

Successfully lead in working with Architects, Developers, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineers, Product Owners, Business Stakeholders & Testing SMEs to understand requirements, communicate any compromises or risks to the Designers and Product Owners to accomplish business goals

Participate in code peer reviews, testing, performance tuning, optimize programs & processes to meet the expected SLAs & OKRs.

Understand downstream impacts of changes to web services and coordinate with those teams to ensure they are in lock-step with the scrum team from a delivery perspective.

Maintain a living evergreen repository so that we always have an understanding of our current state.

Juggle multiple stories at any given time, oversee implementation from inception to completion of all projects with aggressive delivery expectations

Standardization & automate wherever repeated process, applications, tracking, reporting, applications across various models and reporting to the stake holders on the progress RAG status

Dockerizing the digital chase, AI & ML applications and deploy them onto Kubernetes platform

Mentoring and motivating the team in effective, efficiently completing the all the tasks

Environment: Collibra, Cloudera Hadoop HDFS, HIVE, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Hbase, Spark, Oracle 11g, Amazon EMR, Sqoop, Oozie, Airflow, Cassandra, Greenplum, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Dockers, GITHub, UNIX, SQL Developer, JAVA, Python, Scala, Snowflake, Databricks, JSON, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Cognos, Power BI, QlikView, clearvision, Splunk, Dynatrace, Postman for SOAP, Restful Web Services, Spark, Sprint-Boot, BDD, TDD cucumber automation framework.

PPM Tools: Confluence, JIRA, MS-Project, Smartsheet, SharePoint and other home-grown tools

Barclays Investment Bank

Technical Project Manager - NYC Jan. 2013 - Mar 2017

Hands-on Technical Project Manager responsible for E2E CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) financial application, design, plan, execution and monitoring of project in coordination with various investment banking teams to ensure to be in compliance with all the FRB requirements

Keep all the stakeholders apprised on the progress, involved in the Capital markets data, process automation. framework design Proof of Concept, development, testing & ensuring that all the E2E functionality of PPNR, RWA, VaR, HVaR, Stressed VaR, Treasury Capital Funding and Planning, BBDE, web services from development are validated and deployed onto UAT and Production environment.

Documenting changes to systems and code that align to business goals in co-ordination with the various data modeling (quants), Treasury, Market Risk, Finance, Business Intelligence reporting, SACCR regulatory teams for balance sheet including FRY14M, FR14M, FRY14Q, FRY14A (Annual) FR14Q & FRY9C/FR2052A MDRM axiom reports as per Dodd Frank section 165 regulatory compliance by Federal Reserve Bank

Environment: Hadoop (hive, map reduce & spark), Oracle 11g, Power-BI, QlikSense, Axiom reporter

PPM Tools: Smartsheet, Confluence, JIRA, MS Project, SharePoint and other home-grown tools

Interactive Data Corporation (Presently Intercontinental Exchange) – Real Time Services Manager – Value Added Products - White Plains NY Sept. 2008 – Dec 2012

Delivering critical financial, capital markets, trading market reference data to various financial institutions, active traders and individual investors real-time market reference data, time-sensitive pricing, Fundamental Review Trading Book (FRTB), evaluations & reference data for securities trading, PPM including hard-to-value instruments of data warehousing initiatives across all exchanges in world.

Delivering reporting and analytics solution by owning data design, data extracts and transforms across various stock exchanges around the world

Identify and evaluate new/current data management technologies that add value to the real time financial market data

UBS – Investment Bank

Technical Lead - Stamford CT May. 2006_- Sept. 2008

Development and deployment of applications that caters to critical fixed income derivatives in the investment bank financial instruments, Wealth Management and retirement accounts using ETL and data warehousing initiatives for traders and market analytics

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering – Bangalore University - India

Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering- Board of Technical Education - India

CERTIFICATION AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

PMP Certified

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

ITIL Version 3 foundation Certified

Oracle and VB certification

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Advanced UNIX internals and 'C' Certification

French Language Certification from Alliance Franchise [Level 1 and Level 2]

Certificate of Award-Symantec Project - Best Project Team in MindTree for year 2004-05

Appreciation letter from the Director of VXL Instruments Ltd. – UK

Been an active member of ISO 9000, ITIL, CMM & PCMM level 5 certificate implementation team

Worked in youngest CMMI & PCMMI level 5 company in the world

SKILLS:

Knowledge of modern technical architectures and highly scalable distributed development systems

Experience in decoupling Monolithic Applications in to Microservices using Microservices Design Patterns

Implemented Restful APIs for application backend services using Swagger

Collaborated with various team & management to understand the requirement & design the complete system of on-prime, private and public cloud migration of application and data.

Experience in guiding the classification, plan, implementation, growth, adoption and compliance to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards

Strong software development process background, preferably using Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and XP

Ability to deal with complex problems involving multiple facets, variables and situations where only limited automation, standardization, Operational risk, process exists

Support Technical Program Manager, Research Scientist, and a growing virtual team aimed at analyzing usage data to derive new insights and fuel customer success

Build a high-quality Testing, automation and design the team to scale from scratch following TDD and BDD approaches using JUnit, Mockito, EasyMock, Cucumber and constant quality monitoring via SonarQube

Leading a team of data engineers, automation engineers who are responsible for developing QA, data engineering solutions (Data model design and development, ETL& ELT data Ingestion as well as reporting and analytical solutions). Debug and troubleshoot system & performance issues

Experience with code review and participating in design reviews and architecture discussions

Demonstrated ability to Lead the team and work as a team member to achieve organization goals



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