Senior Manager Data Engineer
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PAYAL THAKKAR
Creating and maintaining data-driven insights that
support business decision making.
Sunnyvale, CA
**************@*****.***
SENIOR MANAGER, DATA ENGINEERING
ENERGETIC, CONSISTENT TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL known for ability to transform ideas into a vision and leading cross- functional teams in strategy execution. Analytical manager skilled in recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and coaching top talent, ensuring diversity and inclusion. Adept in connecting people and enabling others to build core technical skills. Excellence driven advisor who thrives in navigating challenge and delivering results. Customer-focused solution architect with the ability to exercise judgment and discretion. Self-directed, able to plan and preempt issues. Areas of expertise:
Managing, owning, and driving complex, technical projects to completion.
Developing requirements, assessing current reporting capabilities, and making improvement recommendations.
Creating actionable insight and understanding through quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Building a team culture around technical excellence and strong deliver.
Conceptualizing and refining processes to ensure team efficiency and production of high-quality results.
Supporting leaders in defining key performance metrics, setting targets, and monitoring performance.
Centralizing disparate data sets and executing strategies to streamline and automate cross-functional reporting.
Providing high level conceptual and technical expertise and understanding of data warehousing and business intelligence best practices.
KEY AREAS OF QUALIFICATION
Team Leadership Sprint Planning Resource Allocation Customer Satisfaction Revenue Growth Management Programs Delivery Management Progress Tracking Performance Tuning Engagement Safety Oversight Quality Control Scheduling Informatica Architecture DWBI Architecture E2E Design Solution Architecture PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VMware Palo Alto, CA 2014–Present
SENIOR MANAGER, DATA ENGINEER (2022–PRESENT)
LEAD DATA ENGINEER DATA PRODUCT OWNER (2018–2022) SR. APPLICATION DEVELOPER (2014–2018)
Lead teams of 6-12 marketing data engineers to drive solutions via data and analytics. Create and maintain data-driven insights supporting business decision making. Oversee global marketing, digital marketing, audience creation, segmentation, and marketing even support. Career Project Examples:
Designed and built data flow and data transformation process for Rev Up Analytics project tasked with providing insights to VMware pricing team to determine optimal List Pricing for multiple product lines. o Reduced manual processing for 75% of customers within six months of completion.
Led GSS Platform Migration project, shifting from SQL server based Global Support System to IT managed Pivotal Greenplum platform.
o Increased team support ticket reporting efficiency 50% and improved reliability 40%.
Project managed $8 million SAP HANA migration with team of 100+ developers overseeing BI landscape transfer from Pivotal Greenplum.
o Within eight months, rebuilt Pivotal Greenplum code into SAP HANA for challenging project that incurred several technical challenges and product bugs combined with system limitations. o Reduced data latency rate from 12 hours to approximately 5 minutes via migration to better performing tech stack and implementing old code on new platform.
PAYAL THAKKAR Page 2-408-***-**** **************@*****.*** ACCENTURE San Francisco, CA 2010–2014
SYSTEM ANALYST.
Managed team of three in Pune, India responsible for supporting VMware Inc., a US based client with BI DSS systems. Oversaw production, performance consistency, and ensured correct format and stipulated times for data processing. Provided timely data outputs, aiding critical decision making based on generated reporting. Responsible for Informatica and OBIEE related admin activities. Selected Achievements:
Migrated 1,500+ jobs from manual scheduling in Informatica to Control M. Project successes included: o Improved efficiency 50% by implementing time zone handover process resulting in 99% team member uptime on key systems and platforms used by client.
o Overhauled system and reduced manual monitoring tasks by 75%. o Reduced manual errors and increased SLA data delivery of 50%. o Created automated email alerts designed to immediately acknowledge and resolve system failures. o Increased customer satisfaction via automated help ticket process that provided immediate support.
Oversaw SLA based delivery for Informatica, Oracle, and OBIEE based environments. Efforts produced complete automation and improved overall monitoring.
Promoted within three years and transferred to VMware Inc. Received numerous key performer recognitions. PERSISTENT SYSTEMS PVT. LTD. Pune, India 2007–2010 SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Designed, developed, and tested ETL Codes. Supported five to seven testing teams annually navigating SDLC cycles. Managed code migration and deployments utilizing code management tools including P4V. Handled offshore and on-site communication with two to four clients and two internal team managers weekly.
Scheduled +/- 100 Informatica jobs using third-party scheduler responsible for acquiring data from different sources within the enterprise and processing information to support DSS reporting.
Developed efficient ETL jobs for need based situations, providing technical documentation and release teams support for 100+ production deployment. This enabled critical DSS reporting for key managers in the client organization. TECHNOLOGIES
Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PowerBI, SQL, SaaS, Big Data, Greenplum, SAP, HANA, HIVE, ETL, Informatica, Python, R, Oracle, PL, Control M, Tidal
EDUCATION LANGUAGES AWARDS
Master of Computer Science University of Pune, India Bachelor of Computer Science University of Pune, India Languages: English, Marathi, Hindi, French
Awards: Unsung IT Hero, Best Team Player
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