Technical Project Manager for Azure Data Platforms

SHAZAN KHAN

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India *********@*****.*** +91-950******* linkedin.com/in/shazank SUMMARY

Technical Project Manager with 4 years of experience delivering cloud and data engineering projects across legal, energy, healthcare, and BFSI sectors. Proven track record managing end-to-end delivery of Azure-native platforms — from scoping and stakeholder governance to CI/CD automation and production go-live. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced, client-facing environments with a focus on quality, risk control, and business alignment. Experienced with both Agile and waterfall delivery models across Microsoft technology stacks. WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Manager · Associate Consultant Celebal Technologies June 2022 – Present Jaipur, India Legal Services — Technical Project Manager

Led end-to-end delivery of a Microsoft Fabric-based data lakehouse and integration platform for one of Canada's top-tier law firms.

Managed execution across Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure DevOps — covering data ingestion, transformation, Gold Layer semantic models, and Power BI reporting. Coordinated stakeholder sign-off for Gold Layer validation and semantic model refinement, ensuring traceability across all data layers.

Owned change request governance, risk logs, sprint tracking, and stakeholder status reporting throughout a 15-month engagement.

Streamlined DevOps release workflows using GitHub CI/CD integrations, reducing project delays and improving deployment consistency.

Conducted weekly leadership syncs to review milestone progress, surface blockers, and confirm sprint priorities with client stakeholders.

Energy & Utilities · Technical Project Manager · Release Management Owned delivery of an enterprise-wide release management framework and a GitHub-based analytics platform, spanning multiple service lines and business units.

Managed a formal change request process including a scope extension, completing full impact analysis and obtaining sign-off from all key stakeholders before implementation. Maintained weekly status reports, risk registers, and UAT tracking; led milestone gate reviews with structured evidence of completion before phase progression.

Coordinated environment readiness activities across a distributed client infrastructure, proactively managing blockers related to access provisioning and system configuration. All business units across the engagement reached production go-live with zero financial impact — delivery completed within agreed commercial terms.

Healthcare · Technical Project Manager · Data Governance Led Unity Catalog implementation in Databricks to establish centralized access control and metadata governance. Aligned catalog policies with HIPAA compliance requirements, improving audit readiness and data access transparency. Managed sprint-level delivery, established project tracking dashboards, and led weekly leadership syncs to monitor risks and milestones.

Delivered stakeholder training documentation and cross-team coordination to ensure smooth platform adoption. BFSI · Technical Project Manager · Data Engineering Led end-to-end delivery of a NiFi to EDW data ingestion modernization project. Defined scope, timelines, and resource plans for each data flow; coordinated with engineering teams to build, validate, and deploy ingestion logic.

Oversaw pipeline testing, error handling, and exception logging, ensuring alignment with business data models and reporting requirements.

Core Delivery Responsibilities (Across All Engagements) Developed and maintained project plans with clear scope, deliverables, timelines, and resource allocations aligned to client business goals.

Facilitated cross-functional stakeholder engagement to ensure project alignment, timely decision-making, and delivery accountability.

Proactively identified risks, maintained risk registers, and implemented mitigation strategies to protect quality and timelines. Prepared and presented project status updates, KPI dashboards, and milestone reports to senior leadership and client stakeholders.

Led change management efforts to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and organizational changes across project teams.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Project Management Agile / Scrum, Waterfall, Risk Management, Change Control, Stakeholder Governance Cloud & Data Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure DevOps, Power BI, SQL Release Managemen GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Branching Strategy, Deployment Governance Tracking & Tools JIRA, Azure Boards, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, Power Apps Domain Knowledge Data Engineering & ETL, EDW Migration, Data Governance, HIPAA Compliance, DORA Metrics Interpersonal

Cross-functional Collaboration, Client Communication, Requirements Gathering, Training & Knowledge Transfer

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals — Credential ID: 2147FD73CA3E3B95 Databricks Academy: EDW-ETL Migration to the Data Intelligence Platform — Credential ID: 139827763 Databricks Academy: Data & AI Governance Pre-Sales EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science Engineering J.E.C.R.C University, Jaipur, Rajasthan — 2022

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