Amninderjit Singh
Manager - Strategy
Gurugram
Summary
Amninderjit Singh Manager - Strategy A strategic technology advisor with ~ 14 years of experience as a consultant and on-staff leader who helps organizations by monetizing data to generate revenue for themselves and value for their customers. Facilitator and builder of world-class technology products. Conceptualized and managed large scale global projects specializing in Data & IT Strategy, Analytics, Data Engineering, Product Development, Cloud Assessment & Implementation, Information governance, and IT operating Model.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Manager
Accenture Strategy
06.2021 - Current
- Partner with leadership teams to assess new opportunities, evaluate growth options, identify bottlenecks, and generally turn strategy into cross-functionally aligned tactics
- Partner with Data practice teams to lead and help develop accelerators, frameworks, POV’s, Playbooks for various data and analytics topics such as data marketplace, data mesh, data on cloud, living in cloud etc
- Collaborate with partners to build GTM strategy leading to joint bids, develop new solutions and deliver value to the client
- Partner with Global delivery teams to develop proposals, SOW, farm accounts and look for new opportunities in data and analytics
- Served as an SME on Data and analytics proposals providing thought leadership and best in class solutions
- Assess client's current state cloud implementation and provide a maturity and benchmarking assessment in comparison to their
- Industry and geographical peers
- Develop product roadmaps and wireframes to disposition current consumer facing applications and re-engineer them as cloud natives
- Evaluate applications, models, workflows to decide whether they can be re-hosted on cloud or if they must be re-engineered to cloud native architecture.
- Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
- Used industry expertise, customer service skills and analytical nature to resolve customer concerns and promote loyalty.
- Developed detailed plans based on broad guidance and direction.
- Communicated best practices among on-site and external personnel to align efforts and goals.
- Utilized exemplary negotiation skills to obtain manufacturing service agreements and assure quality standards.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
- Designed internal process improvements to automate repetitive tasks, shortening data delivery times.
- Established and secured enterprise-wide data analytics structures.
- Verified isolation of data to specific geographic borders to comply with national and international data transmission laws and regulations.
- Employed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) products to reduce initial outlay in systems purchasing [Number]%.
- Managed identification, protection and use of data assets.
- Developed and delivered business information solutions.
- Collaborated with system architects, design analysts and others to understand business and industry requirements.
- Unified disparate data structures and operating environments during revamps of processing facilities, data centers and more.
- Shaped solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
- Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities.
- Interviewed, supervised and motivated [Number] staff members to achieve optimal productivity.
- Prospected new customers to generate sales leads and increased revenue from existing clients.
- Provided technical expertise and recommendations to improve systems and processes, establish cost savings and increase productivity.
- Implemented [Type] team plan, clarified roles of members and introduced new processes to boost quality across departments.
- Oversaw business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organization.
- Worked collaboratively with developers, senior-level stakeholders and partners to collect data on deficiencies and provide solutions to long-standing issues.
- Worked as key driver of pipeline for sales team, managing end-to-end projects through clear cross-functional communication.
- Identified, reviewed and evaluated data management metrics to recommend ways to strengthen data across enterprise.
- Partnered with business teams and IT personnel to align project goals with business strategy and define project milestones.
Principal, Analytics Information Management
Discover Financial Services
Chicago
08.2017 - 03.2020
- Organized 4 simultaneous ongoing projects, delegating personnel and resources to optimally meet overarching business goals and minimize redundancies.
- Translated complex business objectives into actionable data management plans for individual business units across the organization.
- Oversaw data visualization projects for [Type] clients, delivering comprehensible and invaluable visuals for presentation to audiences of different technical understanding.
- Integrated third-party analytics solutions into ongoing projects.
- Derived forward-looking insights from ongoing analytics projects to offer predictive intelligence for ongoing business decision-making.
- Improved data collection methods by designing surveys, polls and other instruments.
- Partnered with subject matter experts in continuous improvement process, upgraded data quality and recommended innovative information management strategies.
- Oversaw security and information retention policies and practices according to internal and government-ordered standards.
- Devised and implemented reliable data management procedures to enable usability and security of company data.
- Liaised between data management and IT support personnel to communicate ongoing system maintenance and new software development.
- Developed and delivered business information solutions.
- Collaborated with system architects, design analysts and others to understand business and industry requirements.
- Established and secured enterprise-wide data analytics structures.
- Partner with leadership teams to assess new opportunities, evaluate growth options, identify bottlenecks, and generally turn strategy into cross-functionally aligned tactics.
- Spearheaded an innovative on-cloud DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) platform product for credit strategies that led to an operational efficiency gain of 50% and increased customer acquisition rate by 10%.
- Developed end-to-end design including user research (consumers, merchants, internal teams), competitive research (competitors and market benchmarking), interviews, conceptual planning for features and product ideas, wireframing, design and prototyping. Create, assess, update and communicate a clear product vision and strategy.
- Lowered new application fraud by 10% by introducing products for credit application fraud reduction by integrating demographic and device data with fraud sensitive geographic areas.
- Facilitated modernization of marketing models to machine learning models, boosting credit card balance transfer revenue by 5%.
- Partnered with Senior Leadership, Credit Operations and IT vendor teams to perform assessments that helped to address issues including but not limited to changing priorities, ownership, and management, which led to producing multi-year enterprise analytics and technology capabilities product roadmap.
- Led a cross-functional team of 45 resources in the design and development of sophisticated products such as data democratization, data cataloging, Information governance etc, leading to data quality increase of 30%.
Sr. Technical Analyst
PR3 Systems, IBM
04.2014 - 08.2017
- Startup providing niche consulting in Data Management and Analytics space & offers solutions in Data , Digital and People Transformation
- Achievements/Tasks
- Managed fortune 500 client relationships and responsible for revenue generation resulting in $2Mn YoY renewals and $1Mn in fresh
- Sales
- Architected 99.99% available enterprise data platform for a leading bike manufacturer in US enabling them to serve vehicle loans to the clients globally
- Designed wireframes, created user surveys, researched build vs buy decision, conducted workshops and negotiated alternatives on solutions
- Architected information management and data profiling platform using IBM Infosphere information Management suite and IBM CDC/CDD streaming services
- Facilitated the creation of information governance organization structure and defined roles and responsibilities for data stewards
- Created business taxonomy, data lineage and implemented business rules and policies in Information governance and cataloging tools
- Secured a $300k cross-sell contract by generating savings worth $100k through re-modelling data intake process for a leading US yacht manufacturer
- Modernized analytics landscape of one of the largest West coast taxation department, enabling them to realize $1Bn gains from tax evaders over 3 years
- Speaker at IBM User group conferences in Midwest
- Evangelized IBM Infosphere and Cloud( Formerly Bluemix) products
- Trained more than 1000 employees of fortune 500 companies on Information Management, MDM, Data Governance, Data Management, Big Data, Cloud implementation
- Conducted comprehensive Cloud application and migration assessment and developed a multi year implementation roadmap for a leading banking organization in Midwest.
Sr. Technical Specialist
Atos Syntel, Formerly Syntel Inc
07.2010 - 04.2014
- Tasks
- Managed direct relationship with client as an onshore lead and responsible for account renewal, staffing, delivery and cross-sell
- Implemented Lean methodology to improve operational efficiency by 40% thereby reducing the cost of implementation and support by 20%
- Led a team of four in developing BASEL DWH Db enabling the client to be in compliance with regulatory norms
- Developed data quality orchestration product that enabled client to attribute regulatory laws such as SOX and BCBS 239 to specific data attributes
- Conducted research, internal survey, and brokered meetings amongst stakeholders to finalize product roadmap and evangelized product adoption
- Implemented DAMA Data management framework while developing ETL infra for the client
- Led a successful implementation of IBM Infosphere Information management suite from blueprint to design and implementation
- Appointed to Centre of Excellence for building five key accelerators/tools which enabled quicker and on time data delivery for decisioning
- Modernized the AML data ingestion(sourcing, profiling, rules lookup) process enabling client to effectively monitor bank customer transactions on a daily basis, reducing the chances of AML fraud
- Spearheaded automation of limit calculation processes for BASEL2 DWH, saving 96% of manual effort which translated to client’s cost savings of $1.5M
- Led the migration of Oracle warehouse to Teradata and enhanced the reporting systems efficiency by 15 times to lower the potential to attract regulatory fines by FED which costs upto $600K.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Larsen & Tubro Infotech Ltd
11.2007 - 07.2010
- Tasks
- Liaison with clients and onshore counterparts to analyze requirements, identify gaps and develop functional specs in order to facilitate development
- Developed Hyperion reports to analyze current inventory and create projections for future months
- Developed ETL jobs using IBM Infosphere Information Management tools to ingest real-time data used for tracking various raw materials inventory as it moved across the shop floor
- Designed Kimball's version of DWH to facilitate operational and functional reporting such as inventory management etc
- Developed Teradata and Unix shell scripts to automate database and server resource management.
Education
MBA - Strategy
Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad 04.2020 - 04.2021
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
Punjab Technical University
Ropar 08.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
Cloud & Analytics AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS EC2, GCPBigSheets, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, R, Python, SAS, H2O, Enterprise MinerVisualization Cognos Business Analytics, Actuate BIRTHyperion SQR/IR, Tableau, QlikViewData Ingestion DataStage, Alteryx, Talend, AlationCognos Data Manager, AbInitio, Data Click, DataWorks, PentahoData Modelling Power Designer, Data Architect, ErwinCognos Framework Manager, FastTrackDatabases & Scheduling ToolsOracle, Teradata: BTEQ; TPump; MLoad, MS SQL Server, My SQL, Netezza, DB2, Autosys, Maestro, SnowflakeBig Data Hortonworks Hadoop, IBM BigInsight, IBM BigQuery, Spark, Sqoop, Scala, Hive, HBase, Atlas, ZepplinData Quality, Profiling and ReplicationInformation Analyzer, QualityStage, IBM CDC & CDD, Metadata Asset Manager, KafkaInformation GovernanceInformation Governance Catalog(IGC), Information Governance Dashboard(IGD), Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, CollibraQA Assurance HP Quality Centre Autosys, BMCRemedy, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Toad, SQL Developer, Putty, Squirell, Aginity GIT, PVCS, SVNOperating SystemsUNIX, Windows, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, UbuntuNative or Bilingual ProficiencyPunjabiHindi
Negotiation
Project Management
Business Development
Cloud Architecture Design
Machine learning
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Interpersonal Communication
Additional Information
- HONOR AWARDS , SMART Award Syntel Winner of Smart Award for leading a smooth handover of the project with 0% downtime Innovator Syntel Winner of Innovator Award for reducing the timeframe of the critical business process allowing the client to make smarter decisions on up-to-date data. Customer Delight Syntel Winner of Customer Delight award for enabling the client to meet federal regulatory reporting requirements Client Appreciation Freescale Semiconductors Recipient of client appreciation award for generating $ savings by reducing processes timeframe by 95% STAR Awards L&T Infotech STAR Award Winner for two consecutive quarters at LNT Infotech for outstanding performance among more than 500 employees
Timeline
Manager
Accenture Strategy
06.2021 - Current
MBA - Strategy
Indian Institute of Management
04.2020 - 04.2021
Principal, Analytics Information Management
Discover Financial Services
08.2017 - 03.2020
Sr. Technical Analyst
PR3 Systems, IBM
04.2014 - 08.2017
Sr. Technical Specialist
Atos Syntel, Formerly Syntel Inc
07.2010 - 04.2014
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Larsen & Tubro Infotech Ltd
11.2007 - 07.2010
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
Punjab Technical University
08.2003 - 06.2007