Basavaraj Dhang

Orchestrate Data Quality monitoring for internal Audit data across functions, effectively managing book work for Data Quality control enhancements. Champion Audit CDO support in Data Oversight, ensuring structured data integrity throughout lifecycle. Coordinate with business process stakeholders to ensure comprehensive domain coverage and data consumption analysis within Internal Audit and Risk & Control domains. Spearhead comprehensive metadata management implementation, ensuring streamlined data integration and accessibility. Mitigate data risks associated with organizational change, through strategic development and enforcement of robust risk management protocols. Own and enhance data risk management metrics, overseeing full lifecycle from inception to completion, aligning with business objectives. Direct team management operations, fostering culture of excellence and collaboration, and enhancing overall team performance and efficiency.

As Data Analytics lead, analyze, provide decision making capabilities to Audit teams using various organization operational risk related data, audit data and assessments data by building visualizations in QlikView, Qlik Sense, Tableau using data wrangling tools like Dataverse, Alteryx and review Machine Learning algorithms in Python.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Identified strategic IA domain data, including Reference & Master Data CDEs, contributing to Business Definitions and firmwide Data Book details.
• Established DQ dimensions (Integrity, Accuracy, Validity, Completeness, Timeliness) for executive approval, implementing monitoring through metrics and trend analysis.
• Evaluated audit application changes, determining upstream and downstream Data Quality impacts.
• Collaborated with process teams and Technology Partners for System of Record data corrections, enhancements, and strategic data platform consolidation
• Working as Subject Matter Expert for Internal Audit and Operational Risk data, collaboration with Audit teams, corporate functions and technology groups across department to understand, develop, prioritize, and deliver department wide initiatives.
• Automate day-to-day business processes using data wrangling tools like Alteryx, Dataverse to convert raw business data into meaningful analysis and increase turnaround time of regulatory requests.
• Built self-serve reporting tool to help business teams to pull required data on their own to reduce dependency on technology teams.
• Being well versed with Internal Audit and Operational Risk Data, working with Operational Risk team to draft requirements, coordination with their tech teams, prioritization of JIRA stories, implement requirements from Internal Audit teams.
• Help teams with Proof Of Concepts and feasibility checks on business solutions before they are transformed into strategic technology solutions.
• Review Machine Learning Solutions built by technology teams from data perspective and propose changes as required.
• Received Outstanding Performance Award for Contribution in Data Analytics and Data Management areas.

Objective of the project is to upgrade the Informatica versions from 9.x to 10.1 for two different client sites involving 40+ applications. Apart from version upgrade, scope also include remediation, and code standardization. This was one of the strategic projects from the cognizant perspective and delivered without any issues. Received customer appreciation for the work done due to stringent timelines and complexity involved.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 17 members as project manager responsible creation of project plan, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure.
• Author & maintain the project plan and ensure adherence
• Provide functional guidance / inputs to the team and review deliverables
• Periodically evaluate scope creeps and schedule slippages based on plan baselines and notify Change arbitration board in timely manner
• Coordinates and obtained sign-offs from business & appropriate client teams in a timely manner on the project deliverables
• Report project progress and escalate project issues and risks to client governance team and the project steering committee
• Assessment of Risk on periodic basis and invoke appropriate mitigation plan
• Executive Status Reporting and Change Request Management
• Enthusiastic team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The overall objective of this project is to facilitate, through information technology, better decision making regarding the control environment, at the enterprise-wide level. The project involves consolidating and reporting information for facilitating easier data interpretation and statistical analysis for senior level management. It aims at capturing and forecasting important risk data with high quality and accuracy. Reliable and transparent cost/benefit metric information has to be maintained across the Bank.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead developers/architects of Cognos and QlikView technologies. Roles and responsibilities were –
• Lead development of Cognos reports and QlikView dashboards to represent firm's operational risk metrics to senior management for decision making
• Understanding of end to end controls room ETL architecture to deliver optimal performance for scorecards
• Hands on experience on Cognos (Cognos 7, 8, 10) Report Studio, Business Insight Advanced Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager.
• Experience with QlikView sheet objects including multiple charts types, Trends, KPI's, Bookmarks, Pivoting, custom requests for Excel Export, Fast Change and objects to accommodate KPI's into dashboards
• Strong understanding of dimensional modelling techniques, multi-dimensional database schemas like Star Schema, Snow flake Schema, Fact and Dimensional tables, Set Analysis in QlikView and DW concepts
• Expertise in working with diverse business users to understand requirements and develop robust data model that will support the current requirements and future business growth
• Provide executives and operational users with powerful analytic capabilities and detailed information on their operational performance
• Responsible for resource management, estimations, planning and end to end development and quality deliveries
• Worked to streamline the program as Cognos SME to assess current environment and suggest best practices.
• Played role of scrum master for few modules working in agile methodologies .

The Global PAY Plus is a domestic and international payment processing application. Global Pay Plus provides functions like direct payment initiation, payment routing and transit based on local and global rules and configuration, Nostro-Vostro account and fees management, interfaces to international clearing system and domestic RTGS systems, Correspondent and Central Bank liquidity management and Funds availability tracking.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the team of developers working on development and maintenance of 250+ reports on Cognos 10 and Oracle PL/SQL.
• Designed Cognos reporting architecture for Global Payment System
• Designed framework model for Global Cognos Reporting component.
• Involved in capacity planning, people management, risk management and delivery management.
• Completed worldwide technology upgrade of Cognos from version 8 to 10.1 within Global Payment System.
• Initiated project on Cognos performance Improvement which involved some legacy reports which are long running and tuned them for better performance using materialized views.
• Lead Fast Function Point Implementation across multiple project teams at practice level