Fayaz Shaikh
Hyderabad/Gurugram
Summary
Dynamic Engineering Leader with over 19 years of global experience in Australia and India, specializing in Data Analytics, Databricks Delta Lakehouse, and enterprise data platforms. Expertise in driving successful on-premises to cloud transformations and establishing scalable data and reporting platforms within Global Capability Centers (GCCs) for the banking sector. Proven ability to build future-ready data ecosystems with a 'data like electricity' mindset, ensuring compliance, security, and governance while serving an extensive user base of over 25,000. Strong track record in leading global teams to deliver impactful business solutions through SAFe methodologies, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams, and mentoring diverse talent to enhance engagement and efficiency.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Vice President - Engineering Manager
NAB Global Innovation Centre India
12.2024 - Current
- Spearheading a multi-million dollar cloud transformation program for SAS 9.4 grid on-prem to SAS Viya on AWS cloud.
- Leading the teams for transitioning and migrating the source data ingestion to lakehouse architecture in Databricks as a single place to hold a trusted copy of NAB’s business data.
- Managing multiple applications and platforms under Data Analytics Reporting platforms – SAS Analytics, Veracity Contact Centre Reporting, Power BI reporting, Business Objects Reporting, ODI/OBIEE platform to name a few with a total of 20000+ users across the bank using data and reports from these platforms, ensuring data like electricity fundamentals.
- Building the reporting platforms capability within the Enterprise Data and Analytics division at NAB India.
- Ensuring data quality and consistency across various platforms under reporting and data platforms. Improved data efficiency by 20% for contact centre reporting dashboards.
- Built and cultivated a cohesive team of data engineers, platform engineers, reporting specialists to support the bank’s data initiatives, resulting in reporting efficiency that led to cost efficiency.
- Currently managing a team of 50+ platform and data engineers across India and Australia.
- Transitioning the projects and BAU capability from Australia to India by bringing the expertise gained over 16+ years in Australia.
- Assigning the cloud transformation program from ODI 11G to 12 C on Azure cloud.
- Responsible for delivering 10000+ reports monthly to business users including regulatory reports to APRA.
- Collaborated with data engineers, testing practitioners, and cloud architects to design next-generation SAS Viya platform, supporting high- performance, scalable data analytics solutions.
- Engaged with business teams and stakeholders to understand business requirements, in assisting to migrate these platforms to support Databricks on ADA.
- Working with multiple stakeholders across Enterprise Analytics and Digital insights to ensure the reporting data is delivered within the required SLAs.
- Coach and mentored cross-functional teams, promoting best practices in data analytics, data management, and agile methodologies to optimize project and support delivery.
Technology Architect
Infosys Australia
02.2022 - 11.2024
- Led the cloud transformation program design for SAS 9.4 grid on-prem to SAS Viya on AWS cloud for a leading Australian Bank.
- Modernized legacy solutions by migrating data processing frameworks to AWS on cloud, enhancing processing speed and scalability.
- Managed the cloud transformation program from ODI 11G to 12 C on cloud for a major bank.
- Successfully spearheaded vulnerability remediation efforts by closing more than 2000 vulnerabilities in data reporting platforms division.
- Collaborated with data modelling teams to define and maintain data dictionaries, source-to-target data mapping documents, and version- controlled data models.
- Conducted data profiling and quality assessments, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Mentored and developed diverse teams, fostering collaboration, performance, and career growth.
- Drove productivity by optimizing workflows, aligning team goals with organizational strategies, and resolving conflicts.
- Led change management initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and team adaptation to new processes and tools.
- Led data engineering initiatives to build data extraction, transformation, and integration pipelines, leveraging SQL and ETL tools to manage data flows and ensure data integrity.
- Productivity Improvement: Proactively identified and implemented opportunities for increasing team productivity and efficiency.
- Developed and delivered presentations and proposals for clients, highlighting solutions and demonstrating value.
Senior Analyst Engineer
National Australia Bank
01.2019 - 02.2022
- Led consulting projects focused on financial crime and regulatory compliance, including solution design and implementation.
- AML Platform Lead/SME to build and own SAS Anti Money Laundering solutions including AML batch and SAS Enterprise Case Management (ECM) tool for FCO to raise alerts, cases and submit SMR reports to AUSTRAC.
- Instrumental in re-designing/architecting the SAS AML platform after a major incident resulting in 2 weeks production outage.
- Travelled overseas to train and establish a strong offshore team at Infosys Hyderabad.
- Led a team of 15 across Australia and India.
- Conducted stakeholder meetings to gather requirements and deliver tailored solutions that met client needs and regulatory standards.
- Managed the end-to-end project lifecycle, including planning, execution, and post-implementation support.
- Played a key role in presales activities, including proposal development and client presentations.
- Oversaw team performance, recruitment, and training to ensure high- quality project delivery and client satisfaction.
- Conducted data profiling and quality assessments, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.
Technology Lead
Infosys Australia
06.2008 - 01.2019
- Led consulting projects focused on financial crime and regulatory compliance, including solution design and implementation.
- Consulting with NAB Wealth/NAB Architecture Teams on various project and POC initiatives as Tech Consultant, to provide optimal ETL and Reporting solutions as per business requirements.
- Involved in Order of Magnitude estimates in the early phase of BI projects.
- Involved in detailed project estimates.
- Developing high level and detailed design documents.
- Leading project teams with team size ranging from 5-15 members through all phases of SDLC.
- Delivery of Data Extracts/ETL Datastage Processes to load the Remedy service management data into ITSMDatamart.
- Development and support of Silver ADS retail datamart load processes using ETL Datastage jobs.
- Design and development of Business Objects Reporting solutions for Retail Platform in FRMI reporting.
- Development of Wholesale SSIS load process to integrate wholesale data into global data warehouse.
- Design of reporting universes and data models to support the delivery of reporting solutions to retail, credit risk and service management teams.
- Developed and delivered presentations and proposals for clients, highlighting solutions and demonstrating value.
Software Engineer
Infosys LTD
09.2006 - 06.2008
- Worked as a developer to establish a robust Data warehouse for Target, USA by enhancing the existing legacy feeds. It involves implementing major ETL design in An Initio and running these jobs to take feed from different legacy systems and populate it in the data warehouse using complex business logic required to accomplish the reporting requirements.
Education
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.2006
Skills
- Enterprise Data & Analytics
- Cloud Transformation
- Strategic goals
- Strategic plans
- Corporate presentations
- Skilled in data-driven decision making
- Data Ingestion & Data Migration
- Data Transformation
- Data Quality & Governance
- Regulatory Reporting Solutions
- Solution Design
- Platform Automation
- Effort and Cost Estimation
- Delivery & Risk Planning
- Project Delivery & Management
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Gathering
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Leading Teams Across Geographies
- Excellent Stakeholder Engagement
- Strategic Thinking and Planning
- Proficient in cloud services: AWS and Azure
- DevOps and Data Orchestration: CI/CD, GitHub, Jenkins, Airflow, Control-M
- Programming Languages: Python, SQL, C, Shell Scripting
- Databases: Amazon RDS, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- ETL Tools: SAS 94, SAS Viya, Datastage, Informatica, SSIS, Abinitio
- Reporting Tools: SAS 94, SAS Viya, PowerBI, SAP BO, Xtraction
- Project Management Tools: SharePoint, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, JIRA, Rally
- Monitoring: Splunk, AppDynamics, ServiceNow
Accomplishments
- Successfully established data analytics and reporting platforms team of 40+ for a leading Australian bank’s GCC in India
- STAR award at NAB for stabilizing the SAS Grid platform
- GBS Project Execution Excellence Award
- NAB Technical Excellence Award
- NAB Recognise – Living our Values
- Infosys Global Star Award
- Trained and established a vendor team at Infosys Hyderabad
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
- Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
- Prince 2 Certified
- TOGAF 9
- Datastage Professional
- Scrum Master
- ITIL Foundation
- Agile Fundamentals
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Timeline
Senior Vice President - Engineering Manager
NAB Global Innovation Centre India
12.2024 - Current
Technology Architect
Infosys Australia
02.2022 - 11.2024
Senior Analyst Engineer
National Australia Bank
01.2019 - 02.2022
Technology Lead
Infosys Australia
06.2008 - 01.2019
Software Engineer
Infosys LTD
09.2006 - 06.2008
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University