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Mohamed Imran Pendekal

Bengaluru

Summary

Results-driven analytics leader with 15+ years of experience driving digital transformation through data, automation, and intelligent systems. Proven expertise in leading large-scale programs across Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Intelligent Automation. Strong track record of delivering enterprise solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and enable data-driven decision-making. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, shaping strategy, and aligning technology with business goals. Adept at managing global stakeholders, building high-performing teams, and scaling innovative platforms. Passionate about leveraging AI, cloud, and automation to future-proof organizations.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager Intelligent Automation

Bread Financial
Bengaluru
01.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded the automation of over 130+ business processes across finance, HR, and operations, achieving approximately 1 million hours deflected in annual savings.
  • Identified the opportunity to insourced around 15 vendor positions, thereby saving around $441k USD and creating in-house talent.
  • Established a center of excellence (CoE) to centralize automation efforts, streamline governance, and promote best practices.
  • Strategic Leadership and Program Management: Defined the automation roadmap and governed the end-to-end delivery of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), AI/ML, and workflow optimization projects.
  • Technology & Solution Design: Oversaw the design and deployment of RPA bots using platforms like UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate.
  • Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings: Established KPIs to monitor bot performance and value realization.
  • Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Built and led a cross-functional team of developers, business analysts, and process SMEs.
  • Governance & Compliance: Created standards for documentation, bot lifecycle management, and exception handling.

Senior Manager Data Engineering

Bread Financial
Bengaluru
03.2022 - 11.2024
  • Scaled a modern data platform on Azure Databricks, serving over millions of records daily, enabling real-time analytics across more than 10 business domains.
  • Led an offshore team of 15+ engineers and successfully built data pipelines, including a team of production support analysts for monitoring the data ingestion activities.
  • Identified the opportunity to insource around 29 vendor positions for Data Services, thereby saving around $2M USD and creating in-house talent.
  • Led the end-to-end migration of enterprise data workflows from Control-M to Astronomer-managed Apache Airflow, resulting in improved pipeline observability, enhanced scalability, and a 30% reduction in job execution and monitoring overhead.

Manager Business Intelligence

Bread Financial
Bengaluru
03.2020 - 02.2022
  • Spearheaded the rollout of a self-service BI platform using MicroStrategy, enabling over 2,000 users to access real-time data, and reducing ad hoc reporting requests.
  • Migrated legacy reporting systems like SSRS and Excel reports to a modern BI stack, improving dashboard load times and enhancing user experience.
  • Delivered executive-level dashboards that helped drive data-driven strategies.
  • Led a team of 7 BI professionals, increasing team efficiency and output through agile delivery methods and process improvements.
  • Implemented modern analytics through Dataiku workflows for data ingestion and data quality.

Lead Business Intelligence

Epsilon
Bengaluru
04.2018 - 03.2020
  • Developed dashboards using SSRS for data visualization and reporting.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements and insights.
  • Implemented ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources.
  • Optimized SQL queries for improved performance in data retrieval tasks.
  • Mentored junior developers on best practices in business intelligence tools and techniques.

Senior Developer

Honeywell Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
02.2015 - 04.2018
  • Leveraged SQL queries to extract, transform, and load data into databases.
  • Generated reports and obtained data to develop analytics on key performance and operational metrics.
  • Configured SAP MM modules to meet specific business requirements and workflows.

IT Analyst

Tata consultancy services
Bengaluru
08.2010 - 01.2015
  • Created web parts, workflows, master pages, page layouts, content types, lists and libraries using Visual Studio.
  • Provided technical support to end-users and resolved day-to-day issues regarding SharePoint usage.
  • Utilized PowerShell scripts for automation, deployment and testing.
  • Used XML, .NET, SQL and C# to develop new web components.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

BMS College of Engineering
Bengaluru
06-2010

Skills

  • Data analytics
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Strategic direction
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Operational excellence
  • Vendor management

Accomplishments

  • Hall of Fame award from Bread Financial in 2024
  • Extra Mile Award from Bread Financial in 2022
  • Star performer of the quarter from Honeywell
  • Best Employee Award from Applied Materials.
  • Star performer of the month from TCS

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) | Scrum Alliance
  • PMP certification training course | upGrad
  • ITIL Foundation level | AXELOS Global
  • Certified SAFe 6 Agilist | Scaled Agile,INC
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt | TCS
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt | Honeywell
  • Certificate for people management | edX IIMB

Affiliations

  • AI tools workshop
  • Agentic AI and applications
  • UiPath Forward
  • Cypher Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics Summit

Languages

English
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Kannada
Proficient (C2)
C2
Urdu
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Telugu
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Senior Manager Intelligent Automation

Bread Financial
01.2023 - Current

Senior Manager Data Engineering

Bread Financial
03.2022 - 11.2024

Manager Business Intelligence

Bread Financial
03.2020 - 02.2022

Lead Business Intelligence

Epsilon
04.2018 - 03.2020

Senior Developer

Honeywell Technology Solutions
02.2015 - 04.2018

IT Analyst

Tata consultancy services
08.2010 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Engineering -

BMS College of Engineering
Mohamed Imran Pendekal