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Murugan Arumugam

Murugan Arumugam

Business Intelligence & Data Analytics Lead
Chennai

Summary

An accomplished Business Intelligence & Data Analytics Lead with 15+ years of experience in delivering end-to-end analytics solutions and leading team of 5–8 members. Deep expertise across multiple visualization and reporting platforms, including Tableau, ServiceNow Platform Analytics, Performance Analytics, Power BI, BMC eMite, and other BI tools. Proven track record in building BI strategies, automating complex reporting, standardizing KPIs, and partnering with senior stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making. Combines strong hands-on technical skills with team leadership, governance, and stakeholder management.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Sr Manager

Standard Chartered GBS
04.2014 - Current
  • Excellence in delivering automation and data-centric Business Intelligence solutions using modern BI tools
  • Lead a team of 5–8 BI developers and data analysts, managing delivery, coaching, performance reviews, and skills development.
  • Own the BI and analytics roadmap, aligning with senior leadership on priorities, KPIs, and key reporting initiatives.
  • Oversee the design and development of dashboards and analytics solutions using Tableau, Platform Analytics, Performance Analytics, Power BI, BMC eMite, and other tools, enabling self-service insights for business users.
  • Manage data ingestion, transformation, and modeling, including ETL/ELT pipelines and semantic layers to support scalable, reusable datasets
  • Drive reporting automation across multiple platforms, reducing manual report preparation effort, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of management information
  • Partner with stakeholders across [e.g., Operations, CTM, Service Management, Risk, IT] to translate business requirements into robust BI solutions, and challenge metrics where necessary
  • Establish and enforce development standards and best practices (naming conventions, documentation, peer review, testing) across the BI team.
  • Monitor and report on team performance, project milestones, and service levels, proactively managing risks and dependencies.
  • Strong analytical thinking and client management experience, with hands-on experience in problem-solving.
  • Design reporting standards for operational metrics, service level requirements, and process KPIs
  • Identifying and analyzing business needs, picking requirements, defining scope, and objectives to make business decisions
  • Having strong knowledge in working with Incident, Change, SLM, Service Catalogue, Request, and Problem life cycle modules (ITSM)

Service Management Work Summary

  • Manage the relationship with country technology stakeholders, ensuring alignment and satisfaction, and acting as the interface between Group Service Recipients and Group Service Providers on Service Level Management matters.
  • Drive and facilitate SIPs (Service Improvement Plans) to address any SLAs noncompliance or performance improvement needs. Identify areas needing improvement, define actionable steps, and monitor the progress of improvement plans.
  • Manage stakeholder escalated issues/incidents and service outages impacting business services until closure, with updates on causes and corrective/preventive actions.
  • Review audit points and operating risks, with appropriate remediation actions taken up by responsible parties, and ensure that any material risks are understood and accepted.

Decommissioning of BMC eMite & Actuate Tool (Project)

BMC eMite, a visualization tool and Actuate reporting DataMart, is used by various stakeholders for day-to-day operations. Where the Remedy data is extracted from Datamart through SQL queries, which helps the operations for the regular BAU. Involved in the project for the coordination with various support teams, such as Infra, Database, Application Vendor, PIM, and Security team, etc., for getting the applications, database, and servers decommissioned, which saves a huge cost to the domain.

Senior Data Analyst

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Global Soft P Ltd
02.2012 - 04.2014
  • Ensure all dashboards and reports are getting refreshed in regular interval
  • BMC Remedy, Avaya Telephony Reports & BO Reports
  • Ensure all data sources are available at the prompt time and quality with the different support entities
  • Maintain & manage working relationships with various support teams
  • Have very good understanding of the overall ticket handling lifecycle, process excellence and infrastructure support
  • Responsible for preparing SOP documents based on the SLA with the stake holders
  • Data analysis done on end to end for the priority tickets where the SLA breaches
  • Independently handle technical issues and escalate complex and critical issues at appropriate levels to Management and Vendor support

Reporting Analyst

Maersk Global Service Centre
10.2010 - 02.2012
  • Fully accountable and responsible for MIS reporting for all the sites on IT support measurements under the scope of L1 and L2 support teams for various business units
  • Publish and maintain weekly and monthly stakeholder dashboard performance report
  • Provide day to day support on various business units and operations towards all aspects of regular and ad hoc reporting
  • Update and maintain as per changes all reporting requirements viz., SLA, Priority issues etc. for accurate reporting and analysis
  • Provide continuous feedback on improvement of measurement data quality

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras
Chennai
01-2005

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

University of Madras
Chennai
01-2001

Skills

Leadership & Management: Team leadership (5–8 people), coaching & mentoring, performance management, capacity planning, delivery management, stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration

Business Intelligence & Visualization : BI strategy & roadmap, dashboard & report design, self-service analytics, report automation, executive scorecards, KPI frameworks

Visualization Tools : Tableau, Platform Analytics, Performance Analytics, Power BI, BMC eMite

Data & Analytics : Data modelling, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data management, descriptive & diagnostic analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, forecasting & performance tracking

Technical Tools & Technologies : PL/SQL, SQL, MSSQL, MS Access, ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, Actuate Datamart, Business Object Crystal Reports, MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT)

STRENGTHS

  • Strong ability to bridge business and technical teams, translating business questions into analytical solutions
  • Proven experience leading and developing analytics teams and building a culture of continuous improvement
  • Comfortable managing complex, multi-tool environments and standardizing KPIs and data usage across platforms
  • Focused on data quality, reliability, and usability, ensuring stakeholders trust and adopt BI solutions

Accomplishments

  • Played a major role in reporting migration from Remedy 7.5 to Remedy 8.1 in 2015 and another key migration from Remedy 8.1 to ServiceNow in 2022 and made sure that the end-to-end lifecycle management process is stable.
  • As part of Migration activity, participate in tooling decisions, gathering requirements from various teams testing and analysis with various stakeholders for all the reporting data
  • Consolidated legacy reports into unified dashboards through Tableau, Platform Analytics & BMC eMite by reducing the number of manual reports
  • Improved data accuracy and consistency across tools through a governed data model and validation checks
  • Increased BI adoption and user engagement through training sessions, clear documentation, and intuitive dashboard design
  • Received many GEM (Gone Extra Mile) & WoW AWARD for New Initiatives/Ideas, Transformation & Automation

Timeline

Sr Manager

Standard Chartered GBS
04.2014 - Current

Senior Data Analyst

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Global Soft P Ltd
02.2012 - 04.2014

Reporting Analyst

Maersk Global Service Centre
10.2010 - 02.2012

Bachelor of Computer Applications - undefined

University of Madras

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras
Murugan ArumugamBusiness Intelligence & Data Analytics Lead