Neelu Rai

• Owned product vision and roadmap for a cloud-native Asset and Liability Management (ALM) platform, aligning treasury, risk, and regulatory stakeholders
• Translated complex ALM business requirements into clear technical specifications, defining data contracts, calculation accuracy thresholds, performance SLAs, and architecture decisions across AWS, Python-based services, and Snowflake.
• Led end-to-end data product strategy, establishing Snowflake as the system of record, driving canonical data models, data quality standards, lineage, and access controls to ensure audit-ready and explainable results.
• Drove engineering execution without direct coding, owning epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria; managing cross-team dependencies; and unblocking delivery through timely product and technical decision-making.
• Ensured production readiness and operational excellence, defining non-functional requirements, CI/CD and release governance, monitoring standards, and runbooks to support reliable, scalable ALM processing in production.
• Acted as the primary bridge between engineering and business, communicating technical trade-offs, delivery status, and risks to senior stakeholders while supporting model validation, audits, and regulatory reviews.

Started as a Data Engineering Tech Lead in Data Solutions domain and achieved the followings:

• Delivered strong technical leadership and mentorship, enabling a high-performing team and fostering continuous skill development.
• Implemented a scalable data warehouse solution, incorporating advanced data modeling, ELT/ETL processes, and governance policies that improved data reliability and usability.
• Played a key role in end-to-end data migration from diverse source systems to the Enterprise Data Lake, ensuring 100% data accuracy and minimal downtime during transition.
• Designed and built robust data integration pipelines, leveraging APIs, real-time synchronisation, and data virtualisation to streamline access and improve data availability across the organisation.
• Achieved significant performance improvements in batch processing by optimizing SQL queries, applying intelligent indexing, and implementing effective partitioning strategies—reducing execution time and system load.

Leveraging my strong understanding of Agile methodologies, deep domain expertise in Enterprise Data Lakes, and effective communication skills, I transitioned into the role of Product Owner for Pega and Personetics within the Data Solutions domain. In this role, I

• Drove product strategy, aligned stakeholder expectations, and delivered high-impact data solutions. Key responsibilities and achievements included:
• Led the definition and prioritisation of product backlog items, ensuring the team stayed focused on high-impact work aligned with business goals.
• Maintained a well-organised and continuously refined backlog, enabling efficient sprint planning and clear delivery outcomes.
• Owned product decisions—balancing business value, technical feasibility, and user needs to shape meaningful features.
• Built strong relationships with stakeholders to deeply understand their needs and turn them into clear, actionable requirements.
• Clearly communicated the product vision and roadmap, keeping teams and stakeholders aligned, engaged, and working toward shared objectives.

• Lead developer / Scrum Master for DWBI project for Barclays (client)
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies for the scrum teams
• Liaised with Clients for Requirement Gathering.
• Developed PowerCenter Mapping, Workflows and Sessions using transformations like Update-Strategy, Expression, Lookup, Aggregator, Joiner, Source Qualifier etc and also setting up Power Exchange connections to databases
• Designed, developed, automated, and supported complex applications to extract, transform, and load data
• Designed, Developed and Tested ETL Mappings, Mapplets, Workflows, Worklets using Informatica Powercenter 9.x
• Identified efficiencies and ways to improve design and development processes
• Worked in a fast-paced environment, under minimal supervision providing technical guidance to the team members
• Developed and debugged complex mappings in Informatica
• Creating workflows and session tasks to execute the mappings
• Enhanced /Developed Teradata scripts for new requirements.
• Used Utilities like BTEQ, FastLoad, Multiload to load and export the data.
• Implemented performance tuning steps in mapping

• Enhanced/Developed code/program for new requirements.
• Unit Tested the code.
• Involved with clients/users at the time of SIT/UAT/OAT
• Supported the jobs after deployment.
• Work on Ad-hoc Requests in the project.
• Suggest and implement the innovative ideas.
• Enhanced domain/technical knowledge.
• Prepared Functional Documents, AID etc.
• Build and mentored the Team.

• Developed interface layer from Gold landing table to EDM tables.
• Developed Fastload Scripts and Multiload scripts to load the one off data requirement.
• Written BTEQ script for different business scenarios. Ex MTD, YTD calculation and various aggregation at different level.
• Implemented Teradata Best practices and saved lots of perm space for the project by using database space saving technique.
• Used Fast export and BTeq export to provide business users with the files.
• Raised CR (change request) to get this change effected in production with every user informed about this change.