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Punit Pravin Soneji

Punit Pravin Soneji

Bengaluru

Summary

Strong leader and implementer with around 14+ years of cross functional and technical experience in designing and implementing robust data solution for Financial Services, Sales, Travel and HR & Infra sectors to drive strategic and tactical decisions.

Specialties: Technology leadership, data Engineering, architecture, building great teams, strategy planning, project management, client/partner management and budget planning.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager - Data Engineering

Morgan Stanley
05.2021 - Current
  • Proficient in Technology leadership, architecture, building great teams, strategy planning, project management, client/partner management budget planning, etc.
  • Strong technical leadership skills with experience in managing customers, vendors, and teams.
  • Strong problem-solving & technical skills, learnability of New Technology, and evangelization.
  • Proven abilities and Insightful experience in project management activities including project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, finalization of specifications, change and risk management, and resource administration in multiple projects within budgets and execution timelines.
  • Crafting technology strategic vision, and roadmap and leading data teams to deliver creative solutions leveraging On-Prem, Cloud & open-source technologies.
  • Managing multiple teams, managers, leaders, architects, principal engineers, and TPMs.
  • Growing teams, develop people, uplifting skills, and turning the teams into highly performing teams.
  • Build trust and improve relationships with business and technology partners.
  • Architecting and delivering analytic data solutions that power business capabilities.
  • Streaming technologies, enterprise integration, and data warehousing solutions both on-premise and cloud.
  • Cloud Migration to modernize data estates /data strategies.
  • Lead full life cycle planning & delivery of projects and provide hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams.
  • Experience in HR & Infra, Finance & Travel domains.
  • Translate long-term strategy to a roadmap.

Lead Data Engineer

Sabre Travel Network
11.2017 - 05.2021
  • Led a team of engineers in designing an innovative big data solution that significantly impacted business growth and profitability.
  • Increased operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks using Python scripts, allowing focus on higher-priority projects.
  • Evaluated emerging big data technologies to ensure relevance with evolving industry trends, maintaining competitive advantage over peers.
  • Performance Optimisation: Smarter & Faster way to Curate the 4 million lodging options with their latest attributes (like amenities, descriptive content, visuals, etc.) for a better Customer Shopping.

Data Specialist

Capgemini
09.2015 - 11.2017
  • Cultivated a culture of continuous improvement within the team by encouraging feedback and sharing of knowledge, fostering professional growth.
  • Average Daily Balance for Private Client Portfolios for billing purposes.
  • Migration of SQL Server Code to Oracle and leveraged advanced Oracle database concepts for better performance.

Senior Software Engineer

TEKsystems
02.2014 - 09.2015
  • Design and Development for Smart Utility for Business Users of the HP Omega Sales Application for uploading custom Credit Plans Rules for better sales measurement and benefits tracking.
  • Performance Tuning on the sales engine.
  • Lead the data warehousing development for faster Business Intelligence.

Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters Corporation
05.2011 - 02.2014
  • Automation of Data Ingestion and Transformation.
  • Automation of billing module for usage based transactions using shell scripts and stored procedures which saved ~300 Manhours annually.
  • Migration and Performance Tuning of the Oracle 9i Code to Oracle 11g.
  • Usage Report on the financial reports usage to the Billing and Fund Managers by using complex SQLs.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

RGPV
Bhopal, India
06.2009

Skills

  • Delivery Excellence
  • Architecture
  • Project oversight
  • Technology leadership
  • Building great teams
  • Strategy planning
  • Data Engineering - PySpark, Python, Airflow and SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Azure Cloud Eco System
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Databricks
  • Bigdata (HDFS, Hive, HBase etc)
  • Cognos, Power BI & Tableau
  • Teradata, SQL server, Azure Synapse
  • DevOps
  • Agile, Scrum

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Gujarati
Advanced (C1)

Accomplishments

  • Increased business efficiency by implementing Agile.
  • Eliminated Manual DIDC ReClaim, saving company $1.4M per year.
  • Managed up to 7 projects at a time.
  • Awarded "Data CoE" Award for Building Data Lake from Scratch and enable faster Entitlements.

Affiliations

  • Received Excellency Award in 2022
  • Received Employee of the Quarter Q2, 2018
  • Received multiple MVP awards

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Designing an Azure Data Solution
  • Microsoft Implementing an Azure Data Solution
  • Databricks Core Technical
  • Certified Architect - Data and Analytic

Timeline

Sr. Manager - Data Engineering

Morgan Stanley
05.2021 - Current

Lead Data Engineer

Sabre Travel Network
11.2017 - 05.2021

Data Specialist

Capgemini
09.2015 - 11.2017

Senior Software Engineer

TEKsystems
02.2014 - 09.2015

Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters Corporation
05.2011 - 02.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

RGPV
Punit Pravin Soneji