SANKARA KUMAR SETHI
Data Engineer Manager
Gurgaon
Summary
Seasoned Data Engineering Leader with over 14 years of experience, beginning in Business Intelligence and evolving into advanced data engineering. Proven success as a Data Engineering Manager for 3+ years, leading high-performing data engineering and data science teams to build scalable, cloud-native data platforms and deliver analytics solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Adept at architecting robust data pipelines, ensuring data quality, security, and scalability, and aligning data strategy with organizational goals. Known for mentoring teams, fostering innovation, and optimizing data infrastructure to support enterprise-wide decision-making.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Data Engineer Manager
Louis Dreyfus Company India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2013 - Current
- Managing the complete lifecycle of projects including analysis of the client requirements, translating new ideas into clients including Solutions, requirements development, delivery, support, analysis and documentation
- Leading a team of 4 data scientists & acquisition engineers
- Facilitating discussions to understand business needs, requirements & priorities; driving prioritization and end-to-end project management with senior stakeholders and providing insights for design, Transition, Automation and Continuous Improvement process
- Identified areas for improvement within existing ETL frameworks to maximize efficiency without sacrificing accuracy or integrity of results produced during transformations applied on ingested datasets.
- Acting as the point of contact between regional, country analyst to get information; communicating with stakeholder or senior management after reconciling the analysis
- Performing analysis on business applications data and highlight potential points for better performance
- Developing analysis over Python, Power BI and implementing same for improve efficiency and accuracy
- Managing Platform web portal, Publishing Power BI Reports and Plotly Dash app available in Web clients and mobile apps
- Aligned business objectives with technical requirements through close collaboration with product owners providing insights based on available data sources.
- Finding new process, determining gaps in existing process and implementing new processes; participating in design reviews & assisting with allocation of functionality to specific system components
- Setting up processes for data management, templated analytical modules/deliverables; improving processes with focus on automation and partner with different teams to develop system capability
- Preparing ad hoc reports based on the request and the requirement of the customers across regions for the purpose of management decision-making
- Motivating & leading talented professionals by living the culture and leading by example; identifying & training members for process enhancement & skill improvement
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Reduced latency in real-time analytics applications by optimizing query performance through indexing strategies and proper database design principles.
- Optimized data processing by implementing cutting-edge data engineering techniques and tools.
MIS Reporting Analyst
TNT India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 10.2013
- Successfully set up Campaign to support all Middle East & ASPAC countries for local and global marketing campaigns
- Distributed sales competition results at all levels and sales channels based on the competition guidelines in the agreed format
- Generated quarterly performance report based on KPI set and circulated same to senior management to distribute the bonus and other compensation
- Used Cognos to access data from server and generating report
- Prepared monthly ad hoc reporting in alignment with client needs.
- Utilized in-depth analysis and creative problem solving to troubleshoot reporting issues.
- Maintained ongoing schedule and documentation for all reporting procedures.
- Developed custom reports to address specific business needs and support decision-making processes.
Education
B. ENGG. - Computer Science & Engg.
Annamalai University
Annamalai Nagar, India07-2010
Diploma - Electronic & Telecommunication
UCPES (Uma Charan Pattnaik Engineering School)
Berhampur, Orissa08-2005
Skills
Leadership & Strategy: Team Management, Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Engagement, Hiring & Mentorship
Data Engineering: ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Real-time Streaming
Cloud: Azure Data Services
Programming: Python, SQL, PySpark
Tools & Platforms: Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Plotily Dash
Governance & Quality: DataOps, Data governance, Data quality assurance
Certification
Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700)
Timeline
Data Engineer Manager
Louis Dreyfus Company India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2013 - Current
MIS Reporting Analyst
TNT India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 10.2013
B. ENGG. - Computer Science & Engg.
Annamalai University
Diploma - Electronic & Telecommunication
UCPES (Uma Charan Pattnaik Engineering School)