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Seetharaman Sikamani

Data Management Professional
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Over 25+ years of extensive experience covering all aspects of Software development life cycle, currently focusing on leadership level Data Strategy, Analytics, Business Intelligence and Digital Transformation. Proven track record in leading high-performing, global teams, fostering collaboration across functions such as Software Development, Data Engineering, Data Operations and Governance, CRM and Program and Product Management to align technology strategies with organizational objectives. Establish Technology Leadership to set their Data, Analytics & Digital vision - Understand maturity, Ecosystem Architecture to enable Organization vision, Define ROI, Technology Implementation & Delivery. Proficient in setting up delivery units from ground-up and expertise in building Global Captive Centres (GCC), excel in project planning, people management, to drive successful product deliveries. Strong communicator and team leader with exceptional interpersonal skills, thriving in challenging and dynamic work environments.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
4000
4000
years of post-secondary education
9
9
Certifications

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager – Data Analytics

StoneX Inc
11.2017 - Current
  • Responsible for scaling up Offshore Delivery Center Capability in Data Engineering/Data Ops/MLOps and Machine Learning Domain for Fintech Industry (Trading and Payments Domain).
  • Responsible for Architecture Design & Delivery execution around Data Engineering, Data Quality & Visualization Projects and Managing Offshore delivery (40+ FTE) with Bigdata technologies (AZure / Airflow / Databricks / Dremio / Power BI).
  • Responsible for designing DataOps service structure and managing 200+ data pipelines (Airflow/ADF/Databricks), 150+ API Services, 20+ Data products with 24/7 coverage and built Data Observability platform using Splunk tools.
  • Responsible Data Operation / Data Reliability Engineering process across various Data Pipelines of Batch & Streaming datasets across Trading/Market Data/ MDM Domain, Data Quality and Data governance implementation as per industry standards.
  • Architecting Migration activities of Airflow DAG to Astronomer Cloud. Also leading a team to migrate datasets from Dremio cloud to Databricks Lakehouse.
  • As a part of FinOps Leadership team, responsible for analyzing the Usage Analytics on Compute, ETL Job details and finding out opportunities for optimizing the Compute and Cost in Azure VMs, Databricks Cluster etc. Saved 300K USD on in short span of time (6 months).
  • Oversaw 70+ -strong team of engineering personnel.
  • Mentored junior engineers to develop their skills, providing guidance on best practices and industry standards.
  • Attracted top talent for the engineering department by developing a robust recruitment strategy and building a reputation as an employer of choice within the industry.
  • Established performance metrics for monitoring team progress towards key objectives, driving accountability and transparency among team members.
  • Facilitated knowledge sharing across the organization through regular training sessions and workshops on relevant engineering topics or emerging trends in the industry.

Asst. Vice President – Technical Manager

Bank of America (BACI)
10.2013 - 07.2017
  • Responsible for scaling up Offshore Delivery Center Capability (Resource count of 140 and multiple vendors) by Transitioning the Development Work from Vendors by reducing the Onsite Presence and saved the Cost of 1M USD.
  • Worked closely with Operations team to solution a Resource forecasting model for Service Requests using Machine Learning (Regression and NLP for Document Classification and Feature Extraction) Algorithms using R and Tableau which improved the SLA adherence to 98% from 90%.
  • Handled the Transition of L3 and L2 Functions from Service Partners (Infy & Accenture) to Offshore Division to Minimize the Risk of Intellectual Property and managed AMS budget of 4M USD from offshore.
  • Impacts delivered: ease times to 168 manhours from 336 manhours for major releases.

Cluster Lead/Management Consultant (crm)

IBM India
12.2006 - 09.2013
  • Responsible for the TAC framework and teams (300+) along with all associated process, methods, tools and accelerators; responsible for identification and prioritization of the services.
  • Leads TAC deployment across Oracle GID which includes AMS Solution Reviews, Capacity Managements and Risk Assessments of Project and Transition.
  • As an SME, Lead & Architected Migrations to SFDC for few Large Clients (Data, UI and Business Validations) and managed the all the phase of SFDC implementations.
  • Successfully Transitioned activities to offshore for a large scale Telecom Client and managed 3M AUD ADM work from offshore.
  • Relocated to Australia to manage entire CRM portfolio at customer location Led a Team of Architects and Created assets and Accelerator in Siebel Area in AMS and implemented across multiple projects which saved 10% cost for AMS.
  • Transitioned Existing and New AMS Projects into TAC Delivery model which translated into Cost Saving to Company and Client (~15% for existing and new projects) which is approx. ~15% for AMS Project.

Siebel Development Lead(crm)

GE Healthcare India
05.2005 - 12.2006
  • Siebel Delivery Lead reporting to COE Lead Responsibilities: Managed the Entire Transition process from Main Vendor (TCS) for a period of 3 months and build the capability with in the team which includes Recruiting (1 to 20), Transition Plan, Execution and identify the 2nd Vendor (Birlasoft).
  • Responsible for Staffing, Project Mgmt and Managed a 20 member of Siebel Delivery Team Spread across both internal and external vendors and mentoring them to achieve Delivery Goals.
  • Deployed Call Center, Field Management, Depot Repair, Contract and Billing modules to North American call centers and Siebel Remote functionality to 500 field engineers.
  • The project delivered Account, Contact, Campaign, E-mail Marketing, Response Management, Revenue and Forecasting functionality and managed the upgrade of existing sales and service platforms to Siebel 7.8.

Siebel Project Manager

IBM India
07.2004 - 06.2005

Siebel Technical Architect

Polaris
12.2003 - 06.2004

CRM Technical Architect

GE Industrial Systems
10.2002 - 12.2003

Senior Software Engineer

Ramco Systems
12.2000 - 10.2002

Software Engineer

Reliance Industries
07.1997 - 11.2000

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications

Bharathiyar University, Tamil Nadu
06-1992

Executive Program General Management -

IIM Calcutta
06-2007

Skills

Product Innovation and Lifecycle Management

Certification

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate

Technical Skills

Python, Airflow, Dremio, Spark, Databricks, Azure Data Engineering tool kits, Splunk, SQL, Graph DB (Neo 4j), Azure AutoML, Datarobot, Python, HuggingFace, Pytorch, LLM, Langchain, Power BI, Tableau, Splunk, DataDog, Unity Catalog (Databricks), Microsoft Purview, DRE (Data Reliability Engineering), DataOps, Azure FinOps, Azure, AWS

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager – Data Analytics - StoneX Inc
11.2017 - Current
Asst. Vice President – Technical Manager - Bank of America (BACI)
10.2013 - 07.2017
Cluster Lead/Management Consultant (crm) - IBM India
12.2006 - 09.2013
Siebel Development Lead(crm) - GE Healthcare India
05.2005 - 12.2006
Siebel Project Manager - IBM India
07.2004 - 06.2005
Siebel Technical Architect - Polaris
12.2003 - 06.2004
CRM Technical Architect - GE Industrial Systems
10.2002 - 12.2003
Senior Software Engineer - Ramco Systems
12.2000 - 10.2002
Software Engineer - Reliance Industries
07.1997 - 11.2000
Bharathiyar University - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications
IIM Calcutta - Executive Program General Management,

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