Sunil Balakrishna
Bangalore
Summary
Innovative and goal-Oriented Management professional dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Strong independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Track record of effective leadership in high-stakes environments
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director
IQVIA India
Bangalore
04.2012 - Current
- Implemented customer service initiatives to improve client satisfaction and provided key contributions in annual contract renewals worth $8M
- Driving teams to retire legacy data pipelines and streamline the data flow across the system, reducing maintenance costs and saving 20% in resourcing.
- Provided leadership, insight and mentoring to newly hired employees, Maintained positive relationships with vendors and external partners to support business resilience efforts.
Member Technical Staff
Ness Technologies
09.2010 - 04.2012
- Responded quickly and efficiently to emergency service requests from clients.
- Evaluated customer requirements and created solutions that met their needs.
- Resolved complex technical issues with innovative problem solving techniques.
Senior Software Engineer
Fidelity Investments
09.2005 - 03.2010
- Fidelity Family Office Services (FFOS) offers their customers an aggregated view of family’s assets, data from various sources – both internal and external to Fidelity
- Fidelity Investments internal data include sources from mainframes, corporate actions (Swift File Format), Exchange Rates, Benchmark data file, Transaction and Positions file
Software Engineer
iGATE Solutions Ltd
07.2004 - 09.2005
- As a strategic Initiative, the decision was made to move from Oracle to Teradata database, this resulted in the migration/modifications of the ETL components as part of the initiative, various Teradata utilities were used during the process involving – Fast load Mload, BTEQ Scripts
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
BMSCE
Bangalore07-2004
Skills
- 20 years of experience in end-to-end data engineering technologies, architecture, delivery processes, and data integration of the systems
- Responsible for the delivery of the software components, driving technology modernization, leading data engineering teams, and managing data integration and analytics projects
- Development experience in SQL with Oracle, Snowflake, and rich experience in ETL tools, data pipelines
- Led teams of up to 80 personnel, and managed a yearly department budget of $10M
- Managed cross-functional teams for multiple large-scale projects, successfully completing each on time and within budget constraints
- Close collaboration with a variety of product owners, engineering BUs, Scrum Masters, and development teams across time zones
- Oversaw annual budget planning processes, ensuring financial goals were met, while maintaining optimal resource allocation across departments
Tech Stack
- ETL - Informatica, MDM Services,
- Project Tools - JIRA, Iterative Product development, Agile, Waterfall
- Database - Snowflake, Oracle 19C, Teradata 12, SQL Server 2008, Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, AWS S3, EMR,
- Domain- Life Sciences, Brokerage, Financial Services,
- BI tools - TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau
Certification
- Snowflake Developer Certification, Udemy
Accomplishments
- Effective Service Delivery - Led data engineering , Data migration , BI reporting projects within the agreed timelines with Quality
- Cloud Solutions Implementation - Implemented cloud solutions, increasing data processing speed by 35% across teams.
- Budget Optimization Success - Managed a $10M budget, increasing project efficiency by 25% through resource optimization.
- SLA Adherence Excellence - Guided cross-functional teams to achieve 95% SLA adherence for data integration projects.
Timeline
Associate Director
IQVIA India
04.2012 - Current
Member Technical Staff
Ness Technologies
09.2010 - 04.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Fidelity Investments
09.2005 - 03.2010
Software Engineer
iGATE Solutions Ltd
07.2004 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
BMSCE
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