Senior Manager - Data
- Spearheaded a 12-member data engineering team, successfully delivering 4 pivotal data projects for two different banking clients
- The quality of our deliverables established a foundation for upselling, elevating our organization to a trusted data partner for the bank
- Key Achievements for the bank: Eliminated 400 hours of manual efforts, Improved campaign performance by 45%, Improved product upsell & cross-sell by 20%
- Oversaw the technical direction and management of the big data team, ensuring the successful implementation of solution architecture within the Bigdata ecosystem.
- Engaged in solution discussions, submitting RFPs, and participating in architecture and design dialogues for projects across the Middle East region.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and business analysts, to define project requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Encouraged a culture of continuous learning within the team, organizing training sessions and workshops to enhance skills in emerging technologies.
- Proficient developer and optimizer of Spark applications, having trained over 30 juniors in Spark, and recognized as the Best Trainer of the year for Spark Expertise.
- Expert in cost optimization by using automation modules, have reduced 60% AWS EMR cost for my company and reduced over 400 hours of human effort/month for my client.
- Played product manager role in conceptualizing and crafting a fully data-driven mobile app for a banking client. Provided direction to backend, frontend, data, and testing teams, ensuring timely and successful project delivery.
- Passionate about AI, developed Generative AI POC applications and also deployed an open-source LLM (Large Language Model) utilizing FastAPI on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform.