Debajyoti Dasgupta - Project Lead, MnM Infinity

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Work Background

TabcorpTechnical Program Lead - Data Products and Modernization

Nov. 2024Australia- Leading a large transformation program to modernise data infrastructure and analytics capabilities. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline data processes and improve operational efficiency. - Implementing best practices in data governance, security, and cloud adoption strategies. - Lead and operate the Data Strategy function to achieve high-quality outcomes. - Work with the Data Governance Manager to oversee the management of the data governance lifecycle, including maintaining high data quality and defining data policies and procedures. - Lead the build, management, and protection of the enterprise data platform and related enterprise data. - Enhance, build, or transform data capabilities to support the organisation’s operating model and data usage objectives and democratise data, ensuring correct business access. - Work across teams to support the data platform and business data owners.

TabcorpProgram Director - Data Modernisation

Nov. 2024Australia- Leading a large transformation program to modernise data infrastructure and analytics capabilities. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline data processes and improve operational efficiency. - Implementing best practices in data governance, security, and cloud adoption strategies. - Lead and operate the Data Strategy function to achieve high-quality outcomes. - Work with the Data Governance Manager to oversee the management of the data governance lifecycle, including maintaining high data quality and defining data policies and procedures. - Lead the build, management, and protection of the enterprise data platform and related enterprise data. - Enhance, build, or transform data capabilities to support the organisation’s operating model and data usage objectives and democratise data, ensuring correct business access. - Work across teams to support the data platform and business data owners.

QBE InsuranceAUSPAC Data Services Chapter Lead(Director) - Enterprise

Dec. 2023 - Nov. 2024Australia- Collaborated with Actuary and Pricing stakeholders to strategically plan and deliver comprehensive data services and products, enabling seamless migration of data products from the legacy SAS platform to the new QSight platform. Initiated and guided the decommissioning process of outdated systems, ensuring that insights are tailored to meet the unique requirements of these critical business functions - Spearheaded the execution of the end-to-end delivery plan for all Chapter projects, leading comprehensive programs while proactively managing budget, progress, risks, and dependencies across other chapters. - Led a team of 35+ data experts in a matrix environment to deliver data services for the chapter, encompassing project initiatives and business-as-usual operations, including level 3 support and ad-hoc data service requests. - As the Data Foundation Actuary and Pricing Steering Committee Chair, I facilitated strategic discussions and decision-making processes, ensuring alignment among stakeholders on key initiatives. I guided the committee in setting priorities, reviewing project progress, and addressing challenges while fostering collaboration and accountability. My role involved preparing and presenting reports, managing agendas, and driving actionable outcomes to ensure the successful execution of our strategic objectives.

OptusAssociate Director Data engineering and Development

Jul. 2023 - Dec. 2023Sydney, New South Wales, Australia- Collaborate with other engineering managers across the organization to define the data engineering roadmap and ensure it supports the overall data and analytics strategy. - Contribute to developing the organization's data strategy and roadmaps, aligning data engineering initiatives with broader business goals. - Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of data warehouses, data lakes, and other data platforms. Collaborate with data architects to design data models and schemas that support the organisation's data analytics needs and align with best practices. - Stay abreast of emerging data engineering technologies and trends. Evaluate and recommend new tools and platforms that can enhance data engineering capabilities. - Manage relationships with external data-related vendors and service providers, ensuring deliverables meet expectations and service-level agreements. - Collaborate with senior management to allocate resources effectively, including budgeting for tools, technology, and team development. - Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of data engineering projects. Ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required quality standards. - Oversee the development of engineering frameworks required to build batch and real-time data pipelines. - Establish and enforce data governance policies, data quality standards, and security measures to ensure data accuracy, privacy, and compliance with industry regulations. - Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, business stakeholders, and other teams to understand their data requirements and ensure the delivery of high-quality data solutions that meet their needs. - Identify potential risks related to data engineering projects and initiatives and develop mitigation plans to minimize their impact. - Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the data engineering team, encouraging innovative thinking and the adoption of industry best practices.

OptusUnified Data Platform Program - Technical Delivery

Nov. 2022 - Dec. 2023Sydney, New South Wales, Australia- Leading technical delivery for migrating our on-premises Enterprise data warehouse to Databricks on Microsoft Azure. - Collaborating with the Vendor SI to ensure that the solution is delivered on time and meets all of the technical requirements outlined in the statement of work. - Ensure that new capability is implemented with minimal Technical debt and maximum Operation stability. - Work with various squads to drive outcomes related to various components like Azure Landing Zone and Services Delivery, Databricks platform, User Migration and RBAC, Enablement of the role-based access from different locations across Australia and Vendor ODCs, CI-CD, Unified Data Engineering Framework, EDW Use Case Migration, Orchestration using Airflow, Cost Management and Optimization, Operations Handover, Logging and Monitoring, User Acceptance Testing & Business Readiness Testing.

OptusChapter Lead - Data Engineering and Development

Jul. 2021 - Jul. 2023Sydney, New South Wales, Australia- Provide leadership and guidance to a team of 100+ data engineers (Direct Reports + Vendor) within the Data Engineering Chapter. Responsibilities include recruitment, Onboarding, Offboarding, line management, performance management, promotions and career progression guidance. - Work with the Tribe Leads to finalise and deliver the Quarterly OKRs. Also, understand the capacity and skills required to deliver the initiatives planned in the quarter. - Work with the Product Owners to ensure that the Squad has the Data engineers with the right skill set and that the chapter member delivers as per the Product Owner's expectations. Backfill the headcount in case of resignation or internal movements. - Contribute to the development of data engineering strategies and roadmaps. Define best practices, standards, and frameworks for data engineering processes and tools. Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation. - Manage capitalisation of the Data Engineers for the FY according to the AoP targets. - Lead and oversee technical delivery for large programs collaborating with the Product owners and business stakeholders. - Drive adoption of new and emerging technologies ( Databricks, Alteryx, Airflow, Tableau etc.) among business stakeholders to drive standardisations. - Providing support to the Operations support team with Framework Enhancements and fixing recurring production failures. - Identify opportunities to reduce the OPEX by cost optimisation for services on Cloud.

OptusProduct Owner(Enterprise Data Warehouse)

Nov. 2018 - Jun. 2021Greater Sydney Area• Collaborate with Tribe and Chapter leads to set KPIs/OKRs for the Squad and Chapter to achieve Tribe and Organisation quarterly goals. • Created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap, backlog, DoR, and DoD of initiatives through the project’s life cycle in consultation with the Agile coach, Squad Members, Chapter Lead and Tribe Lead. • Translated high-level data requirements into user stories within the squad’s backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements with the goal of maximising the business value. • Delivered various Enterprise data assets for product performance reporting on Teradata and Big Data Platforms, enabling business units to measure Product KPIs and take informed decisions on future investments. • Offered different designing proposals ranging from rapid tactical delivery, enhancement of existing processes to complete re-architecture and design overhaul. One of the critical achievements due to the redesign of data flows was the reduction of SLAs for ExCo reporting from Day -3 to Day -1. • Proactively identifying risks and providing solutions to mitigate the risk and reduce the threat to project objectives. • Coaching, developing, inspiring, and leading the Squads to challenge their current limits and achieve more.

Commonwealth BankSenior Technical Business Analyst (Financial Crime Transaction monitoring)

Dec. 2017 - Nov. 2018Sydney, Australia• Understand the Anti Money laundering (AML)/Counterterrorism funding (CTF) rule logic and identify the critical data elements required to develop and implement the rule for Institutional Banking and Markets Product financial transaction monitoring. • Solution Design, Data model changes and enhancement for the financial crime detection platform to ensure that all the data required for the rules are loaded correctly within the agreed SLA.

Tech MahindraSenior Manager/Consultant/Delivery Lead - Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence

Mar. 2006 - Dec. 2017Sydney, Australia• End to end technical delivery (Design, Build, testing) and implementation of Enterprise Datawarehouse programs by working with cross-functional teams spread across various IT teams and business units. • Lead the BI Service Delivery Team, which cut across multiple applications. Performance management of the Data Engineers and Data Platform Engineers, acting as their coach and mentor to help them reach their full potential.