Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Led end-to-end delivery of complex international customer-facing IT and system transformation projects across mobility, retail, life sciences, and product development domains.

Managed project opportunities and delivery initiatives from concept development, planning, execution, migration, validation, deployment, and final customer acceptance.

Acted as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring alignment between customers, business units, suppliers, and delivery teams.

Ensured timely project execution through proactive monitoring of milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements.

Led and coordinated global cross-functional teams of 20+ members across multiple time zones. Served as the central coordination point for project activities, ensuring accountability, milestones, progress tracking, and timely resolution of issues across multiple stakeholders. Managed status reporting with all the stakeholders, providing clear and timely updates to ensure alignment on project goals.

Provided functional leadership, mentoring, coaching, and issue resolution support to project team members. Worked closely with senior leadership and executive stakeholders to define project charter and project scope, priorities, milestones, manage dependencies, success criteria and achieve project goals.

Collaborated closely with senior leadership, business stakeholders, suppliers, operations teams, and external partners to define project objectives and ensure successful execution.

Managed stakeholder communication through executive dashboards, KPIs, governance reviews, steering committee meetings, and project status reporting.

Anticipated business needs and provided effective technical solutions in a timely manner to improve business satisfaction.

Led and supported sub-project management structures, ensuring consistent execution, reporting, and escalation across complex initiatives.

Managed supplier relationships and service providers to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, service levels, timelines, and quality expectations.

Supported vendor selection processes, RFP evaluations, delivery governance, cost monitoring, and performance reviews.

Controlled project budgets, forecasts, resource allocations, and financial tracking to ensure delivery within approved constraints.

Scheduled workshops explaining the business requirement, prioritizing project goals and managing change.

Oversaw cloud migrations (Azure/ AWS), database migrations/upgrades, system upgrades, infrastructure & application modernization, data management, legacy decommissioning initiatives, AI solutioning, transition plan of 2000+ applications etc.

Coordinated execution, deployment, integration, commissioning, data migration and handover activities to ensure production readiness.

Led a cross-functional team proactively managing dependencies and resolving project issues to closure, while maintaining delivery timelines.

Proactively managed project risks, dependencies, issues, change requests, and escalations to ensure predictable project outcomes.

Ensured compliance with GxP, ITIL, corporate governance standards, validation requirements, and audit controls.

Led internal and external audit support activities, validation documentation, CAPA coordination, and regulatory compliance initiatives.

Drove process standardization, automation, and governance improvements across project delivery functions.

Led application rationalization initiatives resulting in the retirement of more than 50 legacy applications, improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs.

Currently driving Generative AI initiatives to automate project documentation, reporting, knowledge management, and delivery processes.

Facilitated lessons learned workshops and implemented continuous improvement actions to enhance project execution effectiveness.