Technical Delivery Manager

**Experience**: 8+ Years

**Role**: Technical Delivery Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Project Leadership**: Lead planning, execution, and delivery of Business Glossary, Change management and Data lineage solution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
- **Requirements Analysis**: Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements, translating them into actionable project plans.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data stewards, IT professionals, and business analysts, infrastructure & information security teams, change management teams to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach for end-to-end implementation
- **Quality Assurance**: Implement quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, performance & SLA monitoring and completeness of metadata and data lineage information in SIT, UAT and production environment
- **Project Management & Risk Management**: Plan, execute, and deliver projects and change requests within scope, on time, and within budget. Identify and mitigate risks associated ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- **Training and Documentation**: Provide inputs for training programs and ensure documentation to enhance understanding and adoption of best practices within the organization.
- **Performance Monitoring**: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the performance of SQL queries and jobs, recommend adjustments as needed to meet performance objectives.
- **Stakeholder Communication**: Maintain transparent and effective communication with stakeholders, including senior management, providing regular updates on project progress, challenges, and resolutions. Convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in simple ways.
- **Continuous Improvement**:Drive continuous improvement initiatives, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.

**Technical & Functional Skills**

**Technical Skills**
- 8+ years of experience in implementing data governance solutions with a strong background in deploying such solutions, encompassing both on-premise and cloud-based models.
- **Scripting and Programming**: Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Stored Procedures, Bteq scripts, Spark SQL, Python) and programming languages to support metadata extraction and manipulation.
- **Database Technologies**: In-depth knowledge of various database technologies, including but not limited to Hadoop, Teradata, SAS, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2.
- **Data Lineage**: Experience with data lineage methodologies to establish and visualize end-to-end data flows. Identify and build both business and technical lineage, including strategies for fixing lineage breaks
- **ETL/ELT Tools**: Expertise in ETL/ELT tools like Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, and other data integration platforms to understand and document transformation logic.
- Knowledge in Data modelling, working with calculations, leveraging the Set Analysis

**Functional Skills**
- **Business Glossary Management**: Strong understanding of banking business glossary concepts and the ability to work with business stakeholders to define and manage business terms and their relationships.
- **Data Governance Frameworks**: Knowledge of data governance frameworks and best practices and the ability to implement governance policies.
- **Regulatory Compliance**: Understanding of regulatory requirements related to data management, ensuring compliance in data lineage implementations.
- Should have worked in large scale data warehouse / data lake implementation

**Other Critical Skills**
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address challenges related to metadata quality, data lineage accuracy, and overall data governance effectiveness
- Fast Learner, enjoy analytical and data modelling work and proactive in providing solutions
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with attention to details
- Be forward looking and agile to adapt to changing bank’s needs and dynamic working environment
- Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability
- Embrace tackling and resolving complex technical design issues
- Possess strong problem solving and decision-making skills while exercising good judgment
- Ability to work on multiple projects at a time
- Be able to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
- Ability to work in a team distributed across multiple locations

**Qualification / Certifications**
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- Certification of one or more of products (Python, Cloudera, HIVE, etc.)