Dillip Kumar Panda
Energy & Utilities Consulting || AMI || CIS - Digital Transformation || Grid Modernization || Utility Cloud Migration || Energy Transition || AI in Utility
- Role
- Consulting Manager at Cognizant
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dillip Kumar Panda
Result-driven and accomplished Energy and Utilities Consultant with a successful track record of delivering high-impact solutions and large-scale projects to major clients. Demonstrated expertise in capturing, defining, and aligning business requirements with stakeholders, while providing thought leadership and driving strategic initiatives. My Interests include learning new skills across various domains and following current developments, particularly in business and tech.My hobbies include playing football and cooking.
Experience
Consulting Manager
Sep 2025 — Present · NC, US
Led end-to-end SOR (System of Record) assessments, creating comprehensive Individual SOR Analysis and Common SOR Assessment Documents, enabling accurate lineage mapping, data classification, and downstream Data Fabric integration.• Designed a detailed Q1 migration roadmap outlining milestones, dependencies, Kanban-to-Scrum transition, EPIC standardization, and JIRA backlog creation, accelerating program governance and delivery alignment.• Orchestrated Raw Data Product (RDP) planning, including source identification, workflow mapping, and data asset assessment across AWG, DW and customer reporting systems, ensuring scalable Data Fabric consumption models.• Converted Kanban processes into a structured Scrum delivery model, establishing ceremonies, defining sprint cadences, and stabilizing team operations.• Established a master inventory of applications, reports, data assets, and views, incorporating complexity matrices, system-to-report mappings, and table-level sizing to support prioritization for modernization.• Facilitated business process mapping workshops across cross-functional teams, defining objectives, preparing templates, and capturing business requirements for harmonized data product design.• Led and moderated discovery sessions with business and technical stakeholders, extracting functional requirements for Data Fabric design, SOR rationalization, and workload scheduling.• Delivered Miro boards, functional maps, and process flows to visualize system interactions, dependencies, and data movement across the Data Fabric landscape • Owned customer-facing program deliverables, such as AWG reporting templates, functional scope slides, PI planning decks, and program management materials, enhancing stakeholder visibility and alignment.
Education
C.V.Raman College of Engineering
B.tech, Chemical Engineering
2013 — 2017
Avana high school
10th, General Studies
2010 — 2011
Xavier Institute of Management(XIM Bhubaneswar)
MBA-BM (XIMB), Business Administration and Management, General
2020 — 2022
Sagar College of Science
Academic 12th , Science
2012 — 2013
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