Manikandan Balu

About Manikandan Balu

Data Engineering and Analytics professional nearly 15+ years of experience specializing in Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Data Mesh, Data Lakes, Data Mining, and Data Modeling. Proven expertise in delivering scalable data solutions across the pharmaceutical, banking, and financial services industries.Extensive experience working within Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies, with a deep understanding of the full software development life cycle (SDLC) — from requirements analysis and design to development, testing, and deployment.Demonstrated leadership in managing cross-functional teams and executing multiple roles, including Technical Lead, Module Lead, Developer, and Tester. Strong business acumen with the ability to bridge the gap between technical solutions and business needs, both independently and in collaborative environments.Built robust ETL and ELT pipelines using Python, PySpark, SQL, and AWS-native services (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions), supporting ingestion, transformation, and real-time data processing at scale.Applied strong SQL and dimensional modeling skills to optimize queries and design performant data marts, accelerating reporting insights for business users.Certified as AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate & Cloud PractitionerCompleted Training in Generative AI-101.

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer Project Manager

   Mphasis

   Jul 2015 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Client: Fidelity Investment (Dallas, Texas)Client: First Republic Bank / JP Morgan Chase (San Francisco, USA)Domain: Private Wealth Management

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Etl
• Informatica
• Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Pl/Sql
• Data Integration
• Databases
• Master Data Management
• Sdlc
• Teradata
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehousing
• Db2
• Unix
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis