Rajesh Rao

Vice President/Director - Data Engineering at OneMain Financial

Role
Vice President Director - Data Engineering at OneMain Financial
Location
Evansville, IN, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Rajesh Rao

Fin-Tech |Database| Data Lake| ETL| Data Infrastructure| Cloud| Projects/Programs24/7 Operations| Data Governance | Data Analytics| People ManagementEstablished data engineering fintech leader with technical expertise in leading end-end fast paced delivery and operations of large-scale high-quality enterprise data platform/applications, sound people management skills in establishing, mentoring, assessing, and delivering with large teams and functional expertise building applications in financial and automotive domain. Around 14+ years progressive data engineering experience (consulting, in-house, startup mode) and 7+ years in people management.

Experience

  1. Vice President Director - Data Engineering

    OneMain Financial

    Jul 2014 — Present · Evansville, IN, US

    Transformed on-premises data warehouse to modern cloud native data platform by building multiyear strategy/roadmap and executing end to end delivery.• Lead team to successfully implement large scale data program consisting of 100’s of TB data, 40+ system integrations, of data pipelines and millions of customers by partnering with source teams, multiple data analytics/science teams, product teams, compliance teams and corporate entities across multiple programs/projects using scalable, secure technical architecture, products, and tools.• Contributed on career growth/development of team members by providing necessary tools, mentoring, training, delegation, motivation, and guidance on SMART goals leading to transformation of team members.• Crafted data strategy by engaging strategic partnerships with key stakeholders including business leaders, data scientists and product leaders to determine critical KPIs and negotiated project goals in times of ambiguity to handle short term spikes and long-term vision to build, adopt and socialize holistic data platform• Managed development lifecycle by tactically implementing sprints and epics using JIRA with clear goals and targets using agile methodologies. Reviewed progress of sprints and constantly communicated status to customer and upper management. Monitored violations and identified projects in red status. Measure software development performance and tracked variances.• Conducted extensive testing during system integration and user acceptance testing(UAT) phases. Worked closely with quality assurance team to certify the ETL and reporting data.• Managed ETL team to deliver key data using best practices and procedures to deliver data with robust error handling and restart capabilities.

Education

  • Sathyabama University

    Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

    2007

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