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Namitha Vijaya Kumar

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

A data professional having over 15 years of experience and a proven track record in product backlog management, delivery management, managing application operations, solution design and development. Strong knowledge of ANZ landscape. More recently, have been leading the SRE team which manages and supports the first ever material workload on cloud to go-live in ANZ, hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Bring in strong DevOps mindset to encourage delivering increased business value and responsiveness through swift, high quality delivery. Strong stakeholder management skills, engaging senior stakeholders in business/technology and vendors. Excellent communicator, leveraging technical and functional expertise to effectively connect with various stakeholders. Have prior experience in leading a geographically diverse team based out of Bangalore, Chengdu (China) and Melbourne. Responsible for professional development and growth of team members. Involved in continuous improvement of team’s processes, best practices, encouraging innovation. Practitioner of Agile methodologies – SAFE and Scrum.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Owner

DGCP SRE squad
04.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: DGCP (Data Grid GCP) is the enterprise datalake involving a combination of on-prem and GCP cloud-based data assets and associated capabilities (transmission, security, movement and organization, metadata). Data in the lake is consumed by various downstream apps which enables customers to set savings goals in the ANZ app and receive in-app notifications (nudges) about their goals, savings and spend insights, institutional bankers to effectively manage their customer portfolio, spot new opportunities and make faster credit decisions, self-service on the platform by various squads who wish to bring their own data and derive insights from them.
  • Own the product backlog for the squad which is responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform which in turn ensures on-time and accurate data availability to customers. In short, manage DevOps, RunOps, Fin Ops and Security Ops for the platform.
  • Constantly prioritize backlog and squad tasks to align with the vision of the Tech Area whilst keeping the interests of customers in mind.
  • Strive to effectively balance competing priorities amongst operational issues (incidents/problems) affecting the platform vs driving improvements which reduce the technical debt/risks/consumption cost on the platform.
  • Engage with stakeholders from Group Compliance to ensure platform is compliant with regulatory requirements of APRA/GOMA, report any deviations and factor in new regulatory requirements into the product backlog.
  • Work closely with security and risk partners to ensure controls implemented on the platform stay relevant, remediate ISENs (Information Security Exemption Notification) impacting the platform and ensure smooth SecOps delivery.
  • Assess impact of new incoming workloads on the stability and resource consumption on the platform.
  • Engage with Product Owners from delivery squads, enabler squads (like GCP infra squad, BIH squad etc) to manage risks and dependencies.

Product Owner

Business Intelligence
12.2018 - 03.2020
  • Company Overview: Business Intelligence team within EDIA domain provides capability to build dashboards and reporting to derive insights from the data hosted in the enterprise data warehouse solution in Teradata and a host of other data marts built across the bank. Depending on the business need, a number of BI tools are on offer - namely Qliksense, Qlikview and SSRS.
  • Own product backlog for BI delivery squad which is involved in design, development and testing of dashboards built using various BI tools.
  • As part of the Sprint process, I am involved in elaboration of epics/features/themes into more granular stories/tasks/sub-tasks and prioritize them to enable the squad to pick up the work and deliver it within a sprint.
  • Connect with customers and stakeholders to understand the value of the product being delivered and convey the same vision to the squad working on the product delivery.
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies like Daily Stand-up, Backlog grooming, Spring Planning, Showcase and Retrospective.
  • Identify opportunities for simplification of the BI tool stack.
  • Maintain up-to-date ALM for all BI assets and drive upgrades where relevant.
  • Work closely with Tribe Leads and other Product Owners to manage inter-dependencies.
  • Provide on-going support for platforms by actively managing Incidents and Problems.

Delivery Manager

Business Intelligence
09.2015 - 11.2018
  • Lead and manage development team. Manage project deliveries to ensure new requirements are delivered on time with acceptable levels of quality.
  • Develop and manage project plans with clear datelines and scope of works for the teams. Identify team member skill set and assign task that are well suited to their abilities and interests.
  • Delivery management: Participate in preparing high level estimates for new initiatives. Prepare delivery schedule based on high level estimation. Managing allocation of people to projects in Bangalore, Melbourne and Chengdu. Tracking project milestones. Provide technical mentorship to the team. Co-ordinate project deployment with release managers.
  • People management: Draw career development plan for squad members. Goal setting for the year and identify areas of strengths and improvements. Constantly checking-in throughout the year to work on achieving the goals.
  • People performance review.
  • Leave and timesheet management.

Designer/Lead Developer/Developer

Business Intelligence
08.2006 - 08.2015
  • Involved in solution design and development activities for ETL and reporting components of new initiatives.
  • Provide technically leadership and mentoring for a team of developers.
  • Participate in the installation of the project along with the production support team.
  • Provide hyper-care support and level 3 production support for all applications in production.
  • Worked on the following tools during this tenure: Reporting and Visualisation Tools: Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012/2008/2005, Qlikview and Qliksense, OBIEE 12c and 11g, Business Objects - BO 6.5, BOXI R2 and R3, Crystal XI, Cognos 10, SAS - Base SAS 9.1.3, SAS SCL, Macros. ETL Tools: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Databases: SQL 2000/2005/2008/2012/2016, Oracle – 10g/11g/12c, Teradata.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

National Institute of Engineering
Mysore
01.2006

Skills

  • Risk management
  • Technical expertise
  • Story planning
  • Scrum methodology
  • Business analysis
  • Use case study generation
  • Roadmap development
  • Product planning
  • Key relationship development
  • Problem identification
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Risk assessments
  • Design thinking
  • Product lifecycle management

Accomplishments

    I built a high performance team that accomplished a complex project with a ROI of 2 million AUD.

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master Certified
  • SAFe 4.5 certified professional
  • AWS Associate Cloud Engineer

Interests

  • Drawing and Painting
  • Tech enthusiast, passionate about exploring the latest advancements and innovations

Timeline

Product Owner

DGCP SRE squad
04.2020 - Current

Product Owner

Business Intelligence
12.2018 - 03.2020

Delivery Manager

Business Intelligence
09.2015 - 11.2018

Designer/Lead Developer/Developer

Business Intelligence
08.2006 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

National Institute of Engineering

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