Tarkesh Pandey

Senior Data Engineering Leader with 16+ years of experience delivering and modernizing critical data platforms within financial services and highly regulated environments. Proven ability to own end‐to‐end platform architecture, drive enterprise data strategy and lead globally distributed teams using Agile and DevOps delivery models. Strong record of partnering with front‐office stakeholders, product owners, and technology leadership to modernize systems of record and deliver resilient, scalable platforms.

Morgan Stanley — Glasgow

Senior Snowflake Developer / Engineering Lead – Data Platform | Mar 2023 – Present

• Lead the design, build, and operation of a modern enterprise data platform supporting business‐critical analytics and reporting workloads in a regulated financial services environment.
• Own overall technical architecture and design across data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics layers, ensuring scalability, resilience, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Work closely with business and technology product owners to drive backlog prioritization, delivery planning, and roadmap execution across 60+ production sprints, achieving zero post‐release defects.
• Provide hands‐on development across complex SQL pipelines, cloud data services, and platform automation, balancing leadership with individual technical contribution.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, reducing production incidents through improved engineering standards, proactive monitoring, and structured root‐cause analysis.
• Line manage and mentor data engineers, overseeing delivery quality, performance objectives, and career development while scaling team capability.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, SLAs, and governance controls for production data pipelines and datasets.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams to ensure regulatory compliance, data controls, and production readiness across all environments.
• Actively support the platform in a DevOps model, including involvement in production support, incident triage, and risk mitigation.

Key Technologies: Snowflake, SQL, PowerBI, Python, Kafka, CI/CD, Git, Agile

Student Loans Company (via Atos) — Glasgow

Technical Design Lead – Data & Analytics | Aug 2015 – Feb 2023

• Owned end‐to‐end technical architecture for large‐scale, cloud‐based data and analytics platforms in a highly regulated public‐sector environment.
• Led platform modernization initiatives, evolving legacy data warehouse and BI solutions into scalable, standardized enterprise platforms.
• Partnered with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and operations teams to align data strategy and delivery roadmaps with organizational priorities.
• Managed and coordinated multi‐site data engineering teams, ensuring delivery consistency, architectural compliance, and predictable execution.
• Established enterprise engineering patterns, data standards, and governance frameworks, improving data quality, platform stability, and cross‐team synergy.
• Oversaw delivery risk management, privacy controls, and regulatory compliance across multiple concurrent programs.
• Delivered executive‐level dashboards and analytics solutions, enabling data‐driven decision‐making for senior leadership.

Key Technologies: Oracle, Cloud Data Platforms, AWS, SQL, ETL Frameworks, Agile, CI/CD

Standard Life Insurance (via Atos) — Edinburgh Senior ETL Developer | Oct 2013 – Aug 2015

• Designed and delivered automated, production‐grade ETL pipelines supporting enterprise reporting and analytics platforms.
• Improved SLA adherence and pipeline reliability through performance tuning and workflow automation.
• Built reusable data engineering components and frameworks, reducing development effort and improving maintainability.
• Provided technical leadership and mentoring to junior developers.

First Data (via Atos) | PNC Bank (via Atos) | Graphic Era University ETL / Database Developer | 2009 – 2013

• Developed and supported enterprise database and ETL solutions across financial services and academic environments.
• Optimized complex SQL workloads, improving system performance and operational efficiency.
• Supported data integration, reporting, and production support activities across multiple teams.

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) — Uttarakhand Technical University, India

Year Completed: 2009