Technical Program Manager – Marqeta NextGen Data Platform - Thoughtworks - Remote, IL
(2026-04)
Directed end-to-end delivery of Marqeta's NextGen AWS Medallion Lakehouse, aligning architecture, platform, data engineering, and analytics workstreams across distributed teams.
- Defined a phased GenAI, LLM, and agentic-AI enablement roadmap for the NextGen lakehouse, covering governed use-case intake, RAG data readiness, evaluation across AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex and cross-team dependencies.
- Oversaw a real-time CDC and streaming program across Debezium, Kafka/Confluent, Fivetran, Flink/Spark, and Snowflake; managed milestones, blockers, vendors, and cross-team dependencies.
- Established value tracking and delivery governance for Snowflake optimization, achieving a 50% production compute-cost reduction through rightsizing, dbt migration, and workload separation.
- Led platform anti-pattern remediation, defining ownership, architecture guardrails, and adoption governance while migrating ETL workloads from OLAP infrastructure.
- Provided executives and client leaders with recurring program health, milestone, risk, and remediation updates, including strategic recommendations and escalation decisions.
Data Engineering Manager – NTAM Data Vault Platform - Northern Trust - Chicago, IL
(2025-07 - 2026-03)
Led a multi-team roadmap for Northern Trust Asset Management's Client Data Hub on Azure and Snowflake, unifying transactional, client, and advisor data domains.
- Designed LLM-ready data-product governance patterns with architecture, data engineering, and CDO stakeholders, including lineage, CI/CD, role-based access, prompt/data controls, and human approval checkpoints for agentic workflows.
- Managed the legacy-to-cloud modernization portfolio across Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric OneLake, and Snowflake.
- Delivered curated, analytics-ready data products supporting 360° Power BI insights for portfolio and wealth-management leaders.
Engineering Manager – Cloud Platform Engineering - Mastercard Inc - Remote, IL
(2024-04 - 2025-07)
- Led AWS platform-engineering program planning and governance across cloud pipelines, service-catalog integrations, CloudFormation/CDK, and multiple engineering stacks.
- Partnered with architecture and security teams to extend the multi-account AWS foundation for isolated Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS Bedrock environments, enabling governed LLM experimentation with PrivateLink, VPC, IAM, and data-access guardrails.
- Managed on-prem NiFi and Spark migration to AWS, coordinating networking, auto-scaling, application-gateway integrations, delivery risks, and dependencies.
- Governed an Azure-based analytics program for Mastercard Open Banking, aligning business priorities, architecture decisions, and engineering delivery across Data Factory, Iceberg, and Snowflake.
Technical Manager – Healthcare Data Platform - Maryland Department of Health - Remote, IL
(2023-07 - 2024-03)
Led end-to-end delivery of an AI-ready healthcare data platform on AWS and Databricks, establishing a governed lakehouse foundation for HL7 ingestion and analytics.
- Directed streaming and batch modernization across Kafka, CDC, and Snowflake Streams/Tasks while integrating PHI/PII, cloud-security, and data-governance controls.
- Oversaw PostgreSQL-to-Aurora modernization, coordinating architecture, security, milestones, and cross-team dependencies for scalable transactional workloads.
Lead Program Manager – Data Modernization - Discover Financial Services - Remote, IL
(2021-03 - 2023-06)
- Owned the MAPS modernization roadmap, retiring the mainframe general ledger and moving to AWS Data Lake and Snowflake in support of Oracle Cloud ERP; earned a CTO Award.
- Contributed to $8M in annual savings through Total Cost Optimization, coordinating the cloud GL migration across engineering, finance, and IT stakeholders.
- Governed cross-functional onboarding of Ariba, Concur, Workday, and VNDLY to the cloud, aligning vendors, CDC pipelines, RBAC, DevOps, dependencies, and release milestones.
- Led the Teradata-to-Snowflake modernization program with AWS, dbt, Medallion Architecture, and Tableau across multiple Agile delivery squads.
- Established governance for Finance Managed Reporting data-fabric ingestion across AWS, EMR, S3, EC2, Snowflake, Ab Initio, and Spark.
Tech Lead / Program Manager - Navy Federal Credit Union - Remote, IL
(2020-09 - 2021-02)
- Led roadmap and delivery governance for on-prem Informatica and Teradata migration to Azure Lakehouse, coordinating Data Factory, Blob Storage, Functions, and Delta Lake workstreams.
- Managed delivery of a PySpark data-quality framework for the Hadoop Data Lake, improving governed credit-card data readiness.
Manager – Insights & Data Program - Capgemini America Inc - Chicago, IL
(2019-05 - 2020-11)
- Led the AWS modernization program for Vanguard's real-time investment analytics platform, coordinating event-driven workstreams across Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, S3, and SQS/SNS.
- Directed DB2-to-AWS modernization, sequencing CDC, microservices, data-pipeline, and resilience dependencies across business and engineering teams.
- Led Synchrony Financial's data-lake acceleration program, modernizing batch ETL into scalable Ab Initio and Hadoop layers.
Program Manager – Enterprise Data Lake FDIC Rule370 - Wells Fargo Bank - Charlotte, NC
(2018-11 - 2019-05)
Led delivery of FDIC Rule 370 enterprise Data Lake pipelines, aligning curated data outcomes with regulatory and business requirements for deposit-insurance calculations.
- Established end-to-end governance for big-data ETL workflows, including lineage, profiling, quality controls, milestones, risks, and audit evidence.
- Coordinated compliance, risk, and engineering teams through validation, executive sign-off, and audit-readiness milestones.
Program Lead – Broker Dealer Support Services - JPMorgan Chase & Co - New York, NY
(2017-05 - 2018-10)
- Led distributed delivery for the Asset & Wealth Management BDSS portfolio, coordinating ETL and Oracle workstreams, scope, milestones, and dependencies.
- Managed an AWS modernization proof of concept for legacy EDW workloads, partnering with architecture teams across Redshift, S3, Glue, DMS, Athena, EC2, EMR, and RDS.
- Aligned business and technology stakeholders through requirements, roadmap reviews, executive status reporting, and decision escalation.
- Governed dependencies between cloud transformation and legacy data-mart operations to protect finance-reporting continuity during transition.
- Maintained program risks, blockers, and architecture decisions; presented findings and strategic recommendations to senior technical leadership.
Data Specialist Lead / Project Manager - IBM Global Business Services - India & Atlanta, GA
(2014-06 - 2017-05)
- Directed governance for Citi Genesis Data Warehouse operations spanning 2,000+ feeds and multi-terabyte daily workloads across Ab Initio, TIBCO, and Netezza.
- Managed the Truist/SunTrust data-lake modernization roadmap, resource plan, milestones, and architecture delivery across Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, and Spark.
- Coordinated business, architecture, and engineering teams across Citi and Truist engagements, managing scope, timelines, dependencies, and escalations.
- Established SLA governance, monitoring checkpoints, incident protocols, and remediation playbooks to sustain data availability.
- Facilitated architecture review boards with business and technology leaders to align platform decisions with enterprise data strategy.
- Mentored engineers and enforced delivery-quality standards and engineering practices across Ab Initio and Hadoop workstreams.
Team Lead / Associate Manager - Accenture - India
(2011-07 - 2014-06)
- Led delivery of a metadata-driven Data Quality rules engine for Citi, establishing governance and automated validation across multiple data domains.
- Managed real-time and historical claims-data programs for Travelers across Private and Commercial data-warehouse workstreams.
- Coordinated engineering, QA, and business teams through Agile planning, milestone governance, and client status reporting.
- Established data-quality standards, sign-offs, and audit trails supporting compliance and enterprise data integrity.
