Assistant Vice President
2 months ago
A Position Overview
Position Title
Assistant Vice President – AVP-Data Initiatives
Department
IT
Level/ Band
Role Summary: AVP – Data Initiatives will lead the development of data engineering solutions on the Azure platform, ensuring compliance with Tata AIA’s architectural standards and principles. This role involves close collaboration with Data Lake Architects, Senior Data Engineers, and other key stakeholders to design and develop the data lake, leveraging fundamental Data Engineering practices and principles.
B Organizational Relationships
Reports To
VP – Chief Data Officer (Head – Data & CAMS)
Supervises
Development team
C Job Dimensions
Geographic Area Covered
Pan - India. All Departments
Stakeholders Internal
Senior Management / All Departments - management categories
External
NA
D Key Result Areas
· Ensure the solution meets overall business requirements and adheres to modern Data Lake patterns.
· Provide technical and thought leadership in overall areas from a data pipeline perspective including (and not limited to data access, ingestion, (pre)processing, integration, modelling, visualization and analytics
· Liaise with Data Lake Architect to understand core technical and functional requirements.
· Develop extensible pipelines with a “Reuse Later” mindset to develop artifacts (code, libraries, patterns, consumable frameworks which can be utilized later with customizations.
· Identify potential areas of improvement to optimize the pipelines.
· Lead EDW and ODS initiatives for Data Lake
· Should continue IRDAI and AIA reporting (Critical reporting)
· Maintain overall system documentation.
· Managing the Team -
· Mentor junior Data Engineers and help them optimize their solutions by instructing or giving pointers/references on relevant information
· Review the artifacts/deliverables for quality assurance purposes.
· Liaise with architects, business analysts, system designers, other Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other technical counterparts to provide optimal DE solutions.
· Ensure compliance to IRDAI, AIA and TALIC rules and standards.
· Constantly align with the IT team, Vendor team, and business stakeholders.
Competencies:
Competency For
AVP – Data Initiatives
Proficiency Scale
Proficiency Scale Description
Building and Managing Relationships
Working effectively with key stakeholders (internal and external) and cross functional team members to build collaborative relationships based on confidence, trust and respect to facilitate the accomplishment of common work/ business goals. Networking and influencing skills with individuals across teams with diverse working styles to focus on sustainable relationships over a long term basis for better work synergy.
2
Demonstrates awareness of the importance of effective relationship management in increasing influence/ reputation, improving business delivery.
Able to use a planned approach and knowledge sharing tools to build positive, reciprocal relationships.
Able to tailor an approach to appeal to the needs of a particular audience.
Recognizes the impact of positive perception in managing relationships.
Takes efforts to build relationships with cross functional team members.
Effective Communication
Is attuned to the needs, perspectives and sensitivities of others and acting with them in mind. Communicates effectively to set the right perspective of self and team and provide constructive feedback.
2
Appropriately expresses one's own opinion.
Refrains from immediate judgment and criticism of others' ideas, delivering criticism in a way that demonstrates sensitivity to other's views.
Acts to understand and respond appropriately to the concerns of others; demonstrates openness and receptivity to new information.
Analytical Thinking
Displays the ability to consider a variety of perspectives in a particular situation by analyzing facts, data and scenario based insights to enable a logical, well-reasoned and informed decision - making process .
3
Distinguishes between situations and the need for information and reasoning.
Provides multi-perspectives to a situation, including aspects others may have missed.
Analyzes the information gathering and reporting process; reviews trends and predict the outcomes
Identifies linkages within multiple sources; anticipates issues that are not readily apparent on the surface; identifies root causes and effects.
Reports and identifies areas that need guidance in order to resolve complex
issues; anticipates the possible outcomes or potential solutions.
Managing Conflicts Effectively
The ability to deal with conflicts in a positive manner to enhance learning and group outcomes, including effectiveness or performance in organizational setting .
1,2
Assists in fostering a calm and objective environment during conflict resolution process.
Seeks assistance when potential disruptive situations have been identified.
Considers concerns, issues and objections of others in a conflict situation.
Ability to remain calm when faced with an escalating conflict.
Listens to different point of views and promotes mutual understanding.
Ability to identify conflicts and seeks assistance for resolution.
Able to remain calm and objective during the conflict resolution process.
Ability to listen to concerns, opinions and objections of others.
Participates in conversations and/or meetings intended to resolve conflicts once aware or ed to such situations.
Encourages calm dialogue between others when faced with differing point of views.
Developing, Managing & Working with Hybrid Teams
Ability to nurture, guide and support remote and hybrid teams by identifying, developing, recognizing potential and building the leadership pipeline in order to help individuals, teams and the channel maximize their potential to achieve the business goals. Encourages ideas, embraces diversity, builds rapport, acts with empathy and sets work expectations and is readily available for the team during the time of need
2
Builds and maintains healthy relations with hybrid team members to ensure seamless execution of work
Completely understands various functions and roles within the team and their interdependence
Manages own time and that of others working remotely, focusing on the things that are important
Collaborates with others and ensures that team members have the necessary information to operate effectively - online and offline
Builds others’ confidence and motivates team members to perform their jobs
Works to provide a supportive environment by securing necessary resources and removing blocks to effective working.
Functional knowledge
Has a thorough understanding of
knowledge and skills sets
required to excel within the
function in order to build a
business model leading to
sustainable growth for
customers and consumers.
2,3
Application of critical thinking to specific business and control processes and systems to generate an in-depth understanding of the important variables.
Accurately identifies the cause effect relationships among key business variables.
Understands and evaluates financial, operational, and regulatory risk within the organization and its processes taking into
consideration the big picture.
Analyzes processes to identify appropriate and critical controls and objectives.
Makes sense of business processes and their risk and control implications, draws appropriate conclusions and makes useful recommendations.
Rapidly identifies key issues in a complex situation.
Condenses large amount of information in to useful formats.
Ensures quality and accuracy of information, results and recommendations.
Develops imaginative solutions and new ways of thinking about situations, problems and opportunities adding value to business.
Produces problem analyses, solutions and work plans that are logical.
Technology, Digital and Analytics
Ability to choose, develop, adopt and apply technological solutions and explore creative usage of technical resources to sustainably elevate and advance business outcomes as well as demonstrate agility to consistently deliver required business goals by overcoming technological challenges and adapting quickly in a changing technological environment. Ability to accelerate business with data & analytics and drive analytics transformations
3
Ability to analyze current technological trends, keeps track of key technological changes in industry and other markets
Shows agility for adopting new technology post systematic evaluation of the the solution
Continuously stays in touch with key networks and contacts, with an objective of leveraging technology for achieving goals
Effectively balances changing technological priorities and deliverables under unfamiliar situations or tight deadlines.
Independently engages in tasks requiring
interpretation of complex and often vague sets of information.
Identifies gaps in information and makes assumptions in order to continue analysis and/or take action.
Promotes digital literacy and fluency in the team
Customer & Consumer Engagement
And Experience in a Hybrid World
Understands internal and external customers’ needs and builds consumer and customer obsession by placing them in the center of everything the organization does. Strives towards making customer experience a competitive advantage for the organization and strongly drives a customer first approach that supports a broader business agenda and delivery. Works towards developing and sustaining productive customer relationships through omni channels, by proactively engaging, nurturing and serving them.
2,3
Goes out of the way to deliver on time, the commitments made to the customers and consumers while striking a balance between their changing needs and organizational processes
Clearly identifies the full range of
customers to be served, their stated needs and offers options and suggestions to match their current and future expectations.
Works towards integrating data, technology and strategy into creating hybrid customer experience solutions.
Cultivates a consumer focused
attitude among colleagues and assists team members to focus on various touchpoints to achieve customer satisfaction.
Strives to exceed clients’ expectations by offering various possible options to pick and choose from which will completely satisfy their needs and be in their best benefit.
Effects changes keeping in mind the customer context to deliver greater value and satisfaction to the customers.
Makes a conscious attempt to understand and act on the consumer and customer needs in a prompt and positive manner given the changing environment context, by anticipating the customers unstated needs, articulating them well and by providing the client service which exceeds expectations.
Builds and maintains productive relationships based on trust in a hybrid work environment, with internal and external stakeholders/ customers.
Reaches out to customer and
identifies opportunities to increase connect through different preferred channels.
Collates and analyses data based on customer pain points and coordinates with other departments to ensure effective resolution of system and process issues given the changing environmental and customer context.
F Skills Required
Technical
•12+ years of experience in developing cloud-based analytics solutions with a minimum of 4 years of core experience in MS Azure and Databricks.
•Strong development and problem-solving skills.
•Experienced in Architecture, design and development Data platforms / Datalakes using ETL or ELT approach, preferably Databricks Delta lakehouse.
•Architecture, design and development of real-time data workflows and pipelines using (Py)Spark Structured Steaming solutions.
•Expertise in Data modelling with RDBMS systems, preferably PostgreSQL database
•Must have programming skills: Python, PySpark, SQL
•A fair understanding of commonly used data offerings on Azure (ADF, Synapse .
•Knowledge of DevOps processes and hands-on experience in implementing pipelines using CI/CD methodology.
•Comfortable in adopting security-first development principles.
•Knowledge of Microsoft BI, Tableau etc. is a plus.
Behavioral
Professional Skepticism, high energy level and initiative, team player
Essential
Desired
Interpersonal skills
·
Communication skills
·
Creative thinking skills
·
Supervising/Leadership skills
·
Teamwork Skills
·
Influencing skills
·
Relationship Building skills
·
Decision making skills
·
G Incumbent Characteristics
Essential
Desired
Qualification
B. E / B. Tech, Azure Data Engineer
Master’s Degree, Other Azure certifications
Experience
8+ years of overall experience developing Data Engineering solutions on cloud platforms.
4+ years of experience with MS Azure.
Preferably in life insurance / financial services sector.
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