Sikkandar Packiam
McKinney,TX
Summary
An accomplished data and technology leader with over 17 years of experience driving large-scale data-centric initiatives and leading data and analytics platform transformations. Proven track record of formulating data strategies, spearheading innovation, building talented teams, and delivering solutions that achieved business objectives in various line of business (Marketing, Home Loans, Auto Finance, Sales, M&A, Servicing, Capital Markets).
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director, Data Engineering
Capital One
Plano, TX
06.2022 - Current
- Head of Data Engineering team for Capital One Auto Finance Sales Organization, Supporting 500+ Sales associates (Area Sales Managers, Relationship Managers & Funding Associates) in providing intelligent insights and cutting edge analytics
- Lead a team of 60 Headcount (DA, DE, BI) integrated within Product, Tech, Design & Business Analysts to deliver exceptional results across different functions such as Marketing, Processes/Controls, Application Build, Cloud Infrastructure Support, Business initiatives.
- Responsible for managing resource budget of $25M across Dealer Organization
- Great People Leader & Talent Magnet that builds talent by supporting & developing people in the team, Mentors various associates within the organization
- Certified Recruiter for Behavioral Interview and Case Interviews & Play performance management champion role for all levels across Financial Services Division
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Capital One
Plano, TX
01.2020 - 06.2022
- Led team of 40+ Associates to deliver intelligent insights to Outside Sales Associates.
- Built APIs to stream real-time insights into Internal & External applications to be consumed by Dealers.
- Worked with various line of business across division collaborating with multiple Product Owners and Tech leads in launching Capital One Navigator Platform (Leads generation Platform)
- Created Salesforce Workflow Systems to track the Activations & Onboarding of Dealers with New products/features.
- Part of Executive Leadership representing Data and it's vision for Sales experience, building strategic solutions on creating single source of truth systems that produce consistent results across different consumption tools
Manager, Data Engineering
Capital One
Plano, TX
06.2012 - 12.2019
- Lead Capital One Home Loans Capital Markets & Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Data teams
- Spearheaded Robotics Process Automation using Automation Anywhere to improve operational excellence by reducing time and costs
- Played critical part in creating bid tapes for Investors as part of Home loans shut down valued at $28B.
- Lead the Capital One Legacy Systems Migration to AWS Cloud Journey
- Built Data & Reporting Strategy that helped different regulatory requirements (CRA, HMDA, Stress Test)
Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies | Bank Of America
Charlotte, NC
07.2006 - 05.2012
- Onshore lead managing 10+ Onshore and 20+ Offshore resources, supporting cutting edge digital marketing solutions for Bank of America
- Lead end-to-end campaign management and performance measurement solutions across 25 different applications, spanning 1000+ jobs & 2000+ data entities processing around 100M records per day
- Lead Merrill-lynch Marketing events measurement and automated entire process to calculate ROI and prospects customers for Bank of America.
- Drove various cost optimization framework, productivity improvement initiatives and automated 100% manual tasks
- Used Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Exact Target) and completely automated entire campaign launch process
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Anna University
I05.2006
Skills
- People Leadership
- Data Management
- Data Quality / Governance
- Data Analysis
- Business Intelligence (Tableau, Thought Spot)
- Data Engineering
- Cloud Architecture
- SQL (Snowflake, Oracle, MSSQL)
- Organization Management
- Process & Product Management
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
MEMSQL 6 Developer
Oracle PL/SQL Application Developer
Timeline
Director, Data Engineering
Capital One
06.2022 - Current
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Capital One
01.2020 - 06.2022
Manager, Data Engineering
Capital One
06.2012 - 12.2019
Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies | Bank Of America
07.2006 - 05.2012
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Anna University