Job Title: Senior Product Delivery Manager-Data Ingestion Context: Unilever Enterprise and Technical Services (ETS) is a global business unit that run's the company's shared business services, made up of HR Services, Finance Transactions, IT services, Information Management Services, Workplace and Travel Services. Mission - To enable the 4G Growth Ambitions of Unilever by running processes and activities where efficiency, effectiveness, resilience and agility will be optimized by our available assets The 3 pillars are: Fantastic fundamentals, extend new business and roll forward to the future. This can be done through: - Putting the business- goals at the heart of what we do - Demonstrating cost-effective, standard methodology, global solutions across Unilever to meet users- needs - Making continuous improvement in both cost and service an integral part of our way of working - Building a professional services organization that enables our people to give their best - Developing balanced relationships with selected providers to meet our current and future requirements Purpose of the Role: The purpose of Product Delivery Lead - I&amp;A Technology role is to: - Take full responsibility of end 2 end delivery of Universal Data Lake ingestion and deliver as per dedication for cost, time and quality. - Take accountability for ensuring that all new and amended demand are designed from the - ground up- to be fit for purpose (capable of meeting its objectives and design to operate) and fit for use (capable of meeting availability, capacity, continuity and security requirements). - Deliver Analytics solutions across I&amp;A via True Dev ops and enable Agile delivery model. - Establish Standardization/Automation to Build/Deploy and Test tools as per Unilever delivery standards and be a solution evangelist to enable this in I&amp;A tech platform using 3rd party suppliers. - Ensure the successful and precise introduction of new or amended Data services, whilst assuring the continuity of the existing IT service portfolio - targeting zero incident change so that the business is not interrupted when new or amended IT services are launched. - Partner with Architecture team within I&amp;A Tech to design systems/solutions for outcomes based on requirements and functional analysis - Build a culture of opportunities by leading effectively, differentiating performance, developing talent, building diverse &amp; inclusive teams Key responsibilities: - Introduce experiment with fail fast mindset - Partner with I&amp;A Business Product Management team to translate business requirements to technical products and deliver solutions with elite value to Unilever - Drive technical discussions with I&amp;A Business Product Managers, third party vendor partners, I&amp;A Tech Architecture team to design the best solution at excellent value, quality and performance to meet the business requirements - Build, handle and execute the Project Plan, which includes a Project Scope Statement, Work Breakdown Structure, Schedule, Communication Plan, Quality Plan, Resource Plan, and Risk Management Plan - Handle internal IT resources and preferred third party vendor partners to deliver projects on time, within budget and as per the defined quality metrics - Track progress of the project schedule, scope and resources (including budget), compares to original plan, works with team to take corrective action if the project is not tracking to plan and regularly communicate status to project partners - Hold third party vendor teams accountable for following the standards, and ensure that the solutions delivered are acceptable and adoptable by Business - Ensuring the testing and quality assurance activities occurs and that documented use cases, test scenarios, test scripts for automated testing and other artefacts supporting testing are generated - Ensure that appropriate post-deployment support and production support is in place to support the product to meet agreed upon service level agreements - Keep I&amp;A and I&amp;A Tech leaders informed on a periodic basis, calling out issues as appropriate to ensure timely delivery of projects with quality - Continually challenge the current model and methods to identify improvements that bring optimization to the technical design and delivery methodology - Provide technical oversight for and coordination of multidisciplinary technical teams to achieve project objectives, ensuring quality of project deliverables - Work closely with third party vendor partner teams to understand highly complex and technical issues, bring technical expertise and operational excellence which will influence the team's decisions and drive secure and robust solutions - Communicate effectively with resources operating on a much more technical and detailed level as well as Business Product counterparts are functional authorities and may not be technology savvy - Grow and develop the professional capabilities of the I&amp;A Tech delivery team as appropriate, supplementing it with external resources as required to ensure the necessary skills and expertise are available for projects and programmes. - Set, negotiate, agree and handle financial budgets and targets, ensuring that there is adequate funding for all planned projects with 3rd party Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required: Desired Skills: - 12+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ managing program delivery in multi-vendor environment - Bachelor's or Master's degree in a professional or management discipline - Professional certification (PMI, ITIL, CMI, Chartered IT Professional etc.) is a Plus - Technical knowledge on Cloud based data and analytics tools and technologies, specifically Azure, Data Lake Store, SQL DW and Hadoop. - Should be very clear on Extract Transform Load (ETL) concepts and hold expertise in extraction methods and routing/filtering/lookup/transformation principles and should have experience of constructing an Enterprise Data warehouse (EDW). - Should have a keen focus on the how to join disparate data sets and the ability to visualize the end2end process &amp; data flow - Should have designed or architected data integration projects with exposure to multiple data sources and target systems with a wide option of cleansing and transformation rules to ensure the data is aligned. - Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills to effectively run project communications and partner expectations at all levels of the organization - Strong collaboration and engagement with CCBT, CD and SC partners - Makes reasonable judgments quickly and adjusts thinking to assimilate new information - Possesses highly effective analytical thinking to develop solutions, make recommendations, or propose action plans - Ability to learn new tools, technologies and process quickly - Self-motivated problem solver; able to thrive in a dynamic and customer-focused environment - Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with precise attention to detail - Strong negotiation and influencing skills - Deep understanding &amp; experience of establishing of Agile/DevOps development lifecycle from conception to delivery in Information &amp; Analytics area. - Working knowledge in any of I&amp;A technicalities such Informatica, ADF, ADLS, Hadoop etc. - Wide and detailed IT knowledge to enable leadership of a multi-disciplinary IT team, including knowledge of architecture management, security management, quality management, capacity management, application development and testing, TOGAF, lifecycle management, service level management, IT operations. - Experience of working in a global IT organization with multi-sourced and off-shore environment. - Experience and cultural awareness required to take a leading role in leading a globally distributed team. - Shown track-record of leading the delivery of large and complex global programme / projects. - Experience of developing business cases for technology investment. - Good understanding of current and emerging Cloud technologies in Information management, and their potential business impact - Thorough understanding of applicable standards and procedures including technical, quality, safety and financial matters across all areas of service delivery.

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Unilever - Senior Product Delivery Manager - Data Ingestion 

Unilever - Senior Product Delivery Manager - Data Ingestion  ,Job Description for Unilever - Senior Product Delivery Manager - Data Ingestion  in Unilever in  Bangalore for (12-18) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Unilever - Senior Product Delivery Manager - Data Ingestion  in Unilever in  Bangalore for (12-18) years of experience. Apply Now!