Manoj Unnikrishnan , KPMG(UK ILR)
Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
Summary
- Business oriented, data and transformation leader, with 20+ years of experience, delivering complex, data and technology led advisory and consulting engagements across Financial Services, Payments and Retail domains.
- Worked across different geographies - APAC, EU, EMEA and US. Consistently demonstrated technical and commercial leadership and an aptitude for solutioning complex problems.
- Experience playing a variety of different roles in engineering, program management, consulting, professional services, product management prior to moving into my area of passion, data analytics and insights.
- Expertise in Data Platform architecture, Emerging Technologies, Engineering and Graph Analytics
- Extensive experience managing and nurturing senior level stakeholder relationships
- P&L Management
- Speaker at conferences.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Director - Digital & Innovation
KPMG KSA
Jeddah
2024.12 - Current
- Heading up Data Architecture and Analytics & AI solution area
- Heading a large transformation program for a prominent bank in Saudi covering design of a Data lakehouse , Vendor selection and implementation of Analytics/AI use cases
- Driving internal capability building around AI
Director, Data & Analytics
KPMG UK
London
2021.10 - Current
- Engagement Management & Architecture SME on a large Data & Technology transformation engagement for a prominent Saudi Bank (planning on relocation to Saudi)
- Market/Client facing Head of Engineering/Technical PM professional , leading in-house innovation and client engagements in Quantexa, Data science, engineering and analytics space.
- Building Gen AI powered apps(leveraging RAG on Langchain, Google's Vertex AI and Open AI LLM models) on a range of use cases - policy ®ulation decomposition , project early warning , anomaly & fraud detection etc.
- Expertise on graph analytics techniques(and building knowledge graphs) to identify patterns and entity relationships.
- Built a cross-functional team of passionate data scientists, engineers and business analysts from scratch.
- Driving AI/ML use case adoption across various FS clients
- Experience working across cloud platforms and using cloud native Datalakehouse platforms like Databricks.
Senior Manager/Associate Director
KPMG India/KPMG UK
Bangalore/London
2017.05 - 2020.10
- Led a cross functional team of data engineers, business analysts and testers
- Led solution design and delivery of a PKYC and business banking customers inlife monitoring solution powered by Quantexa platform v 2.x.
- Implemented Fincrime , AML score based on FATF typologies.
- Worked with multiple FS and Insurance clients in the UK delivering and managing Quantexa engagement on-prem and on cloud
- Drove in-house innovation/POC initiatives primarily on GCP and Quantexa 2.2
- Winner of the Super Employee award.
Cluster Head
Metricstream
Bangalore, India
2015.02 - 2017.05
- Multiple experiences managing full lifecycle from identifying an opportunity to closure.
- Oversaw multiple GRC implementation engagements across FS and non-FS clients with a broad range of budgets.
- Instrumental in delivering a large transformation program with multiple automations for client with presence in 7 different countries.
- Promoted to Cluster Head in a short span of time.
Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle
Bangalore, India
2011.06 - 2015.02
- Managed multiple high-end consulting engagements ranging from $100k to $5 million in revenue with varying team sizes comprising of consultants and vendors
- Played a key role in incubating and setting up a new service offering - Oracle Migration Factory, which aimed to automate DB migrations
- Responsible for service delivery management of engagements for some large FS clients.
Associate Manager
CSC (Currently Renamed to DXC Tech.)
Singapore
2009.08 - 2011.06
- Delivery Management of a large transformation program for a reputed client in the payment services space
- Led a multi-cultural, multi-functional team split across multiple geographies - India, Singapore and US
- Played an instrumental role in establishing the India team and managing client relationships as an onsite counterpart
- Owned and delivered some parts of the engagement from onshore
Asst. Technical Consultant
RS Software India and US
Kolkata/Foster City , US
2007.06 - 2009.08
- Delivery manager based in Foster City, CA. Program managed a complex payment dispute resolution engine built using Java/J2EE stack.
- Held end to end responsibility from requirement analysis to go-live and support
- Managed this mission critical engagement with 45+ multi-functional resources split between US and India
Systems Analyst/Architect
Caribsoft Infosystems (Currently Defunct)
Jamaica/Kolkata
2006.09 - 2007.06
- Played the role of a Systems Architect/Project manager in a startup environment.
- Solution designed and project managed a Loan Management application for a Jamaican bank.
- Owned end to end responsibility from requirement elicitation to go-live.
Software Engineer
EMIRATES AIRLINES, U.A.E, DUBAI, Dubai
Dubai, UAE
2005.06 - 2006.08
- Developed multiple features using Java/J2EE technology for a mission critical ULD (Unit Load Devices) management application.
- Liaised with architects and business stakeholders to understand non-functional and functional requirements.
- Supported the UAT process by addressing issues in a timely manner.
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Global Services India Ltd
Bangalore, India
2004.05 - 2005.05
- Developed and maintained multiple applications on Java/J2EE technology
- Liaised with client stakeholders to transition application support
- Participated in architectural solution discussions for future enhancements.
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, India
2000.02 - 2004.04
- Developed features for GUI and backend services using multiple technology stacks
- Developed a key functionality which enabled billing events stored as platform independent records to be viewed online in HTML format
- Mentored a team of developers early on in my career.
Education
B.TECH - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
College of Engineering
Trivandrum08.1999
Skills
- Practice Management
- Data Engineering/Data Platform architecture
- Graph Analytics/ Big Data Engineering
- AI/ML
- Relationship/Stakeholder Management
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect
- Data science & ML course from MIT
- Data science for finance course instructor at a Edutech company.
- Databricks data engineering associate
Timeline
Director - Digital & Innovation
KPMG KSA
2024.12 - Current
Director, Data & Analytics
KPMG UK
2021.10 - Current
Senior Manager/Associate Director
KPMG India/KPMG UK
2017.05 - 2020.10
Cluster Head
Metricstream
2015.02 - 2017.05
Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle
2011.06 - 2015.02
Associate Manager
CSC (Currently Renamed to DXC Tech.)
2009.08 - 2011.06
Asst. Technical Consultant
RS Software India and US
2007.06 - 2009.08
Systems Analyst/Architect
Caribsoft Infosystems (Currently Defunct)
2006.09 - 2007.06
Software Engineer
EMIRATES AIRLINES, U.A.E, DUBAI, Dubai
2005.06 - 2006.08
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Global Services India Ltd
2004.05 - 2005.05
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
2000.02 - 2004.04
B.TECH - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
College of Engineering