Akshay Borde, Technology Advisory Consultant

Akshay Borde

Technology Advisory Consultant

Tech Mahindra

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
6 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :6 years, 9 Months

Technology Advisory Consultant at Tech Mahindra
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2023

• Responsible for Collaborate with clients to understand their business objectives and develop IT strategies that align with and support those objectives.
• Advising recommendations for technology solutions, including, software, and systems integration, to address future business challenges and
opportunities.
• Developing technology roadmaps that will outline the evolution of the organization's IT environment over time, including short-term and long-term
goals.
• Responsible for defining and maintain the organization's enterprise architecture, ensuring that it will support scalability, security, and efficiency.
• Develop application rationalization plans and recommendations - assist with implementation of rationalization plans.
• Monitor and report on the progress of rationalization efforts - stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in application rationalization.
• Apply technical expertise to assess systems architecture.

Senior Consultant at Deloitte
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2022 to July 2023

• Facilitated kick off meetings with external stakeholders to understand business requirements and expectations.
• Conducted Digital and Enterprise Architecture Maturity Assessment for clients to assess current state and recommend target state.
• Assessed and design IT Strategy roadmap to enhance digital transformation.
• Assessed and design IT Operating model to map with next generation digital operating model.
• Architecture modernization for clients across Middle East Telecom Sector.
• IT & Digital strategy consultant for Telecom firm based out in KSA in executing digital transformation journey.
• Created Point of View while closely working with lead partner and Director.
• Coordinated with various stakeholder and recommended digital solution for enterprise business.
• Prepared Use case and flow diagram to map each process and components of the project.
• Facilitated workshop with Head of departments from the client side to walkthrough them with the assessment outcome

Consultant - Strategy Consulting at Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 2021 to May 2022

• Worked as an Enterprise Architect Consultant in assessing current state and recommending target state operating model.
• Conducted in-depth assessments of the current enterprise architecture, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborated with business and IT stakeholders to ensure that the enterprise architecture aligns with the organization's strategic objectives and vision.
• Developed and maintain technology roadmaps that outline the evolution of the enterprise architecture and recommend technology solutions for
future projects.
• Ensured that the enterprise architecture complies with all relevant regulatory and security standards in the industry.
• Evaluated and recommend technology solutions, cloud adoption, tools, and frameworks that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the enterprise
architecture.
• Maintained comprehensive documentation of the enterprise architecture, including diagrams, blueprints, and models.
• Assessed and recommend third-party vendors, products, or services that could enhance the enterprise architecture.
• Identified potential risks and challenges associated with the enterprise architecture and develop mitigation strategies.
• Facilitated change management processes to ensure smooth transitions during architecture changes.

Senior Associate Consultant at Infosys Limited
  • India - Pune
  • April 2019 to June 2021

Provide strategy development and solution development to support new business activities and existing client relationships.
Being Subject Matter Expert for PEGA & AEM Customer Engagement solutions.
Supporting the team as an Analyst/Consultant in different phases of the Project including Problem definition.
Analyze business requirements, clearly stating project scope, performing Process Gap Analysis between applications.
Strong knowledge and experience in delivery of IT Services (Requirement Gathering, Data Validation, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Service Request, Performance Management & End to End Solution Designing).
Creating UML Diagram and Sprint User Story Grooming.
Technology Strategy and Operations.
Project Management consultant for large scale digital transformation projects and RFP, Proposal Design.

Systems Enginner at Infosys Limited
  • India - Pune
  • September 2015 to May 2017

Job Role: Business Analyst

Prioritizing requirements from the client.
Communicate, Simplify and translate business requirements from the client.
Work with the Technical Analyst and Development team that understand the business requirements.
Development of web application, making High-Level Design document and Unit testing of each module.
Involved in planning, organizing tasks, bug tracking and issue tracking using JIRA Tool.
Involved in the full software development life cycle- SDLC: requirement analysis, design, development, review, unit test cases, testing, preparing test reports and bug fixing.
Involved in the implementation, development, enhancement, and customization of Web applications.
Attending calls with clients and onsite people for the project and preparing the agenda for further work.
Having experience in Application maintenance activities.
Having sound knowledge of java struts Framework and PL/SQL.
Testing and resolving application vulnerabilities using IBM Security AppScan.
Measuring and optimizing the performance of the application using IBM Rational Performance Tester.

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Symbiosis International University
  • April 2019

MBA - Digital & Telecom Management

Bachelor's degree, B.Tech - Biotechnology
  • at Srm University
  • May 2015

Bachelor Degree in Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Business Architecture
Application Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
IT Strategy
TEAM PLAYER
Business Analysis
Enterprise Architecture
PATIENCE
IT Strategy
Product Owner
Requirement Gathering
Digital Capability Assessment
Digital Strategy

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Languages

Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Expert
English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

TOGAF 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2022
IT Strategy (Training)
Training Institute:
Organization
Digital Strategy & Transformation (Training)
Training Institute:
University
PEGA Business Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2020
Professional Scrum Product Owner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020
SAFe Agilist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021