Balachandra Ankola, Technical Architect

Balachandra Ankola

Technical Architect

Syntel

Location
India - Pune
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months

Technical Architect at Syntel
  • India - Pune
  • June 2012 to August 2015

 Business process analysis, new product gap analysis for Medicaid health care
 Analyzed current business process requirement for new portal and reporting
 Conducted business stakeholder meetings for requirement elicitation and analysis
 Validated and translated requirements into high & detail level design documentation
 Involved in presales support, provided solution assessment during RFP
 Designed OBIEE reporting solution using Agile methodology and presented solution architecture to client

Engineering Manager at Walmart Global India Technologies Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2001 to February 2012

1) Responsible for implementation of BI reporting (including all Data touch points) for first release of Customer facing website (www.Walmart.ca--Wal-Mart-Canada e-Commerce platform)
2) Collaborate with Business users to provide the problem analysis, resolution and solution scheduling
3) Responsible for end to end implementation of Enterprise dashboards with ETL validations, reporting design and release management related activities
4) Building the technology capabilities and project management activities in Oracle BI site releases and migration
5) Work with architects, technical staffs, key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy for the e-Commerce application
6) Co-coordinating with teams to provide reporting solutions with ref to Change requests (CRs) and requirements. CR Lifecycle management and delivery.
7) Responsible for Remedy Queue Monitoring and providing solution for tickets raised by Business under reporting/campaigns/web analytics area.
8) Collaborate, communicate with different teams, and triage technical issues across teams, scope defining, release and playbook activities
9) Involved in technical recruitment and providing training, Installation, configuration and testing of BI environment

Sr. Project Manager at syntel
  • India - Pune
  • July 2009 to April 2011

1) Client facing role including business system analysis, onsite support co-ordination, conducting technical Webex for technology developed
2) Presented Solution Technical architecture to client and built offshore engagement model
3) Mapped business requirements to technical architecture and execution model
4) Validating and translation of requirements into technical design documents, data modeling
5) Built the technology capability in OBIEE & BI Publisher
6) Project resourcing and technical recruitment for offshore project execution

Delivery Manager at Accenture Technologies India Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2007 to December 2008

1) Initiated Siebel practice by building the Siebel project team and client communication network
2) Create conceptual and logical data modeling for telecomm analytics proposal
3) Build technical architecture blue print for BI solution using Oracle BI apps platform
4) Used DAC architecture and BI apps for designing BI-DW POC
5) Onsite-offshore co-ordination, status reporting, Client communication
6) Involved in Project Management, Process implementation, Estimation and delivery
7) Requirement gathering for Siebel Upgrade assessment tool and updating capability scorecard

Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited
  • India - Navi Mumbai
  • January 2005 to October 2007

1) Installation and configuration of Siebel Analytics and OBI
2) Data analysis, Dimensional modeling, installation/configuration of ETL client and servers
3) Data warehouse development: Customizing SRMW Using Siebel Data reference model
4) Configuration and design of alerts thru iBOTS using Siebel Delivers
5) Provide issue resolution for the test region support
6) Project Planning, Monitoring & Tracking
7) Resource allocation, Recruitment, Induction, client interactions and management review
8) Project coordinator for Internal Quality Audits, Information security, Defect prevention and Software configuration management

Software Engineer at HCL Technologies America Inc
  • United States
  • August 1996 to May 2000

1) Requirement analysis, design and development
2) JCL, CICS/DB2 coding and execution, testing: billing, deposit management, collection, Account Receivables processes
3) Run the batch jobs on main frame systems and data extraction, validation for electric usage rates with different service accounts
4) Import the accounts data for billing and payment transactions

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at SDM College Of Engineering and Technolgy
  • February 1993

Awarded Merit Scholarship for secondary education

Specialties & Skills

Data Analysis
IT Management
Salesforce.com
Business Analysis
Business Analysis and Requirement Management
Essbase
Datawarehousing
Hyperion Financial Management
Hyperion
Hyperion Planning

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

Data warehouse Institution
  • Guest Member
  • April 2013

Training and Certifications

Salesforce DEV (Training)
Training Institute:
Koenig
Date Attended:
December 2015
Duration:
50 hours
Business Analyst (Training)
Training Institute:
IBA
Date Attended:
October 2015
Duration:
100 hours
OBIEE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Purcussion
    Purcussion instruments
  • Sight Seeing and Travel
  • Traveling
    Widely traveled in South and North India