Deepak Gaikwad

Profile summary
I am working as Manager with Accenture Strategy. I bring around 13 years of experience in information technology & consulting services across multiple industries and practices. I worked in Europe, US, Asia Pacific & Middle East.
Currently based out of Pune / Brussels & working with large Belgian banking client as Lead Architect. Apart from delivering key client engagements as reflected below I’m contributing in practice development. E.g. building industry assets, alignment of Accenture digital banking reference architecture with BIAN, building digital analytics capabilities & offerings. I’m experienced in establishing & running Enterprise Architecture Governance and Review Board. I’m eTOM, SID, ITIL, Managing Successful Programs (MSP) certified professional with sound knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF & Zachman.
Consulting experience covering:
1) Digital Transformation
2) Information & Data Strategy
3) Enterprise Architecture
4) EA Governance & Review Board
5) IT Strategy
6) IT Operating Model
7) Transformation Outsourcing
8) Business Process Consulting
9) Organization Change Management
10) Financial Modeling
11) Evaluating Emerging Technologies

Key client experience:
1)Post-merger integration for large telecom operator in US
Business services information technology merger integration project focused on strategy, planning and application architecture (BSS)
2)Cost transformation program with leading bank in Belgium
Worked as lead architect to drive strategic cost transformation initiatives for commercial acquiring & ATM transactions.
3)Service architecture and information model for a large technology company in Stockholm
Built service architecture & operation blueprint for in house IT services to replace current outsourcing vendor services. Recommended & implemented service readiness criteria. Lead project to design data model for key IT systems.
4)EA for finance transformation program for French technology client
Assessment of current BI & analytics capability, business requirements and technology recommendations in the space of BI suite, analytics, company DWH
5)IT Operating Model for global bank in Singapore
Transformation outsourcing project focused on large scale transformation cum transition work that involved setting up & running the core IT division of client in an industrialized manner.
6)Enterprise Architect & Architecture Governance for telecom client in UAE
Implemented Enterprise Architecture by redefining existing IT architecture and mapping it to TOGAF 9.0 ADM. Provided reference architecture and recommended TO-BE architecture as roadmap.
7)Data architect for telecom client in UAE
Advised on to-be data - application - Integration architecture, data governance (covering Data strategy, Data standards, policies and rules). Evaluating data reediness for new business initiatives.
8) Pre-merger due diligence for large Asian Bank
Technology & operation due diligence to assess value, technology view & operational readiness for potential merger. Supported CEO office with technology & operations cost to estimate the bid
9)Advance Analytics Strategy for a large telecom client in APAC
Established roadmap for Enterprise Data Office & recommended approaches for advance analytics & Data Lake.
10)Data strategy for second largest telecom operator in APAC
Build Eenterprise Data Capability framework to summarise capabilities needed by the client. Build roadmap for data capabilities like BI, analytics. Recommended Data Governance Framework.