Fakhruddin Thakura

• Lead multi-million-dollar, end-to-end solution and technical design engagements for strategic customers across hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, and managed services.
• Partner with Sales to shape opportunities, define solution scope and architecture, and provide assurance throughout the deal lifecycle.
• Own technical presales activities including discovery, solution workshops, and C‑level presentations for new customer acquisitions.
• Lead Technical Solution and C-level Presentations at various customer stakeholders level
• Define and review architecture proposals, ensuring alignment with customer business objectives, risk posture, and cost constraints.
• Collaborate with Service Portfolio and CTO functions to define new offerings and roadmaps based on market trends (e.g., GPU‑as‑a‑Service, AI/ML platforms, Managed AI services).
• Partnered with business stakeholders to map capabilities, prioritize initiatives, and align technology roadmaps with business KPIs (cost, risk reduction, customer experience).
• Coordinate with delivery and project teams to ensure architecture integrity during implementation and transition to operations.

Key Achievements:
• Architected a Hybrid Cloud solution for a high-profile Qatar national event, enabling scalable, resilient services with 99.9%+ availability during peak demand.
• Prepared and presented 50+ large-scale technical solution proposals (each valued from USD 5-50 million), contributing to a win rate across government and enterprise clients.
• Co‑designed and launched a GPU‑as‑a‑Service, Managed AI services offerings, reducing customers’ AI infrastructure time‑to‑provision from weeks to days and increasing GPU utilization by 15%-25%.
• Designed Smart City architectures and contributed to RFPs/tenders by incorporating AI/Video Analytics use cases for traffic, safety, and urban operations.
• Developed a Generative AI solution related to Digital Avatar using LLM, NoSQL DB, Vector DB, containers (SUSE Rancher Prime) and supporting technologies.
• Designed Azure IaaS/PaaS architectures for large government entities, aligning with national cybersecurity regulations and achieving cost savings of ~30% vs. on‑prem alternatives.
• Delivered Microsoft Azure Zero Trust and SIEM designs for multiple customers, strengthening threat detection and reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR) by approximately 20%.
• Defined end‑to‑end managed services architectures for government entities, standardizing service catalog and SLAs to support 24x7 operations.
• Developed cybersecurity solution blueprints compliant with Qatar Cybersecurity Framework (SIEM, ZTNA, DLP, AV/EDR, NAC, PAM), reducing audit findings by 20%.

• Engaged in various End-to-End Technical Designs, consulting and sales cycles for customer IT Services requirements, the role expects to own the solution end-to-end across the IT stacks with the Sales team.
• Work with Sales team/s to provide various technical solutions and assurance for new customer’s acquisitions, the opportunity size
• Presales engagement such as early business development by demonstrating the capabilities and services portfolio
• Work with Internal Project teams for a successful delivery of the solution designs
• Create and present Architecture proposals to customers and internal stakeholders
• Work with the Service Portfolio and CTO to define the new service offerings

• Led large-scale data center consolidation and migration programs as a Lead Technical Architect, defining migration strategies and coordinating with business and technical stakeholders across multiple geographies.
• Acted as a technical authority for large, complex end‑to‑end solutions, validating architecture against business goals, SLAs, and security/compliance requirements.
• Led a multi‑disciplinary Architecture team for major Datacenter transformation programs, mentoring Solution, Infrastructure, and Application Architects.
• Developed multi‑year application/infrastructure roadmaps, sequencing modernization, cloud migration, and decommissioning initiatives based on value and risk.
• As an Enterprise Architect led two large insurance groups merger in the UK for digital transformation and technologies convergence between two mergin entities.
• As a Senior Enterprise Architect:
 Defined target enterprise architectures, technical roadmaps, operating models and digital transformation strategies for key clients.
 Established architecture review processes and reusable reference architecture, improving design standardization and reducing design/review cycle by ~30%
 Governed Enterprise Architecture practices including standards, patterns, and review boards, ensuring alignment to reference architectures and operating models.
 Supported application portfolio assessments and rationalization initiatives to reduce redundancy and technical debt.
 Provided business architecture and process guidance to align technology investments with desired business outcomes.

Key Achievements at Atos:
• Designed and led multiple large DC migration and consolidation projects (up to 200 servers / 30 applications), achieving 25% reduction in data center footprint and 25% OPEX savings.
• Performed digital architecture assessments and defined transformation roadmaps for major Atos customers, enabling phased modernization of legacy estates (e.g., to cloud and hybrid models).
• Acted as individual contributor for complex customer engagements while mentoring a global Architecture practice serving Atos international accounts.
• Designed an Azure-based managed public cloud migration for a major European customer, moving critical workloads from on‑premise DCs to Azure under stringent regulatory constraints.
• Architected a hybrid Office 365 solution for one of the largest UK customers, migrating Exchange and SharePoint from on‑premise to cloud, improving collaboration and reducing platform TCO by ~35%.
• Delivered a VCE VxBlock converged infrastructure solution for a large UK client, standardizing compute, storage, and network and improving deployment speed by 25%.
• Designed a virtualized infrastructure solution for one of UK’s largest Train Operating Companies, including P2V migrations and advanced VMware vSphere on HP blades, improving availability to 99.9%+ and reducing hardware footprint.
• Led end‑to‑end DC transitions and transformations for a major European customer, building a private cloud in Atos DCs to host migrated workloads across infrastructure and business applications.

• Engaged in various Data Center consolidation and migration projects as a Lead Technical Architect i.e., by providing migration strategies, engage with various business and technical stakeholders
• Lead multi-skills Large Architect team working for new business Opportunity engagement and incremental business
• Assessed, designed, and optimized solution within Infrastructure and Data Centre services landscape that meets customer technical and business requirements
Whilst working as an Enterprise Architect:
• Devised Technical strategies, innovative Infrastructure roadmaps and solutions for the customer’s digital transformation journey
• Managed and Governed the overall Enterprise Architecture Practice
• Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance to achieve desired business results
Significant Highlights at Atos:
• Worked for various large and complex DC migrations/consolidations projects
• Digital Architecture assessment and defining transformation road map for various Atos customers
• Play an individual contributor role for various complex customer engagements, and mentor Architects engaged for customers assignments
• Lead a team of Technical Architecture practice comprising various Architect roles working for various Atos International customers
• Data Centre migration solution to the managed Azure public cloud supported by Atos
• A solution for a largest UK customer to migrate their on-premise exchange and SharePoint to Office365 cloud in a hybrid model
• A VCE VxBlock deployment solution for one of the largest Atos UK customers.
• Designed Virtualized solution for UK’s largest TOCs (Train Operating Companies) which included P2V migration, Advance VMware vSphere technologies on HP Enclosures.
• End to End Data Centre transitions and transformations for one of largest Atos Europe customers, which includes building a private cloud in Atos DCs for migrated workload comprising IT Infrastructure and Business applications

Enterprise & Solution Architecture: A confident and effective communicator at CTO level with a proven track record in delivering complex Multi-Tower IT change/ Transformation Programs for large companies, consultancy/ system integrator across the diverse work cultures (India, Europe, USA, UAE and Canada). Architecting & developing designing solutions for the product & managing process setup & development. Driving product vision, strategy, road map and release plans. Developing conceptual, logical and physical architecture. High Level Design, Mapping clients’ requirements and providing them best solutions within the scope of project requirements. Framing architectural decisions, providing leadership & direction in the areas of technology and product development to facilitate and enable growth and business agility. Providing input for proposals/RFP/RFI by producing Infrastructure design landscape and diagrams and preparing infrastructure costing and sizing which includes all infrastructure components like compute, Network, storage etc. communicate effectively with other “virtual team” members (Business consultants, Application consultants, Operations and Customer service team). Work with delivery team to ensure that all solutions are delivered with customer timeline and support after deployment.
Leadership: Leading a team of Technical Architect for various architecture engagements with customers, role development/mentoring across team members, and enabling them for valuable and quality deliveries.
Service Delivery Operations: managed service delivery functions, to ensure end-to-end ownership of incidents and service requests. Meeting deadlines and turn-around-time without compromising quality norms and adhering to SLA. Implementing short/long-term plans for achievement of process objectives.
SDLC Planning & Management: Overseeing the entire product lifecycle: feasibility through scoping, requirements definition through specification, design, development, quality assurance, integration and implementation. Responsible for client / user interaction for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of technical architecture and discussions for effort, cost, time estimation and client coordination and reporting.
People Management: Managing recruitment, training and selection of technical personnel as well as organizing, planning, and staffing operations. Identifying the team’s training & development needs; including designing and developing the appropriate training program and coordinating appropriate internal training programs.
Key Deliverables in Current Role (Sr. Solution Architect, ITS Design)
•Proposed a Technical Solution for a Hybrid Cloud Solution Design for a very prestigious Qatar National event
•MS Azure Stack based Hybrid Cloud Solution Design for a Smart Qatar City Program
•Proposed MS Azure PaaS and IaaS Designs for a large government entity
•Microsoft Azure Zero Trust Model based Design & Deployment for multiple customers
•SIEM Solution Design for a large private bank
•Various Data Center core services migration Solution Designs for various customers
•End-to-End Managed Services Solution for a large Government entity

Key Deliverables across Tenure:

Significant Highlights at Atos India Pvt. Ltd.
•Working for various large and complex DC migrations/consolidations projects
•Digital Architecture assessment and defining transformation road map for various Atos customers
•Play an individual contributor role for various complex customer engagements, and, mentor Architects engaged for customers assignments
•Lead a team of Technical Architecture practice comprising various Architect roles working for various Atos International customers
•For the team, Act like a pillar of strength and shoulder to lean on, and participate in complex Architecture engagements to assist customers for building technical and industry solutions
•Provided a Data Centre migration solution to the managed AWS public cloud supported by Atos
•Provided a solution for a customer’s desktop transformation requirement, which included various latest Microsoft products like SCCM Current Branch, Remote Desktop Service VDI, Windows 10 deployment etc.
•Provided a solution for a largest UK customer to migrate their on-premise exchange and SharePoint to Office365 cloud in a hybrid model
•Provided an Office365 Microsoft exchange migration technical solution and design for a large UK customer
•Provided a Datacenter migration/transformation solution to Microsoft Azure
•Provided a VCE vBlock deployment solution for one of the largest Atos UK customers.
•Designed Virtualized solution for UK’s largest TOCs (Train Operating Companies) which included P2V migration, Advance VMware vSphere technologies on HP Enclosures. Prepared migration strategy to migrate customer IT services in Atos Datacenter, and, helped project team in transition.
•Designed MS SharePoint 2013 Hybrid platform for an Atos UK’s largest customer.
•End to End Data Centre transitions and transformations for one of largest Atos Europe customers, which includes building a private cloud in Atos DCs for migrated workload comprising IT Infrastructure and Business applications
•Designed Atos Utility Base Computing (UBC) expansion in Atos Livingstone Data Centre. This expansion design made sure that it includes industry proven solution and also maintained existing deployment best practice without compromising with a resiliency and performance.
•Solution provided to Atos UK customer for migration of their existing workload to Atos Cloud Infrastructure shared service in Nederland Datacenter.

Significant Highlights at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
•Managed a Wintel and Unix/Storage team to implement the solutions
•Designed a low cost solution for one customer using Solaris Virtualization Technology Containers (zone) in VERITAS cluster High availability. This solution given advantage of saving an oracle CPU based license and high availability too.
•Received a “Star of Quarter” award for individual performance and multiple “Appreciation notes” from customers and internal stakeholders.
•Designed Automate DR site failover and HA using Big IP GTM and load balancer. I had also leaded Private cloud POC using VMware technologies and influenced decision of selecting Virtualization technology, which was implemented later.
•Implemented new solutions like Sun Cluster in VMware, SAP S2C user authentication using MS Active directory and MS Cluster implementation for MS SQL database.
•Implemented RHEL servers for Oracle Golden Databases requirement
•Member of VCE (Virtual Computing Environment) implementation strategy for our new datacenter in USA. This solution will be used for delivering Enterprise application over the Cloud.

Significant Highlights at 3i-infotech Ltd.
•Created DATA exchange / transfer UNIX shell script automation with email notification for data transfer among ICICI Bank (customer project) and third parties. Earlier this was done on MS windows without any email notification which was failing periodically too.
•RHEL based SQL Proxy, and sendmail mail solution delivered
•Initially I joined in 3i-infotech through a sub-contractor consultancy firm. After 5 months, I was on-boarded by 3i-Infotech on a direct Payroll Due to an excellent performance delivered. This Consultancy firm name was “Beltronics Consultancy, Mumbai”.
•Multiple “Appreciation notes” from other teams and customer.
•Been active member of “Sun Java Messaging” product implementation in Sun Cluster in ICICI Bank. This solution was proposed by “Sun Microsystems”. This was first implementation of this product in Mumbai, India. Efficiently handled Redhat Linux physical Sever/OS on VMware virtualization.

Significant Highlights at Orient Technologies
•Handled entire customer site with other two members when almost half of team member resigned in 4 months time span.
•“Appreciation note” received from Customer’s IT AVP for handling project very well.

Significant Highlights at HCL Infosystem India Ltd.
•Implemented “Mumbai High Court” project in 5 members team, this project was based on Unix platform (Redhat Linux, My SQL and Apache etc.). Without any past experience in IT infrastructure, worked efficiently on this implementation very well.
•Received appreciation E-Mail from Thane District court IT supervisor on successful implementation of this project.