Enterprise IT Architect -Cloud
Tata Consultancy Services - Other Locations
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :23 years, 2 أشهر
• Current: Principal Cloud Architect- UK -AWS Cloud Modernisation for TCS- AWS Business Unit, UK managing multiple programs and technology advisory for various clients including HSBC, Aviva, Aegon, Ikano Bank, Sainsburys, TFL, IAG, BT and other prospective clients
As a Lead/Head architect in Hive Home (Centrica) responsibilities are- Be a Technical evangelist inspire the team/ driving the design for scalability to support 1-2 million connected devices -Worked on breaking down monolithic architecture to microservices, Clean architecture design for mobile, Headless architecture for Portal/CRM interface, migration to native AWS based cloud architecture -Lambdas/Kinesis, Stakeholder management, reporting to CTO/Delivery head, Clean IoT architecture using Local control, roadmaps and plans
• At Nestle/Nespresso, being the only Technical SME/Architect -responsible for greenfield design of Connected machine architecture using AWS IoT, Deliver the design specs for RFI/RFP, Vendor selection, PoC with vendors and evolve the design using microservices/DDD, Omnichannel services and design for multi touch points
Worked with Tori Global a management consulting company as a Principal Solutions architect - involved in
• CWT (Carlson Wagon Lit): Worked as a Principal Architect advisory to their Global CIO and develop Target Operating Model (TOM) for this Global travel and leisure conglomerate, I worked with the CEO of Tori global in this project and delivered a substantial cost reduction and improve the performance across people/process and technology, recommended consolidations and key hires in new centers in Asia, Australia
• Deutsche bank- Lead Architect/Designer for Benchmarking and Performance testing of the migration of Secure desktop on demand (sDoD) platform migration
• Start-up: I co-founded a boutique digital app consulting company focusing on mobile apps development, Games development and Portal development
TORI GLOBAL (CWT), UK, APAC LEAD ARCHITECT -ARCHITECTURE/OPERATING MODEL &IT RISK/SECURITY ASSESSMENT 2014- CURRENT
CWT (Carlson Wagon Lit) is one of the global market leaders in the corporate travel and events management field and I am involved in assessing the following
(i) IT Capabilities and consolidation of Regional applications into global
(ii) IT Security and Risk IT analysis using COBIT 4.0 methodologies
(iii) Application system performance audit analysis and recommendations -Citrix, VM, XenApp
(iv) Infrastructure and Data security analysis (PCI-DSS/ISO 27001 and IT End user systems auditing)
(v) Enterprise application- System integration - infrastructure and hosting analysis and recommendations
(vi) Incident management /Service and Change management process design and process monitoring/SLA definition
APP. SECURITY SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Cyber security solutions and consulting, CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team), digital forensic investigations, training, gap analysis of physical, logical and data security, My role involves
(i) Application and data security gap analysis
(ii) Designing Run book for Incident response team to counteract common threats like Dos/DDos and other Cyber threats- defining the workflow and escalation points and process around that
(iii) Security analysis and recommendation process for common datacentre -Virtualisation/Infrastructure, Citrix desktops, PCI DSS and security recommendations for PoS systems
(iv) Helping the team on the Pre-Sales processes and work with the channel partners on cyber security/Data forensic analysis
2012 - Present SunGard Global Services Energy Consulting Manager Technology / Solutions Architect-Lead
VATTENFALL, HAMBURG GERMANY ARCHITECT-QA LEAD -INTERFACES 2013-14
Openlink Endur Migration (Energy Trading system)
Lead the interfaces migration for Endur v.12 Upgrade which includes managing the team responsible for technical upgrade, testing and infrastructure team for the upgrade. Reporting to the Information architecture-Head as well as reporting to Program manager/ Line Manager responsible for the upgrade
• Analysis of the existing business data and Endur batch/workflows and identified the changes/bottleneck for migration
• Responsible for defining the major interfaces connecting to Endur & other db connectivity/ Clusters and Data coherence
• Responsible for Build-integration and upgrade of the existing system, coordinating with Openlink implementation team
• Defining the impacted scripts and interfaces and preparation of Test approach and test scripts
• Responsible for definition, planning and migrations strategy for the new Data center and DR process. Migration of server applications and application consolidation using VM ware, Security analysis and UAC for various systems
• Data centre and data migrations, Data security model for compliance
Skills: TOGAF/COBIT, Openlink Endur ver8, ver 12, AVS, Oracle, ESB, Tibco, Change management, Infrastructure management and Process improvement, XML, XSD, HP ALM (Test Director), Connex, Javascript, SOA, Continuous integration, Nightly build, SVN, VM ware, Citrix
SUNGARD, LONDON 2010-13 MANAGER /SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
I was a manager/ Architect -Business IT at SunGard Consulting and played various roles and responsible for Leadership for the following client projects. I was also responsible for Pre-sales, responding to RFI/RFP and developing Proof of Concepts, doing technical webinars and presentation to customers etc.
➢ Shell Trading, London
❖ Gas Operations - Aligne Replacement, System Migration & Decommissioning Project: Lead Solution Architect for Aligne replacement and Decommissioning project - Responsibility includes Team Leadership, Vendor coordination and management
• Responsible for development of solution architecture of ETM replacement for the Gas operations desk
• Lead a team of Technical and business analysts, managing various technology solution vendors from other consulting organisations, Vendor management and coordinating and communicating with Shell business team
• Responsible for the migration strategy of existing Business data and setup in the new system
• Define Architecture and Technology roadmap for Gas Operations Team and implementation for
Unified Platform enabling to streamline the business process, Data and information management of trade data
• Migration strategy for legacy SunGard trading applications & moved them to SunGard Managed hosting services- Consolidation using virtual instance and Citrix
• Involved in Vendor selection process & design & architecture reviews & presentations for existing system
• Led numerous architecture reviews/assessments to validate the architecture/design, identify violations of commonly accepted best practices and Software Governance
• Responsible for system authentication using Kerberos/NTLM/Active Directory, & Citirx configuration for Deployment
• Assist in technology selection/ justification; troubleshoot performance and scalability related issues
• SME for the business and IT data setup for the new replacement architecture, build migration and DR process
• Worked as a Lead technical design architect for decommissioning legacy SunGard application and data reporting strategy for reporting purposes
Skills: Solution Architecture, SunGard Aligne, SunGard ETM, SunGard EDX, XML, XSL, XSLT, EDI, EdiGAS, C++, VB, VBA, Oracle, Dot net, Zainet, Python, Energy and Gas Operations, VM ware, Citrix, Managed Application hosting, Kerberos NTLM, Active Directory authentication
❖ Reconciliaiton of Endur and Legacy Trading System- Solution Architect
• Reconciliaiton of endur and legacy system using SunGard reconciliation solutions
• Lead a team of Business and PO analyst reporting to the Managing partner
• Responsible for various customer demos and presentations
❖ Lead Architect- Business IT - Gas Operations/Power desk - Operations and Dev. Support Project: • Responsible for design enhancement, development of trading IT solutions for Trading and Gas Operations
• Responsible for Data connectivity/ monitoring, message analysis (edigas)
• Support the Scheduling- dispatch, nominations and balancing for day ahead and intraday- UK, Germany, Belgium and Netherlands
• Technical mentoring of Junior team members of Gas operations team and led the SunGard team
• Acting as a single IT and Business contact for the German Gas operations vendors of Shell
• Analyze software requirements & articulate specifications for feature developments for Shell,
• Responsible and manage the IRT (Incident response Team) and DR/BCP processes
Skills: Eurorunner, Coderunner, Enom, SunGard Aligne, SunGard ETM, SunGard EDX, XML, XSL, C++, VB, VBA, Oracle, .net, Zainet, Python
➢ Ministry of Finance, Oman as Test Automation/QA -Solution Architect
• Responsible for build and continuous integration of the application -Maven, Git, Java
• Responsible for design, development of customized Test automation IT solutions as proof of concept for Ministry of Finance, Oman
• Design and develop complete testing framework based on Fitnesse and selenium using Xebium
• Writing test fixtures using Java for testing the Web core server and the database (using dB Fit)
Skills: Java, Fitnesse framework, Xebium framework, Selenium, Web UI testing, Test Automation, HTML, DevOps
➢ Citigroup commodities, London
Metals Migration project - Solution Architect
• Responsible for re-design of the STP module and development of the STP module which books the trade directly in Open link instance from FO Trade Capture and from LME feed
• Involved in automation build, packaging and deployement for post upgrade process for the trading and back office desktops using automation scripts
Skills: C++/Dot net/Win forms, C#4.0, XML, WPF/WCF, ClearCase, Oracle
➢ LME & EnBW, London
Trade repository Reporting Solution for REMIT/EMIR/MIFID - Lead Solution Architect
• Technically lead the design and development of this solution - managed a team of Business analysts reporting to Partner
• Worked as Lead Architect for designing ETL/Trade repository management system for major energy clients to meet REMIT/EMIR regulations for Energy/OTC/Exchange traded derivatives
• Analyse the requirements for regulatory reporting and identification and extraction of data for reporting -Business Data architecture for the unified data reporting, Trade data information/lifecycle data extraction and storage
Skills: C++/Dot net/Win forms, C#4.0, System Architecture, OOAD, UML, FIX, FpML, ETL, XML, Oracle
2010 - 2012 SunGard Global Services Shell Trading, London Lead Senior Consultant
2009 - 2011 Amadeus Services Ltd, Altea Departure control Senior Consultant
2008 - 2009 Sapient Ltd Barclays Capital Senior Systems Analyst/Tech Lead
2007 - 2007 Rockwell Collins Ltd, E-Flight Team Senior Dev analyst
2004 - 2007 AMD (Advance Micro Devices) AMD Software Team Application Development Engineer-Lead
2003 - 2004 Hewlett Packard Ltd) Jabber Inc (Now Cisco Jabber) Software Design Engineer II
2002 - 2003 Wipro Technologies Toshiba America Senior Software Engineer
2000 - 2001 Wipro Technologies Nortel Networks Software Engineer
TECHNICAL SKILLS
WINDOWS/LINUX Advanced
TOGAF 9.1, Intermediate
Security/IT Risk/COBIT Advanced
Business Data/Requirement Analysis Advanced
Operations IT Support Advance d
OOAD/UML Advanced
QT/VC++/Win forms GUI development Advanced
Test Automation, Selenium, QTP Advanced
OOAD/UML /Rational Advanced
C#, Dot net (1.1, 2.0, 3.5) Advanced
Microsoft Visual Studio/Eclipse Advanced
x86, AMD 64, Computer architecture Intermediate
SCRUM/AGILE Methodologies Advanced
Fitnesse, Selenium Assurance Advanced
Computer Architecture, 64 bit programming Advanced
Project Management Advanced
C++/C on Multi-threading Advanced
UNIX/HP-UX, Perl, Bash Intermediate
SQL Server, Oracle Advanced
XML, XSL, XSD, (D) HTML, EdiGas Advanced
Open link Endur, AVS scripting, ETRM Intermediate
OFAC/AML Filtering, SOA Intermediate
MQ/MSMQ, Python Intermediate
Java, git, Maven Intermediate
ACTIVITIES, HONORS AND/OR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
• TOGAF 9.1 trained Enterprise Architect and vast experience as solution Architect in a number of projects
• Member of ISACA, London Chapter
• Trained on Rational software tools
• Got selected for presenting a paper in International HP Technology forum in Phoenix, USA
DETAILED EXPERIENCE
Worked as a Lead Tech Solution Architect for major Systems upgrade/Assessment projects including
• CWT -Architectural assessment -Application/Information security and Performance
• Trading system upgrade and data/information security Gap analysis for Barclays Capital
• Aligne -Gas Ops Upgrade -System implementation for various regions and Decommissioning -Shell
• Openlink Trading system Upgrade -Vatenfall Gmbh
AMADEUS SERVICES LTD, LONDON 2009-10 SENIOR DESIGNER /CONSULTANT
• Worked as a Senior analyst for Amadeus, a Leading Airlines Software company and their flagship product is called Altea Departure Control System
• Involved in analysing Architectural change and redesign of backend server process for Baggage Systems, Customer management, messaging architecture for major clients like Air France/KLM and Luf Thansa
• Involved in software releases to production and support the different implementations of customers which involved development in standard C++ with the heavy usage of STL containers, algorithms and templates.
• Involved in performance tuning of the existing/new queries on Oracle platform
• Involved in product definition for feature enhancements, support test teams during analysis and functional validation phase, monitor and fix software defects raised by customers and helped implementation team in product support
Skills: Solution Architecture, C++, STL, Linux, Oracle, Perl, OLTP, EdiFact message, XML,
BARCLAYS CAPITAL LONDON 2008-09 LEAD ANALYST
❖ Openlin V6-V8 Upgrade- Trade server and Trade processors from Openlink Endur ver 6.0 and Sybase to Openlink Endur ver. 8.0 and Oracle: The technologies involved are VB, C++, C# and COM+ and Openlink Endur customisation and AVS scripting The entire Commodity trading application is deployed as COM+ application and it involves debugging testing and deployment of various components.
• Involved in Technology analysis, planning, architecture, and implementation of a legacy Commodity/Derivatives trading system migration to .NET 2.0.
• Played a role of senior analyst and did the Gap analysis of application security aspects of NOLA trading platform and interacted with the Business and the traders
• Worked on the enhancements of Nola Structured products, Options, FX, Swaps (IR), CDS (Non Openlink Architecture) application, which is part of OTC Exotics commodity application.
• Worked on Trade booking server and processors for different derivative instruments like IR Swap, Options and Cash flow. This is a multi-threaded highly scalable data processing/trade capture middle office application
❖ Market Analysis (Commodities) Team -OL (Openlink) Exporter and Importer: Exporter captures the pricing data (curves) to ME database in the form of XML. This pricing data will be used to calculate Forward curves and volatility surfaces and it imports back to the Openlink Endur using Importer. The traders to calculate Volatility etc use this.
• Involved in the security audit/Gap analysis of the entire Commodities Structured products system -right from FO-BO
• Developed on C++/COM/XML on windows platform
• Following the full project life cycle from original conception and requirement gathering through to prototyping, iterative development, testing and delivery
Skills: C++ on Windows, C#, MSMQ, Openlink Endur, AVS, Win forms, VB6.0, VBA, XML, XSD, Sybase, Oracle, COM+
ROCKWELL COLLINS LTD, READING 2007 SENIOR DEVELOPER
• Involved in maintenance and enhancement of E-Flight, an airline communication and information management system, known as HERMES is used by most of the major airlines in the world.
• Involved in e-flight communication services design enhancement, which is responsible for communication between ground and flight board. This is highly transactional OLTP system based on SOA principles.
Skills: C++/QT/COM on Windows, N-tier architecture, MSMQ/MQ series, TIBCO Rendezvous for messaging
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) AUSTIN, TX/ BANGALORE 2004-07 TECHNICAL LEAD
• Part of System Software Development group (SSD) of AMD which involves in developing specialized software tools and applications for AMD64 family of processors, chipsets, and motherboards
• Involved in Design and Implementation of many innovative software tools from scratch for internal groups and customers
• Instrumental in growing the Engineering team from 5 to 30 member strong team
• Played a role of Team lead and technical mentoring a team of 5 Software engineers.
• One of the tool called ACE (AMD Automatic characterization Environment) co-developed by me eliminated the need for expensive oscilloscope for testing and validation and saved 300k USD as a whole for the company
• Support product definition and test teams during analysis and functional validation phase. Monitor and fix software defects raised by customers, helping implementation team in product support
• Instrumental in ramping up the Software team in India from 2 to 18 members in 2+ years
Skills: UML, Design Patterns, C/C+, QT, Dot net Win forms, x86-64 architecture
2003 - 2004 Hewlett Packard Ltd) Jabber Inc (Now Cisco Jabber) Software Design Engineer II
JABBER COMMUNICATION (JABBER CISCO LTD) 2003-04 SENIOR DEVELOPER
Involved in Jabber Communication Platform server and solutions development: Jabber is an Enterprise Instant Messaging Product to address the messaging needs for an enterprise which uses an XML messaging protocol called XMPP for communication and this is a highly scalable multithreaded networking server application.
• Involved in Server design and enhancement in Windows platform using C++ and Sockets and successfully integrated Jabber with Various HP applications.
• Instrumental in developing lots of Jabber based innovative applications as a proof of concept for prospective clients like Starbucks, France Telecom and we won a couple of deals.
Skills: C++, Windows, Linux, Winsock, Dotnet Win forms ver.1.1, IM based Contact Centre solutions
Wipro Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
TOSHIBA AMERICA /NORTEL NETWORKS. 2000-03 Senior Engineer
• Worked on MFP (multi-functional peripheral) server development for Toshiba. Involved in design enhancement of the MFP controller and involved in improving the security aspects of the scanning module- Embedded NT, C++, Windows
• Worked on Nortel DPNSS soutions-SS7, ISDN, Protel, C, Perl