Prashant Parihar

Enterprise IT Architect at Accenture - Saudi Arabia

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• My current job since March 2023

Strong Engineering Professional with a Master’s Degree with 25+ years in IT Industry alongside Digital
Solutions Architecture and a deep understanding of Agile, DevSecOps, and Enterprise Architecture.
➢ Certified in DevSecOps, SAFe Agile, Redhat OpenShift Platform, PMP, DevOps, SigSixma, Kubernetes.
➢ Drive IT Architecture activities with a background in Production Engineering & DevOps Implementation.
➢ Refine the IT Architecture frameworks, guidelines, and design patterns and Integration landscape.
➢ Create business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies, goals and assist in creating
and implementing business visions and goals.
➢ Determine and implement build-versus-buy strategies and provide inputs to the CXO.
➢ Interact with all roles at the customer - including CIO, CTO, IT Architects, technical staff, and business
representatives.
➢ Conduct repeatable strategy, architecture, roadmap, and promote reusability across IT landscape.
➢ Provide assessment of current state architecture and recommendation of future state architecture.
➢ Define, develop, and evolve architecture standards and principles.
➢ Work closely with product, development, information security, data privacy, to embed their guidelines
into architecture principles.
➢ Hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture within the BFSI, including but not limited to Capability
Mapping, Application Architecture and establishing Architectural Principles
➢ Understanding the business strategy & vision and translating them into enterprise-wide technology
strategy in alignment with client strategic priorities.
➢ Assess the impact of the business strategy on the architecture landscape, including organization,
information and infrastructure and applications.
➢ Define Cloud architecture at all layers: services, applications, data, networking, and overall platform.
➢ Define applications modernization roadmap, in collaboration with Technology & Transformation
initiatives. Influence throughout the company for a culture shift towards a mindset of innovation.
➢ Demonstrated experience in large enterprises working alongside architecture and agile teams, center of
excellence, infrastructure, and cross-functional operations teams.
➢ Contributed to salesforce provide support & respond to RFPs by building proposals, MVP approach,
develop architecture-POV work with internal teams to shape & pitch strategic engagement with clients.
➢ Transformation and technology enablement through key IT enablers such as Enterprise Content
Management, Identity and Access Management, Mobility, Enterprise Integration Platforms, Service
Enablement, Business Process Management, Customer Relationship and 360º Customer View, etc.
➢ Evangelize security across the business by developing knowledge articles and standard operating
procedures that assist the team and business in operating securely.
➢ Foster relationships across engineering to lead the incorporation of security principles and
responsibilities into the product engineering lifecycle ("shift-left" and DevSecOps).
➢ Conduct security process implementation, DevOps enablement, and reviews to assess, build, and test the
microservices with security effectiveness across the product lifecycle management.