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Senior Solutions Architect Resume

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SUMMARY:

  • I am an experienced architect who excels in driving business transformation by leveraging technology and leading strategic initiatives.
  • I have successfully executed large programs that provide value, optimize productivity, reduce cost and increase organizational flexibility.
  • Responsible for integrating and coordinating technology and business strategies, fostering a culture where business partners become strong advocates on the creation of innovative solutions to cultivate and advance key technologies such as big data, portals and business intelligence.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Large - scale system implementations, Strategic planning and execution, Application design & development, Analytics and business intelligence, Enterprise Architecture & Technology operation, Managed Service and enterprise data, Program and project management, IT Financial/Budget Management, Strategic planning and execution, Outsourcing, Data Virtualization, Big Data & Data Warehouse and Cloud integration (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: Netezza, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Redshift (AWS MPP), SQL Data warehouse (Azure MPP), MySQL

Business Intelligence Software: Microsoft Power BI, Cognos, Business Objects

Data Integration: Informatica, Ab InitioMethodologies: Agile methodology, EVM (Earned Value Management)

Cloud Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Rackspace

Master Data Management Tools: STIBO

Big Data Technologies: Horton Data Platform (On Premise/Cloud), Cloudera Data Platform (On Premise/Cloud)

Linux: RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS

Architecture Framework: TOGAF (In progress)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Member of the Enterprise Architecture and Technology leadership Team.
  • Principal solution architect responsible for designing and building an enterprise data platform.
  • Responsible for delivery of an enterprise data management infrastructure in the cloud using Hadoop and SQL Data Warehouse (Azure’s Elastic MPP Database, fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse ). Core deliverables include:
  • Design and implementation of a metadata driven infrastructure for loading data by subject area
  • Design and implementation of a metadata driven infrastructure for extracting data by subject area
  • Design and implementation of a metadata driven infrastructure for distributing data by subject area on demand to an MPP Database Infrastructure.
  • Design and implementation of a business intelligence infrastructure that consumes data from Hadoop.
  • Managing large scale cross-functional projects. Formulate and lead Enterprise Information Management (EIM) for the Company. Responsible for re-platforming and consolidating programs.
  • Established foundational blocks of data management including data governance, ETL, metadata, master data, data warehousing, BI, data profiling & quality, enterprise modeling, canonical modeling and content management.
  • Created and presented Architectural road-maps, Architectural Designs and Presentations.
  • Design and implementation of Performance management metrics, interactive customer analytics, statistical transformations and corporate dashboards.
  • Solid Hadoop Experience including:
  • POC Installations and configuration of Cloudera Distribution and Horton Works on Linux Redhat and Centos
  • Performance analysis using Cloudera Manager (Cloudera) and Ambari (Hortonworks)
  • Programming using Pig and related patterns, Hive Programming
  • Developed a Hive Sync Utility for Cloning and Synchronizing Hive Databases from higher environments (PROD) to lower (QA)
  • Hadoop Data Modeling (File Formats (Parquet, Avro, ORC); Compression Strategies; Metadata Management, Partitioning, Buckets)
  • Developed a high-performance data ingestion mechanism using Sqoop and DBMS utilities.
  • Developed an ingestion interface between HDFS and MPP Databases (Redshift and MS Data Warehouse - Petabyte MPP)
  • Solid experience working with integration of On-Premises Data with Hadoop in the cloud (Elastic MapReduce - Amazon AWS and Azure HDInsight - Microsoft Azure)

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzed clients’ business strategy and determined system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
  • Formulated strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
  • Gathered detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into product requirements.
  • Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
  • ETL Architecture infrastructure using Ab Initio, Teradata and Netezza.
  • ETL architecture and implementation using Ab Initio.
  • Solution Architect and Technical Lead for the development of a Data Pump for migrating data from Oracle, Sybase to Netezza.
  • Managed a team of 8 Ab Initio ETL Developers, 3 on shore and 5 offshore.
  • Responsible for delivery of the following ETL Solutions using Ab Initio:

Confidential

Data/ETL Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Worked on integrating data from different sources (Trading Systems) to the New Strategic Market Risk data model.
  • Worked on Position and Book level Risk Scenario Data (Calculated sensitivities by risk factor; impact of fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, equity and commodity prices, credit spreads, and other systematic risks).
  • Managing and coordinating Database and ETL Proof of Concepts (POCs).
  • Developed Use Cases and Benchmarks for a POC comparing: Oracle, DB2, Sybase and Netezza.
  • Prepared management executive summary.
  • Core Data Technical Lead, Database Migration Sybase 12.5 to Netezza:
  • Analysis of data elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage
  • Developed an ETL Infrastructure to migrate data from Sybase to Netezza
  • Technical Lead, Database Migration Sybase 12.5 to IBM DB2 9.5 for LUW with DPF
  • Analysis of data elements, data relationships and attributes, data flow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities for DB2
  • Developing a Technical Migration Plan including migration resource estimates.
  • Development of migration tool to move data from Sybase to DB2
  • Conversion of stored procedures and function from Sybase to DB2
  • DB2 Physical Database Design including Schemas, Tablespaces, MQT, MDC
  • Provide input and recommendations on design/technical issues to project manager/senior managers.
  • Analysis of all reporting requirements.
  • Migration of Transact SQL to DB2 and development of new reports.
  • Database Performance Management
  • Provides consultation on Data Warehousing design principles
  • Tune SQL queries
  • Conduct peer reviews of completed procedures and data models
  • Gathering requirements and then developing and implementing data solutions
  • Provides consultation on Data Warehousing design principles
  • Assist in the design of an efficient, reliable ETL mechanism for updating the data
  • Work with Development teams to review data access requirements
  • Lead the effort of translating data access requirements into an effective data designs.
  • Implementations using Dimensional Modeling techniques and design skills to integrate new data into the database as well as continuous re-evaluation of existing data to ensure optimal performance.

Confidential

Data Architect/Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Data Architecture and Modeling
  • Implemented and managed a Star Schema for the Assets Under Management (AUM)
  • Responsible for all logical design issues: subject areas, fact tables, dimensions, snowflake schemas, normalization and denormalization.
  • Evaluated and implemented a reporting package (Micro Strategy DSS Agent 5.1) for general reporting.
  • Responsible for physical design and related performance issues.
  • Management of the Assets Under Management Data Warehouse. Daily tasks include:
  • Management, validating, loading and reconciling data
  • Performance tuning
  • Implementation of new feeds
  • Evaluating ETL products like Infomatica, Data Junction
  • Migrating all legacy shell and Perl scripts to Java
  • Responsible for developing a universal data transformation and load utility using:
  • Java and Java Server Pages Technology
  • Sybase and MS SQL Server Databases
  • Responsible for writing and tuning queries and stored procedures for developers.
  • Data Warehousing and reporting using Business Objects.
  • Backend Support of Morgan Online.
  • Management of Statements IBM DB2 7.0 Datamart

Confidential

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in the general design and development of Sales and Trade Server.
  • Developed the logical and physical data model for the Sales and Trade Server.
  • Converted a number of object models to logical data models.
  • Worked very closely with developers and testers to resolve all database performance issues (Queries/Stored procedures).
  • Technical support for the trading desk on a rotational basis.
  • Involved in the design and development of the new reporting infra structure.
  • Worked very closely with developers and testers to resolve all database issues and query performance issues in Development, System test and UAT environments.

Confidential

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the overhauling and reengineering of the Outcomes Analysis system. Project tasks included the following:
  • Responsible for correcting problems in the Logical and Physical data model that were causing performance problems.
  • Responsible for Data modeling (Logical design, Physical Design and Query Performance Analysis)
  • Analyzing back-end Sybase and MS SQL Database performance problems.
  • Preparing management findings report.
  • Implementation of a cross database reporting system pulling data from Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and DB2.
  • Other responsibilities included:
  • Development DBA responsibilities.
  • Development ETL responsibilities.
  • Building Database Utilities

Confidential

ETL Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the system architecture and implementation of a 24 X 7 web enabled Compliance Monitoring data warehouse.
  • Responsibilities include analysis, architecture and development of a Data Warehouse, and data marts consisting of the trading data. This project included the following tasks:
  • Analyzing data from various departments.
  • Data modeling (Logical design, Physical Design)
  • Analyzing and loading ADP files to databases. Files included:
  • TRANSACTIONS,OPEN/CLOSED TAX LOTS, POSITIONS, SECURITY MASTER, PRICE
  • Writing a client and server program for sending and collecting data for the web server.
  • Developing transaction management and recovery programs.
  • Developing data reconciliation and Referential Integrity (RI) utilities.
  • Analyzing web/intranet/internet security and performance issues.
  • Lead architect for analysis, design and development of a Universal Data Loader to parse, apply business rules and then load the data into the Data Warehouse.
  • Solid Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server experience
  • Solid programming experience using SYBPERL, PERL 5, KORN Shell, C and JAVA.
  • Responsible for the entire Y2K certification for this project.

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