SUMMARY:

• 18+ years of progressive experience building teams, consulting and delivery of solutions
• SAP S4 HANA Architect experienced in greenfield and brownfield implementations
• Expert in Feasibility study, Fit - gap analysis, proof-of-value preparation, formulating scope items, understanding end-user needs and creating standardized solutions.
• Coordinated with business users, application owners and other stakeholders at all levels to ensure all the requirements were met and executed successfully.
• Extensively ERP Release management and change management strategy.
• Very strong skills in SAP enterprise applications including SAP ECC, ABAP and good understanding of major Functional modules (FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, SD), BI / BOBJ and Portal and new technologies.
• Solid understanding of databases - HANA, Oracle, NoSQL, HIVE, Cassandra with good exposure on BigData (HCC) technologies.
• Develops and monitors budgets related to information technology. Monitors the costs involved in maintaining and improving information systems, including equipment and software. Evaluates and recommend technology purchases as per requirements.
• Proven experience in managing various deployment teams DBAs, Network and OS (Linux/ Windows) from infrastructure teams.
• Excellent Team Management and coordinating with multiple teams (i.e. Efforts estimation, RFP’s, Staffing, Metrics preparation)
• A committed team player with excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to work under demanding assignments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

• SAP Architect managing the delivery team of functional and development teams
• Manage BigData integration, Data Analytics and reporting.
• Lead Data ingestion, Data mapping, Data processing technologies team and work with business to provide new data dimensional information and reporting
• Integrate multiple source streams from Confidential business units including JCI Corporate, Building Efficiency and Power Solutions Business Units to create BigData Lake for processing
• Create Structured Data archiving for source systems providing financial data
• Provide UI and reporting for business teams to create additional reports on top of IT canned reports
• Provide standardization process for teams to follow the development, data virtualization and logical data structures
• Work with India offshore counterpart on resource identification and subsequently onboarding for new requirements
• Build and maintain Value Stream (Design thinking) based team structure to deliver high performance and drive accountability
• Weekly status review of each project with team leads and provide guidance on project execution and risk assessment / mitigation
• Drive Automation (IoT, Digitization and RFID areas) and Continuous improvement initiatives to add value to JCI
• Manage team’s performance through regular goal setting and performances reviews
• Recognize good and exceptional performances by team members and award them appropriately
• Budgeting for various costs viz. Visas, Travel, and Recruitment etc.
• Provide recruitment indents based on pipeline and work with HR for recruitment and resource acquisition

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

• As part of Global Design team, work with projects and development teams to align the architecture for new implementations and changes
• Work as a technical architect coordinating cross functional teams and to facilitate right optimal solutions
• Define problem statement, user requirement and high level solution options
• Finalize the solution option and work on detailed design, development, testing
• Communicate and demo the reengineered / automated business processes to the business stakeholders and obtain approvals
• SME for Enterprise Architecture and Integration review of ERP and other systems
• Enterprise Application Integration (Shared services) and design of systems integration aligning with design standards
• Manage portfolio of multiple SAP enhancements, Legal Entity Restructuring, new functionality implementation projects
• Responsible to work with for delivery of SAP projects on time with right quality and within available budget successfully.
• Biweekly status reporting on status covering delivery, Cost and Quality to the stakeholders
• Biweekly status review of each project with team leads and provide guidance on project execution and risk assessment / mitigation
• Work with teams across globe on resource and skill identification and subsequently staff for such new requirements
• Manage team’s career aspiration, assess training needs and performance through regular goal setting and performances reviews
• Work with Sales and Account team to build current and new pipeline projects to grow foot prints of team both onsite and offshore.

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

• Requirements Analysis of the customer developments and customer landscape configurations.
• Lead the customer interfacing and workshop discussions to co-ordinate and drive the solution design across stakeholders
• Review and evaluate the customization in the solutions performed and evaluate the impact of performance in such implementation
• Co-ordinate with SAP Infrastructure team and gather network traffic data for performance evaluation.
• Implementation of Quality processes
• Prepare and record the findings and present for customer understanding
• Assess roadmap and strategy for a sustainable solution meeting the requirements

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

• Workshop and requirement gathering for web channel portal
• Solution design for designing the customer portal, evaluation of solution design options
• User experience and user interface selection for web portal
• Mockup designs of user interfaces
• Development co-ordination with teams at onsite and offshore
• Project schedule management
• Project testing setup and plan for regression testing
• Team management (about 15 resources) of onsite and offshore resources for project delivery
• Manage User acceptance testing, business sign-off and responsible for production cutover as Cutover Lead

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

• Assess existing (“AS-IS”) system and conduct workshops to collect the “To-BE” system requirements
• Translate the requirements into technical requirement
• Discuss/Liaise with customer key stakeholders about proposed solution approach
• Project plan, approach, team approvals from customer
• Co-ordinate and provide inputs to solution design a
• Train both onsite and offshore team for solution development and delivery
• Manage Application testing team - test case management and preparation

Confidential

Senior Technology Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business to gather requirements and arriving at As-Is business process flows and process steps for Procurement Processes (Subcontracting using Scheduling Agreements and POs, 3rd Party Scheduling Agreement, Schedule Lines release to suppliers, Intercompany / Intracompany Stock Transfer, Centralized Contracts, Publish Purchasing Documents to Suppliers and supplier integration
• Instrumental in end to end process design involving Master data management
• Identify standard SAP Master data Handling for Global and regional systems
• Identify gaps and propose solution options for these gaps including business process change and customized application design and development solution
• Work with integration team for application integration both internal and external systems.
• Communicate and demo the To-be business architecture and processes to the business stakeholders and obtain approvals
• Create test cases in HP Quality Center and test in development and quality environments
• Work on Technical Implementation Gantt (TIG) for cutover activities

Confidential

SAP Netweaver Lead

• Solution design for systems integration (both SAP and non-SAP), evaluation of solution design options
• Hold workshops with business and tower leads for requirements elicitation and reviews.
• “AS-IS” Design reviews and client stakeholder discussions for review and “To-BE” systems design reviews
• Requirements documentation and review with business for sign-off
• Development co-ordination with teams at onsite and offshore
• Performance benchmarking and baseline threshold setup for sign-off on acceptance criteria

Confidential

AMS Operations Lead and Delivery Manager

• Delivery manager for ( Confidential GLOBE) production support, end-user and business support for the client’s hardware, software and service provider business and aggressively resolved outstanding trouble tickets in with quick turn around times.
• Extensively involved in supporting Resource related Billing processes.
• Responsible to identify CRs and Operations work scope.
• Review with client stakeholders on team performance and conducted review meetings
• Staffing for 24x7 NA, APAC and EMEA regions. Managed onsite, nearshore and offshore staffing of resources.
• Team and roaster management for shift management and assigned team for critical tickets and on-call issues.

Confidential

• Instrumental in creating Lead Solutions group - group of Senior subject matter expert for ERP Practice at Bangalore for providing assistance to projects by sharing the experience gained from other implementations / projects across the ERP practice. This is well received providing good avenue in re-using the available resources and expert help innovating newer and more efficient solutions
• Setup ERP Solution Studio for showcasing application competency as part of Confidential CoEs
• Setup the first cloud apps and have lead the teams to build SAP demo applications, Business process simulation, Product Testing and deployed team of lead consultants both onsite and offshore
• Successful team ramp up for one of the largest basis offshore project in India.
• Provided training and mentored the team for Systems integration and Mobility Platform for building mobile apps for Android and iOS devices.