SUMMARY:

• Hands on Solution Architect with 19+ years of overall IT experience with strong background in Integration technologies (EAI, B2B, B2C), Security Architecture, Infrastructure, Governance, Information Management, Business Intelligence, Application Development and Emerging Technologies.
• 5+ years’ experience with big data technologies and data architecture, integration with mainframe backend systems
• 2+ years’ experience in designing solutions on cloud using Azure/ AWS /Google Cloud.
• Strong experience delivering strategic business solutions to global clients with offshore and onsite models. Design integration solutions cross cutting multiple domains, different technologies, COTS, in house solutions, 3rd party vendor solutions.
• Design scalable solution using containers.
• Experience in all aspects of integration including application integration, cloud integration, big data ingestion, bulk and real time data integration between different systems, securing data in transit and rest.
• Experience in managing large scale projects and developing Governance and Integration standards and processes to enforce project managers to implement loosely coupled systems using the strategic SOA roadmap, ESB and micro services blueprints.
• Provide thought leadership in tackling multiple, complex issues to create effective and lasting solutions.
• Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to gain collective buy - in on architecture strategies.
• Excellent work ethics and ability to negotiate conflicts and build consensus to support IT Transformation.
• Excellent problem solving skills and providing vendor agnostic solutions and then providing vendor oversight to drive the solution implementation.
• Instrumental in defining IT strategy, roadmaps / blueprints, architecture for Fortune 7 Company.
• Author white papers and provide thought leadership by publishing point of views for emerging topics such as next gen ESB, modern data architecture, reactive microservices, graph databases, and next gen data hubs.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, including adept ability to perceive, develop and implement client objectives.
• Ability to articulate a unifying set of concepts that provide vision and direction for delivery teams with attention to detail. Passion for learning and coaching teams on technology .
• Outstanding interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, team player, quick learner, organized, highly energetic and proactive.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Health care: MMIS, Medicare Medicaid Part D, HIX, EPIC, PBM, DUR, FACETS, NCPDP D.0, HL7HIPAA, Claims, Eligibility, Plans, Benefits, HIPAA, Provider & Member, Clinical, EDI

Integration Domain: IBM IIB/WMB, IBM APIC, Datapower, iWay, Software AG webMethods, MS BizTalkOracle Fusion, Layer7, Apigee, Vordel, Kafka, KStreams, Nifi

Information Domain: Data Warehousing, Data Visualization, Data Virtualization, Data Modeling, MDM, ODS Data Replication, Cloud databases,NoSQL, NewSQL/In-Memory, Graph Databases

Security Domain: CA Siteminder, Ping Federate, MS Forefront, Forgerock, SAML, Kerberos, I&AM, SSO

Analytics: Big Data Platforms (Cloudera, HDInsight, BigInsights, EMR), SAS, Spark, Anaconda, scikit-learn, NLP, CV, numpy, spaCy, Pig, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB

Cloud: AWS Certified Professional, Azure (Azure SQL database, Data Factory, Azure Functions, CosmosDB Data Lake Storage, DataBricks, Power BI, Machine Learning Studio Event HubEvent Grid, Storage Queue, App Service, Azure Search, Kubernetes)

DevOps: MSBuild, Teamcity, Artifactory, Jenkins, GitLab, WMI, Powershell, Sonar, Terraform

EA Tools: TOGAF, ARIS, Archimate, Zachman, Sparx EA, IBM RSA, Alpha

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create solution intent artifact for migration from 3rd party IVR (Skygen) to in house Omni IVR (Genysis Voice Platform) for dental Medicaid services.
• Presented multiple options with pros and cons to team.
• Created high level conceptual and logical design in Visio and Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA).
• Designed microservices and deployed on JBoss Openshift containers.
• Used Kubernetes for container orchestration and JWT for Confidential .
• Validated solution with security since Stargate (Kong gateway) was not relevant to the use case.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architect and other domain solution architects for consolidation of multiple vision platforms such as Eye Manager (EM), Vision Admin Services (VAS), and Dental Facets into one OneVision platform and deliver conceptual design of OneVision platform.
• Evaluated alignment with Polaris/Cirrus, Confidential Integration Layer (OIL), Portal alignment with Confidential Adaptive Portal (OAP).
• Designed solution with sequence diagram for migrating vision providers to Confidential ID.
• Performed “AS IS” state analysis and created integration catalogue to identify and validate all integration touch points. Identify test only systems for regression testing.
• Maintained an organization-wide view of AS IS and TO BE or target IT and business architecture in support of goals and objectives. Identified business requirements that affect integration and provides solutions that fit into the overall architectural vision and strategy.
• Participated in JAD sessions to review functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assisted in migration plan to decommission old platform. Worked closely with Project manager to assist in project plan and estimates.

Confidential

Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned existing C#.NET code to highly scalable, low latency, loosely coupled solution to optimally book orders in slots for different radio stations or markets.
• Designed top down driven canonical data model to support plug in play architecture.
• Migrated .NET WCF services to .NET core microservices using Docker containers. Used Azure EventGrid for messaging. Used Azure functions for serverless computing.
• Use managed services from Azure cloud to stream orders from on-prem booking systems and creating data feeds for vendor (Revenue Analytics).
• Used Event Hub for streaming, Azure functions to trigger web services when files were dropped on Blob Storage. Also built ODS and DW using CosmosDB (NoSQL) and SQL Data warehouse using Azure Data Factory SSIS-IR in the solution stack.
• Evaluated Nonfunctional requirements (NFR) such as RTO, RPO for DR, number of concurrent users, uptime to design solution. Used Azure Availability Sets for high availability and DR.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed solution to provide member domain file feeds data from EEM/DM (mainframe) to downstream systems for conversion of SSN to HICN.
• Used cross walk to query table (IMI) in Marklogic. Documented design using IBM Rational System Architect.
• Designed SSO solution for agents to login to Payflex using their existing credentials. Got design approved from security.
• Participated in reviewing and approving user stories using Scaled agile framework.
• Designed solution to sync account information in AEPAYS, ACAS (claim adjudication Platform) using web services.
• Designed solution for enabling e-delivery of documents through Navinet by providing PDF documents on member portal.
• Solution used Confidential (correspondence domain) for querying member ps and routing information accordingly to Filenet or Merrill (print vendor).
• Implemented changes to Provider Website (Provider Domain) to meet SB 137 compliance regulations by exposing REST API services using CTG as proxy for EPDB DB2 on mainframe. Design solution by invoking REST API and using Confidential 2.0 JSON Web Token (JWT).
• Included integration patterns to consume SOAP/REST web services using IBM APIC gateway.
• Architected solution and evaluated impact for modification to eligibility systems (Member domain) for implementing Joint Ventures (JV) partners.
• Participate in defining and validating mapping specs for eligibility feed.
• Design solution to exchange member eligibility data with BSwift using EDI 834.
• Design solution to implemented smart routing of calls using rules in IBM ODM, exposed as webservices.
• Designed solution for Informatics teams to build HIPAA 834 from data lake using data fabric.
• Got design approved from Enterprise Architecture Group (EAG), Integration board, Infrastructure & Security board.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Integrated pharmacy drug information with eMAR vendors using HL7 v2.x and v3 canonical format.
• Provided vision, leadership and strategy as well as actively participate in the design, implementation and subsequent operations and support of the enterprise architecture. Implemented strategy for defining and building Enterprise Services. Coordinated with HSCIC for data modeling of FHIR/HL7 messages.
• Oversee solution architecture for supplier- consumer analytics project using Tibco Spotfire, Netezza 7, DB2 warehouse. Implemented federated identity solution using SAML 2.0 tokens.
• Designed solution using mobility architecture which included authorization using Confidential 2.0 JSON Web Token (JWT), SAML for REST API. Included integration patterns for API to consume SOAP web services.
• Redesigned POS Architecture built on IBM SurePOS, IBM 4690 OS and powered by SAP to enable “site to store” by enabling bidirectional information flow between POS, WMB, SAP and WMS.
• Revamped IT system architecture for PhotoPrint line of business in stores.
• Implement strategy for building single view of customer and integrating it with CRM. Used IBM IIB for integration.
• Define roadmap for Integration using microservices and API Gateway.
• Lead initiative and drive requirements to bring enterprise ETL tool to the team and defined patterns and use cases for ETL versus ESB. Evaluated multiples ETL tools to provide recommendation. Designed solution for data fabric.
• Participate in defining and validating mapping specs and sprints in Agile using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Provided guidance for integration with cloud based solutions such as Salesforce CRM integration in cloud.
• Design solution for data ingestion for real time and bulk data on to the Hortonworks Big Data Platform. Used Sqoop to ingest bulk data from Teradata and Kafka for distributed messaging of real time events.
• Provided solution architecture to integrate data feeds from multiple systems into Hadoop as Data Lake.
• Implemented emerging patterns to consume JSON data in NoSQL databases as REST API.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed solution to integrate feeds in to Specialty Data Mart (SDM) and Teradata (EDM).
• Designed solution to retire legacy document file management store to Filenet
• Designed solution to modernize rebates platform to reduce data processing bottlenecks. Defined roadmap to decommission existing vendor solution.
• Oversee implementation of Coram and Novologix. Participate with Infrastructure architects to oversee design.
• Defined architecture for Databases and SOA.
• Evaluated multiple EA tools to provide recommendation. Reviewed EA intake process and made recommendations.
• Oversee upgrade of Oracle ATG for digital. Approve solution design for MinuteClinic. Defined roadmap for PBM including Med D, Digital, and Information Architecture.
• Defined patterns for ODS.

Confidential

EDI Architect

Responsibilities:

• Presented Health Insurance Exchange, ACA concepts to in house teams and vendors to get them up to speed.
• Design solution using BizTalk for exchange of EDI transactions (834, 837 I, P) with CMS for Federal health exchange as part of ACA. Used BizTalk HIPAA EDI Accelerator for parsing EDI files into XML and inserting XML into MS SQL Server.
• Responsible for overseeing daily transfer of 837 I, P EDI files with CMS using Tibco MFT for healthcare exchange.
• Authored High Level Design (HLD), Integration Interface Specs (IID) and reviewed detailed or low level design (DLD). Presented BizTalk design to review boards and design authorities.
• Provided leadership and expertise in the development of standards, road maps, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices.
• Liaised with management and support teams to ensure a consistent and accurate understanding of current and future architectural models.
• Presented Application security and integration patterns. Implemented federated identity solution using SAML 2.0 tokens. Design secure application integration using SAML token and WS-Security. Implemented Security Token service (STS) and Request for Token Service (RTS).
• Implemented SOA using service layer pattern. Designed atomic, intermediate and composite layer of SOAP and REST services using XML and JSON.
• Collaborate with business teams to translate requirements to conceptual architecture and high-level integration designs that span across multiple systems.

Confidential

Senior Integration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyze overall business and establish how software is used across the enterprise. Plan and implement the technical architecture, including both short and long term strategies for retiring certain legacy systems, integrating existing systems, and new systems implementation recommendations to reduce the complexity and costs associated with diverse and legacy-based application environment.
• Setup charter with a list of deliverables to kick off the integration center of excellence program. My role was to help the Director succeed in building the integration architecture practice and be his trusted advisor. Provided capacity planning, estimation using T-shirt sizing, and charge back model.
• Spearheaded the newly formed COE for Integrations by laying out data integration, application integration, cloud integration strategy, architectural blueprints, standards, roadmaps and processes for Governance.
• Reinforce tighter collaboration between team members across product requirements, engineering, and testing teams.
• Manage team of 10+ FTE staff.
• Transformed siloes and localized point to point solutions into a coherent, standardized, cost-effective, scalable, secure and flexible enterprise architecture that supports products and services for wholesale and retail line of business. Implemented strategy for defining and building Enterprise Services.
• Ensure high quality on deliverables. Aggressively pursue shorter development and quality cycles by promoting and ensuring the use of development frameworks, test driven development, and QA automation as required.
• Managed integration projects, hiring new resources for building team and meeting deadlines.
• Presented Integration Patterns Roadmap to vendors.
• Work closely with executives to explain the benefits and justify the investment in SOA by using Cost Benefit Analysis. Lead the evaluation of software vendors targeted for possible integration into the systems or environment, including strategic applications, tools and utilities.
• Assessed multiple solutions for a business opportunity (MDM) and recommended an optimal solution that was relevant and applicable for enabling the business to meet its strategic objectives (Single View of Customer).
• Implemented AS2 protocol for exchange or orders using IBM Datapower.
• Provide thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the integration solution.
• Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to understand business goals and translate to architectural solutions. Socialized SOA COE with VP’s to gain adoption of ESB.
• Manage sprints in Agile using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Develop templates for integration interfaces.
• Updated templates and guidelines as part of maintaining technical and business documentation.
• Implement strategy for building single view of customer (MDM) and integrating it with SAP CRM. Used BizTalk for integration and exposed orchestration as web service.
• Integration of BizTalk with SAP ERP using iDocs.