SUMMARY

• Experienced Solution and Technical Architect with overall experience of 10+ years in System Design, Application Development and Managing Projects with Domain expertise in Insurance, Telecommunication, Finance, Retail and Health care Services.
• Extensive experience in interacting with different stakeholders across business units to elicit, verify and document Business and Functional requirements for software and system development, maintenance and enhancement, conduct JAD sessions, GAP Analysis, UI Prototyping, Traceability matrix, developing communication plans and facilitate conflict resolution.
• Specialize in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, BPM, Cloud, SOA and other technologies.
• Expertise in creating Business Requirement document (BRD), Functional/Non - Functional Specs, Data conversions and proposing optimized solutions.
• Expertise in creating Project schedules and maintaining it in Project management tool (Microsoft Project, Clarity), Creating Work Breakdown Structures(WBS), tracking project performance, Stakeholder Management, Resource planning, Scope Management, Time & Cost Management, Defect Management, Change Management, Risk Management and Quality Management.
• Experience identifying resources needed on teh project and assigning individual responsibilities.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Experience leading a matrix project team to define, establish and ensure completion of all project milestones while adhering to timelines and budgets.
• Extensive experience in creating and managing detailed project plans for small to high complexity projects and review as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Extensive experience managing application development and maintenance projects.
• Experience working on onsite/offshore model & in high-pressure multi-customer environment.
• Thorough noledge and understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and development methodologies including Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
• Experience hosting meetings with stakeholders, other business analysts, other Project Managers, Development team, QA Team and business users on development/enhancement projects to ensure a complete and comprehensive understanding of teh needs of business stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in creating Use Cases, Use case Diagrams, Test cases, Test scenarios and translating business requirements into Test Plans.
• Experience developing detailed source-to- Confidential data mapping, data flow diagrams and data transformation rules.
• Worked extensively on Object Oriented Analysis, UML designing and creating work flow, process flow, system flow and UML Diagrams.
• Extensively used Microsoft Visio to create diagrams for Process flows, Architecture, Interface, flow charts and UML.
• Experience documenting, tracking and researching production issues (root cause analysis), recommending corrective action and working with appropriate teams on resolution.
• Validating changes post deployment, address issues/suggestions in future releases.
• Expertise in ETL framework to extract, transform and load such that data can be analyzed for business requests.
• Design, Deployment and maintenance of AZURE based infrastructure for various web application projects.
• Excellent analytical, Problem Solving, Organizational and interpersonal skills
• Solid experience in Architecting Big Data solutions using Cloudera Data Platform 2.3.
• Hands on experience in Python, R, HIVE and good exposure in Data science and Machine Learning.
• Significant experience in various architectures such as J2EE Architecture, Data Architecture, Integration Architecture, and SOA Architecture and Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Development manager of large scale Corporate Enterprise Data Warehouse project.
• Implemented data rules, driving data standards, security and integrity for customer service reporting systems.
• Coordinate with portfolio management team to layout development resource plans and project development lifecycle for major upcoming development initiatives.
• Successfully implemented management methodologies to make corporate Data Warehouse SOX, HIPPA and PCI compliant.
• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiating contracts for software and resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Data Architecture & Data Governance
• Data Modeling
• Erwin
• ERstudio
• Visio
• ETL/Data Integration
• IIS DataStage
• SSIS)
• Database (Oracle
• DB2
• SQL Server
• Netezza and Exadata)
• Big Data
• IBM BigInsights
• Cloudera Hadoop-CDH
• HDInsight
• NO-SQL
• HDFS
• HBASE
• Hive
• Hue
• Sqoop
• Cloudera
• Data Warehousing
• Business Intelligence
• Data Mapping
• Analysis
• Profiling & Quality
• Visual Studio .Net 2008/2010/2012
• MS Visual Basic
• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Erwin
• Visio
• BizTalk
• IIS Server 5.0
• Project Management
• API driven development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected and participated in Client kick offs for Glodman Sachs and FIS with pre sales and post sales responsibilities.
• Responsible for architecting fraud solution for channels like web, mobile and online.
• Responsible for architecting teh IFM solution to catch fraud and money laundering.
• Responsible for evaluating existing interface and sub systems for integration with teh event source systems.
• Evaluated teh system design and teh dependencies, both hardware and software.
• Responsible for collaborating with clients on and setting their cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for AWS\Azure solutions.
• Work with business users, directors, and IT executives to identify requirements, document technical designs, and oversee implementation of hybrid-cloud solutions like AWS and Azure.
• Worked on defining and designing integration strategies for major commercial and retail banks such that real time events can be monitored.
• Configured and installed environments to run on Oracle\SQL server, Apache Tomcat and IBM Websphere.
• Responsible for developing teh tuning environment on premise and on client site for performance improvement.
• Developed cloud platforms to ingest large volume of Unstructured, Semi-Structured and Structured data from various data sources and types like RDS, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Architected transaction event ingestion using MQ and web services like Tomcat\ Websphere\ Weblogic\ Jboss.
• Worked on sizing teh tuning, testing and production environment for IFM solution.
• Worked closely with teh implementation teams to coordinate development in Java, C++ and .Net technologies.
• Architected alert monitoring with Risk case manager such that teh clients can monitor teh alerts.
• Designed high availability and disaster recovery solution such that teh IFM solution is available 24/7 with minimal latency and downtime.
• Designed horizontal and vertical scaling of both AIS and RCM components of IFM.
• Worked with different integration strategies like Portal and Payment to support both online and offline data.
• Architected IDB database add on for Cloudera and Hortonworks platform.

Confidential, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Enterprise Architecture standards and initiatives around Application and Information architecture.
• Responsible for technical strategy and implementation of Global Services optimization - platforms and data integration.
• Management of business facing portfolio resources - roadmap prioritization and alignment.
• Operational leadership of global development, release and stabilization/support resources.
• Optimized business process development and quality management thru interactive joint business/technical workshops.
• Development of talent acquisition/retention plans, team goal setting, mentoring and continued educational programs.
• Communication lead for program strategy information sessions, town halls and internal technical staff sessions for bilateral cross team collaboration.
• Management of project delivery work streams - Platform and Infrastructure teams, Ingestion development, Metadata Indexing, Metering and Monitoring development, legacy migration and conversion and business readiness
• Managed enterprise architecture solution for IT Business Data Lake (BDL)
• Created and staffed resource staffing models for workstream builds (infrastructure, migration and new object builds)
• Directing efforts to define overall business data lake security and metadata capture. Enabling a secure and searchable environment for our business customers
• Creation of migration roadmap plans and communication to consolidate legacy warehouses
• Designed data archiving strategy solution in cloud using MS Azure Data Factory and HDInsight
• Developed process frameworks and supported data migration using Hadoop & Spark
• Designed and built different data access patterns using Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases
• Designed and developed data pipelines in Azure Data Factory to load on premise data to cloud
• Developed hive & pig scripts, NiFi workflows and real time data pipelines using KAFKA & Spark
• Spark and Scala for Extract Transform and load of structured data sources
• MongoDB, Cassandra for technical metadata capture and indexing
• Built visualization of teh data at stage with Tableau and R Studio.
• Engagement Manager driving creation of Business Big Data programs (Proactive Services, Enterprise BI Consolidation)
• Created business/IT joint development model to enable faster collaborative development
• Built new Hadoop-as-a-Service offering for Global Services, Engineering and Manufacturing teams
• Manage global development team tasked with development and optimization of Ingestion framework onto HDFS file system
• Global Data warehouse integration, consolidation of several legacy warehouse to a single unified mission critical platform
• Worked on Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances AWS (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Warehouse infrastructure migration and re-platform, managed build out and migration to next generation platform
• Managed IT teams like BI Development, Contract system integrators, DBA, Middleware, Infrastructure
• Management of mission critical Data Integration (ETL) platform, responsible for vendor relationship, product evaluations/negotiations/deployment and operational support
• Restructured legacy BI development teams into Technical Competency Centers (TCC) / Pooling Models, leading to increased efficiency among full-time developers and surge contractors
• Mentor to new managers joining or promoted within BI team

Confidential, NJ

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identify/Manage stakeholders and Facilitate requirement (business and functional) gathering sessions.
• Define & manage system scope and objective based on user needs and understanding of business processes. Control scope changes.
• Responsible for architecting cloud platform with multi-vendor cloud technologies including AWS and Azure.
• Architected and migrated SQL server databases to Azure platform.
• Responsible for setting up AWS EC2 instances and S3 buckets for storage.
• Analysis of existing unified communications, Voice over IP and data networks for future enhancements.
• Create Vision, Business requirement Document (BRD) and detailed functional Specifications (FS) based on high level Business requirements.
• Conduct JAD sessions, Perform GAP Analysis and UI Prototyping
• Evaluated infrastructure solutions that support real-time engagement by integrating voice, video, data, messaging, conferencing, mobility, and more
• Analysis of existing MS Access application to understand processes, workflows and document business rules.
• Participate in Database designing, data flow diagrams and creation of data models (Conceptual, Logical and Physical)
• Document current and future state designs
• Create source-to- Confidential data mapping document for ETL team.
• Work with business to Prioritize needs and keep them apprised of progress.
• Work with Project Managers, Development team, QA Team and business teams to ensure a complete and comprehensive understanding of teh needs of business stakeholders
• Prepare Use Cases, use case diagrams, Test cases, user stories as per teh requirements
• Participate in Quality control processes.
• Track & prioritize defects using Rational ClearQuest, Participate in root cause analysis of defects and manage Risks in teh project.
• Write SQL queries to analyze data (Data Analysis) and generate Adhoc reports for business, resolve data related issues.
• Managed Vendor Selection Process for ETL, PDW, and CDC tools
• Designed Corporate Data Warehouse structures and processes
• Participate in RFC process
• Re-design loan performance process for external investor reporting
• Designed Investor Reporting system to streamline multiple manual reporting processes
• Collaborate with teh business to deliver reporting solutions to produce increasingly accurate data while minimizing manual processes
• Design and implement multiple data marts for reporting purposes
• Designed and Built system to collect meta data from various servers to assist with job scheduling and performance improvements
• Design and implement reporting platform upgrades, software upgrades, and system design
• Work with teh business to bring "shadow IT" reporting groups into official processes
• Designed and implemented security processes to protect corporate and PII data
• Manage replication and data flow to various downstream reporting and application systems.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Product manufacturing process development and implementation
• Creating proposals and bid narratives to include source data and complexity factors
• Creating detailed project schedules that precisely lay out each task, predecessors and successors and deliverables.
• Executing multiple project plans according to budget, scope and resources.
• Providing regular status updates and presentations to internal and external stakeholders to include schedule progress, financial information, opportunities and risks and mitigation strategies.
• Raise issues early in teh process to allow recovery plans to be implemented with teh least impact to schedule, budget and quality.
• Clearly setting and communicating goals and expectations throughout project execution.
• Developing and deriving requirements with a focus on capability, traceability and verification methods.
• Managing scope priorities with appropriate authorities.
• Meticulously monitoring project financial performance by comparing progress and burn-rate to baseline schedules.
• Creating and aligning staffing plans within teh program's scope and budget. Review periodically to ensure proper skillset is applied to each task for efficiency.
• Identifying and removing obstacles to project task completion by acquiring additional resources or adjusting priorities to stay on track.
• Performed POC for migrating and automating legacy Compliance controls like SOX, PCI and HIPAA with Imperva.
• Identifying and quantifying risks to determine likelihood of occurrence and impact to program. Create mitigation plans, assign responsibility and due dates for plan implementation.
• Co-ordinated work of onsite/offshore team(10 - developers, business analysts & architects)

Confidential, NJ

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed teh machine learning project for research purpose and ANLP.
• Conduct training for partners, agents and customers on products and services.
• Partner with internal departments to gather data and tan mine using different machine learning and data mining techniques.
• Researched to optimize and innovate frameworks and related components for enterprise scale data analysis and computations.
• Creating detailed project schedules that precisely lay out each task, predecessors and successors and deliverables.
• Executing multiple project plans according to budget, scope and resources.
• Clearly setting and communicating goals and expectations throughout project execution.
• Developing and deriving requirements with a focus on capability, traceability and verification methods.
• Participate in customer-focused seminars, tradeshows, events, presentations, technology roadmap reviews and training.
• Responsible for maintaining teh MELD corpus of teh university and migrated it to SQL server.

Confidential

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Aid in offering industry expertise and strategic thinking to leadership where it could help drive revenue in teh field.
• Conduct training for partners, agents and customers on products and services.
• Partner with internal departments to offer teh best possible customer experience.
• Researched to optimize and innovate frameworks and related components for enterprise scale data analysis and computations.
• Creating detailed project schedules that precisely lay out each task, predecessors and successors and deliverables.
• Responsible for re architecting teh current system and integrate it with various data sources like SAP, Oracle, SQL server.
• Architected High availability and disaster recovery for teh new environment.
• Executing multiple project plans according to budget, scope and resources.
• Providing regular status updates and presentations to internal and external stakeholders to include schedule progress, financial information, opportunities and risks and mitigation strategies.
• Raise issues early in teh process to allow recovery plans to be implemented with teh least impact to schedule, budget and quality.
• Clearly setting and communicating goals and expectations throughout project execution.
• Developing and deriving requirements with a focus on capability, traceability and verification methods.
• Managing scope priorities with appropriate authorities.
• Meticulously monitoring project financial performance by comparing progress and burn-rate to baseline schedules.
• Participate in customer-focused seminars, tradeshows, events, presentations, technology roadmap reviews and training.