India
A seasoned technologist with a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to address business challenges. Possessing over 6 years of expertise as a senior Enterprise/Solution Architect, I have developed a robust background in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Architecture Consulting, Airline Architecture, IT Strategy, Pre-sales, and proficiently responding to RFPs. Proficient in managing and collaborating with senior business and IT stakeholders, including CIOs, Chief Architects, and business unit leaders. My extensive 20+ years of IT experience has been predominantly dedicated to customer-focused roles in Singapore and London. Currently, I serve as a Presales Solution Lead for the TTH business unit, leading UK and Europe operations based out of Chennai. My responsibilities encompass crafting end-to-end IT solutions to tackle intricate challenges such as digital transformations, cloud migration, IT Operations, Operating Model transformations and outsourcing. I hold esteemed certifications, including Togaf 9, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, and possess hands-on experience with modern application development paradigms like Cloud, Microservices, Containers, and Javascript frameworks. Additionally, I am an Agile Practitioner and a certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM). With my comprehensive skill set, industry expertise, and a proven track record, I am well-prepared to contribute significantly to any senior architect or similar leadership role in IT and consulting..
Strategic Business Development Head and Enterprise Architect, Travel Transportation Hospitality Business Unit, Tata Consultancy Services. Responsible for Business development, Strategic large deals shaping, C Level connections & relationship management, Presales, Solution Design, and Architecture for key large outsourcing and digital transformation pursuits across the unit. Reporting to the Business Unit head. Work closely with Country Managers Leadership across countries in driving TTH Business growth. Responsible for Strategy, Business plan, and Business growth of TTH Business in the geography. Accountable for new customer acquisition, large deals, and TCV of the Business Unit. Manage a team of Presales Consultants, Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects.
Part of the business unit leadership team as an enterprise architect. Togaf 9 Certified, Sun Certified Enterprise Architet with strong acumen in enterprise architecture and application of technology to solve business problems. Responsible for strategy, RFPs, Consulting, Presales, solutions, execution for large IT Transformation, ITO, Outsourcing and key delivery programmes in Travel, Transportation and Hospitality unit customers in UK and Europe. Part of shaping up and execution of many transformation deals in the geography. Very good understanding of business strategy, outsourcing trends, Airline business context and airline systems.Technologist at the core with expertise in Java based open systems and modern digital technologies like Modern web apps, Microservices, Cloud etc. Some of the key activities carried out in the role are *) Lead Enterprise architect for a large IT outsourcing deal with a leading postal organization won by current employer in Benelux. *) Lead Solution architect for a large Loyalty transformation project undertaken by a leading airline group in UK impacting complete loyolty landscape of all the group airlines. Lead solution architect for large scale microservices based integration platform connecting the 3rd party loyalty solution to the airline systems. More than 100 impacted applications across 3 different airlines in group. *) Shaping up operating model , speed to market and Enterprise agile transformation for a leading airline in UK *) Ground up implementation of a IT Ticket incident management solution for a group airline, consolidation variety of ITSM systems with different airlines in the . A cloud-native application running on AWS/Dynamo DB architected and put to live under my leadership. *) NDC - A new generation real-time integration initiative reimagining the legacy airline distribution. Solution architect consulting as part of my employer for NDC implementation in a leading airline in UK
Architect - Working on as a service architect under Enterprise Archiectuture Team of airline major in UK. Responsible to review and mentor all projects delivered under commercial and customer experience portfolio involving around 300+ development engineers and architects from inhouse and different supplier teams. Ensure solutions developed are in line with business strategy, fit for purpose and inline with the enterprise architecture standards of the airline. Role includes design of APIs that are channel agnostic, reusable, inline with REST standards and follow API best practices. Mentor Technical leads of the airline and partners on SOA, Servcies , API and REST standards.
Working on a new Group Booking Proposition for the customer. Responsible for initial study, and analysing the product fitment to the customers landscape and defining a technical roadmap for the product implementation. Responsible for preparing solutions for systems based on SOA, Java and Opensystems cutting across various Airline business areas like Ecommerce, Loyalty etc. Responsible for Solutioning all critical TCS proposals to customers. Prepare RFP responses, Estimates, Presentations, Defend the solution with Customer architects/business, Work on POCs Review all key deliveries from TCS. Mentor and appraise other Architects and Technical design leads