Nagaraju Gurram
Summary
Dynamic professional specializing in SAP Infrastructure Management with a proven track record in project delivery and people management. Expertise in solution design and technical oversight, combined with strategic planning skills, drives operational optimization and innovation. Successfully managed cross-functional teams to implement SAP technologies while ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr digital Customer Engagement Manager
SAP Labs India
11.2024 - Current
- Manage and drive the S/4HANA Conversions/Migrations to SAP RISE, from Onboarding to Operations
- Manage escalations from customers, coordinate internally with respective teams and provide RCA, preventive/mitigation steps, ensure to bring it to normal operations with CSAT
Basis Architect
Icon Consulting Group
09.2023 - 11.2024
- Accountable for driving End to End Migration of SAP Components S/4HANA, BPC/BW, EP, BOBJ, DM, Solution Manager to New Hardware
- Manage and drive the Performance testing using load runner tool, ensure the response times are within accepted limits
- Drive the KUT, UAT and ensure that users have a smooth testing
- Preparing the Cut-Over plan, align with all stakeholders and responsible for successful execution
- SME for all SAP HANA Databases, configuring SAP Cluster (HA) in RHEL, HSR between SAP Primary and DR Sites
- Served for Accenture/Syniti (Singapore)
Basis Architect
Invontec Services Pte Ltd
11.2022 - 09.2023
- Responsible for overall landscape design, sizing, capacity Planning, effort estimation with specific focus on customer Requirement
- Manage day-to-day service operations for applications and systems within a specific business or technology area, ensuring stability and integrity and meeting customer service levels
- As Partner Cloud Architect helped customer in successful transformation of ECC to S/4HANA from on-premises to SAP RISE with Selective data approach
- Led Integrations of S/4HANA Implementation project including SAP BTP and other SaaS Project along with coordination’s with various 3rd party teams
- Involved in presales activities, responded to the RFPs, proposed solutions to SSO, Archiving e.t.c to the customers
- Served for KPMG/Mapletree (Singapore)
Solution Architect
NTT Data
Hyderabad
12.2015 - 07.2022
- Led discussions with the client leadership for planning, pricing, workshops, status reports, overall progress, deviations, issues, risks & mitigation plans
- Involved in Presales, RFPs, Solutioning in new SAP areas like S/4HANA Greenfield/Brownfield/Bluefield implementations and migrations to AWS/Azure/GCP
- Identify, understand and define customer needs, objectives and business requirements, design a solution that can best meet the Client requirements
- Led end-to-end planning, estimation, migration execution, change & cutover management along with go-live support and operational handover
- Served as Solution Architect for a migration project from on-premises to GCP, migrating 270 SAP SIDs with various SAP components
- Responsible for customer interactions, requirements analysis, approach design, planning, project monitoring from the prepare phase to the run phase
- Worked on S/4HANA conversion and Migration from on-premise to Azure Cloud for complete landscape starting from POC to PRD, used SUM DMO with system move option
Senior Basis Consultant
NGA HR
Hyderabad
04.2013 - 12.2015
Deputy Manager
Vodafone
Pune
03.2011 - 04.2013
Senior Basis Consultant
Accenture
Pune
05.2007 - 03.2011
Education
Bachelor’s Degree -
Vasavi Collage of Engineering
IndiaSkills
- Global Work Experience of over 17 years in helping various customers from different Geographies Singapore, Japan, Sweden, Germany, India
- Currently working as a Manager in SAP Labs, Bangalore, heading Escalation & Exception COEs with a team size of 30 members globally
- Expertise in Basis and Infrastructure areas along with hyperscalers like AWS/Azure
- Successfully Go-live multiple End-to-End S/4HANA Implementations, Migrations/Conversions from Onpremise to Cloud
Certification
- SAP S/4HANA updates and upgrades with Zero Downtime Option of SUM
- PMP Certified Professional
- AWS Certified: SAP on AWS - Specialty
- RISE with SAP S/4HANA cloud Private Edition – Cloud Architecture
- AZ-103 – Microsoft Azure Administrator Certified
- Certified in SAP HANA Admin (C_HANATEC141)
- Certified in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Operations
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
Competence Matrix
- S/4 HANA 2022, 1909 and ECC 6.0 EHP’s
- SAP Implementations/Roll outs
- Upgrades / Migrations Azure and In-Place
- SAP Cloud Products (SF/SAC/Ariba/C4C), IBP
- SAP Application Maintenance (AMS)
- SAP BTP, IAS/IPS, RISE with SAP, FIORI
- Solution Manager / SAP Cloud ALM
- HANA System Replication and DR setup
- SAP SSO Kerberos/SAML/OAuth/Open ID
- SAP Netweaver (PI/PO), BW, BW/4HANA
Timeline
Sr digital Customer Engagement Manager
SAP Labs India
11.2024 - Current
Basis Architect
Icon Consulting Group
09.2023 - 11.2024
Basis Architect
Invontec Services Pte Ltd
11.2022 - 09.2023
Solution Architect
NTT Data
12.2015 - 07.2022
Senior Basis Consultant
NGA HR
04.2013 - 12.2015
Deputy Manager
Vodafone
03.2011 - 04.2013
Senior Basis Consultant
Accenture
05.2007 - 03.2011
- SAP S/4HANA updates and upgrades with Zero Downtime Option of SUM
- PMP Certified Professional
- AWS Certified: SAP on AWS - Specialty
- RISE with SAP S/4HANA cloud Private Edition – Cloud Architecture
- AZ-103 – Microsoft Azure Administrator Certified
- Certified in SAP HANA Admin (C_HANATEC141)
- Certified in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Operations
Bachelor’s Degree -
Vasavi Collage of Engineering
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