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Raghu Sharma

Raghu Sharma

Solution Architect - HSDI
Pune

Summary

Dedicated Architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering innovative technology , enterprise solutions across diverse domains, including Telecom, Fin-Tech and Financial Services. Experienced in ensuring products and services align with customer needs while maintaining cost-effectiveness and maintain the flow of backlog of design activities. Skilled in converting requirements into actionable product/service specifications. Have exposure of handling different kind of projects including Business modernisation- legacy upgrades, Integration designs, Data Migrations, Cloud Native adoptions. Adept at aligning solutions with platform architecture, enterprise architecture, standards, and industry best practices. Proficient in Micro-services, Agile methodologies, API design, cloud architecture, event-driven design. Have a good knowledge of Generative AI, Prompt , Transformers models , GPT, BERT, RAG . Holds a STEM degree and brings global exposure having worked in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Middle east.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Consultant - Enterprise Solutions

HSBC Software Development India
10.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded architecture for diverse products in Application Design, Cloud Deployment. - Conducted infrastructure analysis to optimize performance and scalability.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions meeting high standards of quality and security.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders, including business users, clients, and management, to understand business needs and requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Creating high level designs, gap analysis, impact analysis and efficacy analysis.
  • Solution Walkthrough to both technical and non technical stake holders to effectively communicate new solution designs.
  • Assessing Functional specification reports to provide feedback and recommendations and architectural review which includes assessment of alignment with existing architecture, technical feasibility, Impact analysis etc.
  • Designing and providing transient architecture solutions to follow the strategic roadmap for products.
  • Designed solutions for modern and legacy applications.
  • Building Solutions as per Strategic and tactical alignment for transformation projects to move current on-premises services to cloud -including infrastructure, integration designs, migration strategies.
  • Stakeholders management, building consensus on provided solutions resolving stakeholders conflicts. Providing Solution previews , conducting reviews and sign off sessions.
  • Continual assessment of existing architecture to ensure alignment with evolving business needs, performance optimization to keep NFRs intact with increasing loads and usage.
  • Drove standardization efforts for technology platforms, reducing complexity while improving overall maintainability across the organization.
  • Facilitated cross-functional workshops, aligning stakeholders on project goals and requirements.
  • Delivered successful enterprise-wide digital transformations, modernizing legacy systems for improved user experience.

Solution Architect

Ericsson
11.2021 - 10.2022
  • Designed highly scalable and resilient solutions for distributed applications for handling very high processing equivalent or more than 20 billion requests per day.
  • Taking care of various facets of enterprise applications including R&D, Consulting, Designing application.
  • Solution Analysis, Implementation and Commissioning cloud native applications as well as migration/Integration of legacy products to cloud environment or other Enterprise applications.
  • Governance and oversight of development to be in-line strategic architecture.
  • Handled role of both Business analyst and solution architect
  • Conducted Architecture and code reviews to ensure application meets quality standards and performance benchmarks.
  • Conducted Architecture solution walkthrough to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stake holders ensuring alignment between business and technology.
  • Constant coordination with implementation and Dev-Ops team to identify bottle necks and performance issues.
  • Incorporating COTS offering from AWS/GCP and Red-hat to build hybrid solutions for CSPs
  • Dealt in identifying technical scope, risks, changes using Change Request handling and customer expectations.

Technical Lead - Solution Architect

Mindtree
05.2020 - 11.2021
  • Domain Architect for Asia Pacific for Nokia Monetization solutions
  • Charging solutions both Online/Offline incorporating different types of networks including IP Multimedia Subsystems ,5G networks
  • Design and maintain the technology stack to include commercial or open-source integration platforms.
  • Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, system architecture including integration best practices.
  • Contributing in effort estimations, project planning for flawless deliverables.
  • Designing/Formulation solutions for modernization including NFV formulations, Legacy to cloud transformations.
  • Business logic development for new requirements and change requests for both online and offline charging for Nokia Mediation/Comptel EventLink.
  • Communication with client to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level.
  • Consulting clients with recommended upgrade strategies, technology stack, virtualization and other enhancements pertaining to integration solutions.

Senior Solution Integrator & Consultant

Ericsson
02.2014 - 05.2020
  • As a Senior Integration Engineer with teams across the globe for major telecom operators around the world
  • Orchestration of NFV, VNFs in Ericsson Cloud with CEE and ECM
  • Designing Low level documents including data modeling, data flow diagrams for Ericsson Multi-
  • Mediation
  • Develop and document requirements for system integration and testing activities
  • Provide representation of the systems under test through Unified modelling language (UML)
  • Support the development of appropriate integration and testing strategies
  • Support the detailed planning to successfully execute the identified strategy
  • Execute the defined integration activities
  • Handling integration implementation of applications processing more than 8 billion records per day
  • Execute the tests and manage the test results and associated data
  • Integration of applications with third party BSS applications and ERP based Applications over different protocols and interfaces such as Diameter stack protocol

System Support Specialist

IBM
11.2010 - 02.2014
  • System Integrations and CDR processing from CS network core nodes ie MSC , GMSCs ,SGW,PGW etc
  • Business logic development for Comptel Eventlink Logic development for ASN.1 and other ISO data processing and transmission
  • Automated manual configurations for systems handling data for 8 billion Subscribers
  • Data Analysis for making Revenue trend reports
  • Assisted in planning user management and network policies on AIX Servers
  • Developed fully automated alarm and monitoring system for networks and servers handling offline data reducing the manual processes by 40 % for Vodafone India

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech - Computer Science

Guru Nanak Dev University
06.2006 - 5 2010

Skills

Architecture Solution Designs/Architecture, High Level Designs, ToGAF-Enterprise architecture ,Gap analysis,Data modelling, Requirement Analysis

Domains : Telecom, Fin-tech, Payments , Trade Finance, Receivable Finance

Technical: Kafka ,RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, REDIS,MEMCACHE, Fluentd, Apache Spark, JAVA, Springboot,Postgres,NoSQL,NLP,Transformer modelling ,BERT, GPT,NLTK , RAG

Tools : Confluence, JIRA, VISIO

Timeline

Senior Consultant - Enterprise Solutions

HSBC Software Development India
10.2022 - Current

Solution Architect

Ericsson
11.2021 - 10.2022

Technical Lead - Solution Architect

Mindtree
05.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Solution Integrator & Consultant

Ericsson
02.2014 - 05.2020

System Support Specialist

IBM
11.2010 - 02.2014

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech - Computer Science

Guru Nanak Dev University
06.2006 - 5 2010

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