Rajeev Ekambaram Technical Lead

• IBM Sterling OMS & SIP Leadership

Led a 20+ member team delivering IBM Sterling OMS & SIP transformations. Owned OMS initiatives across order capture, inventory, sourcing, payments, and fulfillment.

• Sterling OMS Container Migration

Migrated Sterling OMS to IBM-certified container architecture. Modernized Kubernetes deployments, improving stability and scalability.

• BDD Automation Framework

Built a Cucumber + Spring Boot BDD framework for Sterling OMS. Increased test coverage and enabled shift-left quality practices.

• CI/CD Modernization

Migrated CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Created reusable workflows for build, test, security, and deployment automation.

• Sterling OMS Fix Pack Automation

Automated OMS Fix Pack deployments via IBM Container Registry (ICR). Reduced manual effort and ensured consistent patching across environments.

• Security & Vulnerability Management

Integrated Snyk, Semgrep, Prisma Cloud, and SonarQube into CI/CD. Strengthened security compliance through automated vulnerability remediation.

• Business Impact

Improved platform reliability, release velocity, security, and operational efficiency through automation and modernization initiatives.

• Led the migration of enterprise inventory data from IBM Sterling OMS to standalone microservices, ensuring data integrity, system stability, and minimal business disruption.
• Designed and developed scalable RESTful APIs for real-time inventory synchronization across OMS and downstream retail applications.
• Implemented MongoDB as the backend datastore, significantly improving inventory lookup performance and platform scalability.
• Modernized legacy Sterling OMS inventory workflows by decomposing monolithic components into microservices-based solutions.
• Optimized inventory data synchronization, reconciliation, and recovery processes to ensure near real-time inventory accuracy.
• Built secure, high-performance APIs using OAuth 2.0 and JWT authentication, incorporating robust exception handling and audit logging.
• Conducted comprehensive testing, validation, and performance tuning of migration workflows, ensuring seamless production rollout.
• Authored API specifications, integration documentation, and operational runbooks to support enterprise-wide adoption.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate inventory services with IBM Sterling OMS, e-commerce platforms, fulfillment systems, and downstream applications.
• Improved inventory visibility and availability across channels, enabling better order orchestration and fulfillment decisions within Sterling OMS.
• Reduced website out-of-stock incidents from 4% to 0.7%, significantly enhancing inventory accuracy and customer experience.
• Increased platform resiliency and scalability by introducing fault-tolerant microservices architecture and automated monitoring.
• Enabled real-time inventory updates and improved ATP (Available-to-Promise) accuracy, supporting omnichannel retail operations.

• Managed end-to-end IBM Sterling OMS production support for a team of 16+ associates, managing deployments, monitoring, alert management, configuration changes, and incident resolution.
• Led hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and capability development initiatives, strengthening technical expertise and improving delivery quality across the team.
• Prepared executive performance reports and stakeholder dashboards while developing real-time Splunk visualizations to enhance operational visibility.
• Automated reporting and reconciliation activities using Shell scripting, reducing manual effort and improving process accuracy.
• Resolved complex production issues across Service Definition Framework, Agent architecture, Ctrl-M scheduling, resource pools, sourcing, and scheduling components.

• Supported migration of legacy ObjectStar applications to IBM Sterling Order Management, ensuring seamless business transition with minimal operational disruption.
• Developed customized reports and batch processing scripts while supporting year-end financial reconciliation through accurate order transaction reporting.

• Began career with retail warranty testing projects, supporting legacy order management platforms and onboarding new marketplace integrations.
• Managed 100+ customer queries daily and automated operational processes, improving productivity by 10%.