SHANMUGANAND
Digital Solutions Architect
Dubai
Summary
Digital Solutions Architect with 15 years of diverse experience in the IT industry Experience in Ecommerce Web and Mobile applications, Microservices and Cloud technology. Expertise in Airline PSS, Loyalty, Payment, Fraud Analysis domains with full life cycle project experience in Agile methodology, 3rd party implementation, vendor tool evaluation, consultancy & Mobile Application Development projects
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solutions Architect
Emirates
Dubai
06.2021 - Current
- Applying high impact technical solution to major business objectives with capabilities that transcend IT operational boundaries
- Supporting Enterprise Architecture (EA) roadmap by providing Solution Intent in alignment with Target vision and also to provide transition architecture solutions for legacy applications
- Documentation of Solution Intent, Architecture Decision record, Architectural diagram, Design diagrams, NFR specification document and cloud architectural diagrams
- Providing solutions that take advantage of cloud technologies and feature sets to facilitate organization’s strategic direction of migrating legacy application to cloud platform.
- Domain Expertise on Airline Booking Engine, Payment Gateway system and strategy, Loyalty system and AIG Insurance.
- Facilitating Design gates where solutions and software design get presented to entire AAT and to relevant stakeholders from different AAT to provide their thoughts and feedbacks
- Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product
- Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
- Utmost importance to identify Tech-dept and prioritize backlogs with product owners
- Responsible for MicroServices, SOA, BPM & cloud Architectures solutions
- Worked with developers and engineers to realize technological solutions.
Solutions Architect Consultant
Transguard
Dubai
06.2019 - 05.2021
- Transformed existing application into suite of cloud-hosted Microservices
- Designing Microservices by categorizing them in different domains
- Worked on event driven architecture and its design
- Worked in agile framework, collaborating with business and teams in story grooming, reviewing story/acceptance criteria and performance metrics
- Evaluated targeted technologies for business based on economical framework and technical applicability to cloud agnostic architectures that company successfully adopted
- Designed solutions with ability to host deploy releases/patches and maximizes on CI/CD features to enable full system availability
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
Senior Associate
CTS
Chennai
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Worked in water treatment project as Solutions Architect/Business Analyst for UK Client
- Played role of Architect/ Business Analyst to Identifying & clarifying requirements as user stories and writing Acceptance criteria for technical stories
- Analyzing documents, prepare screen mockups & perform functionality testing
- Facilitating backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions to prioritize and estimate stories for sprint backlog
- Facilitating sprint demo and retrospective sessions
- Established reporting strategy on project performance
System Analyst/ Software Engineer
Emirates Group IT
Dubai
12.2012 - 05.2018
- Worked in multiple projects for Network Passenger Sales Development (NPSD), dnata, Corporate Communications of Emirates Group
- Facilitating requirements gathering & validations workshops with stakeholders from range of Business Units such as Corporate Communications, Central Services & liaise with external vendors & Service Providers
- Worked in full life-cycle implementation projects starting from feasibility study phase to delivery of project
- Estimating project cost & effort for build / customize existing Emirates applications / vendor solution acquisition scenarios conducting Gap Analysis, Function point / complexity based estimations
- Structured Walkthrough of requirements documents & obtaining sign off from various stakeholders
- Conduct effective presentations in order to explain technical solutions solutions to business stakeholders
- Liaise with development & QA teams in defining & implementing solution
Software Engineer
CSC INDIA
Dubai
04.2011 - 11.2012
- Worked in multiple projects carried out by Internet Booking Engine
- Senior Developer of Modify booking project for Emirates Airlines
- Working with business on various functional clarifications and implementing same technically for delivering project as per plan
- Lending hand in end to end testing by assisting team with different scenarios to be tested
Programmer Analyst
CTS
Chennai
10.2010 - 04.2011
- Worked in Cognizant 2.0 project capturing high-end user requirements of Integration team and channelizing captured information to design application
- Prepared Software Requirements Specification including Use Cases, Screen Mockups, Field Definitions, Process Flows & Traceability Matrix
- Facilitated Requirements validation & sign-off sessions
- Appraising manager with consolidated reports regarding timeliness, day to day progress and complexities encountered (if any) across teams
- Responsible for successfully delivering project under extreme pressure from management for business critical functionality
Software Engineer
Vigna Systems Inc
Chennai
10.2009 - 10.2010
- Played Consultant / Work stream lead role in projects for Panasonic HWY 905 project directly communicating & reporting to compliance heads of the Panasonic through conference calls, live meetings & emails
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using C#
Software Engineer
American MegaTrends
Chennai
07.2008 - 06.2009
- Developed and Maintained database in MS SQL Server
- Developed WCF as middle tier component
- Windows application with three tier architecture in VB.NET
- Conversion of Stored procedure to Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Testing, Maintenance and Updating of WCF application
Education
PG Diploma - Business Administration
University of Leicester
Dubai 04.2015 - 04.2017
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University
Chennai 10.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Leadership, influence, and mentoring skills
undefinedCertification
AWS Solutions Architect
Timeline
Solutions Architect
Emirates
06.2021 - Current
AWS Solutions Architect
06-2021
Solutions Architect Consultant
Transguard
06.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Associate
CTS
06.2018 - 05.2019
PG Diploma - Business Administration
University of Leicester
04.2015 - 04.2017
System Analyst/ Software Engineer
Emirates Group IT
12.2012 - 05.2018
Software Engineer
CSC INDIA
04.2011 - 11.2012
Programmer Analyst
CTS
10.2010 - 04.2011
Software Engineer
Vigna Systems Inc
10.2009 - 10.2010
Software Engineer
American MegaTrends
07.2008 - 06.2009
B.E - Computer Science
Anna University
10.2004 - 05.2008
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