Years of Professional Experience
Shubham Kothalkar
London
Summary
- Enterprise Technology Architect having extensive experience in banking and non-banking organisations of designing and leading future state architecture vision and strategies, architecture blueprints and roadmaps, developing enterprise governance, standards, processes and guidelines around adoption of technology.
- Designed and delivered 3 green-field platform solutions (on AWS, Azure and on-prem) for three different organizations.
- Committed to bring innovation as a Thought-leader. Developed adoption framework and implementation strategy for 2 innovation technology solutions enabling their enterprise-wide adoption.
- Experience of managing stakeholders at CIO level, Product Owners, Business stakeholders, Technology vendor and partner leadership and Engineering teams.
Overview
18
18
4
4
Years of Engineering
5
5
Certifications
Work history
Enterprise Technology Architect
Accenture
London
02.2022 - Current
- Leading Enterprise Technology Architect responsible for designing Cloud technology architecture in AWS, Functional Architecture, Technology Architecture Blueprint and DevOps Architecture as per customer’s functional and non-functional requirements.
- Developing cloud migration strategy, identifying risks and propose mitigation for Application Migration and Modernisation.
- Conducting product assessment to recommend product that would best fit customer requirements.
- Collaborating on end-to-end solution, risks and benefits with Technology leadership, Technology partners and Engineering teams.
- Thought Leadership: Recently developed “Reuse Framework”. It fosters enterprise-wide adoption of reuse by providing guidance on collaboration strategy between Business stakeholders, Product Owners and Engineering Teams. It also provides tooling approach to standardise reuse across all teams. Further, it provides Financial model to incentivise teams creating reusable assets. Reuse Framework will help customer in reducing time-to-market for their features and thereby, reducing TCO by ~15%.
Principal Architect (Associate Director)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Amsterdam
03.2020 - 01.2022
- Principal Solutions Architect in Payments domain for designing Core banking platform on AWS for the bank.
- Lead design team and delivered Architecture Blueprint, Integration Architecture, Non-Functional requirements, Technology Roadmap, Standards and processes, quality gates for green-field end-to-end core banking in AWS.
- Engaged with internal and external stakeholders to conduct technology workshops.
- Conducted product evaluation as per functional and non-functional requirements.
- Lead Proof-of-Concept for new technology implementations.
- Thought Leadership: Introduced technology of Automated Fuzzing that helps in identifying edge case scenarios of application and services in early stages of Software Lifecycle.
Global Product Architect
Heineken Group B.V.
Amsterdam
07.2019 - 02.2020
- Global Product Architect for Digital Enablement Platform & Robotics and Automation within Heineken IT Services to oversee implementation of modern technologies within Heineken Global functions (Head Office) and its operating companies (OpCos) in more than 70 countries.
- Delivered platform design in Azure and defined governance, technology roadmap, adoption strategy for technologies like Process Discovery, Rapid Application Development Platforms, Robotics, and Chatbots to be offered as PaaS for developing applications.
- Analysed and evaluated different products with technology partners to make adoption of technologies easier within Heineken.
- Thought Leadership: Introduced concept of Federated Model to CIO for enabling citizen development, accelerating faster delivery and reducing TCO. Developed standards, governance and processes for enterprise-wide adoption of Federated Model. Conducted pilot implementation of Federated Model for Heineken’s French and Russian Opcos.
Solution Architect
ABN AMRO Bank B.V.
Amsterdam
01.2016 - 06.2019
- Solutions Architect for ABN AMRO to develop platforms for Robotic Process Automation, Rapid Application Development and Deployment, Web-portal solutions, Business Process Management capabilities.
- Designed and delivered Architecture Design Documents(ADD), and Critical Risk Assessment (CRA) for platforms mentioned above.
- Developed standards, governance and processes to enable technology adoption within ABN AMRO.
- Conducted Proof-of-Concepts (PoC) and product evaluation for technologies and products as per requirements.
Software Engineer
Informatica
Amsterdam
09.2013 - 12.2015
- Engineering team member developing applications using Java based frameworks.
Software Developer
CGI
Rotterdam
05.2013 - 08.2013
- Engineering team member developing applications using Java based frameworks.
Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Amsterdam
08.2006 - 04.2013
- Engineering team member developing applications using Java based frameworks.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
India 08.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
- Understanding of banking domain
- Stakeholder management (Business & Technology)
- Designing E2E architectural solutions
- Designing platform governance, standards and processes
- AWS and Azure Cloud Architecture
- Product evaluation
- Impact analysis
- Gap analysis
- Translate business/IT language
- Presentation skills
- Comfortable in communicating at all levels
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02)
- TOGAF 9 Level 1 & 2
- Google Gen AI for Business Leaders
- Certified Migration and Modernisation Cloud Architect
- Certified Senior Technology Architect
Timeline
Enterprise Technology Architect
Accenture
02.2022 - Current
Principal Architect (Associate Director)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2020 - 01.2022
Global Product Architect
Heineken Group B.V.
07.2019 - 02.2020
Solution Architect
ABN AMRO Bank B.V.
01.2016 - 06.2019
Software Engineer
Informatica
09.2013 - 12.2015
Software Developer
CGI
05.2013 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2006 - 04.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
08.2002 - 06.2006
Key deliverables in last few years
- Architecture Blueprint
- Architecture Decision Records
- Technology Roadmaps & adoption strategy
- Platform governance
- Strategic documents for technologies
- High-level solution documents
- Non-functional requirements
- Contribution in deriving Target Operating Model.
Professional Membership
Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
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