Siva Sekhar Avvaru

Led AWS Cloud Migration efforts, managing the end-to-end backlog for infrastructure transformation initiatives.

• Collaborated with platform and engineering teams to define non-functional requirements (NFRs) for scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Partnered with the Engineering Director to prioritize infrastructure features, streamline delivery timelines, and address technical debt.

• Managed SSL certificate lifecycle for critical systems, ensuring the timely renewal, proper configuration, and compliance of certificates, mitigating security risks.

• Oversaw the integration of SSL certificates with cloud infrastructure, aligning with security best practices and encryption protocols.

• Facilitated release planning and tracked team velocity to optimize delivery timelines for infrastructure changes.

• Served as an Agility Practitioner, coaching teams on agile frameworks, ensuring adherence to Scrum and Kanban practices, and conducting retrospectives to improve team performance.

• Monitored development progress and proactively addressed blockers, improving team delivery efficiency by 25%.

• Partnered with security teams to ensure compliance with industry standards during infrastructure upgrades.

BenefitFocus (All Your Benefits. One Place: Implementation of SSO to the BenefitFocus customers, which provides SSO access to employers, insurance carriers, and consumers on a single web-based platform for shopping, enrolling, managing, and exchanging benefit information.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Helping the product owner to keep the product backlogs in good shape, and to make them ready for the next sprint.
• Actively involved in the user stories estimation and facilitating the Scrum ceremonies, such as stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint planning sessions, etc.
• Serving as a liaison between the client and the development team.
• Change impact analysis and management (feature enhancements to the application).
• Define functional enhancements for the features of the product.
• Converted business requirements into functional requirements, and created a Functional Requirement Document (FRD).

• Acted as a Business Analyst and Surrogate Product Owner for Data Warehousing and Reporting Projects, facilitating the translation of business requirements into technical specifications.

• Led Data Conversion projects, working with cross-functional teams to migrate data from legacy systems to new platforms while ensuring data integrity and accuracy.

• Collaborated with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and ensure alignment with business intelligence objectives.

• Developed ETL workflows for data extraction, transformation, and loading processes, ensuring data consistency across the reporting layers.

• Worked closely with data engineering teams to ensure reporting and data transformation met business objectives.

• Provided strategic insights on improving data reporting and analysis to enhance business decision-making.

Spearheaded Data Conversion and Data Migration Projects, working with clients to analyze legacy data systems and develop comprehensive conversion strategies.

• Played a key role in defining data transformation logic and data quality checks to ensure a seamless migration to new systems.

• Collaborated with business users to gather and document reporting requirements, transforming them into technical deliverables for data teams.

• Worked on improving the accuracy and efficiency of data reporting tools, providing business users with timely and actionable insights.

• As an Associate Business Analyst, I worked on building the Insta Payment system for a multinational bank.
• Serving as a liaison between the client and the development team.
• Converted the gathered requirements into Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Documenting the requirements, writing the user stories.
• Provide a demo to internal partners and stakeholders.