SUMMARY:

• Sr. Technologist/Lead Enterprise Architect for Cloud Native Applications (Platform) development and delivery using PaaS/iPaaS with IaaS and SaaS, DevOps, Containers, Automation (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment), and Microservice Architecture
• Over 17 years of involvement in all facets of software engineering includes requirement gathering, design, development, deployment, validation, application architect, technical architect for enterprise applications and Global consulting for onsite/offshore; ambassador and/or liaison
• 8+ years of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and EA governance experience. Thought leadership in IT strategy, Business/IT alignment and Architecture best - practices
• Lately, my focus has been on helping larger Enterprises to build and deploy cloud native applications in the most effective manner. I bring to the table my expertise in cloud migration and dependency management practices
• Developed an integrated view of Client’s business capabilities and process using a repeatable approach, and available architecture framework and industry standard techniques
• Specializing in: Modernization, Standardization and Enterprise System Integration of legacy Systems and Platforms using Event-Driven/Domain Driven Micro Services Architecture through API Framework
• Responsible for providing the business with a plan and alternatives for enabling IT to deliver business outcomes in support of business strategy and goals - perform Buy vs. Build analysis.
• Conduct workshops for the customers to identify potential areas for Proof of Concept (PoC) development and design/architect, drive PoC and Proof of Technology (PoT) evaluation on Cloud Platform.
• Extensive leadership and mentoring of cross-disciplinary teams in analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of critical business services and applications
• Provide the thought leadership and strategic assessment to the Client’s CTO organization for selecting and evaluating industry’s best Cloud Service Provider for PaaS (Platform as a Service), iPaaS (integration- Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) to migrate enterprise On-premise’s B2B and B2C production applications and other data center workloads.
• Responsible for defining and publishing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Federation Architecture for client LOB organization.
• Responsible for developing industry best Cloud migration standards, guidelines, best practices, Cloud implementation approach and implementation plan for Cloud based software development environments.
• Responsible for defining and publishing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Federation Architecture (including Microservices) for client CTO organization. Address and in corporate all security, compliance, and governance design principles associated with the cloud solutions.
• B2B and B2C (Online Consumer facing) exposure in the following, but not limited to: banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications, mfg.& high tech, healthcare &life Science, retail & consumer Goods (RCG), Confidential & government, pharmaceutical and the mortgage domain.
• Involved in all facets of software engineering including Requirements Engineering, Architecture Review Board, EA Governance and Solution Architect, PMO and Consulting for Onsite/Offshore engagements
• Assisting delivery Team/field teams/Pre-sales team when pursuing new business or additional business at existing clients through RFP response, proposal or SOW generation
• Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework
• Oversee technical architecture implementation and managing the entire Software Development Life Cycle and Project Implementation for a large development team located remotely.
• Ensure all the Development teams are provided with technical detail artifacts for implementing solutions for Onsite/Offsite delivery model
• Prior to joining Dimension Data Confidential, Hiten Desai served and performed different roles like Sr.
• Technologist/Chief Enterprise Architect, Principal Cloud Platform Architect, Principal ITaaS Architect, Sr.
• Technical Architect; as he worked for leading consulting firms and served their Fortune 500/1000 clients located in North and South America.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Digital Business/Technology: Digital Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Workspace for tomorrow, Customer Experience, SMCAIT (Social Media, Mobile, Community Cloud, Analytics and IoT), and Cross Functional Collaboration

EA Framework and Tools: TOGAF, Zachman, TROUX, IBM RSA, Mega International and ArchiMate Modelling tool

Software Design Methods: SOA Architecture, Microservice Architecture and other related design Patterns

API Gateway/Framework: Google’s Apigee for Pivotal CF, RedHat, DellBoomi, MuleSoft

Service Framework: ITIL(ITSM) - Best Practices for managing services

Cloud (Technologies) IaaS: IBM SoftLayer, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure and Azure Stack (Hybrid Cloud Platform), OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, Google Container Engine(GKE) and Oracle Cloud Platform

Cloud Native App Platform (PaaS): Pivotal‘s Cloud Foundry, Redhat’s OpenShift, IBM Bluemix, Oracle PaaS, Google App Engine, SFDC’ Heroku, and AWS’s Elastic Beanstalk

Cloud Integration Platform (iPaaS): IBM Cast Iron, Dell Boomi AtomSphere, Oracle ICS, SAP HCI, Microsoft BizTalk and MuleSoft

Cloud SaaS Integration: Salesforce’s UI, Business logic and Data integration. Salesforce-SAP Integration & Salesforce-iPaaS

Container/Orchestration/ Docker, Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry’s Diego, Apache’s Mesos, Scheduler: Google’s Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Azure ACS

Cloud DevOps Tools: SCM - Git, GitHub, GitLab, CI- Jenkins (aka Hudson), Bamboo and CM -Puppet, Chef and Ansible

Big Data and Analytics Platforms: No-SQL (e.g. MongoDB, Apache’s Cassandra), Apache’s Spark and Hadoop Framework (HDFS and MapReduce), Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR

ECMS/CMS: Adobe AEM/Adobe WEM-CQ5 (formerly Day WCMS), HP Autonomy (formerly Team Site Interwoven), Vignette (part of Open text now), Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent)

SDLC Methodologies: SAFE (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum/Agile, Kanban, Iterative (RUP) and Waterfall

App Framework (Open Source): Spring/Spring Boot Platform, Eclipse, NetBeans and JDeveloper and Apache Projects

J2EE Technologies: JEE, JCA, EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Java Security and Java Swings

Scripting Language: Python, JavaScript, Unix Shell Script(bash)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Director/Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Helps SAIT's Fortune 500/1000 customers achieve business outcomes by enabling IT & delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption and delivery model.
• Enterprise Business Architect Solutions includes IT Digital Transformation Confidential and Strategic Assessment and Road-map
• Application Placement and Cloud Readiness; Next Generation Data Center Model, Digital Transformation Maturity; and From Containers to Microservices
• Legacy Modernization with Cloud Computing, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Microservice Architecture, Cloud Migration Strategy for migrating workloads into PaaS and IaaS using Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deployment.
• Defining DevOps Strategy, CI/CD Pipeline for their lower and higher environments.

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrating a Digital Mobile Platform to Google Cloud Infrastructure
• Migration Architecture based on Google’s Kubernetes as orchestration and Micro services
• DevOps strategy / CI/CD pipeline for lower and higher environments
• Google Container Engine (GKE) implementation Roadmap
• Develop and Publish Google Cloud design for POC and PROD environment.

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of 40+ Web sites to understand the tools and technology used by those departmental websites to be migrated on Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS Platform
• Application Placement & Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment along with Application Portfolio Rationalization (APR)
• Lead to Develop and establish different templates required to migrate those applications on Paas/IaaS
• Lead to develop the complete automation workflow for on boarding those applications on OpenShift PaaS Platform with IaaS
• Define Architecture considerations for non-functional requirements including Scalability, Availability, Security and Performance
• Lead to develop and publish the complete Onboarding documentation includes automation process flow and OSE PaaS platform supported tools and technologies
• Create and communicate OSE PaaS Platform Architecture artifacts, Standards and Best practices for Onboarding those departmental web sites
• Create and communicate end-to-end DevOps activities includes DevOps Toolchain and its Maturity
• Define the roles and responsibilities for both IT DEV team and IT Operation/Release team
• Create and communicate current state and future state documentation for the IaaS/PaaS
• Build distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale
• Deliver Presentations to upper management and end-users regarding On boarding automation work flow, DevOps Strategy and CI/CD pipeline to be established

Principal ITaaS Enterprise Architect/ Transformation Consulting/ Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led Cloud Computing and Big Data Practice and responsible for advisory, go-to-market strategy and end-to-end ITaaS (IT-as-a-Service) for Digital Transformation & Innovation Confidential . Also responsible for Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) Strategy includes Data Center Development Model (DCDM), Hybrid Cloud and Data Center Strategy, SI Services Strategy, Big Data Analytics Service (AaaS) and Business Cloud Advisory with Application Placement and Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment
• Helped Dimension Data’s clients to achieve business outcomes by enabling and delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption & delivery model

Chief Enterprise Architect, BAS Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Enterprise Architecture Practice and contributed to the Client’s CTO organization for their Enterprise IT Strategy initiatives and its roadmap, digital strategy, middleware implementations blueprint, application architecture and design, and leveraging overall technical architecture solution across multiple line of business
• Led in Transformational Consulting to assist the Fortune 500 clients in assessing their legacy application landscape, defining the target state application and technology landscape (architecture), and producing the business case and roadmap to optimize and modernize the architectures after performing APR (application portfolio rationalization). As a Chief Architect, managing and providing overall technical architecture solution; especially B2B and B2C exposure (Online Web based) consumer facing Wipro’s key delivery accounts
• Led DevOps(Cloud) Automation Strategy

Sr. Director / Chief Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Being a seasoned Enterprise Architect, led the cloud consulting practice had defined their various IT Confidential including EA Consulting, Legacy Modernization, Application Portfolio Rationalization, SOA Architecture, Portal Architecture, Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and IT Operation automation -CI and CD.