SUMMARY:

• Experienced as Cloud Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence & Reporting Architect for major Fortune 500 firm projects, developing ETL integration, Analytical solutions, MDM and Data Repositories and Data Marts, reporting & visualization solutions across a broad range of business verticals. These repositories focused on minimizing firm wide risks, improving cross - application consistency, and reducing operating costs.
• Strong experience in Business Analysis Functions - documenting, preparing, presenting of following: Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, Functional Specs, Test Plans, Gap Analyses, Service Level Agreements, Statements of Work, Change Management Requests, Work Orders.
• Extensive experience as manager of development projects, which always deliver on-time and on-budget with full end-user support.

SKILL:

Clouds: Azure, AWS

Databases: SQL Server (including Azure DW), Cosmos DB, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, DB2, Essbase, TM1, HadooP, Azure HDInsight, Mongo DB, Elastic Search, KAFKA

Software: Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica, DataStage, DataFlux, SSRS, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, PowerBI, Tableau, SharePoint, Microsoft MDS, WhereScape 3D/RED, ERWin, ER Studio, MS Visio, XMLSpy, Control M, AutoSys

Languages: C#, VB.NET, Java, T-SQL, PL/SQL, XMLA, MDX, DAX, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT

Tools: MSMS, BIDS, Visual Studio, Toad, MS Office, MS Project, TFS, JIRA, Remedy

Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, XP, PRINCE2, Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, DAD, Waterfall, CMMI, JAD, UML, ETL, ELT, OLAP, OLTP, SOA, EIB, DW 2.0, Data Vault 2.0, Inmon, Kimball

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Azure Cloud Data Enablement Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected Azure data lake layer using Azure PAAS, sourced from on-prem Hadoop Data Lake via ETL\ELT Azure Data Factory.
• Architected numerous Activities (U-SQL, C#, SSIS), Pipelines, Data Sets for consumption in presentation layer.
• Architected self-service Power BI framework for Users of Marketing analyzing, troubleshooting, tuning performance and fixing deployment issues.

Confidential

Cloud Data Enablement Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected Data Vault 2.0 semantic layer model using Azure Data Lake PAAS, sourced from on-prem Hadoop Data Lake via ETL\ELT Azure Data Factory.
• Created numerous Activities (U-SQL, C#, SSIS), Pipelines, Data Sets for consumption in presentation layer.
• Architected self-service Power BI framework for Users of Options Trading Risk team analyzing, troubleshooting, tuning performance and fixing deployment issues.
• Facilitated data governance and data quality dimensional standards (Uniqueness, Accuracy, Consistency, Completeness, Timeliness, Currency, Conformance, and Referential Integrity) in order to support data load performance KPI Scorecards into Azure SQL Datawarehouse.
• Managed reviewing data files in Azure Data Lake for proper format; identifying, investigating, and resolving data anomalies via coding institution-specific SQL integrity checks statements; preparing various data conformance reports, charts and KPI’s to ensure the overall successful delivery of the datasets.

Confidential

Risk Transformation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed risk management Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence initiatives utilizing DB2, Teradata, Hadoop technologies. Provided understanding of Azure architectural patterns to on-boarded departments.
• Managed Project Plans and work streams distribution for migration and export of large data sets from on premise platforms into/from Azure cloud-based.
• Directed complete end-to-end efforts for Hybrid Cloud Data repositories data reconciliation across global company, providing automated and customized validation Infogix controls library. Put under control discrepancies identification process, during ETL and data reconciliation, reduced risk and avoided propagation of inaccurate data throughout the enterprise.
• Lead the planning and implementation of Azure Cloud Transformation program which includes projects for transforming IT Infrastructure services into cloud-enabled, i.e. SSO, AD, Cloud Key Vault, Virtual Private Networks, Cloud SQL and NOSQL DBs.
• Strategize enterprise-wide policies for Compliance Systems, Technology and Data Integrity data scrubbing, i.e. detecting and removing and/or correcting a Data Refineries for the Big Data unclean data - inaccurate, outdated, superfluous, unfinished, or formatted improperly. These efforts brought consistency to BCBS 239 dissimilar sets of data, which have been amalgamated from desperate data end points and users computing.
• Applied ITIL v3 principles and standards for Cloud transitioning of on-premise data center best practices, high-availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.

Confidential

Cloud Transformation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Set the technical and operational direction and communicating a vision to the enterprise units based on business objectives and technological trends in designing solutions using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Managed designing & deployment strategies for cloud/virtualization and digital transformation implementation best practices of products/services roadmaps, authored business (BRDs) and technology (FRDs) documentation, managed vendor relationships (e.g. RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs), shortened delivery cycle by streamlining numerous processes, and developed marketing collateral (data sheets, white papers, newsletters, Web (HTML), etc.).
• Reduced DevOps support issues by 50%. Increased profitability by 62%, growing revenue stream and reducing costs. Educated business teams on new applications and processes, related to cloud platform and feature enhancements and ensure teams are equipped and trained appropriately.

Confidential

Capital Markets Architect

Responsibilities:

• Communicated and presented progress on managed projects to all stake holders and senior executives while mitigating operational risks.
• Developed and managed strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the company to help prioritize and advocate work effectively on data migration, data store creation, security, Replication, Backup and anything to do with Azure Data Life Cycle end to end.
• Developed full scale project plans and detailed WBS’s, working with various internal business units on moving applications from on premises to Azure cloud platform.
• Coordinated, developed, and executed programs for KPIs’ continual measurement and improvement of the Cloud DevOps for optimal performance and effectiveness.
• Assigned and coordinated the work of staff, contractors and vendors’ on-shore and off-shore.
• Established architecture governance processes and stewardship policies for Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse Framework to ensure that all business groups have insight and input into enterprise architecture processes, thus creating a sense of global ownership.
• Responsible for budget planning and forecasting, resource allocation, vendor management for a complex Software-As-A-Serice development of Analytics Program using TOGAF architectural guidelines.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed Regulatory Reporting Repository, which provided centralized information source for the data models in Inmon and Kimball shapes, data maps, processes, documents, contact lists, project calendars and issues.
• Implemented DSDM project management approach using MoSCoW prioritization of scope. Followed ATERN v.2 project life-cycle methodology in order to achieve in-time delivery of 20 Team members.
• Responsible for budget planning and forecasting over $5M per year, resource allocation, vendor management for a complex Cloud Technology Transformation project.

Confidential

Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed whole loans securitization Analytics and Business Intelligence Regulatory Reporting initiative.
• Directed delivery of real-time, high-performance, high-availability 24/7 Fixed Income Trading EDW, including MDM and Data repositories, to identify and document similar counterparties across multiple trading systems in a counterparty repository, which had been used for CMBS, RMBS trade history enrichment.
• Was responsible for the development of reporting systems standards, policies and procedures; security and disaster recovery plans.
• Managed day-to-day operations and implements necessary system modifications at a minimum cost and effort.

Confidential

Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed expansion of the Hedge Fund-of-Fund Portfolio Administration Management software “HedgeSphere” into analytical landscape.
• Released incremental functionality to the business to keep the business community engaged, gain new insights into the data, refine unclear business rules, and maintain forward project momentum.
• Evaluated the current state of data management, integration, and distribution across multiple departments and developed a comprehensive strategy and roadmap to integrate information from over 100 IT systems.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed new Global Securities Landing Collateral infrastructure integrating both in-house systems and purchased data, and improved delivery of risk monitoring and CRM information across the Prime Brokerage organization.
• Supervised a core team of approximately 10 resources including the establishment, staffing, and management project team of offshore/onshore developers, who performed routine coding and unit testing.
• Integrated onshore/offshore teams to develop close ties between team members and encouraged open communication on both sides to ensure that questions and issues were resolved as quickly as possible. Reorganized work schedules to maximize uptime for both onshore/offshore teams and ensure on-time delivery of project milestones.
• Delivered P&L Data Warehouse project on-time and on-budget with full end-user support. That improved data quality and availability, and reduced overall costs by $5M per year, and the project team was retained by client after project conclusion to deliver additional system updates and enhancements.

Confidential

Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Proposed modifications to architecture added significant value to marketing efforts by enabling the business to scientifically find and strategically market to prospects as well as core customer base, perform accurate customer profitability analyses, effectively cross-sell and up-sell products to existing customers, perform retention and churn analysis, and effectively manage information flow to and from the Market Vendor’s network.

Confidential

Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Delivery Manager for a team of 25 resources on a long-running project to stabilize an unwieldy and unreliable ABS/MBS suite, and later re-engineered it into enterprise level architecture and deal structuring platform.
• Implemented the necessary upgrades for HP-UX, Oracle, and Informatica; re-engineered and tuned the ETL processes, integrated and automated quality assurance processes, established enterprise service level agreements (SLAs), and gained significant efficiencies through automation reducing the month-end process from 5 days to 1 day.

Confidential

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and improved data management system performance and reliability for collecting claims data for Property & Casualty division from the vendors across the country, and enabled the business to realize the full value of its information through informed, successful, cost-efficient and high-impact business decisions, made by users who can trust the reliability of the information provided.