Senior Director - Global Delivery Architects Practice, Mcs - Azure Cloud And Ai Domain
CurrentI lead a Global team of Architect Managers & Architects. My group is responsible for Technical Strategy, Capability Building, Business Development, Offering Creation, Presales, Architecture maturity, Technical Governance & Quality, innovation, and incubation of new capabilities. • Presales and Technical Delivery of large complex migrations/modernizations covering all R Types - Rehost, Replatform Refactor & Rearchitect spanning across Infrastructure, Security, Application and Data Estate Modernizations. Technologies: IaaS Migrations, App Modernization (PaaS Migration - .net and Java to Azure), Data Estate Modernization (On-premises SQL, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza to Azure SQL, Postgres, Azure Synapse and Azure Databricks etc.) Incubated models to migrate on-premises data estate to Azure Created Factory Model for scale PaaS, and Data migrations. • Presales and Technical Delivery of first of its kind innovative Digital Transformation engagements covering technologies like IOT, Blockchain, Cloud Native Apps, Connected Car, Data Analytics, MLOps and AI • Incubation of Senior Architect Role to lead multi-million-dollar complex engagements, • Built high performing team and drove the culture of being early adopter of technical (Machine Learning, MLOps, Edge Computing, OpenAI etc.) and architecture trends (Well Architected Framework, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Resiliency). Drove both depth and breadth readiness for the architects. • Harvested customer patterns and packages those as IP to be onboarded as features in Azure Tools • Incubated Architecture Review Board to ensure recommended architecture for customer solutions. • Led engineering excellence, drove readiness and adoption of modern delivery practices (DevOps, Security, Site Reliability Engineering and Combined Engineering transformation of teams) • Delivered Opening Keynote in Asia Technical Leadership Development Program.