Leading AI products and services to enable sales and marketing function for our clients.

Capgemini Invent combines key digital capabilities with deep sector expertise to help organizations to prototype, test and scale new products, services and business models, quickly and effectively.Created the Big Data & Data Science Platforms consulting and global delivery capability for Capgemini Invent though aligning multiple business units - providing clients with technical depth of cloud native platforms, from strategy to execution. • Proven trusted advisor to CxOs accelerating time to value. In addition, gained experience in M&A planning and completion.• Launched new offerings like Precision Medicine Platform, LLM based search, synthetic data generator and Data Products in 90 days.I have led the launch of joint GTM solutions with Microsoft in Generative AI. Beyond the technical build and delivery for client projects, I have focused on encompassing strategy development, maturity assessment, and roadmap creation for client adoption. Successfully executed Workplace Transformation with CoPilot for Microsoft 365 in the Microsoft Marketplace, resulting in significant client engagements in Pharma, Energy and Finance, and a robust global pipeline across various industries. I have also been helping in building capability towards GenAI for Software Engineering, GenAI for Customer Experience, and more recently GenAI for Product Development.

My team and I work with Chief Data & Analytics Officers + Heads of Big Data Engineering across many businesses to build a culture of innovation fuelled by data, alongside a governance framework to protect against data loss, and implementing data privacy, and the required regulatory & compliance needs, instrumented through automation, technology and processes.Be it retail, financial services, manufacturing, health care or public sector, we have industry knowledge, and deep domain expertise to build a resilient data culture, and customer capability, with a strong focus on architectural cohesiveness, integrity and best practices.

Focused to build a team of Lead Solutions Architects to ensure customers succeed with their Data and AI strategy and deliver results. My team and I are enabling our global and strategic customers with a mix of technology, business and pragmatism. Also, working together with Microsoft UK Azure Data & AI business, our partners, and engineering teams to remove blockers and succeed in the competitive Data and AI marketplace.In the last few months:• Nurtured a culture of innovation, and created an operating model around it. • Created a formal engagement model for Solutions Architects. • Rolled out a forum for thought leadership for the UK tech community, generating 100s of blogs, Meetups, webinars etc.• Lead to double digit MoM growth for Azure Data & AI services across my accounts. Doubled the partner attached ratio and also enabled the Microsoft partner community on data architecture and services on Azure.• Developed a methodology of significantly improving conversion ratio of PoC to production.My current mission is to create a Chief Digital Officer practice and a Center of Excellence around Data Governance using Azure and Microsoft technologies, and build a framework and a forum of practitioners from our customer base. This is to ensure enterprises build practices around the access and availability of data, and protect the most precious asset i.e. data, but still have the ability to democratize data across the enterprise to instil a data driven culture, backed by innovation.I'm loving pace of innovation, digital transformation, team power... and all driven by true customer obsession.

As a specialist solutions architect in AWS for data and analytics, I work as an authority in this area (much like a domain CIO), providing architectural best practices and advises for internal customers, other solutions architects and customers. In addition, this role also needs one to review the market trends and demands and coordinate with product teams on product roadmaps. I’m involved, and in some cases lead the solutions evangelism and participate in all internal conferences such as re:Invent, AWS Summits and also represent AWS at many external events.I have been actively working in building technical content for publicly available courses such as Data Warehousing on AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/data-warehousing/]. I’m also the co-owner of the London Redshift Meetup group. The last Meetup that I organised was in June and is the most successful to date, details can be found here [http://bit.ly/2vBB71U]. I have also take the responsibility of removing misconception about security concerns in cloud have given clear guidance on how to secure big data workloads on AWS [http://bit.ly/2vifzbl]. In addition, I publish prescriptive content on common use-case in our big data blog which is immensely popular, one example of converging data silos with Amazon Redshift, AWS DMS and Amazon QuickSight [http://amzn.to/2kIr1bq]. I also mentor a community of budding bloggers to team up with me to produce technical content on items that are important to customers, and thereby cultivate the growth of our SME community.One of the most important things I have learnt and successfully applied is the ability to apply the Leadership Principles to prioritize and focus in delivering what is right for our customers and the organisation.

Work with senior management to influence strategic vision, and translate business vision into SWRX’s conceptual architecture & drive architectural evolution to optimize platform extensibility and resiliency.Where possible drive architectural improvements to maximize platform performance and scalability and mentor our IT organization on business and technical vision and related architecture standards.Actively promote sound engineering principles among technology team members & identify training that will develop necessary skills for technical staff, as well as promoting understanding of the MSSP space.Promote & cultivate creativity throughout the engineering organization.Assist teams in adopting new infrastructure and technologies and where applicable ensure a smooth migration to cloud based infrastructure.As a principle architect, actively participate in the implementation of pilots/ proofs-of-concept of new business applications and infrastructure.

Strong (a) technical, (b) business, (c) communication, (d) leadership, (e) analytical & (f) problem solving skills.Extensive experience on management of technical team both in-house and outsourced.Strong experience of fuelling innovation while not loosing focus on change management.Proven track record in delivering large and highly transactional web infrastructure with emphasis on performance, availability and scalability.Strong experience of architecting large scale, cross domain, complex technology platforms.The ability to build and maintain partnerships worldwide with stakeholders and colleagues from within the enterprise and outside. End-to-end knowledge of hardware and software technology stack, including cloud computing, OLTP systems, DWH system and Big Data architecture.

In this role I gathered experience in managing large projects with multiple vendors and in delivering high-end solutions within budget and on time. Whilst designing large enterprise solutions with limited budget and resources, I have managed to learn the art of trade-offs and have delivered cost efficient solutions, which are also of great quality.

Clent facing role with extensive work in Enterprise Java and Oracle technologies. Experience is source code management and project management with off-shore teams.

Whilst working with the eBusiness unit (Excelum) of Europe’s largest technology consultancy, I gathered extensive experience in a wide range of projects ranging from complex web-based distributed systems, to writing low-level APIs. I have worked on Java/EJB on JRun, C++ engines for ATM machines with JNDI-based interfaces and a Natural Language processing engine using YY. Some of the main projects I have been involved in are:• Developing a natural language processing application for Barclays Bank.• Architecture design, development and maintenance of an anti-piracy software system.• Developing core components in a pre-pay retail banking system.I have had full exposure across the software development lifecycle and therefore gained experience of working in software teams and project focused organisations.