As a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I cover the EMEA region for a premium AWS partner, serving as a strategic member of the regional Partner Solution Architect team. My role focuses on Global Systems Integrators (GSI), where I act as a trusted advisor, providing architectural guidance and recommendations for successful worldwide partner engagements. I collaborate closely with the Partner Alliance team, Partner Development Managers, AWS internal team, and other Solutions Architects throughout customer engagement lifecycles. My responsibilities include assisting partners in defining approaches, tools, and target architectures for migrating customers or building cloud-native solutions on AWS, as well as validating partner architectures, deliverables, SOWs, and project plans. I help solution providers define technical strategies to enhance their offerings on the AWS platform and contribute to shaping strategies that expand the use of AWS across the partner community. A significant part of my role involves architecting enterprise-grade AWS solutions, owning technical relationships with GSIs, developing and executing multi-day workshops, leading white-boarding sessions, authoring white papers and blog posts, and addressing complex technical inquiries. I also capture and share best practices within the broader Solution Architect community and provide valuable feedback to internal product management and engineering teams, helping drive AWS's future development.

Working as a Lead Enterprise Architect part of the integrated digital engineering and application services team in a client facing digital transformation engagement. Also working closely with the wider Wipro business development team leading architectural discussion in business development. Leading a team of Architects and developers (direct / indirect line management) to delivery outcome to the client and business initiatives. Client Work: Lloyds Banking Group – Consumer Services (Retail Banking) - Enterprise Architect in consumer servicing value stream of Lloyds banking group for digital transformation across Open Banking, Access and Payments, Cards Servicing, Customer Servicing, Engagement and Device & Digital. - Define application architecture, reference architectures, design patterns, application architecture standards, guidelines for current or emerging technologies / architecture styles like event-driven & microservices architecture.- Leading API and Microservices chapter, Engineering connects and enabling architecture charters in the practice. - Provide consultancy to various accounts/engagements looking for guidance on transformation, tooling, and cloud migration. - Develop and review design, best practices for applications, specifically Cloud Native. - Drive and review POVs and POCs to validate architectures & design patterns for technology evaluation. - Design and drive creation of frameworks/re-usable assets for the architecture practice - Lead the design of end-to-end architectures and deliver leading practice solutions in large complex transformation programmes- Support the programme delivery providing technical leadership, managing technical risk and lead the resolution of complex technical problems- Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems- Develop business cases for transformation programmes based on industry insight and providing the roadmap to ensure the achievement of the planned benefits

Working in a DevOps team as a hands-on Architect- Review incumbent cloud architecture by drawing on my previous experience as a consultant. Writing a whitepaper to highlight issues, risks, tech debt and solutions - Providing cost optimisation suggestions and practices to reduce spend on the cloud- Architecting solutions using AWS well-architected framework and focusing on cloud security, automation and cost transparency- Lead deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create FaaS based solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud using Serverless Framework and headless, API first architecture- Be an AWS evangelist. Educate the team of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS- Collaborate with Cloud Practice team members across the globe to deliver proposals, and solutions and also be the onsite AWS delivery lead.- Working on CI/CD practices using tools such as GitLab and infrastructure as code with CloudFormation. - Working in a SAFe (Agile) environment and being part of the agile ceremonies

- Overall architectural leadership of content curation and distribution components and technology assets in Refinitiv Risk Tech. Working on the projects providing Data for KYC, AML & Financial Crime. - Provide technical leadership and direction to the delivery teams. Working with globally diverse engineering teams across countries (US, UK, India, Thailand) and vendors - Work closely with engineering teams throughout the delivery and deployment cycle meeting critical deliverables in major programs- Lead projects through architectural governance process by taking it through AWS well-architected reviews, meeting internal security policies, audit compliance requirements, GDPR requirements and operability standards- Working with stakeholders, navigating through a range of opinions to arrive at the best architectural option within any given situation considering technical constraints, business needs and time to market- Bridge the gap between business needs/direction and the possibilities and constraints surrounding technical implementation. Bringing industry experience and innovative thinking to this area- Working with the operations team to transition the delivery into a DevOps model. Architecting immutable infrastructure for continuous integration continuous delivery. Architecting for resiliency and disaster recovery of services. Applying cloud-native techniques for operational monitoring, alerting and auditing - Working with the security team to callout any emerging security risk and plan mitigation - Building systems in a cost-optimal way considering capex vs opex, on-demand and scalability. Reporting cloud spend and refactoring architecture to cost optimise. As a result, saving the cloud spend

- Overall architectural leadership of content curation and distribution components and technology assets in Refinitiv Risk Tech providing KYC, AML, Financial Crime and Global Sanctions data using AWS as the cloud provider. - Defining Roadmap in the Risk portfolio (worth $300m) from an Architectural perspective in alignment with product team’s strategic initiative- Working as a consultant in shaping architectural governance process and improving areas of risk and compliance within projects - Provide technology leadership and direction to the delivery teams. Working with globally diverse engineering teams across countries (US, UK, India, Thailand) and vendors - Work closely with engineering teams throughout the delivery and deployment cycle meeting critical deliverables in major programs- Lead projects through architectural governance process by taking it through AWS well-architected reviews, meeting internal security policies, audit compliance requirements, GDPR requirements and operability standards- Working with stakeholders, navigating through a range of opinions to arrive at the best architectural option within any given situation considering technical constraints, business needs and time to market- Bridge the gap between business needs/direction and the possibilities and constraints surrounding technical implementation. Bringing industry experience and innovative thinking to this area- Working with the operations team to transition the delivery into a DevOps model. Architecting for CICD. Architecting for resiliency and disaster recovery of services. Applying cloud-native techniques for operational monitoring, alerting and auditing - Working with the security team to callout any emerging security risk and plan mitigation - Building systems in a cost-optimal way considering Capex vs Opex, on-demand and scalability. Reporting cloud spend and refactoring architecture to cost optimise. As a result, saving the AWS cloud spend

- Being a trusted advisor to clients in programmes and projects in the delivery of work and also advisory in strategic initiatives that underpin digital transformations- Creating digital transformation options and roadmaps that start with a minimal viable product and expand into a large-scale capability to transform- Defining architectures and designing end to end solutions. Owning the technical solutions- Participating and leading technical discussion during vendor and product evaluation- Understanding functional and non-functional requirements to defining architecture and design solution. Defining delivery timescales, implementation steps and analysing technical risks based on proposed architecture and design- Performing technical reviews and solution assessments of peers- Working with teams across the full lifecycle, using the waterfall and agile methods- Creating reusable artifacts, standards and best practice. Identifying patterns and defining the conceptual, logical and physical architecture

Architect overlooking multiple projects within the airport resilience and operational systems domain.Replacement of legacy broker systems with Organisational strategic building blocks.Liaising with various stakeholders to understand the requirement, perform impact analysis and producing integration options recommendation reportDelivering Architectural documents such as full system architecture, decommissioning strategy, component design architecture and updating architecture and development strategy plan with ESB based Solution.Coordinating with the various stakeholders, internal and external, for successful completion of the projectGoverning design as a part of a working group for the ESB as an integration expert.

As a part of the Business Process Integration Team, I am responsible for in architecting complex EAI solutions using ESB, Java and other complementing technologies across multiple projects. My core daily activities comprise of the following activities:• Providing a consultative approach to problem solving throughout the project life cycle. • Understanding both functional and non-functional requirements to design solutions and defining architecture. • Defining delivery timescales, implementation steps and analysing technical risks based on proposed architecture/design.• Managing and leading the projects from a delivery standpoint using agile development.• Coordinating with the various stakeholders, internal and external, for successful completion of the project. • Acquisition of knowledge from subject matter experts and stakeholders. • Leading, training and mentoring a team of consultants and associates in an onsite-offshore delivery model.• Being a key reviewer of the code and documentation as a part of project deliverables and assuring its quality. • Charting process flow diagrams, defining conceptual, logical and physical architecture. • Single point of contact for all project deliverables, through designing, developing and deploying integration solutions. • Understanding of environments, infrastructure and networks required enabling bespoke software solutions.

Alongside doing my MBA I had taken up a part time job to keep me in touch with the industry. I have chosen a job that required a comprehensive technical expertise at the same time gives me an opportunity to understand the retail sector. I gained an understanding of the needs of end consumers of a widely segmented telecom market. It has also given me insight into managing retail operations.

As a senior consultant my role and responsibilities were to:• Lead and mentor a team of consultants. • Performing pre-sales activities like making technical presentations, answering technical queries through e-mail, phone and on-site visits.• Creating proof of concepts, responding to request for proposal and request for information.• Gathering client requirements and being a liaison between onshore and offshore team.• Supporting Java / J2EE bespoke and SOA based application in analysis, planning and imple-mentation.• Overlooking end-to-end software development life cycle and change management.• Ensuring timely delivery of critical projects ensuring quality solutions to the client.• Handling issues, diagnosing problem and implementing solutions.I was a single point of contact in the team that maintained a SOA based application catering the Immigration Department of Netherlands and incident controller to a bespoke application environment of ABN AMRO Insurance. I played a technical coordinator role in a SaaS based project that provided a knowledge management application as a service.

As a senior analyst my role and responsibilities consisted of:• Leading a module and training junior members of the team. • Playing a part of a technical analyst performing problem diagnosis and providing solutions.• Supporting middleware an application through implementing changes required by the business to the system.• Overlooking deployment and integration processes.• Ensuring timely delivery of solutions.As a part of a team of analysts I played a lead role in a pivotal assignment to migrate and merge two US-based broadband ordering systems and consolidate them to a larger order processing system, which handled DSL and fibre-optic connections. My role demanded good technical know how and sharp analytical skills with a clear understanding of the business requirements.

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As a software engineer my role and responsibilities consisted of:• Research and Development.• Participating in design level activities of products.• Following industry standards quality processes • Performing tasks of a configuration manager.Joining the organisation as a trainee software engineer I was quickly promoted to a software engineer within a short duration of three months. As a software engineer I worked as a part of the research and development team that design and develop new software products. Even in the early stage of my career I actively contribute toward ideas that lead to conceptualisation of products. My contributions were valued, respected and awarded within the organisation.

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