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Arjun Kanjiraparambil

Ajax,ON

Summary

Recognized as a trusted IT professional, with nearly 18 years of impressive success in leading design & implementing strategic delivery solutions and driving IT transformations that increased shareholder value of top-notch MNCs, targeting assignments for Solution Architect roles Enterprise Architecture / IT Solution Architecture / Digital Transformation.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President

Genpact
08.2021 - Current
  • Assessing Enterprise Architecture and operations organization (people, process, and technology) to determine best course of journey towards Cloud and Align architecture strategy with business goals
  • Leading EA review board and ensures that solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models
  • Evaluating current deployment process to identify bottlenecks and implement solutions towards continuous deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD); evangelizing, implementing, and managing robust DevOps function
  • Working closely with business leadership to conduct Cloud Assessment, Cloud Suitability and Cloud Feasibility studies and establish Digital
  • Strategy and Architecture Roadmap to facilitate migration to AWS Cloud Platform
  • Establishing Digital Transformation Strategy & risk assessment models at executive & technical level, understanding their functional & non- functional needs for highly scalable, available & resilient system
  • Reviewing, refining and suggesting options for cloud platform architecture to meet customer IT infrastructure needs like high availability, high scalability and low-cost resources
  • Providing thought leadership and architectural expertise to cross-functional team charged with developing and deploying Cloud Native
  • Employing continuous integration (CI), continuous testing (CT) and continuous deployment (CD) practices to deliver fully tested solutions rapidly to business users
  • Front-leading end-to-end management of cloud transformation& migration project entailing requirement gathering, analysis, requirement mapping into technical solution, planning the deployment, execution, delivery and governance from offshore for migration programs till projection completion
  • Evolving strategies and executing roadmaps (for strict budget controls, IT infrastructure, security, crisis / disaster & business continuity plans, negotiation schedules asset management)
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and overall departmental productivity.
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.

Lead Architect

AstraZeneca
01.2017 - 08.2021
  • Managing AstraZeneca's R&D Portfolio focusing IT Infrastructure Design and Delivery which includes managing various domain architects like Cloud, Wintel, Unix, Storage, Database
  • Developing and enhancing Right Hosting Choices (RHC) Framework in coordination with AZ Global lines of Business (LoB) Operations IT &
  • Software Shared Services and center of excellence (CoE) throughout architecture design phase
  • Building strategy, owning future growth of established team, managing escalation and resolving issues.
  • Enabling successful delivery of engagements with right solutions/ POCs/ framework involvement in creation of IPs/ reuse
  • Engaging with internal and external partners for Business Development & Joint GTM, Indirect / Direct Marketing of Cloud Services
  • Collaborating with Technology and Engineering Teams across service lines, helping them implement a productized strategy, consuming existing components while also greatly enhancing velocity of products by leveraging cloud platform and reuse
  • Implementing Agile techniques to deliver high business value solutions to maximise benefits realization; designing technical solutions based on project and operational requirements using agile methodology, rendering technical architectural support and guidance for opportunities (On-premise and private, hybrid & Public Cloud)
  • Setting-up framework to integrate the TCO Calculator, Estimation & RHC Tool with Infrastructure Automation Tool for Rapid E2E Infra delivery to Global Business Units
  • Heading delivery of iterations to ensure focus on delivery of business value in short iterations to maximise productivity in midst of change
  • Representing approach to Board taking into account goals of business and reflecting them back in implemented approach
  • Understanding clients’ business and providing inputs for creation, implementation of effective architecture & technology plans
  • Creating architectures and designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces; functioning as Lead Architect taking solution ownership and stimulate design to completion

Senior IT Infrastructure Designer

British Telecom
11.2015 - 01.2017
  • Coordinated with BT’s Microsoft Server Technologies team for setting up architecture/design and implemented plan for BT’s prestigious customers
  • Liaised with business heads, project managers and engineering managers to optimize solutions based on project and operational requirements
  • Participated in presales activities like RFP and RFT; managed capacity planning and POCs on emerging technologies (not limited to Microsoft technology)
  • Assessed and translated customer requirements to technology solutions
  • Engaged across IT and business to take ownership for developing technology / product roadmaps and technology catalogue
  • Developed, refined, published, and socialized patterns, policies, guidelines, and technology standards
  • Managed large scale infrastructure refreshes, consolidated and modernized technology footprint, cloud integration and migration, and network traffic/capacity optimization

Technology Specialist Lead – Solution Architect

Societe Generale
04.2014 - 11.2015

Support Engineer

Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
07.2009 - 04.2014

Global Service Response Analyst

Oracle Software India
05.2007 - 06.2009

Engineer

HCL Technologies
11.2005 - 05.2007

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science and Technology

University of Madras
Chennai, India
09.2006

Skills

  • Solution Architecture & Design IT Infrastructure Management Digital Transformation
  • Risk & Change Management Strategic Planning & Partnership Project & Program Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Stakeholder Management (Client Business)
  • Technical & Functional Leadership
  • People Management & Training Disaster Recovery Management Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Timeline

Vice President

Genpact
08.2021 - Current

Lead Architect

AstraZeneca
01.2017 - 08.2021

Senior IT Infrastructure Designer

British Telecom
11.2015 - 01.2017

Technology Specialist Lead – Solution Architect

Societe Generale
04.2014 - 11.2015

Support Engineer

Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd
07.2009 - 04.2014

Global Service Response Analyst

Oracle Software India
05.2007 - 06.2009

Engineer

HCL Technologies
11.2005 - 05.2007

Master of Science - Computer Science and Technology

University of Madras

Accomplishments

  • Successfully generated cost savings of $2.5 Million for year 2020-21 by making right hosting choices (Private Cloud vs AWS vs Azure vs GCP) as well as additional $3.4 Million cost by strategically designing and reusing underutilized H/W.
  • Played key role in delivering enterprise-wide backup & recovery solution for large file shares reducing failures and mitigating business risk.
  • At AstraZeneca Developed:
    •Framework to integrate the TCO Calculator (AWS/Azure/Google/Private Cloud), Estimation & RHC Tool
    •Proprietary SAS Grid & HPC solution to carter typical infrastructure requirement.
  • Played key role in designing, preparing and performing AD migration (2003 to 2012 R2) for Lloyds Banking Retail sector, disaster recovery plan for Emirates ticketing modules and Exchange Hybrid server 2013 with O365 for Emirates Airlines at BT
    Involved in deploying ADFS "Single Sign-on" for an application for Lloyds Bank at BT.
  • Successfully implemented ISMS - ISO 27001:2013 for entire Societe Generale Retail sector, certified as ISO 27001:2013 Lead Implementer.
  • Involved in preparing capacity plans for Société Générale Retail Banking IT infrastructure (Windows, Virtualization & Linux).
  • Conferred with “Star Performer of Microsoft India” GTSC for H1 FY10 & H2 FY11, and “Power Player Award” for H1 FY12.
  • Presented whitepaper on Windows Activation at Microsoft TechReady 2010 in Seattle, United States

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