SHRIKANT Solution Architect

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Email: acs4fv@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary: More than 15 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Healthcare, BPM, SOA, and Big Data Architecture. Delivering leadership and architecture solutions to business in:

Enterprise Solutions Architecture, Business Architecture consulting using framework like TOGAF

Business Capability Assessment, functional and technology gap analysis with business & IT team as part of strategic business initiatives

TOGAF certified Enterprise architect

Solutions Architecture applying standard SOA/SCA architecture style to integrate and expose business services

End-to-End Architecture Solutions using architecture frameworks like TOGAF, EA roadmap and governance, business blueprints, SOA governance and EA tools like IBM System Architect, RSA/RSM, and Visio.

Experience in business process modeling, service discovery & implementation, service modeling and design using BPMN and Rational Software Architect

Business process optimization, re-engineering and solution options evaluation for multiple strategic business requirements at various clients in Healthcare, Tele-communications, Insurance and Retail domain

Drive architecture evaluation for large initiatives to provide estimation for infrastructure, products recommendations, options analysis, and technology selection. Engage in the initiative throughout the program through SDLC. Handling nonfunctional (NFR) aspects of the IT initiatives including infrastructure planning, integrations, security, performance, continuous integration, code versioning and release strategy

Implementation of Service Offerings like Solution Architecture, Portal, Enterprise Architecture, and SOA for Healthcare technology practice

Exposure to Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive and Marklogic

Leading and managing multi-site teams using industry best methodologies Agile, CMMI

Technical Pre-Sales to various clients in Insurance and HealthCare

Organization-wide initiatives like recruitment, training, mentoring, and CoE formulations.

Expert in integrations involving complex SOA based applications environment; integration including web services, message routing, traffic cops, file transfers, asynchronous messaging using MQ. Well versed with Layer 7 application integrations using IBM stack

Develop, review and govern solution architecture for large initiatives, delivering key EA artifacts logical, physical architecture diagram (SAD), technology map

Participation in technical presentations, solution option identification, technology solutions, effort estimations

Providing technical solutions to multiple proposals (RFI/RFP) for prestigious clients in Pharmaceutical, Insurance and HealthCare domains

Active participation in high value proposals for legacy modernization, migration of legacy platform to strategic platform, enterprise contact center COE formation, J2EE COE setup.

Working with business application developers to determine how enterprise infrastructure will optimally meet business needs, while promoting adherence to analysis, design, and development standards and methodologies.

Working with business stakeholder teams to solve strategic problems (or gain advantage on opportunities) and establish target state, transition states and baseline architectures by creating strategy maps composed of, business, application, and technology aspects along with outcomes, inter-dependencies and execution sequences.

Creating solutions with considerations around gaps and risks, including the effective engagement of critical stakeholders, evaluating options (features, benefits, functionality, return on investment (ROI), total cost of ownership (TCO), risk, time to market, enterprise alignment context) and subsequently presenting, educating, and guiding the business units in making better investment decisions.

Hands on experience working with various operating systems including Windows, Unix. Linux. Well versed with commandline utilities, shell scripting, cron job scheduling etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THE HARTFORD, WINDSOR, CT JAN 14 - TILL DATE Lead Architect

Part of Technical Architecture team for claim systems modernization efforts at HIG to replace legacy claim systems with Indenstry standard product, GuideWire ClaimCenter. Ithis sytems integrates with 50+ internal and external sytem using SOA. This agile program spans multiple releases to be deliverd in short span of time using agile techniques running multiple scrums.

Responsibilities:

Create and maintain Architecture documents for program to align with Enterprise architecture and business vision

Deliver conceptual, logical, physical and infrastructure (platform) architecture following EA reference architecture

Consolidate business, application, data and technology architecture with stake holder views take it through enterprise architecture review board approval process

Work with various teams in matrix organization to deliver and govern products aligned to enterprise architecture

Run Architecture scrum to review application architecture documents (SAD), Technical design documents (TSD), code reviews, technical design decision making

Systems integrations in service oriented architecture system

Architecture governance of development efforts to keep whole program on enterprise architecture track

Identify and provide solution for non functional aspects like performance, security, logging, error handling, operational tasks

Review design documents, perform code review and architecture audits

Interact with various service teams like DMZ, SOA, Enterprise logging, Performance monitoring, Virtualization, Environment management

Responsible for the technical direction for the project and provide support and mentoring for technical SMEs according to the agreed level of engagement necessary for the success of the project.

Lead 100+ integrations involving SOA, MQ, File transfers with 50 vendor systems and make sure multiple environments are on track with integrations needs

Identify and setup improved processes with documented roles and responsibilities

Provide input in to RPIs and RFP for new initiatives as well as enhancements

Perform analysis and deliver detailed reports on technology, product suites, packages and vendor selection

Interact with various stake holders to understand and satisfy their functional and informational needs

Environment: GuideWire ClaimCenter, Java, Spring Batch, Mainframe, Oracle, Spring Tool Suite (Eclipse), GuideWire studio, UML, BPMN, IBM DataPower ESB, WMB, MQs, MFT, LogLogic, AutoSys

AETNA, HARTFORD, CT MAY 13 – JAN 14 Lead Architect

Solution architecture delivery in various domains llike Plan, Sales Quoting and Rating, Enrollment Aetna healthcare system follows TOGAF Enterprise architecture methodology for managing IT system.

Responsibilities:

Develop an appropriate solution design, working with all relevant business and IT subject matter experts, that meets the stated business needs of the project.

Documented and justify the solution in the Software Architecture Document, to make sure it is consistent with architecture best practice, reference architecture, enterprise standards and blueprints.

Responsible for the technical direction for the project and provide support and mentoring for technical SMEs according to the agreed level of engagement necessary for the success of the project.

Participate in business requirement sessions to derive non functional requirements, provide technical solution guidelines and perform gap analysis

Perform options analysis for strategic vs tactical solutioning needs

Understand the Aetna project methodology including deliverables related to the application architect role.

Lead diverse teams using effective communication including IT departments and project team members.

Provide architecture inputs for new proposals (RFIs as well as RFPs), involve in gap analysis, options analysis and product/vendor selection

Utilize Rational and Microsoft tools to deliver the architecture artifacts in Enterprise Architecture Repository

Environment: Java/J2EE, Mainframe, IBM DataPower ESB, WMB, MQ, DB2, IBM RSA (Rational Software Architect), UML, BPMN, Linux/Windows

SS&C TECHNOLOGIES, WINDSOR, CT NOV 11 – MAY 13 Sr. Architect

Customization and product support for Benefits Real-time Information eXchange (BRIX)

Responsibilities:

Review overall development ensuring that all enterprise and industry standards and best-practices are followed in solution designs on assigned projects

Review Detailed Design Documents and communicate with all the stakeholders regarding long term architectural approach

Develop project blueprints and proof of concept when required

Maintain software architecture document (SAD) for the application

Environment: J2EE (Java, JSP, Servlets, JAXB), JBOSS, Spring Web Flow, Spring Web Services, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX (JQuery), Angular JS, XML, IntelliJ, CVS, Selenium web test, UML, BPMN, Linux/Windows

ALSTOM POWER, WINDSOR, CT OCT 08 – NOV 11

Architect/Lead

MSM – Manufacturing Scenario Manager

Environments: .Net (ASP. Net, C# and VB.Net), SQL Server2000/2008, PL/SQL, Visual Studio, VSS, CSS, HTML, SSRS, JavaScript, XML, IIS, Windows

UNITED HEALTHCARE, HARTFORD, CT SEP 07 – OCT 08

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer / Lead

Ovations – ORCA (renamed to iLead)

Environment: J2EE (Java, JSP, JAXB, JiBX), ALUI/Plumtree Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server 6, Spring Web Flow, Spring Web Services, WSDL, SOAP, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX (JQuery), XML technologies (XSD, XPATH), Eclipse (IBM RSA 7.0), subversion (SVN), XMLBeans, JibX, Geotel CTI, Oracle 10g, Linux/Windows

MASS MUTUAL, ENFIELD, CT MAY 06 – SEP 07

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer, Architect

DI (Disability Income) – EWS

Environment: J2EE (Java, JSP, Servlets, JSF), WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, ANT, DB2, XML, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XML technologies (XSD, XPATH), Eclipse (IBM RAD 7.0), Quality Center (Test Director), PVCS, Vignette Content Management

AMDOCS INDIA FOR SBC, ST LOUIS, MO NOV 04 – APR 06

Sr. SME/Group Leader

Yellow Pages Solution of Amdocs

DEUSCO TECHNOLOGIES MAR 00 - OCT 04

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer / Core Member

DeusCo technologies were a tech startup at Business Incubator IIT Bombay. 4 of us gave our 5 years to make it.

Responsibilities:

Accomplished architecture design for the workflow module

Involved in design and architecture of ‘Struts’ like MVC framework for portal

Done analysis, UML design (Use Case, Class Structure, Sequence diagram)

Developed XML schemas for representing different data structures in the system

Implemented BPML compliant workflow engine in java

Developed test plans to ensuring adherence to J2EE architecture and testing deployment of portal on different J2EE platform implementations available in market.

Environment: J2EE, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, Apache, Linux/Windows

KOTAK MAHINDRA INSURANCE, INDIA JAN 01 - NOV 02

Team Lead/Architect

eLifeLine - An Intranet for Kotak Life Insurance

Environment: ASP, MS-SQL, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, Active Directory, LDAP

EDUCATION

BS in Computer Sciences

CERTIFICATIONS

TOGAF® 9

Big Data Analytics – Fundamentals, Hadoop & IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

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