Debakanta Balabantaray

D E B A K A N T A B A L A B A N TA R A Y AN EXPERIENCED, ACCOMPLISHED TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL AND LEADER ￨- Bangalore, India - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An experienced, driven, and accomplished Technology Professional and Leader, Agile Coach with a wealth of experience in AWS, AWS DMS/SCT , Azure, OCI , Azure Data Engineering, ADF, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Devops, Oracle ERP/EBS, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Saas, PaaS , SCM, Big Data, BI and Data & Analytics while working for leading, high-profile companies. Possesses extensive technical leadership, Enterprise Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Presales, IT Consulting, Product Management, Program and Global delivery experience, and has spearheaded many successful initiatives while working across the telecom, manufacturing, Media and Publishing, Healthcare, energy domains. Specializes in project management, team leadership, business development, client management, service delivery, system architecture, and solutions design. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS ▪ ▪ Strong background in many areas including, technical leadership, team leading, project management, global delivery management, vendor management, solution architecture, product management, deliverables implementation, new process development and deployment, requirements gathering, dashboard development, and performance management. Hard-working and driven, while highly experienced in all aspects of technology leadership, has managed large-scale projects, has led diverse teams and meets the highest organizational and project expectations. CORE COMPETENCIES ▪ ▪ ▪ Product Leadership Team Building and Leading Program and Delivery Management ▪ ▪ ▪ Stakeholder Relations Strategic Planning Presales, SOW, RFP ▪ ▪ ▪ Solution Development Critical Thinking Grooming and Mentoring PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Gokaddal Technologies, Bangalore, India (Jan 2024 onwards) Principal Consultant: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Solution, On-premise Cloud Solution Advisor Directly responsible for Consulting/Advising On-premise, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions through validation RFP, HLD review, LLD review, BOM review in wide variety of projects with On-premise and OCI migrations in Saudi Aramco. I.T Solutions, inc, Bangalore, India (Mar 2022 – Oct 2023) Sr Technical Delivery Manager/Sr. Product Manager/Cloud Data Architect/Presales/Agile Coach: Azure ,ADF, Databricks, ADLS Gen2,Azure Synapse/Datawarehouse , Azure Devops, Cloud Transformation,PySpark,Vue.JS, Jira, SharePoint Directly responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture, Product management, Program management, Global delivery management ,People management, gathering and analyzing business requirements, solutions architecture, configuration, managing scrum/agile process for deliverables, new program and process deployment, escalation management, team performance evaluation, and handling a wide variety of projects like EDL-FDL Cloud migration, HP Code configurator etc. Selected Accomplishments and Initiatives: ▪ Managing and directing technology planning and direction, managing budget, strategy development ,change ▪ ▪ management and implementation, business and operational transformation execution, business solution delivery Global Delivery of Products/Projects/Programs on time, on budget with expected quality & high customer satisfaction As a well-versed Agile coach, Agile-Scrum practitioner, worked as ‘Agile Coach’, ‘Scrum Master’ by helping scrum teams, Product owners through backlog management, building and tracking Agile user stories, test case scenarios, tracking defects and facilitating various scrum events, tracking project/sprint progress using Rally and MS Project. ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ As Product Manager, responsible for building and driving product development strategy/planning, prioritizing the feature based on ROI, market need, and adoption Managing and driving Azure Data Engineering products /Cloud Transformation using ADF, Databricks, Notebook,Pyspark, Azure Synapse, Delta Lake, Azure Devops, Unity Catalog and Data Governance Strong understanding of data governance and security principles and experience with Azure Security Center, Managed Identity, and Azure Active Directory. Building, Coaching and Managing the delivery of projects with coordination with Release Management team, Dev-ops team, Platform team, QA team -SIT,UAT, Business team and Report & Analytics team Collaboration with Enterprise /Data architects, Business and development team to guide identification of data structure and formats, finalizing delta/parquet table, pipelines, metadata and job orchestration capabilities. Managing team to build metadata-driven data pipelines to build metadata, ingest, and transform data to the various storage environments like ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL DW using Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, PySpark, and Azure Databricks to save more than 35% cost and > 55% time savings from source till consumption. SPS Consulting/Wipro Technologies (Dec 2020-Mar 2022) Technical Program Manager /Cloud Data Architect: SCM, Snowflake-Cloud DW, AWS DMS, Cloud Transformation, Kinaxis, Oracle, Teradata, Tableau ,Rally Responsible to develop Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse with new architecture solution, dashboard development, with data from various sources like Oracle, Kinaxis, Teradata with daily snapshot/weekly snapshot/monthly snapshot and creating secured views in Snowflake which can be accessed by various planners through Tableau and dashboards. Selected Accomplishments and Initiatives: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Building, Coaching and Managing high performance team and planning Supply Chain Planning data migration from Oracle, Kinaxis and Teradata to Snowflake - Cloud Data warehousing using Snowflake procedures Architect and design of pipelines to ingest data ,archive data with data governance and consumption views meeting business need using Control-M scheduler. Collaboration with business, release management, support and other cross-functional teams Building continuous integrations/Data Streaming from AWS S3 bucket based on Snow pipe, Stream, task & AWS SQS event, and Building Supply chain planning history /archival in Snowflake and uploading to AWS S3 Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd: (May 2006 – Jan 2019) Sr IT Manager/Technical Program Manager/Vendor Management/Enterprise Data Architect/Global Delivery Lead/Oracle Practice Lead/Oracle EBS/SCM Techno-functional/Big data/Hadoop/Informatica/Tableau ▪ Building, Coaching and Managing high performance Engineering and Architecture team ▪ Functional and Technical solutions and handling multiple Oracle Applications EBS Implementation projects in Order-toCash and Procure-to-Pay cycle with on-time delivery, maintaining quality and customer satisfaction. ▪ Designed and developed a new solution in Oracle EBS - ‘Serial Number Tracking’ process which enabled a more scalable and efficient selective purge process, based on identified serial number ranges, so eliminating the unnecessary purge of good inventory with potential saving up to $3 million per year ▪ Designed and Developed solutions to automate Oracle EBS- ‘SSC Partner to Cisco RMA create’ process which improved our partners to Cisco processes and communication regarding RMA creation and Status update of service orders. The new process helped Cisco partners with reduced work effort when dealing with Cisco orders. ▪ Re-designed and executed multiple applications 'Acquisition Integrations' using a new process in limited resources for Cisco; slashed across the board costs and achieved multimillion dollar saving with high levels of customer satisfaction ▪ Managing releases/ Monthly- Quarterly-Year-end activities in SC – Finance areas e.g.: Daily Cost Rollup, Quarterly Cost Rollup, Milestone Based COGS process, MRAP – Manufacturing Reporting Automation Process, Monthly Close Process ▪ PCAM – Product Cost analysis and management Tool - Created as a collaborative effort to proactively manage product cost and manage product margin using Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Golden Gate Apache Solr, SAP Hana, Angular JS, Webi ▪ Stakeholder Management, Vendor management , Solutioning, leading and rearchitecting the introduction of a set of processes in the area of software release management, test planning, test design, test execution, performance considerations, and defect tracking to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness TATA Consultancy Services Ltd (Mar 1996 – Apr 2006) IT Consultant /Delivery Manager/PM/IT Architect : Oracle EBS /ERP/SCM/O2C/P2P/BI/Data Warehouse /Program /Global Delivery Lead/Architecture/Presales/Onsite-PM ▪ Hands-on experience in many global ERP Implementations using E-Business Suite R12/11i including Oracle Applications SCM/Distribution/ Manufacturing/ Finance/ Procure-to-Pay/ Order-to-Cash, AOL Modules ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Have international exposure to managing premiere clients across multiple geographies such as British Telecom (UK), GE Plastics (USA), GE Capital – VFS (USA), GE Power Systems (USA), Tracfone Wireless Inc. (USA), McGraw- Hill Education (USA), Alcoa Inc. (USA) and Grameen Phone (Bangladesh). Solutioning ,Design and build many Data warehouses/ETL’s/Data Model /Data marts for many critical clients and built many OLAP reports using Informatica Powermart, BO Universes and BO reports Onsite Lead, Delivery lead, P&L owner/Presales/Practice development/training/mentoring/grooming people/Appraisals Spearheading Practice related activities like creation of reusable components, Pre-sales/RFP/Estimation, conducting interviews & training sessions for new joiner in projects, and administering the knowledge sharing activities/best practices within group/ outside group through presentations EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING, AND DEVELOPMENT ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ M.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, WB, India B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Utkal University, Odisha, India M.B.A in IT and HR , Fakir Mohan University ,Odisha, India Certified Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration Specialist Certified OCI Foundations Associate Certified AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance Certified Blockchain Expert - V2 by Blockchain Council Certified Project Management Professional by George Washington University Certified ITIL V3 Foundation Professional Certified TOGAF 9 Professional DevOps ,Azure Data Engineering ,Apache Spark Trainings/Certifications from Edureka TROUX ARCHITECTURE | TOGAF 9 from Cisco Systems Cloud Computing through AWS from Cisco Systems | AWS Solution Architect – Associate from Simplilearn and Udemy Agile Methodology | SAFe Scrum Master | SAFe Product Owner /Product Manager trainings from Cisco Systems Managing Projects | Risk Management | Scheduling and Cost Control from Cisco Systems/ESI HONORS AND AWARDS ▪ ▪ ▪ Multiple awards from companies like GE Plastics, GE Power systems, GE Medical Systems for major successful Data Warehouse and Oracle EBS Project Implementations A "Go Big" award during Cisco Systems IT all hands meeting for leadership and initiative’s role Multiple stars of the Month awards and other awards from Cisco Systems TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Big Data/BI/Cloud Data Warehousing: Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Sqoop, Single Node Cluster set up / Multi Node Cluster set up in AWS, MS Azure – ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL DB, Azure DW, Building BO Universes, and BO Reports publishing, Snowflake, Snow pipe, Lambda Architecture, Kappa Architecture Oracle Applications: Oracle Fusion/EBS R12/11i Oracle Application Modules/flows: Oracle Inventory, Purchasing, Cost Management, Order Management, AR, AP, GL, WIP, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Planning, Oracle Alert, AOL, System Administration. RDBMS/MySQL: Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i/8i/7.3.2, MongoDB, Cassandra. Programming Languages: Python, PySpark, R Programming, C, PL/SQL, SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Java, Angular JS. Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services ( AWS), MS Azure, Oracle Cloud, Chef, Puppet, and Docker Front Ends Tools/OLAP tools/ETL/Version Control/ Utilities: Forms 6i, Reports 6i, Business Objects 4.x/5.x, Erwin, Informatica (Power Mart), Web Intelligence 2.5, OBIEE, APPWORX, PVCS, GITS, CVS, SVN, KINTANA, Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2, SQL Loader, Oracle Workflow Builder, Oracle Applications Framework (OAF using JDeveloper), Tableau 8.2/9.3/20, OTBI Report, BI Publisher Report Other Tools and OS: Test Director - Quality Center, Autosys, $U, Tidal- Scheduler, Control-M Scheduler, Toad, PL/SQL Developer, Window, HP-Unix, SunOS 5.6/Unix Version Control Tools: Git, SVN. Methodologies/Tools : Agile- Scrum, Waterfall, AIM, MS Projects, Jira, Rally ( Agile – Scrum), SharePoint