Candidates About

 

Chandra Thondikulam

Executive Summary

Creative Data Architect & Lead with 15 years of experience in BI, Data Analytics & KPI, DW, ETL, Data Quality, Data Conversion and Migration, Data Extraction & Data Sourcing Strategy, Data Reconciliation, SAP ECC & S4 HANA implementation journeys, Data Governance & Meta Data Solutions, EDW & HANA Data Modeling, Master Data Management, Requirement Gathering & Compliance, Business Analytics, Pre-Sales, Project Management, Scrum & Agile processes, Practice & Competency Development.

Looking forward to start a challenging roles as Principal Architect/ Consultant, Delivery Manager, Technical Project Manager help them achieve their data management (conversion, quality, governance and meta data /master data management), BI/EDW/ETL initiatives and SAP/S4 HANA implementation with my enriched experience of program / project management with agile & scrum flavor in digital roadmaps.

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

 

·         Played versatile lead roles including Architect, Consultant and Technical Program Manager cadre in various BI/ETL/EDW/Data Management engagements with global footprint with an average team size of 40+ onshore/offshore model with annual revenue of up to ~5mn$

·         Understanding business challenges and architecture pain points to provide strategic thought leadership and direction to evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, standards into the right business line justifying technology investment

·         Develop journey maps and identifying business capabilities and health assessment to develop a target state and roadmap that align to corporate goals and IT strategy

·         Partner with various product vendors to perform technology evaluations and POCs to provide recommendations by synthesizing conclusions and comparison of various technology solutions

·         Establish and evolve architecture standards, reference models, patterns, guidelines, and principles that can be extended and reused for future requirements/reference artifacts

·         Lead technical workshops, decision meetings, collaborative sessions, and deliver technical briefings as required to bring decisive ETL/DW/Data Management solutions

·         Strong analytical / problem solving, communication, cross-group collaboration and interpersonal skills

·         Blend of techno managerial skills enable ability to influence, motivate and lead across teams

·         Constant fast track update of skills with emerging technologies (Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, etc.)

·         Define BI/DW architecture (Data, Process, ETL, SOA), data migration architecture, data quality framework and integration architecture of SAP(FI,CO,SD,MM) /Non-SAP

·         Complete know-how of flexible program delivery (waterfall, agile/scrum), ITIL & SDLC methodologies, planning, scheduling and tracking project timelines, resources, milestones/WBS

 

TOOLS/SKILLS SUMMARY

 

§  Data Integration	§  Data Quality	§  Data Conversion
§  SAP Data Services	§  SAP Information Steward	§  Informatica
§  Master Data Management §  Data Governance §  Project Management	§  Python/Spark/SQL §  Data Modeling §  Tableau	§  Meta Data Management §  S/4 Hana/ECC/BW §  MS Project/Excel/Jira

April 2012 to till date with Cognizant Technologies as Principal Architect – SAP Analytics

 

Highlights of Cognizant Journey:

·         PACE Impact Award, Best New Comer Award & various quarterly awards

·         Consistent performance records leading to promotion

 

Project PACE – Data Quality/Migration– Greenfield S4/HANA & MDG Implementation

Client: Leading Life-Science customer @ USA

 

Role and Responsibilities as Data Management Lead (Team size: 20):

 

·         Architect RDS, SAP Data Services ETL for data migration from ECC to S4 & MDG

·         Design Data Quality layer leveraging SAP Information Steward and Data Health Scorecard

·         Conduct workshops with functional owners, legacy SMEs for data mapping exercises

·         Finalize sourcing points, extraction strategy, staging data model as per source/target model

·         Architect proven extraction and loading mechanism to S/4 HANA & MDG

·         Design lead for Data Certification/Audit & Reconciliation framework solution

 

Project Data Quality Assessment and Strategy leveraging SAP Information Steward

Client: Leading Clinical, Diagnostics and Research company @ USA

 

Role and Responsibilities as Data Architect (Team size: 5):

 

·         Recommend governance roles, stewardship policies, workflow setup for master data life cycle

·         Translate all master data standard requirements into relevant DQ dimensions/validation rules

·         Integrate SAP IS with SAP DS for cleansing packages / complex cleansing routines

·         Setup and distribute scorecards per master data entity including trending on exception layer

·         Configure and show case various data lineage and impact analysis using meta data manager

·         Implement usage of meta data glossary for simplified business terminology

·         Submit a detailed case study and findings of SAP IS suitable for client’s master data use-cases

 

Project UNO

Client: Leading Clinical, Diagnostics and Research company @ USA

 

Role and Responsibilities as ETL Architect (Team size: 7):

 

·         Gathering functional requirements and mapping to business entity modeling

·         Reverse engineering Oracle based custom data mart aligning SAP ECC model

·         Formulating extraction strategy for ECC and best proven loading methodologies

·         Complete owner of workshops/sessions ensuring quality data mapping exercise

·         Involve in data verification exercise, performance tuning exercise as part of prototype phases

·         Complete owner of ETL design, development plan and WBS activities/resource allocation

 

 

 

Project JDA IMPLEMENTATION

Client: Leading Apparel and Fashion Design company @ USA

 

Role and Responsibilities as Integration Architect (Team size: 12):

 

·         Complete responsibility of ETL design, field mappings and requirement traceability matrix

·         Finalize sourcing points, extraction strategy, staging data model as per source/target data model

·         Represent Architecture Board for all design approvals, justification for all integration strategies

·         Estimate the efforts in each stage for change requests and raise work order addendum

·         Drive cut-over planning tasks and help prepare a proven cut-over strategy

 

Project SLINGSHOT

Client: Leading Energy and Utility Company @ UK

 

Role and Responsibilities as Technical Program Manager (Team size: 40+):

 

·         Accountable SPOC for entire offshore delivery management including technical management

·         Championed the fresh innovative concept of “MCube”, a data migration framework

·         Help guide the team in preparing meta data traceability document for all key data entities

·         Championed standardization of field mappings, data dictionary, universe and report documents

·         Led key initiatives track of Single Customer View and Independent Business Reconciliation

·         Drive Migration Run Book of data loads (Mock/SIT/UAT/PRD)  with WBS/Resourcing

·         As PM hat, executed project with P&L, Risk Register, Execution, Planning, Monitor & Control

 

Nov 2010 to Apr 2012 with Wipro Technologies as Architect – Analytics & Information Mgt.

 

Highlights of Wipro Journey:

 

·         Special SAP RDS data migration training using SAP DS – SAP UK, London

·         Leadership training for Architects / Best performer in BOA Cransoft DM Methodology

 

Project SAP ECC Data Migration Code Asset Library - ~100 data objects

Client: Wipro AIM Investment

 

Role and Responsibilities as Architect (Team size: 15):

·         ETL design & Reconciliation Strategy, Data Modeling, Requirements gathering

·         Architect for investment projects and contribute to many projects for design phase

·         Accelerate Go To Market strategy leveraging the code asset library in Europe/UK customers

 

Jun 2004 to Nov 2010 with KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited as Associate Project Lead

 

Engagements Summary:

 

·         As Team Lead for Crystal Reports OLAP based reporting for leading UK FCMG client

·         As Project Lead – AD & AMS Track – Kalido based EDW, BI & ETL initiatve for 14 countries

·         Supported lot of client in-house proposals around Data Warehousing/Reporting/ETL

 

Earlier Experience Summary:

 

Duration	Company	Position
Sep’03 – Jun’04	Industele Services Private Limited, India	MIS Executive
Jan’02 – Sep’03	Nakoda Textiles Limited, India	IT In-charge
Jun’97 – Dec’01	Holiday Inn, India	EDP Manager
Dec’96 – Jun’97	IBIS Softec Software Services, India	Software Engineer
Dec’95 – Dec’96	NIIT Centre, India	Trainer

 

Education/Certification:

 

·         Bachelor of Business Management [BBM] - Bharathiar University, India [1993–I Class]

·         Honors Diploma in Information and Systems Mgmt. from Aptech, India [1995 – Distinction]

·         SAP HANA Certified 2014

·         Professional Scrum Master Certified (scrum.org) 2017