
Timeline
About me
Director Consulting Services @ CGI | Leading Complex Data Migration Program | Account Manager
Education

National institute of technology, bhopal
2002 - 2006B.tech mechanical engineering 8.0
Experience

Accenture
Jan 2006 - Jan 2009Senior software engineer• Responsible for working with client business users to identify business requirements and developing Technical Design.• Provide detailed effort estimates to project management for self and team to build, test and reviews. Assist team mates for the same.• Senior Developer for Oracle and UNIX. Involved in development of database packages, procedures, functions and complex Unix shell scripts as per the requirements• Performance tuning with respect to business needs• Analyzing and modifying Informatica maps and Hyperion reports.• Worked on Unix Shell scripts and Crontab jobs. • Worked on VB Macro coding. • Point of contact from offshore team for Client, responsible for day to day team management activities like client communications, status consolidation and communication, to meet all client expectations from IDC perspective.• Provide Functional and Technical knowledge to new joiners in Reporting and Production Support Teams.• Knowledge transition to Client’s own offshore team as and when required• Management activities such as Task allocation and estimation, Weekly status reports, meeting minutes and etc.• Adhere & implement standards and process adopted, Client standards as well as Accenture standards.• Creation of reusable assets for DW/BI capability within Accenture. Show less

Bnp paribas
Mar 2009 - Oct 2012Senior oracle developerWorked on in-house developed reconciliation tool called SOCRATES. The tool plays a key role in the Risk Mitigation process for BNP Paribas. • Worked in close coordination with regional SPOCs and BAs worldwide to gather reconciliation requests • Applied Agile Practices for Pricing, Estimation, Prioritization and Story Pointing of requirements.• Developed complex UNIX shell scripts using UNIX standard and advanced commands like sed, awk etc. for file management and helping the production support team.• Created complex stored procedure, functions and packages and implemented advanced Oracle SQL and PL/SQL techniques like collections, bulk collect, ref cursors in the code to process millions of records efficiently• Use of Oracle utilities like SQL Loader, Oracle provided packages etc.• Performance tuning of database queries, DB migration and table partitioning.• Implemented exception handling in code and common error logging framework for logging errors/info messages in common destination table. Show less

Genpact headstrong capital markets
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016Development team leadWorked as the team lead of six membered team for a major US based fixed income portfolio Management Company on development and maintenance of the primary benchmark management system used by the portfolio managers to interpret the live market data and make investment decisions on multi-million dollar accounts.. • As data architect of the application, worked closely with the business teams to identify and implement the improvement opportunities in the application.• Assumed the role of Scrum Master for a highly energetic Agile team with 3 weeks delivery cycle in collaboration with onsite partners.• Managed backlog grooming and the planning, implementation and delivery of the technical work packages.• Lead, coached and mentored the team to ensure they adhere to Agile practices and rules.• Conducted yearly performance review of the team.Achievements: Performance optimization of BCP process by changing the table partitioning strategy. One hour processing time saved every day. Show less

Rogers communications
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017Senior data architectWorked on multiple projects in Rogers Customer Care cell as a data architect & senior developer for support and maintenance of existing applications.• As the owner of two major reference databases/applications in Rogers customer care hub, involved in multiple projects for implementing enhancements, software version upgrades and adding new functionality.• Involved in end to end implementation of projects – requirement gathering, estimation, BRD, DD, server/database/app id’s setup, alerts set up, development, testing, weekly/major release, BRT, production support.• Extensive use of Informatica Power center, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL and UNIX shell scripting for application enhancement and facilitating various reporting requirements. • Used Informatica Developer to maintain and support IDQ mappings/workflows for Address Verification, data parsing, cleansing, and generating match code, exposed as SOAP web services and called in critical real time transactions.Achievements:• Received multiple appreciations from various stakeholders in a short span of time.• Successfully handled multiple migrations and upgrades at DB, OS and IDQ level. Show less

Cgi
Mar 2017 - nowWorking as a lead solution architect for a 220 M CAD project for a major Canadian transfer agency, overseeing the modernization, AMS, BPO/CSD workstreams and related network/connectivity solution.• This is a multi-year program, where CGI will modernize client’s 15 in-house applications over a period of 12 years, in multiple phases, and the efficiencies will be consumed by AMS and BPO workstreams, which will also be supported by CGI.• Engaged in the program since the proposal phase and participated in the discovery sessions, frame, and final solution for all workstreams.• Participated in multiple step reviews of the proposal, before final presentation to the client.• Driving the network and connectivity solution while collaborating with client’s business owners, client’s network team, CGI workstream leads and CGI - India, Philippines, Canada and USA network teams.• Participated in the employee rebadging discussions and the risk mitigation plan in case of employee turnover while rebadging. Show less Worked as Data Migration lead of highly complex data migration program of a major Canadian bank’s wealth management platform to CGI Wealth360 Portfolio management solution. • Responsible for defining, driving and leading the strategy and execution of multi-phased data migration program.• Managed the multi-million dollar initiative which aims to consolidate clients multiple lines of business into CGI W360 Platform.• Lead the migration team of 12 developers, BA and QA, removed bottle-necks and solved problems. • Collaborated with various client teams as well as client vendors and book of record systems such as Broadridge, AS400, SS&C etc. at different stages of the program.• Collaborated with client cross-functional teams to define migration requirements. • Collaborated with multiple internal CGI teams such as product engineering, DevOps, infrastructure teams.• Worked closely with the program team to define the migration strategy, migration QA strategy and overall program QA strategy for each phase.• Created and managed the migration project plan - identified key activities & owners, estimation, prioritizing team’s activities to stay aligned with each program re-plan & tracked activities to completion.• Lead the internal solution and technical design review sessions.• Participated in QA triage, troubleshooting, managing and fixing data defects.Achievements:• Successfully delivered the first phase of a multi-year migration program, including 200K portfolios and 95 M historical transactions with 0 migration and post production issues. Show less
Director Consulting Services
Jan 2023 - nowDirector, Consulting
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023Senior Consultant
Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
Licenses & Certifications
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Track 1: cloud databases
SkillsoftJan 2024 - View certificate

Working with azure cosmos db: getting started
SkillsoftFeb 2024 
Pmi agile certified practitioner (pmi-acp)
Project management institute- View certificate

Azure fundamentals: cloud computing
SkillsoftJun 2020 - View certificate

Azure fundamentals: database solutions
SkillsoftJan 2021 - View certificate

Pmp bootcamp attendance and certficates of completion
SkillsoftSept 2022 - View certificate

Generative ai and its impact to everyday business
SkillsoftMay 2024 - View certificate

Academy accreditation - generative ai fundamentals
DatabricksOct 2023 - View certificate

Azure fundamentals: the ecosystem
SkillsoftJun 2020 
Oracle certified associate oca
Oracle
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Zoya ShirazASE Achiever's Award Accenture Jun 2007
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