Zoya Shiraz

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  • Timeline

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

    Senior Software Engineer

    Accenture
    Mar 2009 - Oct 2012

    Senior Oracle Developer

    BNP Paribas
    Oct 2014 - Feb 2016

    Development Team Lead

    Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
    Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

    Senior Data Architect

    Rogers Communications
    Current Company
    Mar 2017 - now

    Director Consulting Services

    CGI
  • About me

    Director Consulting Services @ CGI | Leading Complex Data Migration Program | Account Manager

  • Education

    • National institute of technology, bhopal

      2002 - 2006
      B.tech mechanical engineering 8.0
  • Experience

    • Accenture

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2009
      Senior 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 2012
      Senior oracle developer

      Worked 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 2016
      Development team lead

      Worked 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 2017
      Senior data architect

      Worked 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 - now

      Working 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 - now
      • Director, Consulting

        Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
      • Senior Consultant

        Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Track 1: cloud databases

      Skillsoft
      Jan 2024
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    • Working with azure cosmos db: getting started

      Skillsoft
      Feb 2024
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    • Pmi agile certified practitioner (pmi-acp)

      Project management institute
    • Azure fundamentals: cloud computing

      Skillsoft
      Jun 2020
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    • Azure fundamentals: database solutions

      Skillsoft
      Jan 2021
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    • Pmp bootcamp attendance and certficates of completion

      Skillsoft
      Sept 2022
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    • Generative ai and its impact to everyday business

      Skillsoft
      May 2024
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    • Academy accreditation - generative ai fundamentals

      Databricks
      Oct 2023
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    • Azure fundamentals: the ecosystem

      Skillsoft
      Jun 2020
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    • Oracle certified associate oca

      Oracle
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Zoya Shiraz
      ASE Achiever's Award Accenture Jun 2007