Rajiv Raman
Almere
Summary
Possess experience in various lines of software development with business knowledge and acumen in various domains. Having played multiple roles from developer to technical, data and reporting architect, I am grooming to be an enterprise architect.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Architect - Reporting Platform
Rabo Bank
09.2022 - Current
- Architected the to be reporting platform for a specific business area within Rabo bank
- Migration of reports from Tableau to Power BI since it was a leadership decision to migrate to Microsoft cloud technologies
- Existing reports in Tableau are to be scoped, planned for migration and migrated to Microsoft Power BI with post migration support and maintenance
- In the meanwhile, the Tableau platform that is widely being used by users has to be maintained in a perfect running condition until the reports are completely migrated, tested and signed off by business
- Understand the reporting landscape
- Understand the different stakeholders and their reporting needs
- Device a plan for migration of reports in a phased manner
- Work with a professional team in Agile scrum way of working
- Perform Tableau server maintenance and user management activities
- Created governance for reporting platform
- Interacted with Business stakeholders to understand their reporting needs
- Architect the foreseen reporting platform in line with the expectation of business keeping in mind the compliance and security aspect demanded by the bank and its regulatory boards
- Leading an offshore development team
- Working with the product owner to set expectations with business/stakeholders
- Providing architectural solution for ad-hoc changes in requirements with least deviations to existing plans
- Stakeholder management
- Mentoring development team and helping stakeholders to get acquainted with the new reporting platform
- Setting up governance for the platform.
Architect - Reporting Platform
Viterra B.V
09.2020 - 08.2022
- Performed the capacity planning of the reporting platform
- Architected the Tableau platform for multi node fail safe configuration
- Scope identification
- Defining the technical spec required for the platform
- Data and report governance implementation
- Successful creation and hosting of reporting platform
Architect - Reporting Platform – Nike Logistics
Nike Inc.
08.2019 - 09.2020
- Provided architecture for Alteryx platform
- Performed capacity planning
- Technology spec identification
- Infrastructure establishment
- Implemented governance for Alteryx platform
Tableau Admin & Developer
Novartis
02.2015 - 04.2019
- He played the role of Architecting a Tableau platform from scratch to cater to the different reporting needs of Novartis
- The platform included a factory model along with report hosting and self-service reporting in a fully secure and governed manner
- The platform was developed to support over 1,00,000+ end users, 100+ developers and 200+ self-service reliant business users
- Performed capacity planning for the entire on-premise Tableau platform, inspected and upgraded it on need basis
- Developed a governance protocol across all the services offered by the platform
- Common platform activities included user management, Content management, security, report scheduling, upgrading platform on regular basis, etc
- Expanded the services to provide 24 x 7 end user support
- Programmed PowerShell scripts to automate many of the platform related activities
- Provided guidance to developers in implementing best practices
- Interacted with various stakeholders regarding self-service reporting needs, build necessary datasets as per requirements and make them available to intended participants
- Suggest business stakeholders on the best fit visualization for a given KPI
- Performance tuning of dashboards where required
- Propose capacity planning benchmarks for Tableau platform for the given scale of business requirements and size of audience
- Create Server monitoring Dashboards to monitor and optimize Tableau Server usage
- Perform support activities around Tableau server administration / dashboard development as per agreed SLA
- Educate business users on development and Tableau server administration best practices and approaches
- Working with REST APIs
- Working on business proposals and provide architectural solutions for RFPs
- Developed estimation templates for tableau dashboard development, self- service BI and Tableau platform establishments.
BI Developer – Tableau Migration & Enhancement (offshore)
VMware
09.2016 - 02.2017
- He was the offshore point of contact, leading a team of 8 Tableau engineers
- Involved in understanding the architecture and design of existing reports
- Developed a .NET based application to read metadata from Tableau workbooks to get easier insight on the Tables and columns used in the dashboards
- This application helped in reducing the overall man hours (time and effort) taken for column and table mapping between Greenplum and HANA by 40%
- He has taken complete ownership of this assignment and has been responsible for planning the migration activity by segregating them into various tracks, assigning them to Tableau Engineers, implementing the required changes, Coordinating with different teams to collect data, scrutinize errors and narrowing them to the lowest level of detail, fixing defects, etc
- Helped test engineers by providing Greenplum and equivalent SAP HANA queries to easily identify the areas of data mismatch
- Helped the VMware IT support team in developing a .NET based application to help migrate Tableau reports and data sources between Tableau server environments (DEV, QA and PROD).
Senior Developer - LoanStar
Product
12.2011 - 08.2014
- A web-based product developed for monitoring loan portfolio at a customer, loan category, bank branch and other feasible basis
- This product targets small commercial banks in USA
- Hosted in Azure, it takes complete advantage of cloud computing platform as a service (PAAS) technology
- It supports multi-tenant concept in maintaining its multiple customers
- Developed a SAAS based multitenancy model web application for Loan portfolio management
- Interact with key stakeholders to gather business requirements
- Design data model for the entire application
- Deigned highly attractive and light weight UI using latest and user-friendly widgets as UI for end users
- Implemented Google charts for simple KPIs
- Developed reports using Tableau desktop and integrated them with web application using trusted authentication
- Architected the entire application
- Utilized agile based Scrum methodology as SDLC
- Developed an ETL component using MSBI-SSIS to import loan data from loan tapes to MSSQL server.
Developer – ShipSmart
Product
05.2009 - 11.2011
- A web-based application developed to support the maintenance of ships and their crew
- Worked as a senior developer in developing a web-based software product for maintenance and monitoring ships
- Designed and implemented product upgrade mechanism automatically even when the ships are sailing in mid sea
- Understood the shipping business domain and analyzed requirements which would be selling points for the marine product
- Designed and implemented unique features like performing automatic product update even when ships are not connected to internet
- Implemented the product in ships and trained mariners and bring them to speed in using the product effectively and efficiently
- Helped in end-to-end support of the product, to sustain customer confidence during initial phase, until more stable versions were made available.
Developer – TriEagle Energy
TriEagle
08.2006 - 12.2007
- Worked as a software developer trainee on a web-based application used for managing customers and their electricity energy utilization for a leading Energy retailing company
- Proved to be a quick learner of Java and J2EE related technologies without much guidance
- Learned Energy retailing business model that prevails in the USA
- Worked on multiple modules contributing in the implementation of important functionalities of the application.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University, India
05.2006
Skills
- Technical architecture design
- Data architecture design
- Reporting platform architecture
- Capacity and infrastructure planning
- Data security and governance
- Leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Strong logical reasoning
- Adaptive and agile
Present Position
Lead Architect
Technical Expertise
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Rest API, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx Designer, Alteryx server management, MS SQL Server/SSIS, MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Tomcat server, IIS Server, Scrum, Waterfall and Spiral SDLC methodologies, C#, Java, HTML, JavaScript & jQuery, Minimal PowerShell & Python Scripting, Good Team Player, Profound Leader, Good Communication, Adaptable, Interpersonal Skills, Problem Solving, Creative, Project & program management, Data Analysis and validation, Application Security, Scope management, Change management, Business process mapping, People management, Performance management
Personal Qualifications
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, 2006
Timeline
Architect - Reporting Platform
Rabo Bank
09.2022 - Current
Architect - Reporting Platform
Viterra B.V
09.2020 - 08.2022
Architect - Reporting Platform – Nike Logistics
Nike Inc.
08.2019 - 09.2020
BI Developer – Tableau Migration & Enhancement (offshore)
VMware
09.2016 - 02.2017
Tableau Admin & Developer
Novartis
02.2015 - 04.2019
Senior Developer - LoanStar
Product
12.2011 - 08.2014
Developer – ShipSmart
Product
05.2009 - 11.2011
Developer – TriEagle Energy
TriEagle
08.2006 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University, India
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