OCT 2022 — PRESENT
Senior Technical Architect
o9 Solutions
Concord, NC · Clients: Apple & Tapestry
- Led the strategic design and technical blueprint of o9's product implementation across Demand, Supply, Retail, Assortment, Inventory, and Merchandise planning modules, directly impacting retail operations in the USA and key international markets.
- Partners with Solution Lead, Config Lead, Product, and Platform Engineering to establish technical alignment and ensure successful execution.
- Designed a robust data integration framework between client and o9, improving forecast accuracy and inventory management.
- Integrated a conversational generative AI agent into the platform, reducing time to value for end users.
- Directed partner implementation teams through the full project lifecycle, seamlessly delivering under strict timelines.
- Built a scalable, performant data pipeline on the o9 Int 3.0 architecture using Delta Lake, Hadoop, APIs, Airflow, and Spark.
- Instituted automated data scheduling and batch processing for uninterrupted global access.
- Architected dimensional data models designed for multi-year scalability, reducing redundancy and improving retrieval speed.
AUG 2020 — OCT 2022
Technical Architect
Coforge Technology Solutions
Greensboro, NC · Client: Lincoln Financial Group
- Led onsite and offshore teams end-to-end, managing project allocation, sizing, and performance approvals.
- Cut job runtime by up to 72% by migrating Informatica ETL jobs and stored procedures to an in-house Python framework.
- Used JSON configs to drive object metadata through source and target systems, and automated STTM document generation from them.
- Loaded Datamart from the ODS via Informatica ETL pipelines across multiple source systems.
- Hosted the Python framework and Oracle database instances on EC2, and enabled Presto on EMR clusters for data profiling.
- Moved the team to Agile with modular releases as the Python conversion made each component independent.
- Managed code and CI/CD via GitLab to migrate packages between non-production and production environments.
JAN 2015 — JUL 2020
Technical Lead
Cognizant
Saint Louis, MO · Client: U.S. Bank
- Led onsite and offshore teams end-to-end, translating technical and functional specs into implementation solutions.
- Built Informatica mappings to ingest data feeds into the data lake.
- Delivered data lake solutions via Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Management and SSIS across Mainframe, Hadoop, Oracle, and flat file sources.
- Processed data directly from HDFS using Hive within a microservices platform.
- Profiled feeding systems to surface data insights, and built ETL solutions from the Enterprise Data Landing Zone to downstream consumers.
- Led the Informatica upgrade from 9.6 to 10.2, coordinating stakeholders to keep risk and delay to a minimum.
- Worked across Anti Money Laundering, Early Warning System, Enterprise Financial Crimes, and Customer Information System modules, ensuring compliance with risk and regulatory requirements.
DEC 2010 — JAN 2015
Software Engineer
Accenture
Charlotte, NC & Mumbai, MH · Client: Duke Energy
- Provided production support and maintenance for Financial Hub, HR Management System, and Corporate Applications.
- Interfaced applications with Operational Data Source and Data Warehouse reporting systems.
- Monitored nightly and daytime batches loading data from PeopleSoft through ODS to the Data Warehouse.
- Developed dollar-value matching ETLs to reconcile loaded data against source post-load.
- Resolved batch-load data issues with clients and supported Severity 1–3 production incidents.
- Delivered critical daily, monthly, and yearly reports, and supported year-end Budgets, Forecasting, and General Ledger closing.