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Saumya Pillai

Technologists having 17+ years of experience and initiative projects adopting new technology, problem definition and solution, market adoption and financial risk/issue identification. Architect, design, code in Java, SQL, Spring, Webservices (SOAP and Rest), JavaScript, integration with maven, test cases, crucible review, code coverage to ensure product quality. Engage to adopt and prepare use cases for Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Container Orchestration and Machine Learning technology across various domains. Agile and Scrum Methodology Enthusiast to deliver SDLC and adoption to operations and support functions. Enterprise resource planning, skills and resource engagement reporting to meet the project timing, evaluate project critically for appropriate positioning, budgeting and reporting of the operational KPIs to the organization leaders.

Key Skills

Strategic and Tactical Planning
Leadership Skills, Customer Centricity
Applying Data To Decision Making
Architecture and Design
Revenue, Project Costing, Operational KPIs
Resource and Team Management

Professional Experience

Oct 2021
Present
Technical Project Manager
Birlasoft Pune, IN
Birlasoft is the market leader in providing software and artificial intelligence solutions to organizations across the world primarily US, APAC and ROW. The organization has expertise and excellence in serving Health Care, Pharma, Manufacturing, Energy, BFSI, Media and Entertainment.
  • Managed technology operations for Birlasoft, overseeing the deployment of new engineering technologies and practices to improve efficiency and productivity
  • Developed and executed strategic and tactical plans for maintaining and upgrading systems, ensuring smooth operations and minimal downtime
  • Utilized strong leadership skills to motivate and guide a team of technicians and engineers, ensuring team cohesion and effective collaboration on projects
  • Demonstrated excellent interpersonal communication skills in liaising with stakeholders, vendors, and clients to ensure clear expectations and smooth workflow
  • Implemented change control management processes to assess, prioritize, and mitigate risks associated with technology changes, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
  • Applied data analysis and insights to decision-making processes, leveraging technology and information to optimize operations and drive business growth.
  • Document the work order generated between J&J and BSL on the various projects/programs executed by multiskilled resources of BSL for J&J client on various technology platforms.
  • Work across the entire deal life cycle, starting from Deal Onboarding through Deal Planning, Deal Execution, Response Submission, Proposal Defense, Contracting and Deal Closure.
  • Costing for Cloud Data Migration, Snowflake, Stream sets, Denodo, ZIO, PFAS Chemicals, Infrastructure Support, Observability, RPA, CAR-T, NeuroHub, PVNLP, NPL. 
  • Determine the coverage of resources on the SoW, Johnson & Johnson Operational KPIs and HR KPIs for VBU execution improvement.
  • Apply appropriate bill rate for the resources to determine the costing of the project based on the scope and duration of the project after confirmation by the sales owner and delivery manager with the customer.
  • Maintain the SoW tracker for the monthly revenue milestone to be invoiced and SoW template.
  • Ensure the SoW/PO is submitted for TCV validation, CRM closure, Fixed, T&M, Milestone, Fixed & Variable pricing. 
Dec 2019
Nov 2021
Self-Employment
Entrepreneurship Pune, IN
  • Conducted market research of the talent pool on various technologies and diverse industries to identify current trends and gaps in the job market.
  • Developed software solutions for managing the skills of resources, including creating databases and tracking systems to efficiently match resources with job opportunities.
  • Utilized my expertise in resume writing to help individuals highlight their skills and experience effectively, increasing their chances of securing employment.
  • Mapped resources to demand by analyzing job postings and industry needs, allowing me to provide tailored recommendations to clients on their career paths.
  • As an entrepreneur in self-employment, I took on the roles of market researcher, software developer, and career advisor, leveraging my skills to help individuals and businesses succeed in the ever-changing job market.
Oct 2018
Sep 2019
Operations Application Development and Support AVP
BARCLAYS Pune, IN
Barclays is a multinational financial services company offering retail, commercial, investment banking, and wealth management services to customers worldwide.
 
Technology: Java, Github, Apache Kafka, Coherence Cache, Oracle, Bitbucket, SWIFT 
  • Determine the unreconciled accounts in the application and reasons for the account to be not reconciled. Determine the unreconciled transactions for the specific agent account and maintain the log of the unreconciled instrument ids.
  • Daily Account reconciliation technical analysis for the statement holdings (MT535) versus the statement of trasactions (MT54x) from the stream of agents reporting globally as mandatory of IFRS accounting.
  •  Data architectural flow analysis for the Depot Accounts and transition of accounts due to merger.
Sep 2013
Apr 2016
BAU Manager/AVP (C12)
Citi Global Technology Services Center Pune, IN
 
Project Name: AMC, SMC, XTrackter Migration, Force  and Equities Transaction Reporting (TRHub)
Technology: MongoDB, Oracle SQL, Talend, Java, Drools Rule Engine, JSON, CitiFix, Teamforge 
  • Managed SCRUM processes, sprint planning, estimation, product and sprint backlog management, daily stand up, sprint review and retrospection to drive business requirements and streamlining of requirements for value addition, ensure requirement signoff by Product Owner, compliance and Project Manager and setup release plan to DEV, SIT, UAT and PROD 
  • Co-ordinate with RIO technical architect to adjust the RIO interface to publish the attributes specifically which couldnt be derived on the already published attributes for equities.
  • Delivered Equity Trade Bus Decommission to migrate PRIMO equity flow to RIO uninterruptible message bus cloud platform with ability to publish messages to multiple data platforms such as MongoDB, Oracle DB and cloud data platforms to fully comply with the MiFID I regulatory obligation of equities transaction reporting.
  • Delivered and played intensive role to analyse the Account Restriction Flag capabilities of Accounts data received from Accounts Master Central (AMC) Cloud in JSON format and ensuring the correctness for usage across RegHub applications. 
  • Securities Data Analysis (SMC) for migration from legacy Secure to strategic golden source SMC and integration with RegHub applications. 
  • Driven the processes to achieve data mapping, accuracy, completeness, and correctness for Equities/Accounts/Securities (App. 10GB data per day) to the extent of cleaning up rouge logic in the upstream and higher upstream systems.        Setting up a process for reconciliation of trades and accounts i.e three level of reconciliation across PRIMO vs RIO vs RegHub 
  • Engaged in ensuring safety & soundness of ORC applications to achieve FORT certification Level II. 
  • Document Xtracker migration configuration changes with the Xtracker team and network operation team and raise the change request forms to conduct changes and ensure connectivity. 
  • Production infrastructure failures due to unavailable capacity to serve the user requests. Analyze and evaluate the require capacity and consolidate the server usage for ORC applications.
  • Create Business requirements and technical requirements as stories in the Teamforge ensuring completeness, correctness following who, what, why and when structure. Ensure dependency linking with the stories and prioritize according to regulatory and compliance needs. 
May 2008
Oct 2013
Senior Associate Technical Lead(602)
JPMorgan Global Technology Services Pune, IN
 PROJECT NAME: Bedrock Projects, F7, Account Search, EMIR Regulation Derivatives and Post Trade Services
Technology: Java, JSP, Servlets, ExtJS, XML (JAXB), JSON, Oracle, Rest Services, Hibernate, Mule Studio, JavaScript 
 
  •        Architect, design and rewrite the system info application using EXTJS and Rest Service architecture. 
  •        Analyze and document all the attributes for Rates & Credit Swaps trade reporting to DTCC(T+1) for Dodd Frank regulatory reporting. Create the PL/SQL procedure to insert the rates and credit trades to DB for call from Java layer. 
  •        Understand the trade and settlement life cycle for the OTC Derivatives products. 
  •        Implemented the Dodd Frank requirements of ECP, ISDA, Bi-lateral and LEI for FX forward trades. 
  •        Performed daily team management routines (Defect status, maintain and prioritize product requirement backlog, Integration with maven, Crucible reviews and Code coverage), team development and people management activities to improve team productivity. 
  •        Involved in conducting requirement scoping sessions with business users, P&P team and testing team, stakeholders to arrive at an achievable requirement delivery and release date 
  •        Identified the code changes necessary to migrate the portlets to be complaint with Portal version 6.1.0.2. 
  •        The project was executed in engagement with IBM and Cognizant resources and special task force from IBM to identify the root cause and remediate the ad hoc Portal crashes. 
  •        Application Owner for FX ticket, System Info and Asset Management Search 
  •        Implement the change requests and enhancement for the same. Implement the account visibility flag based on the user role using the Party Data. 
  •        Implement changes in WSDL file and test using SOAP UI in DEV and SIT 
Mar 2006
Jun 2008
Senior Systems Administrator
HSBC Global Technology Center Pune, IN
  
Technology: Unix Shell Script, IBM WebSphere Admin Java API (IAAS) 
  •        Reported to the Manager as individual contributor for Application Support Management (enhancement/debugging), for around 4000 developers around the globe and for more than 300 servers based in UK data centre. 
  •        Supported changes in IBM WebSphere unix shell scripts for supporting application and infrastructure. 
  •        Involved in Monitoring, Performance Tuning/Health Check & Troubleshooting of WAS, System and/or Application Administration, along with knowledge transition and project migration. 
  •        Further accountable for installation, instance creation, configuration of data source, JVM parameters, HTTP server configurations and deployment of applications. 
  •        Responsible for ITSM, as per ITIL guidelines, to provide Incident/Problem/Change Management activities, Configuration management, deployment, rollback and patch releases. 
  •        Engaged in communication, initiation, and delivery of the Application Server Global Security across DART BU applications after onsite assignment. 
Dec 2003
Apr 2006
Software Engineer
Infosys Technology Center Pune, IN
 
Project Belgacom Telecommunication OMS 
Technology: Java, JSP, Portlet, Servlet, XML, Java Design Patterns, WAS, HTTP Server 
 
  • Order management for VoIP and other telecom products such as PSTN, ISDN, Belgacom TV. Technician investigation and installation module to complete the order. 
  •  Develop the code in Java, Servlets and JSP for provisioning of VoIP product on the existing PSTN and ISDN line. For a specific order the technician sends various acknowledge requests from a native layer which is to be received and interpreted for the message code status to move the order through the various status of provisioning. 
  • Develop password management portlet using LDAP API (fetching details from Novell e-directory server), along with development of XML access scripts for automated deployment of labels, pages and portlet on WebSphere Portal Cluster Environment and J2EE Cluster Environments. 
  • Document and plan for the test case scenarios and get the user acceptance testing sign off for the test plan. 
  •  Track and document the unit testing defects and system integration testing defects. 

Education

Aug 2007
Apr 2010
Master of Customer Relationship Management in Symbiosis Institute of Distance Learning
Pune
May 1999
Apr 2003
Bachelor of Computer Engineering in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology
Mumbai

Certifications

2005
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Microsystems
2012
Certified Associate In Project Management (CAPM)
Simplilearn

Achievements

2012
Fortius Program for First Time Managers
- Organization wide workshop for Team building, Talent Management, Leadership, Overcome Conscious and Unconscious Biases, Emotional Intelligence, Mind Coach , Decision Making and Cultural Inclusion
2024
Architect, Design and Code in various technology
- Deep understanding of technology. Have worked on large scale projects and programs and indulged in hands on experience with various technologies like 
Software Tools: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS SharePoint Languages: Java 1.8, Servlets, JSP, Java Script, JPA, Maven, Python Operating Systems: Windows, IBM AIX (UNIX) Database: Oracle 8i Project Management: Waterfall, Agile & Scrum Methodology, Jira & Team forge Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Apps Script Sheet Bug Tracking Tool: HP Quality Center Testing: User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing,  Exploratory Testing, Functional testing System testing, Integration testing. IDE: RAD, WSAD, TOAD, SQL Developer, PyCharm, Jupyter Other Platforms: IBM WebSphere App Server, Apache HTTP Server, Novell e-Directory Server Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope Code Versioning Tools: Subversion, GitHub Protocols: FTP, SSL, SFTP, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, SOAP, SMTP Behavioral: EQ and SL II Microsoft Platforms: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, MS Power Platform Reporting Tools: Power BI & Power Query  Artificial Intelligence API’s : Pandas, NumPy, SciPy Database: Oracle 8i – PL/SQL 

2021
Leadership
 
·       Engage with BBA CA TY students to learn and code in Python and conduct lab workshops (2021) 
·       Build Entrepreneur and leadership mindset to be resourceful in organization. 
2019
Technology Workshop
-Google Cloud Platform Workshop
- IoT workshop Microelectronics
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2021
Research and Innovation
 
BE Final Year Internship & Project 
·       Architect, design and build the x-Ray machine specifications UI to register, install and locate x-Ray machines within laboratory premises. 
·       Designed the machine specifications, customer data, technician data and patient data models. 
·       Designed the UI using HTML, CSS, and VB script to ensure the flow of data from UI to SQL DB and get records from the DB in local environment of college lab as guided by the Professors, Project Coach and Technical Manager.

Management Accounting Project
Trade Sustainability During Covid in top 10 countries.

Proposal of automation (CI/CD) for bulk deployment
 One click daily and weekly deployment tool for DEV/SIT/UAT/PROD 

Quote

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Steve Jobs

Hobbies & Interests

  • Gardening
  • Writing
  • Wildlife
  • Playing Games
  • Decor and Shopping

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Malayalam
(Native)
Marathi
(Basic)

Career Aspiration

- Lead an organization and business unit to be placed as a market leader in digital transformation, cost effectiveness, talent management of resources. Lead large scale programs in engineering, research and innovation.

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