Jagadeesh Challa

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Certified Enterprise Architect/DevOps Lead/Platform & Site Architect/Scrum Master/AI & ML Analyst

Offering over 11 years of experience; currently working for African Telecoms (Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda & South Africa)

  • Enterprise & Cloud Platform Operations
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Agile
  • Artificial Intelligence

Profile Summary

Working over the past 15 years completely on IT and Enterprise Digital Application platform projects. Travelled more than 25 countries as part of the Business Plans and Architecture Road Map executions.

Working as a Chief Technologist & Enterprise Architect since last 15 years and carrying some solid comprehensive progressive experience ranging from Legacy & Robust systems to Cloud native & Data Lake & ERP & Digital systems of multi-million-dollar projects.

Working more than 12 years on ERPs Oracle Enterprise Business Suite & Fusion Applications R12, Microsoft Dynamics.

Expertise on mapping the flexible architectures between Business, Technical, Application, Data and Infrastructure.

Worked constantly across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe as part of project executions and product promotions.

Leading the Enterprise Platform operations on Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) services.

Spearheaded IT & Digital Systems Insight towers for Aluminium & Copper business, enabling analytical dashboards and creating reusable system repository components, consumed USA, EU & India around 40 plants..

Expertise in designing the Enterprise & Platform Architectures with Agile principles and standards.

Experienced in identifying technology gaps and establishing the possible opportunities to the Enterprise in order to be positively adopted.

Creating an awareness of present and emerging information and communications technologies across the organization.

Converting Legacy application architecture to micro-based service using domain driven design model.

Experience in developing Cloud native strategies and solutions for client requirements based on the IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Agile and DevOps Methodologies.

Expert in analyzing the enterprise risk & change management, configuration management, safe & secure methods.

Experience of Cloud Native principles and techniques such as Containers/Docker, Micro-services, 12 factor apps and cloud platforms.

Providing Kubernetes cluster on OpenShift OKD, VMware Tanzu (TKZ/PKS), AWS (ECS), Azure (AKS).

Creating a platform service to expose different APIs from different channels using APIGEE Gateway.

Expertise in operating the Platform & Infrastructure as a code tool such as Terraform & Ansible.

Handling infrastructures on GCP-Google Cloud Platform (APIGEE, Kubernetes), Azure & AWS (Backups, Snapshots and Monitoring), securing with firewall rule.

Defined Digital Transformation and Integration Strategy across the Group and Other Operational Companies level.

Architecting and designing the enterprise grade PaaS solution using OpenShift & PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry).

Have solid skills on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) that are automated and elastic across all platforms.

Carrying a demonstrated experience with agile project delivery of Generative AI, NLP, ML, LLMs, modern Data Lakes to support Business Intelligence, Data Integrations with increasing responsibility/breadth over time.

Working on APIM in Scale and automation, Understanding APIM Policy, Protecting APIs.

Creating fully automated CI build and auto deployment processes for multiple DevOps projects.

Formed ARB (Architecture Review Board) for major subsystems of digital and IT platforms.

Containerizing all related applications- Spring Boot Java and Node.js applications using Docker.

Using Jenkins & Concourse for CI/CD pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then manage and deploy to Kubernetes and PCF environments.

Implemented Blue Green deployments, rolling updates with Zero downtime during deployments.

Monitoring Kubernetes cluster using ELK Stack, Prometheus, Influx DB, Kafka and Grafana.

Experience in Cluster Management, Load Balance, setting up Node Managers.

Excellent knowledge and experience in Information Security Policies and Procedure compliance reviews and System Security Audits.

Expertise on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 & 365(Cloud) - HRMS, Projects, Finance and Operations, Manufacturing, Trade & Logistics Modules like Procurement, Warehouse, Quality and Product Information Management.

Predominately working on the Modules like Oracle Fusion Apps and Enterprise Business Suite EBS R12) – Finance, HR & Payroll, Purchasing, Inventory or Warehouse, Production & Operations.

Expertise on SAP Finance (GL, AR, AP, FA, Budget, Cash & Bank), SCM & Trade & Logistics, HR & Payroll modules.

Responsible for defining a Platform Integration Architecture using Middleware products.

Excellent Experience on Oracle SOA 11g & 12c Suite which includes Implementation, Development, Testing and Support.

Effectively contribute my skills on the Oracle SOA Suite Implementation with BPEL, Mediator, Human Task, Business Rules, BAM, B2B and Oracle BPM.

Have a good working experience on fault policy and fault bindings.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

# Candidate ID CERTIFICATION ID & NAME PROVIDER
1 1214869 Scrum Master Certified Professional Scrum Org
2 440529‎ OG0-093:TOGAF®9-The Open Group Architecture Framework 9.1 Professional. The Open Group
3 8428734657 CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator Professional Cloud Native
4 24969397 TKG-Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Fundamentals (PKS-Pivotal Container Services) VMware Tanzu
5 13496391 AI-100: DesigningandImplementingan(AI) Artificial IntelligenceSolution Expert. Microsoft
6 AWS01297213 SAP-C01: AWS-Amazon Web Service Certified Solutions Architect– Professional. AWS
7 13496391 AZ-400: Microsoft Azure Specialist on DevOps Solutions. Microsoft
8 13496391 AZ-300:Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Professional. Microsoft
9 5549886 ITIL®- Certified Professional in Information Technology Service Management. AXELOS Global
10 20478056 PRINCE2®- Certified Implementation Specialist in Project Management. AXELOS Global
11 G10116181 CSM- Certified Software Manager. GAQM
12 EXN5798752 BIM- Business Information Management Certified Professional. EXIN
13 13496391 Microsoft Dynamics 365CRM-Customization & Configuration Professional. Microsoft
14 13496391 Microsoft Dynamics 365Trade and Distribution&Logistics Professional. Microsoft
15 OC1278633 1Z0-520 Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain-Procurement Specialist. Oracle
16 OC1278633 1Z0-519 Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain- InventorySpecialist. Oracle
17 OC1278633 1Z0-599 Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Implementation Certified Specialist. Oracle
18 OC1278633 1Z0-560 Oracle (BPM) Business Process Management Suite Certified Expert. Oracle
19 OC1278633 1Z0-478 Oracle (SOA) Service Oriented Architecture Suite Certified Professional. Oracle

CORE SKILL COMPETENCIES

Cloud Platform & Infrastructure & Project Management, Enterprise & Solution Architecture, Application & Integration Development, Kubernetes, Cloud Native Foundation, OpenShift, Argo CD, VMware Tanzu Enterprise PKS (Pivotal Container Services), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Business & Industry Analysis, ERP & IT Consulting Exposure, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 & 365 Operations, Supply Chain Management, Projects & Contracts Management, Manufacturing & Trade & Logistics, Finance Management, Human Resource/Capital Management, Mobile Applications Management (Android & iPhone), WebLogic, Microsoft Azure & AWS (Amazon Web Services), VMware vSpear, Oracle Fusion Apps and Middleware Products-SOA, BPM, WebLogic, WebCenter & IdM.

PRODUCT/SOLUTION EXPERIENCE:

Total Projects 8 Successful Development Projects (End to End) & 2 Support Projects.
Architectures DevOps &Platform Architecture, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), AWS & Azure Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Architecture, Application & Data Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture.
Middleware Oracle SOA Suite (BPEL, Mediator, DVM, Adapters, Signal Activities, Human Task, Business Rules, Fault Handling, BAM), BPM Suite 11g/12c (Work Flow, Process & Sub Process), OSB, ADF & WebCenter (Portal & Spaces) & ECM (UCM & IPM), Oracle Identity and Access Manager.
Platform (PaaS) VMware Tanzu Kubernetes (TKG/PKS) & PCF and OpenShift (OKD)
Infrastructure (IaaS) AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware vSphere, RedHat Linux, Oracle Cloud, Weblogic, Windows and Linux.
DataBase Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
DevOps Apps Manager & Ops Manager, GitHub, Concourse, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker Harbor, APIGEE.
ERP Microsoft Dynamics CRM & AX/365, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle eBusiness Suit, SAP & IBM Maximo.
Financials GL, AR, AP, FA, Cash & Bank, Budget & Forecast, Costing, Allocation, Consolidation.
Supply Chain Finance & Operations, Product Management, Procurement & Sourcing, Inventory Management, Trade & Logistics.
Manufacturing Retail Process Manufacturing, BOM, Cost Accounting, Planning & Operations. HQ, Channel, Stores, POS and Discounts.
Project Accounting Project Contract, Project Costing, Project Billing, Revenue Recognition, Subcontracting.
HR & Payroll Employee Hiring, Performance Management, Compensation Management, Payroll Run, ESS.
Sales & Marketing Accounts, Leads, Opportunities, Orders, Business Process, Workflow, Marketing Campaigns, Budgets, Reports, System Administration.

CAREER GRAPH

1. MindView Tech Soft (Hyderabad, India) 2. 3Di Systems (Mumbai, India) 3. Sampas ICT(Istanbul, Turkey) 4. Doha Cables (Doha, Qatar) 5. Niger Telecoms (Nigeria & SA)

Software Engineer

Jan '10 - May '12

Oracle Fusion Middleware Applications & e-Business Suite R12, WebCenter, WebLogic.

Integration & SOA Expert

June '12 - Feb '13

Oracle Fusion Middleware Applications & e-Business Suite R12 (Finance, SCM, HR & Payroll)

SOA Analyst

Mar '13 - Nov '14

Oralce Fusion Middleware (SOA, BPM, WebLogic

Scrum Master

Dec '14 - Dec '17

DevOps (AWS, Azure, PCF, GCP, GitHub, APIGEE, Spring Boot), Oracle & Microsoft Dynamics CRM & D635

Enterprise & DevOps Architect

Jan '18 - Present

Microsoft Dynamics 365 & CRM, DevOps (AWS, Azure, GCP, OKD & PKS, Concourse, Terraform, Spring Boot, APIGEE)

AWARDS

DATE AWARD NAME ORGANIZATION
20-Dec-2012 Outstanding contribution 3Di Systems, Mumbai, INDIA.
14-Oct-2013 Certificate of Excellence Sampas ICT, Istanbul, TURKEY.
20-Jan-2017 Best Project Manager & Solution Architect Doha Cables, Doha, QATAR.
18-Aug-2018 Extra Miler Niger Telecoms, Niamey, NIGER.
07-May-2019 Best Enterprise Architect Niger Telecoms, Niamey, NIGER.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (ROLES)

Enterprise & Solution& IT& Platform Architecture, Enterprise Applications Integration, Applications & Systems Orchestration, Project Management, Business Process Work flows, Business Analysis & Development, Strategic Planning, Budget Planning, Contract and Tender Management, Acquisition of Regulatory Licenses & Permissions, Technical Support Management, Professional Services, Vendor Management, Quality Management, SLA (Service Level Agreement) Management and Risk Management.

As an Architect for the Enterprise Applications & Platform Operations, my services are to contribute to the Company in:

Improving the Business orchestration based on the Products, Applications, Infrastructure & Systems Integration services and processes.

Enabling the Cloud Platform Operation Services in terms of deployment automation & infrastructure maintenance.

Maximizing the efficiency and quality across the organization, decreasing operational costs.

Increasing employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities in Enterprise & DevOps Architecture:

Create, implement and maintain an Enterprise operating model that includes business, technology, data, system architecture and organization growth, employee skills & performances.

Architecting with TOGAF standards using ADM (Architecture Development Method) lifecycle and typical problems associated with the implementation and operation of IT & Business Systems.

Design architectural governance models for the strategy implementation to improve business performances & outcomes.

Establishing architecture principles to maximize the benefits to the Enterprise based on Information Management, Business Continuity, Common Use of applications, Compliance with law.

Implementing the Architectural Decision Logs of important decisions that have been made throughout the project.

Design, build & implement platforms and frameworks to create consistent, verifiable and automatic management of application and infrastructure between non-production and production environments in On-Premises as well as on Cloud.

Regular communications & alignments with stakeholders across all the Business units.

Providing advisory services on the business exceptions including deviations from standard organizational specifications and frequent CRs (Change Requests).

Configuring the native cloud services using IaaS (AWS & Azure & VMware & GCP), PaaS (OpenShift OKD, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG/PKS/PCF), SaaS (Oracle Cloud & Dynamics 365).

Managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform scripts (e.g. networks, subnets, load balancers & Ingress controller, DNS, security rules, object storage, databases).

Package the Azure DevOps agent images in helm chart to deploy in Kubernetes.

Autoscaling of Azure DevOps agents based on the number of jobs waiting in build/release queue.

Infrastructure automation and configuration management using tools like Ansible and Terraform on AWS & Azure.

Dockerising the applications and host them in Kubernetes using Helm charts.

Build the robust Monitoring and Alerting platform in Kubernetes cluster using ELKStack, Prometheus & Grafana.

Extensive use of AWS, Azure, GCP and vSphere to manage infrastructure.

Ability to take ownership with developers to create shared responsibility.

Consulting on the digital platform and architecture to ensure maximum infrastructure scalability.

Reduce the cost of failure for changes and ensuring reliability and consistency of the data.

Work with developers to develop adequate monitoring and monitor system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality

Assist in evaluating new requirements, technical design and standards.

Responsible for defining a flexible Integration architecture platform using Microsoft Cloud ERP & Middleware based Applications.

Agile/Scrum/Project Management Highlights:

Managed successful Enterprise project implementations in different sectors like Government, Insurance, Logistics, EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction), Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Educational, Real Estate, Electronics, Hotels and Health Care in the GULF (QATAR, UAE), USA, Turkey, South Africa & West Africa.

Managing the project by estimating the Scope, Time and Budget.

Motivating the Development team and stakeholders by Agile Coaching & practitioner sessions.

Enabling Agile & Scrum Implementation Methodology to ensure the milestone achievements and deliverables throughout the different implementation phases.

Conducting DSU (Daily Stand Up) calls to understand the As-Is, DOR (Definition of Ready) DOD (Definition of Done).

Providing leadership/direction to members of project.

Skilled in repositioning organizations in changing business scenario to achieve operational and service excellence through planning, prioritizing while ensuring customer delight.

Creating Sprints, User Stories based on the Sprint planning sessions.

Expertise in implementing a quality standard to all tasks defined to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete.

Prepare the project plan with the detailed WBS to ensure the full control over the tasks allocated over the specified time periods and linked to the final deliverable milestones.

Follow up over the project progress and milestones using the Project management knowledge and the Project Management tools like Project Manager & MS Project. In addition to control over the tasks assigned to the resources through following their time sheets.

Project Closure experience through moving the project from the go live support ending with the SLA agreement after final sign off.

Managing one to ones, appraisals, training, multi-skilling, career forecasting, succession planning & hiring for the team

ERP Implementation Highlights:

Maintain the use of the professional implementation methodology to ensure the control over the project Phases & milestones.

Preparing the Functional Requirement Document highlighted with the Fit-Gap Analysis reflecting the contracted scope.

Perform the Design in accordance with the documented FRD and initiate the Functional Design Document to ensure the client approval on the required design.

Perform the Required Master data & Opening balance upload through the Framework & Dynamics AX/D365 excel tool.

Responsible for design, development of Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud Environment and Workflows.

Implementation of ERPs-SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, AX & 365 Operations- Projects & Contracts, Finance and T&L Modules such as Procurement, Warehouse, Quality and Product Information Management.

Working on Functionality setups of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Sales & Marketing), Procurement and Sourcing, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Product information management, Inventory and Warehouse Management modules.

Expertise on Finance (GL, AR, AP, FA, Budget, Cash & Bank), SCM & Trade & Logistics, HR & Payroll modules.

Implementation of Oracle Process Manufacturing- Product Development, Process Execution, OPM Quality, Oracle Inventory, OPM Financials and Costing, Integration with Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Order Management.

Configuring Multi Org Environment for all the Oracle & Microsoft Dynamics Applications modules.

Document Capturing for Functional & Technical and Standard Operation Procedures.

Leading and managing the business work-stream of the project which includes the business teams from four different countries and reporting on the status of the same to the PWC (Project working committee).

Demonstrates high standards of professional behavior in dealings with clients, colleagues and staff.

Experienced with the ERP strategy, policies and standards, and any ERP process regulations/constraints.

Delivery Support and Services:

Analysing requirements and ensuring timely programmed delivery in conformity with quality standards.

Spearheading efforts across handling entire spectrum of functions pertaining to services plans and procedures ensuring accomplishment of business goals; strategic planning & conceptualizing creative, out-of-the-box strategies that leverage customer service programs to deliver highly profitable processes and customer retention programs.

Conducting product overview presentations and deploying complex systems on client site.

Providing system support activities including Application Maintenance & Report Maintenance.

Conducting the Training sessions and workshops for the users to ensure the understanding of the application.

Preparation of live environment and performing all necessary uploads for go live purpose.

Providing the on hands Go Live support for the users.

Creation of Test case design & Scripting for different business streams and development components.

UAT with Business Users for Solution & Project Sign off.

Solutions Consultancy:

Analyse software & configuration requirements & articulate specifications.

Monitors, analyses, understands and tunes client business processes and standards through conducting Business analysis meetings and reflect it in a Functional Requirement Document.

Managing the complete life cycle of development/ projects including analysis of the client requirements, translating new ideas into client’s solutions, requirements development, delivery, support, analysis and documentation.

Create use case strategies, and when necessary, help to create test strategies.

Producing technical feasibility studies. Preparation of Test Intake, Test Case Design and Test Reporting

Process oriented and experienced in project, quality, issue and risk management methodologies.

Efficiently managing entire day-to-day activities covering wide functional areas include designing & developing the workflow program, debugging and troubleshooting of the application.

Interacting with the management, team and associates to facilitate smooth communication to understand and analyse the requirement and identified appropriate solutions for problems, if any.

Applying standards, practices, codes, and assessment and certification programs relevant to the IT industry and the specific organization or business domain

PERSONAL DETAILS

Educational Qualifications Languages Residence Status
  • Bachelor of Technology Engineer(IT) from JNTU, Hyderabad,

  • English (R-W-S)

  • Telugu (R-W-S)

  • Hindi (R-W-S)

  • Turkish (R-W-S)

  • Arabic (S)

  • French (S)

  • TR: Niger, Nigeria, South Africa & UAE.

  • PR: Vijayawada, India.

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