Technical Lead HCL Technologies

Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2009 Present (2 years 10 months) Bangalore

I am currently working as a technical lead/analyst for a banking client based in USA. I am working in a data analytics assignment. My current assignment deals with automating ad-hoc reports for the management of the client by automating the process to extract data from hetero genous sources. The project is accomplished using AbInitio as ETL tool. Main challenge involved in accomplishing this project is connecting to sources as diverse as ORACLE, SYBASE, Mainframe, web-services etc. I have actively participated in requirement gathering, design, development, maintenance and offshore team management. My role is 75% technical and 20% analytical 5% management. During execution of the project, I have built very good client relation and gained a lot in terms of technical and functional knowledge.

Senior Business Analyst Mu Sigma

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry

March 2009 November 2009 (9 months) Bangalore

I worked with Mu-Sigma as a Senior Business Analyst for an insurance client. I managed a eeporfing process called EPM(Employee Portfolio Management). The project dealt with billing and project management related data of the employees and contractors working with the organization. In this assignment I was exposed to technologies such as AbInitio, SQL server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, ORACLE, UNIX, VBA, etc

Summary
I'm Talha. I work as a technical lead for HCL technologies. My technical expertise is with datawarehousing technologies. Mostly I have worked with AbInitio as an ETL developer with strong exposure to various database technologies such as ORACLE,SYBASE etc. I have good exposure to platforms such as UNIX and WINDOWS. I have worked across domains such as BFSI, automotive and telecommunications. Also I have worked with clients across geographies. I aspire to take the experience gained as a developer and analyst forward and work in a techno-functional role in a global setting. In my previous projects, I have handled challenging assignments and adversity has brought the best from me. I look forward to learn and grow as a professional and individual i years to come.

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Around 9 years of DWH and ETL solutioning experience.Having rich telecom domain knowledge. I am working as Ab Initio Architect for BIM practice at Capgemini and responsible for fresh dev project setup and architecting Data Integration / ETL domain on Ab Initio Complete suites version 3.0.5( Continuous flow, Batch, BRE, EME, Metadata hub, ICFF, Micrograph and Ops Console). Specialties Worked on creating solutions and framework for Telecom and entertainment Sector and have experience Architecting various mode of source extract/Target design in ABINITIO such as COBOL, SAP RFC, JAVA web services, XML, MQ Series and DBMS databases.

Experience
Lead Ab Initio Architect Capgemini

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2011 Present (1 year 6 months)

I worked at Client interfacing role where my day to day activities involved systems architecture and design from client site London for the fresh dev project setup, Batch box flow and continuous flow design with common error handling, debug, and heartbeat mechanism in ETL, implementation of Ab Initio ICFF to store transactional data in raw and transformed format and CDC high water mark on landing tables, architectural document creation, presentation and sign off, worked with Abinitio Corp developers for the generic code and new Code deployment process later was leading a team of 10 software consultants at offshore after coming to India. I particiapted in designing ETL generic flow for Fact load, Surrogate key management, Late arriving dimensions, dimension load, Test harness design for Automated feed wise testing for QA team, Abinitio integration with ICFF, data profiling, Metadata capture of DI systems and was Single point of contact for ETL.
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Ab Initio Architect Capgemini

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2010 February 2011 (1 year)

It was a client facing role in new platform and system evolution for Telecom client at Luxemburg, prepaid and post paid business from client site Brussels as an ETL Lead. This was the complete evolution for PCAT offers, self care, CRM and Interfaces were needed among multiple applications inside and out of telco product Comverse one suits to feed DWH for reporting. I was involved from the beginning such as DI /Ab Initio 3 framework setup, generic code setup, environment creation, workshops, implementation etc. There were multiple applications as legacy SAP, Comverse and ETL was exchanging the data among multiple applications for B2B and B2C as Interfaces. Several feeds were created to load data in existing DWH for reporting needs. I was responsible for end to end design and ETL licensing, sizing, organization of EME ,

Technical leadership and direction to cross-functional teams and was leading a team of 4 software consultants through Entire SDLC and had done prototype for Abinitio integration with SAP RFC, Java APIs of Comverse (TELCO) systems and was Involved in client workshop/requirement gathering and Detail design. Akhilesh has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including: 2nd Nishant Manchanda, Sr. Consultant, Capgemini
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Sr Ab Initio Consultant Capgemini

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 February 2010 (1 year 2 months)

This was ongoing telecom transformation project on Business Intelligence, data warehouse system which allows Client to improve the knowledge of its B2B clients for France, Belgium, Switzerland, Egypt, Spain, United Kingdom and Romania. It is integrated with E-Force, Edecision and other upstream processes. Data marts stores all customer, billing information and marketing campaigns data for business reporting. It used Ab Initio 2.13 versions. I went to Lille(France) transitioning the project to India and done a setup of 3 developers at offshore. My scope of work included discussion with Client for various data feed requirements, creating high level design doc and reviewing detailed design ,functional and technical review of the deliverables, reusable code creation ,supporting user acceptance testing along with Project management .
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