Open To Work
SAJAN CHACKO
Pembroke Pines,FL
Summary
Visionary leader with a proven track record in guiding organizations to success through strategic planning and management. Expertise in team building, driving innovation, and enhancing operational efficiency to meet business goals. Ability to convert challenges into opportunities, significantly impacting company growth and profitability.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
Work History
VP, Technical Architecture & Integrations
Southern Glacier Wine & Spirits
Miramar, FL
01.2024 - 03.2026
- Enterprise Integrations Engineering Leader & VP of Technical Architecture
As a senior technology leader, drove business growth and innovation through cutting-edge solutions, aligning IT initiatives with business objectives. led teams of architects and engineers, fostering technical excellence and innovation across Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Enterprise Integrations Architecture, and Enterprise Observability Architecture.
Key Achievements:
- Cloud Architecture: Developed and executed cloud strategy, migrating 80% of workloads to AWS and Azure, achieving $10M in annual cost savings. Established FinOps practices, optimizing cloud spend and reducing costs by 25%.
- Enterprise Security Architecture: Developed and implemented Enterprise Security Architecture, reducing security incidents by 40%. Established security governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with industry standards and regulations.
- Enterprise Integrations Architecture: Designed and implemented Integration Hub (iHUB) using IBM webMethods, API Connect, and Confluent Kafka. Led integration initiatives, enabling seamless data flow and interoperability between systems and applications.
- Enterprise Observability Architecture: Implemented Dynatrace, Splunk, and ScienceLogic solutions, providing real-time visibility into IT operations. Led incident response initiatives, reducing MTTR by 30%.
- Process Optimization: Spearheaded Celonis adoption, achieving process optimization and $59 million in savings.
- DevSecOps: Implemented DevSecOps practices on GitHub and Harness, reducing vulnerability exposure.
Leadership:
- Led teams of architects and engineers, fostering technical excellence and innovation
- Collaborated with executive leadership to establish technical roadmaps and strategies
- Developed and executed technical talent development plans, ensuring bench strength and succession planning
- Advised senior executives on complex issues while negotiating high-value contracts
Technical Expertise:
- Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure), Cloud Security, FinOps
- Enterprise Security Architecture, Identity and Access Management
- Enterprise Integrations Architecture (API Management, ESB, EDA)
- Enterprise Observability Architecture (Dynatrace, Splunk, ScienceLogic)
- Technical Leadership, Strategic Planning, and Team Development
Sr. Director, EA & Integrations
Royal Caribbean Group
Miami, USA
01.2021 - 12.2023
- Utilized enterprise architecture frameworks to develop future state business area architectures, promoting cohesive business strategies and cost efficiency.
- Defined incremental state architectures, design patterns, and best practices that aligned with the Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Developed architectural standards and roadmaps ensuring solutions met requirements for scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability, and security.
- Takes lead in refining, refactoring, and maintaining platform architecture capabilities as it evolves.
- Robust background in integrating DevSecOps practices into enterprise architectures.
- Proficient in aligning security, development, and operations to drive efficient and secure software delivery.
- Spearheaded the integration of DevSecOps practices, implementing automated security testing into CI/CD pipelines, resulting in a 40% reduction in vulnerability exposure.
- Led workshops and training sessions to cultivate a DevSecOps culture across development and operations teams, emphasizing the importance of security throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborated with security teams to implement threat modeling exercises, identifying and addressing security risks early in development.
Enterprise Architect, EA
Royal Caribbean International
Miami, USA
01.2018 - 12.2021
- Steered creation of future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services, aligning with company objectives to decrease TCO, enhance long-term profitability, and establish competitive advantage through traceability from business and IT strategies to technologies.
- Blended architecture, vision, conceptualization, storytelling, and business case development to drive effective technology solutions.
- Steer efforts in executing change, managing risks, and improving business to define and convert requirements and processes into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, entailing availability, scalability, reusability, and adaptability.
- Closely work with cross functional domains to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.
- Plan and implement proofs of concept for critical enterprise capabilities involving building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.
- Supervised team members to achieve high-quality, on-time, and under-budget product delivery, fostering an innovative work environment with strong ownership and accountability.
- Performed requirements definitions, system analysis and design, interface and data architectures, life-cycle cost analysis and estimation, and governance.
Sr. Solutions Architect, EA
Royal Caribbean International
Miami, USA
01.2010 - 12.2018
- Initiated architecture and development of Crossmedia (XM), a campaign management enterprise solution for guest and trade communication, enabling targeted variable data multi-channel publishing.
- Crossmedia integration with various open source & third-party products to provide functionality for a rules-based Content Management System (CMS) with support for multi-language, digital asset management (DAM), delivery of targeted variable data (VDP) communication via various messaging channels including Print, Email, Fax, SMS \ MMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat and Viber.
- Contributed to various projects, enhancements, and support roles, demonstrating subject matter expertise in cruise, air, tours, hotels, bus, and car reservation systems.
- Back-office Air financial integration with BSP (Bank Settlement Plan) and ARC (Airline Reporting Corp) via HOT and BOS files.
- Created dynamic packaging solutions using TravelBox from CodeGen to enhance travel product offerings.
- Utilized PASS XX/1 as a travel XML API tool to streamline travel data integration.
- Developed enterprise grade scalable travel search and Book API supported on the backend via PASS XX/1 travel XML API tool which integrates travel content and inventory from various different supplier source systems, such as major global distribution systems (GDSs), central reservation systems (CRSs), and low-cost carriers (LCCs), as well as hotel, car rental, and rail providers, translating them into a unified XML format (content aggregation and/or translation).
- Received Fire Chief Award for resolving production issues and WOW awards for out-of-the-box thinking and exceptional performance.
Principal Software Engineer
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
Miami, USA
01.2005 - 12.2010
Tech Lead, Consultant
Mastech Corporation / Norwegian Cruise Lines
01.1996 - 12.2000
Education
Bachelor Degree - Computer Science
MSRIT
Bangalore, IndiaSkills
- Technology Planning/Roadmap Development
- Strategic Planning
- Integration Strategy & Planning
- Digital Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) LeanIX
- Cloud Architecture
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- DevSecOps (GitHub, Harness)
- Container Architecture & Orchestration
- Observability (Dynatrace, Splunk)
- API Management
- Enterprise SOA: Middleware & Integration Tools
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
- E-commerce Platform Architecture
- Cloud First Architecture
- Architecture as Code (AaC)
- Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Domain Modeling
- Architecture Governance and decision-making frameworks
- Architecture Review Board
- Investment Review Board
- Architecture Review Board Leadership
- Portfolio Management
- Vendor management
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Process Improvement
- Re-Engineering & analysis
- Legacy Conversions
- Process optimization
- Agile/Lean Methodologies
- Team Building & Training
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Technical Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Business Acumen
- Governance & Compliance
- Contract Negotiation
- Investment Evaluation
- Big data analytics
- Storage Polyglots (persistent, caching)
- HA/DR, Virtualization
- Storage technologies
- PAM, IDP, IAM
- Taxonomy, Ontology
- Architecture frameworks
- Architecture Governance and decision-making frameworks
- Architecture Review Board
- Investment Review Board
- Architecture Review Board Leadership
- Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) LeanIX
- Planview
- Bizzdesign
- API Management
- Event-driven architecture
- Architecture frameworks
Certification
- Microsoft Azure - Solutions Architect
- AWS - Solutions Architect
- TOGAF
- ArchiMate
- The Data Incubator - 'Data Scientist'
Accomplishments
- Drove business growth and efficiency through digital transformation
- Led teams to deliver complex projects, achieving significant business outcomes and ROI
Deliverables
Innovative technology solutions and strategic IT initiatives that drive business value and ROI, Staying current with technology trends and market conditions, Effective communication and stakeholder management
Awards
- Captains Award
- Fire Chief
- Circle of Excellence
- Social Recognitions
- Commodore Award
- WOW Awards
Hobbies and Interests
- Project Coordinator - South East Region: Orthodox Christian Youth Movement (OCYM)
- Regional Director - South East Region: Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in USA (FOCUS)
Timeline
VP, Technical Architecture & Integrations
Southern Glacier Wine & Spirits
01.2024 - 03.2026
Sr. Director, EA & Integrations
Royal Caribbean Group
01.2021 - 12.2023
Enterprise Architect, EA
Royal Caribbean International
01.2018 - 12.2021
Sr. Solutions Architect, EA
Royal Caribbean International
01.2010 - 12.2018
Principal Software Engineer
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
01.2005 - 12.2010
Tech Lead, Consultant
Mastech Corporation / Norwegian Cruise Lines
01.1996 - 12.2000
Bachelor Degree - Computer Science
MSRIT