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Vijay Bala

Vijay Bala

Scottsdale,AZ

Summary

Senior Technical Program Manager with two decades of Enterprise IT consulting, solution design, Enteprise architecture, Data engineering, and Governance . Proficient in Multi-cloud , Hybrid Cloud Architecture, Cloud adoption , migration and Cost optimization

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technical Program Manager

American Express
10.2023 - Current
  • Lead Ideation, product design and road Map for adoption of public cloud in AWS , GCP , AZURE
  • Lead Governance , Compliance for platform management to provide secure computing, Networking and storage needs for Public cloud adoption.
  • Lead UI API, Engineering teams to design build end to end public cloud using a self service model enabling 10X increased public cloud adoption with provisioning times reduced by 50%
  • Lead ,guide and provide consulting effort to capture High level estimates to drive and onboard apps/data in to Public Cloud.
  • Collaborate with Product, Partner and other Engineering teams to drive vision, goals and product alignment
  • Enabled Seamless Adoption of Gen AI and Predictive AI Capabilities in Google Cloud Platform(Big Query Ml , Gemini API)
  • Lead the Enterprise Finops program with Savings up to 30% in TCO of Public cloud Apps by implementing Finops best practices

Senior Technical Program Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2021 - 09.2023
  • Lead the end-to-end Data Product Road map to implement a real time (Security, Incident, Event Management) system .
  • Enabled Near Real time streaming Data Architecture pattern to ingest and process data helping customers to reduce data processing cycle time up to 50%
  • Lead the engineers to design, build ELT, Pipelines, Logical Physical Models to store ,process and implement actionable alerts from real time data .
  • Built serverless Cloud Native ELT pipeline for rapid scaling and high volume streaming data ingestion connecting upstream Producers and downstream consumers.
  • Helped improve customers security posture by enabling real time insights /threat monitoring reducing Mean Time to Respond/Mean Time between Failure up to 50%
  • Improved Customer Satisfaction (+30%) by increasing app availability by 5%
  • Reduction in Problem back log and P1 Incidents up to 50% by increasing automation
  • Helped Customers save up to 20% in Total cost reduction (1M USD)

Senior Technical Program Manager

DXC Technology
09.2017 - 08.2021
  • Lead, end to end, roadmap to implement self-service analytics solution in GCP
  • Collaborate across teams to identify end to end impacts to access Data , app migration , provide LOE efforts for migrating and modernization of Pipelines.
  • Drove discovery of, ETL/ELT Pipelines, data models, structures, Load strategies for one time, scheduled and incremental loads.
  • Designed Serverless ELT pipelines for rapid scaling and high volume data ingestion .
  • Lead Discovery, compliance and data governance for data lineage, traceability and life cycle management
  • Lead, and work with Engineers to design and build Logical, Physical data Models
  • Saved 30% in TCO (3M USD), implementing cloud native design patterns and cost optimization principles
  • Build Data as a Product with Self Service Reporting capability with reduction in processing times (50%)
  • Enabled Generative AI and Predictive Capabilities using Big query ML, Gemini API and provide self service analytics for business users reducing processing time and cost up to 50%.

Senior Project Management Consultant

DXC Technology
12.2014 - 08.2017
  • Lead Solutioning workshops for modernizing print solutions using P2V migration
  • Lead Discovery and proof of concepts for sizing and scoping the Migration approach
  • Collaborated with App, Infra, ISV, Engineering Vendors to arrive at Migration Roadmap
  • Lead and governed the road map with key metrics reporting to stakeholders
  • Migrated 100+ Print servers to Virtual servers resulting in over 20% in TCO (1M USD)

Project Management Consultant

DXC Technology
07.2008 - 11.2014
  • Lead the Migration of 100+ Legacy Apps to Distributed system using rehost (Microfocus)
  • Lead the Assessment Apps/ Feasibility/Cut over/Operational Readiness approaches
  • Saved up to 20% reduction in Total cost of ownership in TCO of Apps

Solutions Architect

Wipro
07.2000 - 07.2008
  • Saved up to 20% in Mainframe Apps TCO (1M) using re-engineering solutions
  • Lead Migration of M/F Apps to Distributed solution improving Speed to Market
  • Lead Application Product segmentation initiatives improving business KPIS
  • Lead data management solution for optimal usage of storage/retrieval processing

Programmer

DSQ Software
07.1998 - 07.2000
  • Impacted analysis Re-engineering of Mainframe Apps

Education

BACHELOR OR ENGINEERING - MECHANICAL

Government College of Technology
INDIA
07-1998

Skills

  • AWS, GCP, AZURE
  • Project Management
  • Infra and App Product Development
  • Cloud Adoption , Migration, Optimization
  • Finops Expert
  • Data Engineering, Advanced Analytics
  • Big Query Machine Learning (Auto ML)
  • Jira, Asana, Trello, project Management Tools
  • Client , Team Management
  • Team Motivation, Presentation, Communication
  • Stakeholder Management

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect
  • GCP Certified Profesional Architect
  • Professional Data Engineer(
  • Finops Certified Practitioner
  • Project Management Professional
  • Certified Scrum Master

Awards

Leader of the year

Timeline

Senior Technical Program Manager

American Express
10.2023 - Current

Senior Technical Program Manager

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2021 - 09.2023

Senior Technical Program Manager

DXC Technology
09.2017 - 08.2021

Senior Project Management Consultant

DXC Technology
12.2014 - 08.2017

Project Management Consultant

DXC Technology
07.2008 - 11.2014

Solutions Architect

Wipro
07.2000 - 07.2008

Programmer

DSQ Software
07.1998 - 07.2000

BACHELOR OR ENGINEERING - MECHANICAL

Government College of Technology
Vijay Bala