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PACKIYARAJ INDIRARAJ

PACKIYARAJ INDIRARAJ

Solution Architect
Leeds

Summary

  • 17+ years of professional experience in the IT field with specialization in Digital Commerce platform, DevOps,Cloud computing, Platform engineering, Automation and Performance Engineering.
  • Currently associated with Premier Farnell Leeds, United Kingdom. Have been working as Solution Architect
  • Solution Architect with a successful track record in 15+ projects across the UK, Europe, US, and India for renowned clients such as Marks and Spencer, Assa Abloy, Avnet, Standard Chartered Bank, and Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • Expertise in programming, specializing in Digital Commerce with proficiency in HCL/IBM Enterprise Commerce, Commerce Tools, Elastic Path, Microsoft Azure Cloud, GitOps, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Application Security, Java, GraphQL, Typescript, React, Spring Boot, Microservices, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Linux.
  • Well-versed in industry standards of software engineering and quality management.
  • Experience spans across diverse sectors including Banking, Insurance, Retail, and Manufacturing.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Solution Architect

Premier Farnell
Leeds, West Yorkshire
01.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Distributor of products for electronic system design - B2B & B2C
  • Technology: Java, HCL / IBM Commerce, Spring Boot API, GraphQL, Node, React,Typescript, Azure AKS, Redis, TIBCO Mashery, Dynatrace
  • Database: Oracle 19c, MongoDB
  • Cloud: Microsoft Azure

Responsibility

  • Responsible for effective and proportionate governance, preparing high level solution designs, presenting solution architectures at the Enterprise Architect forum
  • Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing and delivering solutions that are appropriate for technology strategies, cost effective, and aligned with business requirements
  • Develop high-level application and integration solution designs and work packages for projects
  • Collaborating with internal and external design, development, and engineering teams
  • Work with Development /Agile team to guide and offer expert advice to ensure the application is built with the highest standards and is in line with architecture principles
  • Own end to end Digital Headless transformation along with Front & back-end tech stack as a Digital Solutions Architect
  • Responsible for designing the API end to end
  • Commerce v9 migration on Azure Cloud
  • Accountable for Azure containerization in the cloud environment
  • To take care of Performance improvement and stability of site

Digital Solution Architect

TCS
London, City Of London
06.2016 - 12.2021
  • Company Overview: Retail B2C
  • Technology: Java, Commerce Tools SaaS, Spring Boot API, GraphQL, Next.js, Node, Azure AKS, Kafka, Apigee
  • Database: Oracle 19c, MongoDB
  • Cloud: Microsoft Azure

Responsibility

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including consultants, technologists, and industry specialists, to create holistic solutions tailored to business challenges
  • Drive the design and implementation of innovative strategies, leveraging cutting-edge digital, cloud, and AI technologies
  • Own end to end Headless migration along with Front end tech stack as a Technical Architect
  • Work with Development /Agile team to guide and offer expert advice to ensure the application is built the highest standards and is in line with architecture principles
  • Responsible for creating Solution Design document for key initiatives
  • Involved in and handled the Azure containerization in cloud environment
  • Accountable for Performance improvement and stability of site
  • Responsible for Critical module development
  • Support Product Confidence Testing (PCT) and Product Cutover preparation and Support

Technology Manager

SapientRazorfish
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2016 - 10.2017
  • Company Overview: Retail B2C
  • Technology: Java, Spring Boot API, IBM / HCL Commerce
  • Database: Oracle 12c

Responsibility

  • Played the role of Architect in eCommerce application
  • Was involved in Requirement gathering, Design and Solution approach
  • Involved in migration project for Brazil store rollout
  • Handled Migration & PROD cutover activities
  • Payment method integration (IBM Payment Gateway, Apple Pay, China POS, etc.)
  • Was involved in Holiday Readiness activities
  • Performance Improvement activities (Solr optimization and Caching)
  • Responsible for mentoring and training developers of the team in Business and Technical front

Technical Architect

Infosys Limited
Stockholm, Stockholm
10.2012 - 06.2016
  • Company Overview: Retail B2C
  • Technology: Java, Spring Boot API, Angular, Ajax, IBM / HCL Commerce
  • Database: DB2 v9.7

Responsibility

  • Driven the design and implementation of innovative retail strategies, leveraging cutting-edge digital technologies
  • High level Solutions Design and review of functional specifications, requirement gathering and technical specifications preparation
  • Played the role of Technical Consultant to improve performance of existing eCommerce Web application
  • Google Analytics Integration
  • Coordinated with multiple IT teams and prepared monthly release plan, release support activities as a release coordinator
  • Mentored and trained junior developers of the team in Business and technical side

Technical Lead

Sword Group
Chennai, Tamilnadu
11.2010 - 10.2012
  • Company Overview: Insurance
  • Technology: Java, JSP, JSF, Struts, Hibernate, Liferay Portal, Portlet, Web Services, WebSphere7.1, SQL Server

Responsibility

  • Development of web services calls to communicate with other applications
  • Published WSDL to Integration systems like Claims Apps
  • Involved in Integration with other applications like OSI (Outline Systems)
  • Deployment of application in Web Sphere Server
  • Involved in Infrastructure activities in this Application
  • Implementing client new change request
  • Involved in Unit Testing

Sr Java Developer

Scope International PvtLtd
Chennai, Tamilnadu
11.2007 - 11.2010
  • Company Overview: Banking
  • Technology: Java, JSP, Xform, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, XML, XSLT, Oracle10g, Linux, Web Sphere6.1, Web Sphere MQ Server6.1

Responsibility

  • Development of web services calls to communicate with other applications
  • Involved in IFX Mapping Messages to communicate with host systems like HOGAN (Mainframe Systems)
  • Deployment of application in Web Sphere Server
  • Involved in Infrastructure activities in this Application
  • Implementing new change requests from clients
  • Involved in Unit Testing

Java Developer

iAcharya
Chennai, Tamilnadu
01.2007 - 11.2007
  • Company Overview: e-Learning
  • Technology: Java, JSP, Servlet, HTML, Tomcat 5.5, Oracle 10g, Linux CentOS

Responsibility

  • Team Member
  • Developing and modifying applications as per user requirement
  • Involved in Unit Testing
  • Performed code reviews

Education

MBA - Systems

Madras University
Chennai
01.2010 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science - Comp. Science

Anna University
Chennai
06.2001 - 01.2005

Skills

Programming Language: Java, J2EE

Framework: Spring Boot Microservices

Cloud: Microsoft Azure Cloud

AWS

GCP

Container: Docker & Kubernetes

DevOps: Azure DevOps, GitActions, Jenkins

Ansible, Terraform, Sonarqube, Maven, Nexus

Monitoring: Newrelic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Sitescope, Dynatrace

DB: Oracle, Mongo, Cosmos DB and SQL Server

Performance Test: Loadrunner, JMeter

Test Automation Tools: Selenium, RESTAssured, Jest

API Manager : Azure, TIBCO Mashery, Google Apigee

Domain : Banking, Retail and Manufacture

Certification

Microsoft: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, 03/01/21

Timeline

Solution Architect

Premier Farnell
01.2022 - Current

Digital Solution Architect

TCS
06.2016 - 12.2021

Technology Manager

SapientRazorfish
06.2016 - 10.2017

Technical Architect

Infosys Limited
10.2012 - 06.2016

Technical Lead

Sword Group
11.2010 - 10.2012

MBA - Systems

Madras University
01.2010 - 01.2011

Sr Java Developer

Scope International PvtLtd
11.2007 - 11.2010

Java Developer

iAcharya
01.2007 - 11.2007

Bachelor of Science - Comp. Science

Anna University
06.2001 - 01.2005
PACKIYARAJ INDIRARAJSolution Architect