Puneet Kumar
Milton Keynes,Milton Keynes
Summary
Accomplished professional specializing in enterprise architecture, microservices, and event-driven design. Proficient in C# and Python, with extensive experience in Azure and AWS cloud platforms. Expertise in database management across SQL Server, Oracle, and SQLite, along with a strong foundation in business intelligence and machine learning. Proven leadership in enhancing system reliability through performance and security testing tools, driving innovation through strategic upselling initiatives.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Integration Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions
2021.01 - 2025.10
- Led end-to-end API delivery for asset and work order automation integrated with Ellipse EAM.
- Designed and optimized APIs, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Successfully onboarded over 12,000 users onto the platform.
- Managed environment setup across all stages—development, testing, UAT, and production—through to go-live.
- Supported performance testing and tuning to ensure system reliability under load.
- Acted as a key liaison between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and timely delivery.
- Designs and implement complex integration and reusable solutions, using cloud-based technologies like Azure Integration Services or hybrid integrations.
- Build and maintain the Integration technology roadmaps and architecture, running Integration Design Authority.
- Experience working in onsite – offshore model and leading offshore teams.
- Migrating existing interfaces to cloud, and to implement hybrid integration based on different constraints.
- Work with other Architect, with the emphasis on the need for and importance of Integration Architecture.
- Design and maintain Architecture roadmap, in line with Enterprise Architecture guidance.
- Works with project teams by defining core requirements, architecture principles, technology stack, runtime environments, and helping the development process. Collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Implements architecture’s best practices to ensure requirements are met with quality. Performance tuning, troubleshooting, go live support.
- As part of our Practice, assessing the current architecture and recommending an improved one. Also evaluating new technologies and making recommendations that will ensure more stable, scalable, and economically efficient architecture.
Integration Architect and Lead
Publicis Sapient
2018.01 - 2020.01
- Developing Business and Core services using Azure functions.
- Development of Business workflows using Logic apps.
- Pair programming with other teams to ramp up on Azure Cloud and Workflow creation.
- Creation and Maintenance of CI/CD pipeline using Azure Dev Ops.
- Writing Feature files in spec flow and back end code for Acceptance test cases.
- Handling and Management of API management using Swagger file and adding policies
Integration Lead
Publicis Sapient
2016.01 - 2018.01
- Architected and developed enterprise applications using .NET, Azure, and MSBI technologies.
- Led Integration and data transformation projects using SSIS, SSRS, and Azure Data Factory.
- Managed a team of 6–8 developers, ensuring timely delivery and quality assurance.
- Played a key role as Requirement Manager onsite in Frankfurt for over 2 years.
- Developed ETL strategies and implemented data quality frameworks for European Data Warehouse.
Lead Developer
Publicis Sapient
2015.01 - 2016.01
- Involved in taking the requirements from client.
- Developing and designing new read and write strategies using Quartz Framework.
- Coding for addition of new features or enhancement of existing features.
- ETL package creation and Data Handling using BIML engine to generate on the fly DTSX packages.
- UI upgradation using inbuilt WPF controls.
- Fix and debug critical issues.
- Peer Code reviews.
Lead Developer
Publicis Sapient
2011.01 - 2015.01
- Onsite Co-coordinator at Frankfurt Client location and played Requirement Manager Role.
- Leading the support team completely and enabling people growth by mentoring, helping team in technical solutions.
- Designing and implementing ETL strategy end-to-end, Implementation of Microsoft SSIR and SSRS package implementation.
- Development of windows service in C#.Net that includes File watcher, compression decompression, signing and sign verification and queues message to SSB message Queue.
- Development and Designing of SSIS packages for source to Destination Extract, Transform and Load.
- Creation of XSD based on underlying database schema.
- Development of on demand and Scheduled reports in SSRS and SQL Server 2008.
Developer
Publicis Sapient
2009.01 - 2011.01
- Creation & Migration of all database objects, including tables, indexes, views, functions, stored procedures from existing databases.
- Managing the inter track dependencies.
- Organizing and hosting client calls for clarifications, discussions and reviews.
- Peer Reviews.
- Bug Fixing for all the existing applications (VB6, VB.Net, C#.Net) dependent on the migrated databases.
- Testing of migrated stored procedures through NUNIT framework
- Responsible for writing test case scenarios in NUNIT Test framework for RDM and XML Tracker.
Module Lead
Rate Gain It Solution
2006.01 - 2009.01
- Developed and maintained web-based applications for hotel rate and inventory management.
- Implemented business logic, managed releases, and conducted unit testing.
Education
Certificate of Higher Education - Information Technology
Guru Govind Singh IndraPrashth University
India 2001.05 - 2005.06
Skills
- Enterprise architecture and best practices
- Microservices and event-driven design
- C# and Python programming
- Azure integration services
- Cloud platforms: Azure and AWS
- Database management: SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite
- Business intelligence and machine learning
- Performance and security testing tools
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Upselling
Languages
Hindi
English Fluent
Accomplishments
1-year Diploma in Machine Learning Affiliated to IIT Guwahati.
Certification
Certified Azure Developer
Certified Azure Architect
Certified Azure DevOps Engineer
Certified Azure IOT Developer
Certified Azure AI Associate
Timeline
Integration Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions
2021.01 - 2025.10
Integration Architect and Lead
Publicis Sapient
2018.01 - 2020.01
Integration Lead
Publicis Sapient
2016.01 - 2018.01
Lead Developer
Publicis Sapient
2015.01 - 2016.01
Lead Developer
Publicis Sapient
2011.01 - 2015.01
Developer
Publicis Sapient
2009.01 - 2011.01
Module Lead
Rate Gain It Solution
2006.01 - 2009.01
Certificate of Higher Education - Information Technology
Guru Govind Singh IndraPrashth University
2001.05 - 2005.06