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Santhosh Sekar

Santhosh Sekar

Wellington,New Zealand

Summary

Dynamic Technical Architect with a proven track record at ANZ Bank, excelling in solution architecture and cloud computing. Spearheaded major infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance and operational resilience. Adept at stakeholder engagement and risk assessment, delivering robust solutions that align with strategic objectives and drive business success.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Architect / Solution Design

ANZ Bank New Zealand / HCLTech
Wellington, New Zealand
09.2016 - Current
  • Provided expert technical guidance to project teams, conducted design and implementation reviews, and supported the full project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery and adherence to architectural best practices.
  • Led the end-to-end architectural planning, solution blueprinting, and creation of high-level and detailed design documents for major infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with ANZ Bank's design frameworks and strategic objectives.
  • Collaborated with Business Analysis and Solution Engineering teams to capture, analyze, and manage functional and technical requirements, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
  • Developed and validated solution architectures that comprehensively address business, application, information, and infrastructure requirements in accordance with approved architectural standards.
  • Served as Technical Design Lead for the Enterprise Server Upgrades Program (NZ), Maas 2012, BS11 Separation overseeing multiple projects. Directed resolution of technical escalations across platform, storage, network, and database domains.
  • Led the migration and modernization of multiple banking applications across diverse business lines to the BS11 domain, ensuring full regulatory compliance and enhanced operational resilience.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive treatment and separation plans to facilitate seamless system independence and maintain critical functionality in the event of business or regulatory separation.

Infrastructure Architect

Dixons Carphone Retail / HCLTech
Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
09.2011 - 09.2016
  • Responsible for aligning business needs with strategic technology roadmaps by assessing current system capabilities and designing future technology architectures to achieve strategic technology plans that align with the businesses strategic initiatives.
  • Proven experience in enterprise strategy, enterprise data architecture and IT project/program delivery.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in cloud architectures (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, distributed systems) and approaches to address their unique management and security considerations.
  • Datacenter Consolidation and Migration for Dixons Carphone Group, United Kingdom which includes planning and execution of consolidating windows, VMware estate across Winnersh, Slough, HEMEL and Docklands DC's.
  • Active Directory Forest upgrade (2008R2 & 2012), Schema Extension, SCCM deployment, On-premises Lync environment setup and etc. with detailed back out plans.

Senior Project Engineer

WIPRO Technologies / CITI Bank (USA)
Chennai, India
06.2010 - 09.2011
  • Led Datacenter migration / consolidation for Citi bank core systems.
  • Design & Implementation of VMware Esxi5.1 and migration of Physical to Virtual servers.
  • Design & Implementation of VMware vSphere Replication appliance for DR.
  • Design & Implementation of 2012 server for DHCP with Hot Standby.
  • Implementation of file / print clusters with windows 2003 / 2008 servers.
  • Build and manage Dell Blade chassis with Half and full height Blades.
  • Providing L3 support for more than 2500+ Windows 2k & 2k3 servers.

Senior Engineer - Technology

Ajuba Solution Pvt Ltd
Chennai, India
04.2006 - 02.2008
  • Team Lead for IT Infrastructure support project and Managing around 1500+ servers.
  • Managing and resolve escalated calls from the Level 2 engineers.
  • Patching & Decommission of servers.
  • Hardware replacements on HP Servers & Updating of Firmware's for HP servers.
  • Migration of nearly 100 Physical servers to Virtual servers.
  • Providing L2 & L3 support for more than 1500+ windows 2k & 2k3 servers.
  • Active directory, DNS & DHCP Management, Exchange 2003 administration.

Technical Engineer (IT)

Plexus Software Security Systems Pvt Ltd
Chennai, India
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Installing & Configuring Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server Active Directory Domain Architecture.
  • Administrating user accounts, Groups and Organization Units.
  • Planning, Designing and Implementation of Active Directory Operation Roles.
  • Planning and Implementation of Global Catalog Server.
  • Trouble Shooting and maintaining Active Directory Database.
  • Disaster Recovery of Active Directory, Recovering Active Directory from DNS Crash.
  • Installing, Configuring and maintaining DNS, WINS and DHCP Servers.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science (IT)

Annamalai University
Chennai
09.2009

Diploma - Computer Technology

Central Polytechnic College
Chennai
09.2009

Skills

  • Solution architecture
  • Cloud computing
  • Infrastructure design
  • Data migration
  • Technical documentation
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Risk assessment
  • Performance tuning
  • Agile methodologies
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Cybersecurity best practices
  • Migration strategies
  • Microservices architecture

Accomplishments

  • Platform Modernization and End of Life Transitions, Successfully led and completed infrastructure lifecycle projects to upgrade platforms to the latest technologies, ensuring seamless transitions across multiple business lines as part of end-of-life asset management.
  • BS11 Cybersecurity Enhancement, Replicated and customized key cyber security solutions including PAM, PUAM, CSOC, DLP, and McAfee systems from the group to ensure alignment with BS11 compliance requirements. Enabled independent, resilient security operations by tailoring controls and processes to meet local regulatory standards as part of the BS11 migration.
  • BS11 Application Modernization and Business Continuity, Led the migration and modernization of multiple banking applications across various business lines to the BS11 domain, ensuring compliance and operational resilience. Developed comprehensive treatment and separation plans to enable seamless system independence and functionality in the event of separation.

Certification

  • Microsoft Azure Architect Design (AZ-301)
  • Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)
  • Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-300)
  • Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500)
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional - Cloud Architect
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
  • VMWare Certified Professional 5.0

References

Available On Request

Hobbies and Interests

  • Digital Innovation
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • Family and Health

Personal Information

Visa Status: New Zealand Permanent Resident

Timeline

Technical Architect / Solution Design

ANZ Bank New Zealand / HCLTech
09.2016 - Current

Infrastructure Architect

Dixons Carphone Retail / HCLTech
09.2011 - 09.2016

Senior Project Engineer

WIPRO Technologies / CITI Bank (USA)
06.2010 - 09.2011

Senior Engineer - Technology

Ajuba Solution Pvt Ltd
04.2006 - 02.2008

Technical Engineer (IT)

Plexus Software Security Systems Pvt Ltd
01.2004 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science (IT)

Annamalai University

Diploma - Computer Technology

Central Polytechnic College

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