Saurabh Anand

Informatica Architect & Team Lead

Bangalore, Karnataka - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Saurabh-Anand/14761c7432b8990a 8.5+ years of work experience in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. 2 years (and counting) with Cognizant Technology Solutions & 6 years with Infosys Technologies Limited. Solid understanding of ETL design principles and good practical knowledge of performing ETL design processes using Informatica 7x-9x. Strong understanding of OLAP systems, Dimensional modeling, Star/Snow flake schema and worked on different layers of data warehouse like staging, operational Data stores, enterprise data warehouse and data marts. Thorough understanding and involvement in SDLC which includes requirement gathering, designing, implementing and testing. Participated in various successful pre-sales and RFP activities and contributed to various technical forums. Strong experience with SQL, PL SQL and UNIX shell scripting to support troubleshooting and data analysis. Strong co-ordination skills that involve interaction with business users, understanding the business requirements and converting them to technical specifications to be used by the development team while working at onsite location. Excellent team management, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. Resourceful, creative problem-solver with proven aptitude to analyze and translate complex customer requirements and business problems and design/implement innovative custom solutions. Recognized by associates for quality of data, alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision making. Extensive experience on administering, installing and Upgrading Informatica environments (both PowerCenter and PowerExchange) Experience on various capabilities like Data Masking, Data Profiling and Data Quality using tools like Informatica Data Masking, Informatica Data Explorer and IBM Optim. Interested in learning new tools, technology with special focus on Open source and emerging technologies like Bag Data, Hadoop, Hive, NoSQL, Python scripting Language etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Informatica Architect & Team Lead

Philips - Bangalore, Karnataka - April 2013 to Present Bangalore, India This project is called "Information Factory" and as the name suggests the basic requirement is to publish Information to Business as and when they subscribe to the same. This is a very challenging project involving multiple touchpoints and multitude of tools and technologies. It involves reading SAP real-time transaction data using PWX, transforming it by either calling a webservice to update Teradata DB or using Teradata Parallel Transport to directly insert the record. Once the insert is committed informing the Business subscriber that requested changes are available. My roles and responsibilities include: Designing and proposing solution to meet the end-to-end data flow requirements. Coordinating with Onshore team and understanding new/changed requirements and translating them to actionable items. Proposed an Automatic code generation using a custom build "Informatica Code Generator" to minimize build/test time for pre-defined Templates. The "ICG" is build using Informatica SDK in Java. Managing a team of around 6 Developers, helping them with Technical/logical solutions as required. Maintaining the Solution Design and System Design documents.

 Supporting the Testing team in preparing Test Scenarios, Test cases and setting up Test data. Installing and Maintaining the Development Informatica PC and PWX environments. Closely coordinating with upstreams (SAP Real-time database) and down streams (Teradata, ESB), to ensure an issue free development setup. Reporting daily development status to the project managers & other stakeholders and tracking effort/task status.

Senior Associate, Projects

Cognizant Tech Solutions - Bangalore, Karnataka - April 2011 to Present

Data Quality Analyst

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc - Torrance, CA - April 2011 to April 2013 Provided expertise based on in-depth understanding of automotive industry and Customer Relationship Management area. Closely worked with business to set-up new Business Rules, Ad-hoc DQ checks to ensure system maintains or improves its overall DQ. Evaluated and understand both business and system use cases and processes Understood data models and databases (Transactional CDB, Customer Data Warehouse) Evaluated data quality using statistical reporting and analytical approach to identify cause and effect. Created and maintained DQ dashboards and reports Researched and profiled new data sources and monitor their health on a regular basis. Prepared and made presentation on how the systems are behaving and improving M-to-M or Y-on-Y Modified / Developed/ Executed test scripts Identified data segment to execute (based on yearly and frequency plan), execute and present result. Suggested data quality and process recommendation for improvement Worked with application team (s) to implement DQ improvements/issue and then perform the Post Implementation Reviews.

Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited - Bangalore, Karnataka - September 2004 to April 2011 Minneapolis, USA Milton Keynes, UK Bangalore, India Technical Skills: ETL Tools Informatica Power Center 9.x/8.x/7.1.3, Informatica PowerExchange 9.x/8.x Data Quality and Misc Informatica Data Analyst (Previously IDE & IDQ), IBM Optim, Informatica Data Profiler Operating Environment Unix, Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7 Tools & Utilities Oracle Clients (TOAD, etc.), Visual SourceSafe, Putty, Mercury Quality Center, Clearcase, Clearquest Databases Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, Teradata, SQL Server Languages SQL, PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting Graphics MS-Visio 2007. Data Modeling Erwin Others Perl, Python, HIVE, JCL, COBOL

Technology Lead
Infosys Tech Limited - Minneapolis, MN - September 2004 to April 2011

Technical Lead and Architect

Ameriprise Financial - Minneapolis, MN - March 2007 to March 2011 USA Understood Business requirements and translated them into Technical requirements and Data Needs.

 Performed Data Mapping & Analysis to identify and map the new interfaces to existing layouts and/or come up with new layouts. Conceptualized the design and prepared Blueprints, HLD's, LLD's Conducted Walkthrough of the design with the architecture and support community to obtaining their blessing. Designed, Developed and unit tested the ETL processes Collaborated with Project Managers to prioritize development activities and subsequently handle task allocation with available team bandwidth Maintained documents for Design reviews, SOX audits, ETL Technical specifications, Unit test plans, Migration checklists and Schedule plans. Performed Informatica PC & PWX upgrade from 8.1.0 to 8.6.1 in all 3 environments (DEV/QA/PROD) Performed Proof of Concept for IDE (Informatica Data Explorer) /IDQ (Informatica Data Quality) / Informatica Data Profiler/ IBM Optim and provide recommendations to clients. Implemented a Data Profiling solution to refresh QA with production data resulting in significant improvement (s) in QA testing and hence reducing Production Abends/ data issue. Played Subject Matter Expert role for TREX (Transaction Exchange) application and implemented more than 100 minor to major enhancements during my tenure with the client. Was a key member of the Enhancements and BAU (Business As Usual) teams which was responsible to maintain high-availability and provide quicker and relevant responses.

Onshore ETL Lead

Argos - Milton Keynes - September 2006 to February 2007 Milton Keynes, UK Understood the HRMS application database schemas and wrote "Data Source Specification" for the Interfaces, presented it to the HRMS architects and got their alignments. Performed Data Mapping for the interfaces (both inbounds, for data coming into HRMS and outbound, for data published out of HRMS) Interacted with business users to capture the requirements for the interfaces and converting those into technical specifications. Documented Program Specification for reusable transformation/ mapplets identified during the design phase. Conveyed the requirement to offshore Build Team and got the code along with Unit Test cases from build team, ensuring timely and quality delivery.

Offshore ETL Developer

British Petroleum - Bangalore, Karnataka - November 2005 to September 2006 Bangalore, India Defined and architected the Load Manager, a set of ETL jobs to extract data from the various source systems and populate the Trade Control Transformation (TCT) Data Mart. Studied their existing business model and data model across different source system, and then designed TCT data model that caters to all their BI and Application Requirements Developed Pecking Order Report using Business Objects WebI 6.5. Developed SQL Server 2000 DTS packages to perform basic ETL to support the Pecking Order reports. Supported the System integration Test cycle by analyzing and fixing the defects along with code migration. Coordinated with operations team for deploying the code in production environment. Along with latest code, maintained deployment checklist and mapping change documents using the Version control of respective tool Worked on code debugging and validation and Involved in Code Review. Extensively used various Performance tuning Techniques to improve the session performance (Partitioning etc)

Offshore ETL Developer

DCAGGPS - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - December 2004 to November 2005

Hyderabad, India Involved in High Level and Detail Level Design and document the same. Did complete source system analysis i.e. Data auditing and Profiling, for any discrepancy and validated the provided Data Mapping documents against the results. As a key member of the Informatica Build Team, was responsible for understanding ETL & UNIX shell scripting requirements, code development, creation of Unit Test Cases and ensuring a bug free quality delivery from offshore. Developed code to audit the ETL processes in Audit log table and raise exceptions and send it to Operations team for analysis. Conducted peer review of the design and code ensuring proper follow up of Business Requirements while adhering to quality and coding standards. Provided guidance, coaching and mentoring to the Entry Level Trainees.

EDUCATION

B.Tech in Computer Science

Dr K.N. Modi Institute of Engg and Tech, Modinagar. Uttar Pradesh Tech University - Modinagar, UP 2000 to 2004

CBSE
Govt Hr. Sec. School - Basar, Arunachal Pradesh 1999

CBSE
Govt. Hr. Sec. School - Basar, Arunachal Pradesh 1996

SKILLS Informatica, ETL, Datawarehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Modelling, Unix Scripting, Oracle, DB2, Powerexchange