Balaji Natarajan

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT BALAJI NATARAJAN

Digital transformation leader / Enterprise solution architect focused on Cloud computing and strategist with extensive experience delivering technical expertise across a broad range of industries. Experience encompasses working alongside executive leadership providing insight and technical direction and recommendations to support the development of effective strategies that fully align with business objectives. Highly competent in steering development and management of Infrastructure, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, Enterprise architecture, project management, development, design, implementation, testing, and delivery of Enterprise Business Systems that support business growth and success. Led infrastructure initiatives, data center migrations, Hardware upgrades, virtualizations, cloud migrations and software upgrades Extensive experience in 25 + Global SAP implementation & upgrades of SAP suite of products, Including Azure cloud migration for SAP workloads and managed Hybrid infrastructure solutions. Expert level hands on skill in SAP basis & security and related application infrastructure. Work with stakeholders to get micro analysis of all the applications by creating the road map and migration plan, engagement of resources both onsite and offshore team, working with and negotiating with external vendors for tools, controlling the fixed budget, Follow through all planning, Solution architecture design and execution phases, holding stakeholder meetings weekly, generating detailed project plan, weekly and monthly status reports and application tracking dashboard Spearheaded Enterprise architecture initiatives and architected solutions to enhance business needs. Demonstrated strengths in applying Agile methodologies to drive IT projects including end-to-end integration of software solutions. Adept at steering daily operations ensuring efficient development, maintenance, and upkeep of operational metrics and process controls. Deliver highly effective leadership, building, training and developing high-performance teams, along with cultivating a collaborative work ethos. Played a critical role in shared service model leading the COE team for all the clients. Worked in scalable architectures using Azure App Service, server less architecture,container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes,), API management, microservice frameworks etc.