Prajwal J.
Senior Technical Analyst @Ulta Beauty
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Technical Analyst @Ulta Beauty
Chicago, IL, US
Own end-to-end systems analysis across Ulta Beauty’s Retail Media Network, partnering with AdProduct, AdHub, Advendio, and Operations PODs to deliver platform enhancements and operational stability.Lead technical discovery, requirements elicitation, and solution analysis for onsite, offsite, and vendor-driven retail media integrations.Create Discovery Docs, BRDs/FRDs, FDDs, technical specs, and acceptance criteria, ensuring traceability from business goals to delivery.Manage vendor collaboration with Criteo, mParticle, DoubleVerify, and IPG, aligning on scope, data contracts, measurement needs, timelines, and risks.Define end-to-end integration flows across ad serving, campaign management, identity/data capture, and reporting/measurement (APIs, events, pipelines, dependencies, handoffs).Translate business needs into epics, user stories, and functional flows to enable sprint planning, estimation, and prioritized execution.Conduct feasibility and fit-gap analysis; document constraints/risks and recommend implementation options and integration strategy.Own technical governance and change control via documentation standards, release readiness checkpoints, and stakeholder alignment on scope and criteria.Improve monetization execution by strengthening campaign setup quality, delivery validation, and cross-platform consistency across AdHub/Advendio/vendor platforms.Increase reporting accuracy by defining tracking/measurement requirements, coordinating QA/UAT validation, and reconciling discrepancies across dashboards and tools.Own go-live readiness artifacts (runbooks, cutover steps, monitoring/alerting, operational handoffs) and drive hypercare with RCA-based improvements.Communicate complex technical topics in business-ready language for Product, Ad Ops, Analytics, and vendor stakeholders to speed decisions and reduce ambiguity.
EDUCATION
M S Ramiah Institue of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science/Studies
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Engineering-BE, Information Science
M E S Kishore Kendra
PreUniversity, Science
M. S. RAMAIAH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
SKILLS
ABOUT PRAJWAL J.
IT Manager, Senior Technical Analyst, Release Manager and Product Delivery Consultant over 15 years of experience leading discovery, requirements, and release readiness for enterprise and retail platforms. Experienced at translating client and business goals into product vision, roadmaps, user stories, and measurable outcomes, partnering with engineering, UX, data, and vendors to deliver incremental value through Agile sprints. Strong stakeholder communicator comfortable with ambiguity, multi-team dependencies, and go-live/hyper care in high-volume environments.Skilled in Stakeholder Engagement, Status Tracking and Reporting, Risk Identification and Mitigation, conflict resolution, data migration, delivering high quality deliverables in time critical projects working in Senior Business Consultant (Implementing Systems at Enterprise Level), Senior Business Analyst, Release Management, Program Management, Operations Support Lead (SAP) and planning and improving business systems for global organizations.Recognized people leader demonstrating values of care, courage and commitment to mentor and coach people during delivery of Go to Market implementations for global organizations SAP (Retail, Hi Tech, Manufacturing, Banking, Railways, Logistics), Accenture (Federal/ Public Sector), B-Braun (Health Care), ULTA Beauty (Retail-Fashion), Roche Hoffman (Genentech Pharma- Healthcare), Supervalu (Retail).Program Release/Delivery Lead for implementing Go to Market System (CRM – Sales, Service, Marketing packages, Cloud SAAS deliveries) driving blueprinting workshops, training on new solutions, close off s for ten full cycle projects and upgrade projects, in Agile delivery modeAreas of Expertise IT Project- & Program Management Release ManagementProcess Improvement Data Migration – Digital Transformation Agile & Scrum Business Analysis IT Operations / Controlling/ HypercareClient Relationship Enterprise Architecture Management / Business ConsultingSAP / ERP Systems /S4 HANA/CRMOperations SupportJira, Confluence, ServiceNow | Product & ad tech platforms: GAM, AdHub, Advendio | Data/analytics: Power BI, GCP | Enterprise: SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/HANA | Vendor ecosystems: Criteo, mParticle, DoubleVerify, IPG, Rokt, ITIL Cloud Services DevOps JIRA/ Confluence Google Cloud ComposerSAAS Tools
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