Rajesh Shriyan

About Rajesh Shriyan

Seasoned Architect leader with over 20 years of experience in solving challenging business problems with innovative solutions. I currently lead a direct/indirect team of 40+ global architects in the conception, definition, and delivery of strategic technology investments across all architecture domains, i.e. business, solution, process, big data, technology, and security. Define and lead the application, integration, and information architecture sub-practices within NetApp to simplify business processes, lower operational costs, reduce security exposures, and increase IT agility. Play a lead role in setting IT portfolio globally that considers business and technology needs 2-5 years into the future. Provided technical leadership on integrating across all areas of the business, and across the current and future applications and technology environments, to ensure that breakthroughs, competitive advantages, and go to market faster targets are realized through technology. Ensure team aligns closely with stakeholders to ideate, scope, plan, and roadmap for the delivery of business and technical capabilities. Activities include adopting a hybrid organizational model for data science with a Center of Excellence, simplifying NetApp’s complex, heavily customized enterprise apps with 75% SaaS approach, and delivering best in class technical solutions across our sales, fulfillment, accounting, marketing, people, legal and business intelligence functions around the world.Expertise and passion include- Lead and drive technology forum of business leaders to make key strategic decisions- Business outcome-based architecture- Strategic planning & Portfolio management- Architecture solutions- Application portfolio management- Business Architecture & Process management- Service strategy- Target state architecture and Roadmap- Data Science, Predictive Analytics and ML strategy

Experience

1. Sr Director Enterprise Architecture

   NetApp

   Apr 2016 — Present · Raleigh-Durham, NC, US

   Reporting to the CIO & SVP of IT, collaborate with business stakeholders, service providers, industry experts, and vendors on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of enterprise capabilities and platforms. Define, maintain and evangelize the company’s current and target platform strategies and roadmap along with reference architectures, business-system capability maps, and solution integration requirements. Demonstrated ability to make informed, data-driven decisions, applying appropriate decision-making rigor around projects, solutions and preferred technology. Manage a staff of 10 Enterprise Architects and 30+ indirect solution/domain architects with a large portfolio of inter-related projects. Responsibility includes a holistic cloud strategy for IT along with a clear plan and roadmap for application simplification and business process optimization.Responsible for creating and operationalizing the Data Science practice at NetApp to enable Predictive Analytics and ML capabilities for transforming the business.Actively leading the digital transformation journey.

Education

• K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics

  1995

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Sfdc
• Emerging Technologies
• Enterprise Architecture
• Information Technology Strategy
• Order Management
• Distributing Computing
• Software Development
• Writing Code
• Product Innovation
• Big Data
• Saas
• Soa
• Software Project Management
• Caching Technology
• Architecture Review and Governance
• Business & IT Alignment
• Enterprise Design Patterns
• Agile Methodologies
• Collaborative Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Modeling (Uml)
• Legacy Systems
• System Analysis & Integration
• Oracle Applications
• Technology Roadmapping
• Technical Support
• Software System Analysis
• Oracle Erp Implementations
• Integration
• IT Strategy
• Identity & Access Management
• Rules Engines
• Sdlc
• Complex Event Processing
• Virtualization
• Solution Architecture
• B2b
• Business Process Improvement
• Cloud Computing