Rushit Valera

Business Architecture Associate Manager @Accenture UK & Ireland

Manchester, GB

Managed cross functional team of 30+ resources from Design, Build, Test, Automation, Third Party Vendors, Deployment, Infra and Maintenance teams, delivering projects worth over £6M per year. • Built robust Jira setup with clear workflows defined for User Stories, Bugs and Tasks customised as per project needs. • Led scrum and agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. • With techno-functional expertise in solutioning and design, played pivotal role in not only driving daily bug triage meetings with the development team. • Guided Product Owners in backlog management and spearheaded backlog refinement sessions with the business and Solution Architects. • Tracked and reported daily progress using appropriate metrics. • Planned and managed monthly and quarterly releases successfully through until receiving warranty exit from the business and production support leads. • Along with Technical Architects, co-led complex environment planning of 20+ lower and higher environments to allow parallel running of multiple sprints and projects. • Supported Delivery Leads in delivery planning and deployments across multiple environments, ensuring it meets build and test timelines. Also assisted Programme Manager in maintaining RAID logs and helped resolve hurdles and issues. • Built excellent relationship with client with consistent high-quality delivery and maintaining open and honest conversations throughout the project lifecycle.

Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, Gujarat Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

St. Xavier's High School, Jamnagar, Gujarat

Science

School of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Energy and Infrastructure