Saurabh Ajay Kumbhare

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ABOUT SAURABH AJAY KUMBHARE

Saurabh Ajay Kumbhare (SAK) has over 17 years of experience working as an SAP Integration Architect / Manager / Lead / Developer mainly in the Retail / Ecommerce and Utility domains. At his recent role at Retail Solutions, he is responsible for proposing and implementing integration solution architecture for core backend application estate including (SAP S/4HANA) and other SAP and non-SAP products.He is constantly working closely with his stakeholders for creating and evolving technical integration solution architectures, discovering ways to optimize solutions and processes, and is involved in identifying and assessing new and emerging technologies that deliver cost, operational and performance benefits.SAK is a continuous learner and is constantly looking to expand his knowledge in the Integration and Cloud (Azure & AWS) space. He loves to share his knowledge and learn from others.Expertise includes,• Understanding the Business and IT strategy• Working as part of the Enterprise, Domain and Platform Architects working group to communicate the integration architecture design that is line with the IT strategy• Confident business-IT partner able to influence and engage stakeholders at Business, Enterprise / Platform Architect, Business Analyst and Technical level by advising re-usable solutions, proposing recommendations to the business/IT, providing inputs for As-Is/To-Be blueprints• Ensuring that the solutions are developed in line with SAP’s Activate and ISA-M methodology and the agreed architectural recommendation and providing design resolutions that keep the core clean when implementing SAP S/4HANA• Define and maintain principles, design standards and practice documentation to support the architecture design processTECHNICAL EXPERTISESAK’s key technical expertise includes architectural and hands-on experience in the following areas:1. Integration Middleware - PI/PO and Integration Suite/SAP CPISCI2. B2B involving EDI using TPM4. Configuration of SLD, Creation of iFlows, ESR (IR) and IB (ID) objects.5. Mapping – Graphical, XSLT, JAVA mappings/UDF’s6. SAP BTP & PI/PO Administration, SAP API Management and Microsoft Azure APIM including integration with Azure Application Gateway 8. RAP, Backend Event configuration including using SAP NetWeaver Addon for Event Enablement, Event Mesh,ALE configuration, Proxies, BADIs / Enhancements / Exits9. Cloud Connector configuration10. Cloud - AWS Solution Architect Associate certified, Aviatrix Certified Engineer - Multi-Cloud Network Associate certified, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certified