Principal Architect, experience working on a wide range of projects throughout the project life cycle from eliciting, capturing and (where applicable) defining requirements to designing and defining solutions, to supporting development, to delivering a supportable, scalable and maintainable solutions.
Specialising in delivering to a SaS and SOA strategy.
Working closely with commercial teams to define product roadmaps and product strategy.
Specialties: Business Process Re-engineering, Relationship Mangement, Consultancy, Negotiation, Stakeholder Mangement, Change management, Project Management, SOA, Agile, Software Development, Business Analysis, XML, Web services, SOAP, Training, Process modelling
Principal Architect @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) London, United KingdomConsultant Solutions Architect @ From April 2014 to October 2015 (1 year 7 months) London, United KingdomSolutions Architect @ - Develops a product/project solution strategy supporting business and technical strategies
- Takes ownership of solution design and architecture with a focus to ensure strategic fit or recognised tactical decisions agreed with stakeholders.
- Drives reuse, scalability, resilience, performance, supportability and maintainability.
- Provides guidance on solution design to business analysts.
- Minimises Technical debt and ensures, where it is introduced and/or recognised, that it is logged.
- Leads/drives architectural and design aspects of product/project at each stage of the delivery life cycle from initial kick-off through to operation.
- Validates, refines and translates requirements into a potential solution or solution options
- Translates business objectives/problems to business and functional requirements.
- Ensures stakeholders are aware of design decisions and their implications by managing the trade off between schedule/cost and benefit.
- Ensures that priorities based on well-defined and measured business cases are agreed, and collaborates with technical stakeholders to ensure accuracy, efficiency and feasibility
- Ensures that internal and external documentation is completed and is to a good standard.
- Create and groom short, medium and long-term product roadmaps and get internal agreement with key stakeholders. Build and maintain product backlog in line with the product roadmap.
- Designs interfaces of web service offerings to ensure they standardised, semantically correct and easy to understand.
- Coordinates the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality.
- Serves as product expert and evangelist, responsible for the technical integrity of the product roadmap.
- Supports presales, bid and sales processes and acts as a subject matter expert on a number of functional and technical areas of the business From July 2012 to April 2014 (1 year 10 months) London, United KingdomBusiness/System Solutions Consultant @ • Working in agile development and analysis teams on a wide range of projects, throughout the full project lifecycle, from concept to delivery.
• Running project inceptions, eliciting and/or defining requirements, managing scope, delivering both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Working with various and wide ranging, internal and external stakeholders to design solutions to suit both technical and product strategies
• Product owner for internally and externally exposed web services.
• Working as an internal consultant on a number of projects, products and systems to provide guidance on solutions
• Managing stakeholders throughout lifecycle to make sure that projects cover all key requirements
• Working closely with a number of multi-functional development teams to deliver multiple projects concurrently
• Attending weekly pipeline meetings with key internal stakeholders and senior management
• Functional and non-functional story writing
• Systems analysis
• Managing project scope and benefits to deliver the greatest value possible within budget
• Data modeling to ensure that reporting requirements are met at project delivery
• Internal and external documentation (both technical and product)
• Managing project and business risk
• Setting and managing acceptance criteria at project, feature and story level
• Designing test frameworks
• Negotiating resource requirements with development capacity managers to ensure that projects are fully resourced From June 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomProject Manager @ • Managing agile projects of varying size and complexity,
• Managing cross functional teams both on-shore and off-shore,
• Managing project risk, budgets and scope,
• Managing projects effectively and seamlessly transition into the hands of support teams,
• Managing stakeholders and stakeholder communication,
• Measuring project success and return on investment. From September 2010 to June 2011 (10 months) Business Manager @ From July 2005 to September 2010 (5 years 3 months)
Prince2 Course From 2009 to 2009 BSc, Economics and Business Finance @ Brunel University From 2003 to 2007 Navinder Marwaha is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Project Delivery, Agile Project Management, SOA, Requirements Gathering, Web Services, Solution Architecture, Project Planning, Stakeholder Management, Product Management, Project Management, Team Management, Consulting, Management
Websites:
http://navmarwaha.com/