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Muthukannan Ganesan

Senior Solution Architect
Dubai
Muthukannan Ganesan

Summary

Experience Summary

● Highly focused and result-oriented professional with 15+ years in Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, Architecture Migration, Solution Architect, Technical Support, MIS & Documentation, Process Design & Implementation, System Integration & Unit testing

● Highly experienced in design and implementation of BI & Analytics solutions in large enterprise environments mostly in Financial services industry.

● Demonstrated proficiency by playing major role in digital transformation initiative which involves complete BI solution migration from traditional DWH to Big Data Ecosystem

● Expertise in implementing cloud solutions specific BI & Analytics domain.

● Proficient in Microsoft BI stack implementation in On-premise and Azure cloud platform.

● Involved in end-to-end solutioning and implementation of robust security principles in the Big Data & Analytics platform

● Involved in various niche solutions, particularly in the area of Advanced Analytics, Real time dashboards and machine learning.

● Expertise in report designing and dashboard development using Power BI, SSDT and Qlik Sense

● Excellent in data analysis with strong background DWH concepts.

● Experienced in SharePoint - Configuration, Implementation & Administration

● Hands-on experience in Big data (HIVE), ELK, Kibana, Starburst Trino, SAP HANA, Tableau, SAS, Alteryx, Rapid Miner, Azure ML & AI

● Experienced in working on Migration and Production support projects (databases, BI solutions, SharePoint portals and web applications)

● Responsible for ensuring accurate design implementation adhering to Security and Architecture policies

● Involved in deriving the guidelines and benchmarks for Data Team of 20+

● Practiced Agile and executed all stages of SDLC and strongly believe and always worked towards building Products than Projects.

● Enjoy challenging tasks, possess ability to learn new technologies with a strong analytic approach and flexible nature, can work individually or with internal/external teams

● Hands-on experience in grooming business & IT users on adapting new technology

● Motivated team player with ability to lead team and also to work independently.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Dubai Islamic Bank
Dubai

Lead Consultant/Senior Solution Architect
03.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Responsible for design strategy, development and deployment architecture of Power BI reporting platform
  • Responsible for design and implementation of Semantic layer in SSAS (for Self-Service BI) and migration of 3500 reports and dashboards from SAP BO to Power BI
  • Oversaw development of data models and reports
  • Drafted Governance for Power BI Adoption
  • Implemented enterprise reporting platform. Power BI(On-Premise) environment with whopping 100+ application databases
  • Completed 1200+ reports migration
  • Reports integration with more than 10+ surrounding systems
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation
  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems
  • Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships

Emirates NBD
Dubai

Senior BI Engineer & Technical Architect
08.2015 - 03.2022

Job overview

● Responsible for deriving the solution design of deployment topology of enterprise reporting platform in ENBD.

● Successfully implemented Enterprise MSBI reporting platform (Power BI Report Server)

● Proficient in Microsoft BI stack implementation in On-premise and Azure cloud platform.

● Involved in end-to-end solutioning and implementation of robust security principles in the Big Data & Analytics platform

● Involved in various niche solutions particularly in the area of Advanced Analytics, Real time dashboards and machine learning.

● Designed and developed BI solutions using Power BI and required Tabular and Dimensional Data Models in SSAS & calculated views in SAP HANA

● Designed and developed CIO dashboard and platform audit dashboards.

● Performance tuning of reports (SSAS, HIVE and SAP HANA) and bench marking of reports.

● Designed Data level security solutions (Row-level security/Analytical Privilege) in Big Data, SAP HANA for analytical and paginated reports.

● Hands-on experience in managing SAP HANA deployments and platform

● Implemented all non-negotiable Security controls mandated by central Bank for the reporting platform and ensured DLP is enabled for all paginated reports

● Integrated logs with ELK stack and monitored logs with Kibana and configured alerts for Cyber Security, thus achieved PCI-DSS complaint for platform.

● Involved in enabling CPR (Consumer Protection Regulation) security controls mandated by Central Bank

Custodian of enterprise reporting and analytics platform and responsible for below:

  • Report governance, report rationalization for Cognos to MSBI migration & release management
  • Automated reports deployment - integration with GitHub and deployment pipelining through Jenkins for CI/CD
  • IAM integration of BI and HANA for automating access requests
  • Resilience testing for entire platform
  • Custom portal solution integration with MSBI reporting platform.
  • Implemented Dynamic Data Masking & Always-On Availability for SQL database
  • Configured Poly-base feature and integrated with Hadoop to enable querying within SSMS.
  • Automated SSAS model deployment between PR & DR servers using RoboCopy script
  • Configuration of new data sources, quarterly upgrade of BI and analytics Platform.
  • R&D with Power BI for future reporting or analytics projects
  • Set guidelines for report development for team

FIS Global Business Solutions India Private Ltd.
Chennai

Senior Software Engineer II
09.2013 - 08.2015

Job overview

  • Designed, developed and implemented MIS reporting solution in span of 3 months
  • Successfully build MIS solution, ADF reporting solution as product by leading BI team of 10+ BI engineers.
  • Designed intranet portal solution with minimal customization to be able to implemented in 3 different banking institutions.(Bharath Mahila Bank, Shivalik bank, Bhandhan Bank
  • Responsible for performance tweaking of reports and automating ETL process
  • Individually managed BCP process of entire BI platform.
  • Implemented all coding standards and required security controls and received top rating for performance
  • Own top performing team award two years in row.

HCL Infosystems Limited
Puducherry

Senior Software Engineer
02.2008 - 09.2013

Job overview

  • Developed SSRS reports and managed execution of ETL (SSIS) Packages and integrated with SharePoint Portal
  • SQL Query optimization and performance tuning
  • Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for project
  • Review meetings with client.
  • Customized and implemented SharePoint (Back Office) Intranet Portal
  • Configured CDN (Content Delivery network) and hosted website and in cloud server
  • Created maintenance plans for Content and website databases.
  • Involved in Feasibility Study and implemented 3-Tier Topology for migration.
  • Deployed and managed execution of SSAS Cubes and SSIS packages.
  • Troubleshooting of network, DNS, configuring NLB.
  • Implemented AD migration to existing SharePoint portal configuring SSPs.
  • Involved in analysis and completed SPRAP (Risk Assessment Program) for Portal
  • Developed and deployed Dashboard reports and KPIs using ProClarity and PPS 2007 into SharePoint portal
  • Designed and developed database for website.
  • Migrated SQL database to latest version
  • Configured and maintained internal Team Site and Team Foundation Server for source control
  • Data Analysis in SCCM and developed SSRS reports from Heart database, Custom-built KPI’s for monitoring software usage.
  • Developed SharePoint designer Workflows and used Excel Services for various reports in graphical representation.
  • Developed cubes and deployed dashboards using Performance Point Server into SharePoint site

Education

Thiruvalluvar University
India

Master of Computer Applications from Computer And Information Sciences
08.2004 - 06.2007

Skills

    Data Analysis

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Tools and Technology

BI Tools : Power BI, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Qlik Sense, Kibana, Excel Services, Tableau

Analytics : Python, Cognos Analytics, Alteryx, BigData

Platform : Windows, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, ELK

Database : SQL Server, HIVE, Postgres, SAP HANA, Sybase IQ, MySQL, Oracle, DB2

CI/CD : GitHub, Jenkins, Azure Container Registry, Docker

Agile Tools : Jira, Confluence, Trello

Accomplishments

  • IT GEM Award - Best Performing Squad - Q2'2021
    For achieving PCI-DSS compliant for Data platform
  • IT GEM Award - Individual Performer - Q3' 2017
    For implementing BI Portal (SharePoint with SSRS) for Emirates Islamic Bank from ENBD Group IT.
  • IT GEM Award - Innovation Team - Q2' 2016
    For implementing the innovation project of "Credit card's Spend Analysis" using heat map in Qik Sense
  • FIS - Team of the year 2015
    Team award for making the project into a product which was deployed to 2 other banks with few configuration changes.
  • FIS - Team of the year 2014
    Team award for delivering MIS reporting solution before deadline with all re-usable modules

Key Professional Trainings

● Azure Training Day - Nov’19

● 4 SAP trainings (SAP HANA 2.0 Basics, SAP HANA 2.0 - SQL & SQL script, SAP HANA 2.0 Modeling and Data Modeling with Power Designer) - (SAP, Dubai, Oct’18 - Mar’19)

● Azure ML & AI, Python programming training (Microsoft - Dubai, Sep’18)

● Introduction to SQL Server 2014 and SharePoint BI (Microsoft – Bangalore, Jan’2015)

● Basic programming with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Microsoft - Mumbai, Mar’ 2011)

● Application platform Architecture series workshop around SQL Server (HCL Infosystems - Noida, Sep’ 2010)

● Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 and Reporting features. (Microsoft - Bangalore, Dec’ 2009) using OLAP

Timeline

Lead Consultant/Senior Solution Architect

Dubai Islamic Bank
03.2022 - Current

Senior BI Engineer & Technical Architect

Emirates NBD
08.2015 - 03.2022

Senior Software Engineer II

FIS Global Business Solutions India Private Ltd.
09.2013 - 08.2015

Senior Software Engineer

HCL Infosystems Limited
02.2008 - 09.2013

Thiruvalluvar University

Master of Computer Applications from Computer And Information Sciences
08.2004 - 06.2007
Muthukannan GanesanSenior Solution Architect