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Sajid Ali

Sajid Ali

Düsseldorf

Summary

Dynamic Solution Architect with over 19 years of IT experience, specializing in Enterprise Architecture frameworks, technology roadmaps, and governance. Proven expertise in retail systems, including ERP (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics), POS, OMS, CRM, supply chain, and e-commerce integration. Proficient in leveraging cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP, as well as APIs, microservices, SOA, and enterprise integration patterns to drive innovation. Adept at stakeholder engagement, translating strategies into actionable solutions, evaluating development options (buy vs. build), and leading high-performing teams to achieve organizational goals.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

ENGINEERING MANAGER

Deloitte Digital
11.2022 - 08.2025
  • I led microservice implementations, applied DevSecOps principles, and managed requirement engineering, and staffing for projects across industries, with a total budget exceeding €30 million.
  • Project: Global DevSecOps Standardization & Scaling
  • I designed strategy for a project called global DevSecOps standardization & scaling of a Meditech company. This includes several activities including
  • Identification of current DevSecOps landscape across several locations including Germany, USA, China and India and understanding of culture, technology and processes to define cooperate strategy.
  • Supporting in Pre-Sale activities for different DevSecOps solution vendors including Atlassian, GitHub and other cloud providers.
  • Defining a roadmap for the harmonization of toolchain and setting a central IT department to offer Platform as a Service (PaaS) approach in order to
  • Defining automation and reusable CICD pipelines using GitHub Actions for embedded and web applications to improve developers’ productivity.
  • Setting up monitoring and reporting tool such as DORA metrics for traceability and transparency.
  • Achieved a 70% performance improvement by eliminating context switching and introducing a cache with highly available custom runners.
  • Project: Digital Marketplace for Energy, Transport and Telecommunication
  • I designed and implemented marketplace solutions, leveraging MACH (Microservice, API First, Cloud Native and Headless) principles including Data Analytics. Additionally, I actively contributed to technical post-sale activities.
  • Trusted advisor & Subject Matter Expert for the client to support the marketplace system using Commercetools (SaaS) and Azure Cloud Services.
  • Implemented several middleware microservices using Spring Boot, designed data models, REST-Ful API and setup integration to several external systems.
  • Automated CICD pipelines while ensuring DevSecOps principles.
  • Defined terraform scripts for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
  • Optimized SQL queries for PostgreSQL, enhancing performance and data integrity.
  • Successfully utilized Data Analytics to boost marketing campaigns and promotions including time-series to identify trends, A/B Testing to experiment with marketing strategies, predictive analytics to forecast purchase likelihood.
  • Demonstrated excellence in clarifying business requirements to the team well in advance of implementation, ensuring seamless project execution.
  • Exceeded monthly sales target by 30% through effective lead generation.
  • Team Size: 150+
  • Region: DACH

SPECIALIST MASTER

Deloitte Digital
05.2011 - 10.2022
  • Directed multi-year Omnichannel Customer Engagement program for a top biopharma company; architected and integrated Boomi, SFMC, Veeva, Marketo platforms, enabling personalized engagement for 50K+ healthcare professionals.
  • Delivered enterprise integration for a genomics leader, designing APIs and interfaces with SAP, EAP, SnapLogic, Liquibase, ensuring real-time data sync across 3 core systems.
  • Enabled subscription and loyalty program for global retailer (Lululemon) using Python, AWS Lambda, Go-Transverse reduced billing errors by 30% and increased subscription adoption by 15%.
  • Led Green Lake Program portal for an Hyper-scaler client, implementing Hybris, Java, Docker, Jenkins to enable self-service and cut time-to-market by 40%.
  • Architected global eCommerce & AEM platform for a consumer goods client, integrated Hybris, AEM, MuleSoft, SOLR, scaling to 1M+ active distributors/customers worldwide.
  • Spearheaded cloud transformation for Kohl’s using Terraform, Python, Ansible, GCP, migrating 100+ applications; improved infrastructure provisioning speed by 70%.
  • Modernized customer engagement portal for a tech giant using AEM, Salesforce, Marketo, IDM, driving 25% higher digital adoption.
  • Led development of sales intelligence platform for VMware on Liferay, Spring, SOLR, Greenplum, consolidating client/license data for 2K+ sales reps, improving cross-sell opportunities by 20%.
  • Team Size: 30+
  • Region: APAC

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Kony Labs
10.2010 - 04.2011
  • Developed native mobile banking apps serving 2M+ customers, improving digital adoption by 35%.
  • Integrated secure mobile transaction features, reducing payment failures by 20%.
  • Team Size: 10
  • Region: APAC

SENIOR ENGINEER – APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

CSC
02.2009 - 09.2009
  • Delivered eAgent/express insurance platform using V-chain framework & DB2, processing $2B+ annual transactions.
  • Improved data consistency and compliance, ensuring 100% regulatory audit readiness.
  • Team Size: 50
  • Region: APAC

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Satyam
03.2006 - 02.2009
  • Designed and implemented PLM solutions on eMatrix for Power and Energy Client.
  • Developed reusable integration components and data SyncUP script cutting delivery timelines by 20%.
  • Team Size: 30
  • Region: APAC

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

UPTU Technological University
01.2005

Skills

  • Architectural Patterns: TOGAF, System Design (C4 Model), Microservices, Event Driven, MVC, Distributed Systems
  • Languages/Frameworks: Java (Spring Boot), NET C#, PHP (Symfony), Python (Django), Angular, React, Graph-QL
  • Cloud Technologies: Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
  • Databases: MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Test Tools: Junit, Postman, JMeter, Gatling
  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, GitHub Actions
  • Observability & Monitoring Tools: (ELK) Elasticsearch, Kibana & Logstash, New Relic, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Event Streaming Platforms: Kafka, Service Bus, EventHub, Apache ActiveMQ
  • Other Tools: Jira, Confluence, Drawio, Plant-UML, MS Power point, Hybris, AEM, Commerce-tools, Shopify etc, Mule-soft, SAP BTP

Certification

  • Google Certified Generative AI Leader
  • Commercetools Professional Java
  • Sun Certified Java Professional

Timeline

ENGINEERING MANAGER

Deloitte Digital
11.2022 - 08.2025

SPECIALIST MASTER

Deloitte Digital
05.2011 - 10.2022

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Kony Labs
10.2010 - 04.2011

SENIOR ENGINEER – APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

CSC
02.2009 - 09.2009

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Satyam
03.2006 - 02.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication

UPTU Technological University

AREA OF EXPERTISE

  • Digital and Cloud Transformation
  • Project and Program Management
  • IT Consulting and Integrating enterprises
  • AI adoption strategies

INDUSTRIES

  • Retail
  • Financial Services
  • Medi Tech
  • Chemical

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