Siva Kanagaraj has over 18 years of experience in information technology, including data modeling, ETL architecture, data warehousing, business intelligence, and data integration projects. He has extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies in retail, banking, and telecommunications. Some of his key roles and responsibilities included designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models; defining ETL architectures and data mapping; managing software delivery from vendors; and developing enterprise data warehousing and master data management programs. He is proficient in various technologies such as IBM Infosphere, Oracle, SQL, Java, and mainframe applications.

1. Siva Kanagaraj, Sr. Data Architect
E-Mail: Sivanvin74@gmail.com
Ph: 7402577704
Experience Summary:
 Total of 18 years experience in Information Technology, which includes 13 years of USA experience and
5 years of Indian IT experience, in architecture and delivery of various software applications and
products. Expertise in Data Modelling of relational modelling for OLTP/OLAP applications and data
integration for data as a service using ARTS standards. Expertise in Data Modelling of dimensional
modelling for data warehousing applications and reporting platforms using KIMBAL’s conformed
dimensional modelling standards. Worked in various areas of business intelligence for reporting areas as
a senior data architect.
 Very well experienced in ETL architecture and delivery using various versions of Datastage, quality
stage tools, and other IBM Infosphere tools for data warehousing and other data integration projects.
Designed and developed data archival and data integration strategy. Strongly experienced in OLTP
application development using Mainframe and Java/J2EE toolset also provided global production
support using ITIL standards. Managed projects using project management tools, provided estimates
and project schedules. Performed and managed various types of testing.
 Worked in all 3 roles such as a client, software consultant and software service provider on
development, architecture, project management and production support areas. Experienced in Retail,
Banking and Telecom domains of fortune 500 companies across the globe. Pioneer in building offshore
and onshore delivery model for data warehousing and data integration areas using multi vendor
approach for $30 billion dollar global retail industry (TJX Companies).
 Provided expert-level consultation for the design and development of enterprise-wide data and
information architecture. Implemented the data management strategy. Directed and designed the
configuration of data. Defined data architecture standards and principles. Participated in the global
definition of information architecture principles, policies, and the application of industry best practices.
 Performs vendor evaluations and recommended implementation of data architecture tools. Facilitated
and formally documented business requirements and strategic objectives. Worked with functional
business partners to ensure appropriate terminology is applied to metadata and data lineage.
 Worked with business architects to identify, define and document business processes. Provides senior
level guidance to all aspects of the solution delivery cycle. Took responsibilities for tollgate assessment
and review. Ensured continual maintenance of high quality, timely and standardized data.
 Participates in the development and implementation of the data governance and master data
management plan. Ensured all the designs met all regulatory, industry, compliance and industry best
practice procedures. Consulted project, infrastructure, business, integration, testing and production
support teams while defining data architecture policies, best practice and procedures.
 Have lead and developed a diverse, global team for future growth within the department and
organization. Facilitates, delivers, advocates for and supports all aspects of the EDW & MDM programs
within the global application landscape. Owned and designed future state business processes,
conceptual to physical data models, and path to execution from current state to "as-is" assessments.
Participates in and holds design review authority as a member of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) review
board during business initiative tollgate and solution project deliverables. Worked with Data Architects,
provides guidance in the design and governance review for select development initiatives, middleware
projects, and aligned tools.
 Provided instruction, training, and expert guidance to staff members on all aspects of existing and new
Data Architecture techniques, best practice strategies, and technologies. Lead, facilitated, and/or
consults the review of project team deliverables for key transformational projects in the enterprises such
as enterprise data warehouse, operation data store, data marts, and MDM initiatives.
Skills,Knowledge & Experience
 Experienced in systems and technical architecture design, implementation, and support of
manual and automated database systems and technical architectures.
 Strong retail experience as a Sr.Data Architect. Expertise in configuration and customization of
retail products such as RPAS and RMS.

2.  Has successfully designed and implemented large-scale data warehouse and business
intelligence solutions using IBM Infosphere tools. Has the ability to communicate and formally
document all aspects of the job requirements
 Expert knowledge facilitating and hands-on experience in ETL, data modelling and design, data
flow diagramming, data warehousing and business intelligence, application and analytical
reporting tools and techniques, service oriented data delivery, and global master data
management programs.
 Built Effective Team and have sets team goals and regularly measures progress Understands
what motivates individual team members. Experienced in playing a leadership and mentoring
role in enterprise-wide data quality, business data stewardship, and data modelling project
assignments.
 Knowledge of industry standard middleware, ETL, master data hub, and service oriented
architecture, design and delivery solutions. Exhibits a high energy, strategic thinking, results
oriented, global collaborative approach with highly tuned listening and communication skills.
 General understanding of common development languages and frameworks within the
Systems development toolset. Business analysis, process modelling, and a strong domain
knowledge of a global retail business a plus. Having Bachelor's Engineering Degree in 1st
class from M.G.R engineering college of Chennai University in the year of 1992 through 1996.
TOOLS:
Erwin Data Modeller, Advanced SQL, Information Analyzer, Microsfot Project Managemant
tools, IBM Infosphere tools such as Datastage, Qualitystage & Business Glossary, Buisness
Intelligence tools Cognos, Netezza, ITIL, UNIX, TOAD for Oracle. SPUFI, Platinum and QMF
for DB2, Adabase, Oracle & IMS DB Databases. UNIX, REXX and JCL scripting. CA7 and
Autosys scheduler. VS COBOLS II, JAVA, JSP, VSAM, Natural, HTML, SQL and CICS,
Easytrieve, Web-Focus and Batch Focus report writing and Endevor.
Employment:
Roles/Employers Clients
Sr. Data Architect @ The TJX Companies, USA
(Feb 2014 – June 2016).
The TJX Companies Inc, USA (Datawarehousing and
Data Integration).
Sr. Data Architect @ Fourth Technology Inc, USA
(Nov 2011 – Feb 2014).
The TJX Companies Inc, USA (Datawarehousing and
Data Integration).
ETL Architect @ INFOSYS India/USA (Dec 2007 –
October 2011)
RBS/Citizens Bank, USA and UK (Retail and
Commercial Banking).
Sr. Consultant @ TCS, Chennai, India (May 2006
to Nov 2007)
Morgan Stanley, Europe (Investment Banking – Real
Time Settlement System).
Project Lead @ EDS, Colorado, USA (Jan 2001 &
Aug 2005)
WorldCom, USA (Financial Management Systems).
Developer @ COMSYS, Colorado, USA (June 1998
and Jan 2001)
WorldCom, USA (Financial Management Systems).
1. Project: Data Warehousing and Data Integration Platforms for TJX
Client : TJX
Role : Sr. Data Architect
TJX beinga30 billiondollarcompanyneverhada centralizedplatformforreportinganddata as services.
Therefore,ithadinitiated amultimilliondollardatawarehousingprojecttoholdcentralizedreporting
platformforall the businessesrunningacrossUSA,Europe and Canadausingthe latesttechnologiesof
Netezza&IBM Infosphere toolsinordertoavoidmultiple reportingplatforms.Similarly,aspart of TJX

3. foundationproject,ithadinitiateddataintegrationplatformforcentralized environmentusingIBMSOA
service toolstoprovideddataasa service inordertoavoid applicationtoapplicationinterfaces.
Responsibilities:
 As a senior data architect, responsible for identifying key subject areas for the data warehousing
platform.
 Responsible for creating conceptual, logical and physical data model using conformed bus
architecture and review the same across various teams. Responsible for managing model marts
within Erwin.
 Responsible for identifying the right integration approach such as real-time, near real time and
batch services.
 Responsible for ETL architecture and creation of XML/XSD architecture.
 Responsible for defining data mapping, data archival, data migration strategies and implement the
same.
 Responsible for creation and management of enterprise architecture/patterns with help of
vendors such as IMB/Deloitte. Responsible for the management of software delivery from various
vendors such as Wipro, Cognizant and Collaborative consulting companies.
 Responsible for delivery of ETL components and physical data model for Netezza/Oracle platforms
for data warehousing and SOA services respectively.
 Responsible for metadata management and business glossary.
 Reasonable for identifying and creation of data marts for business intelligence.
2. Project: MyMI (My Management Information)
Client : RBS Citizens Bank.
Role : ETL Tech Lead
Technology Used : ETL Architecture & Reporting (Datastage, OLTP/OLAP on Oracle, UNIX and Autosys)
There were 2 Instances of the MyMI applications were built ~ 1 for RBS UK and 1 for RBS Citizens, USA. The
RBS UK architecture of ETL and Dashboard Reports were designed and built first, and it was lifted,
redesigned and customized to meet USA standards and implemented for Citizens Bank. M yMI Phase I was
to build a single-view of branch performance via self-service, desktop option for management. With only
few-clicks, a Retail Directors, Regional Manager, and Branch manager will be able to assess performance
and unrealized opportunity at a market, region and at branch level, across a full spectrum of business
results.
The ETL application receives source data from 40 different sources and stores them in the data mart (Star
Schema) and aggregates at branch, region and executive level using the ETL tool “DataStage 8.0.1”. The
aggregated data is kept in the Management Information tables. Subsequently, the data is retrieved and
displayed on the UI reporting screens built on .NET technology. The de-normalized data kept in the star
schema will be used by Oracle Business Intelligence for data analysis by business line.
Responsibilities:
 Identified source systems based on the UI and OBI report requirements by interacting with
various business lines and source systems’ SME.
 Developed Infrastructure, Solution and System design documents. Designed source extract
techniques for various source systems such as SQL Server, Mainframe and Oracle Databases.
 Performed ETL Mapping exercise using FASTRACK.
 Metadata Management. Performed Data profiling and Data Cleansing activities.
 Developed ETL micro designs using Datastage designer as an architect and lead.
 Applied ETL concepts, ETL loading strategy, Data archiving, Data reconciliation, ETL Error
Handling, Error logging mechanism, standards and Best practices.
 Applied warehousing techniques and ETL Frame work designing.
 Performed OLTP modeling for Hierarchy schema and OLAP modeling for Data Mart with Data
Architect.

4.  Development of archival strategy. Designed self recursive hierarchy model for data mart and
UI reporting from OLTP schema.
 Built ETL routines to load star schema for cases such as: slowly changing dimensions, late
arriving facts, late arriving dimensions, “as is / as was” reporting, revisions to history,
surrogate keys.
 Performed Data Quality, Data Profiling and Metadata Management. Have designed and
developed reusable components and transformations. Applied Performance Tuning methods,
Partitioning and Optimization in Datastage with large volumes of data load.
 Designed and built complex stages to handle high-volume scenarios. Designed and Developed
Job scheduling through Autosys. Created SIT, UAT and implementation plan and strategies.
Provided SIT and UAT and Implementation support.
 Performed implementation of Datastage and UNIX components. Managed cost and schedule of
the project for Infosys side.
 Managed risks and dependencies, and Managed clients and other stakeholders.
 Performed estimation and Preparation of RUNBOOK. Anchored Change Management.
3. Project: Real Time Settlement Systems for Morgan Stanley (ETL and Java
OLTP)
Duration: May 2006 to Nov 2007
Role – Tech Lead for European Settlement IT Support, Maintenance and enhancement activities using ITIL
framework.
Summary:
Morgan Stanley’s Real time settlement system consists of SAFE, XMS and Intellimatch (IM). SAFE
(Settlement & Financial Execution), which runs on Mainframe, receives enriched trades from trade
processing systems and extracts settlement data from other internal systems and creates settlement
instruction for various message types and sends them out to via XMS & SWIFT network for settlement. XMS
(Systems Message Service) retrieves name value pair instructions from SAFE via MQ and creates XML &
SWIFT standard format. SWIFT format is sent out thru SWIFT network for settlement. XMS receives
acknowledged, not acknowledged; kick-outs, settled instructions from various agents located across the
world and passes the same back to SAFE. XMS runs on J2EE technology on Tomcat Server 5.0.
Responsibilities:
 Coordinates technical aspects of the project between business and technology groups.
 Creation of Use Case and ETL Mapping Documents.
 Enhanced DB2 OLTP schema. Documented design/technical artifacts an approved Functional
Specification. Developed design solutions meeting Target architecture standards. Provide technical
guidance and assist with day to day design and testing activities.
 Ensured compliance to Target architecture, design and coding standards and best practices.
Developed complex ETL jobs. Developed transformation and aggregation techniques.
 Ensured adherence to Software Development process standards. Performed and managed design and
code reviews. Identifying root cause of incidents and raising Problem Management requests.
 Conducting weekly meeting with user group to assess the priority of new maintenance request.
Creating Weekly Status, Capacity Utilization and Monthly metrics pack and presenting the same to line
managers in Morgan Stanley
 Handling outages and providing workaround during outages, and for "Hotline" set up.
 Reducing Level 1 & 2 tickets by applying permanent fixes for frequent flyer.
4. Account: Telco Financial Management System for MCI (ETL and Mainframe
applications)
Duration: June 1998 thru August 2005
Employers: EDS (January 2001 thru August 2005) & Comsys (Jun 1998 thru December 2000)

5. Summary
ETL using iWay Datamigrator – The system extracts electronic files from various sources of LEC files and
magnetic tapes from Local Exchange Carriers (LEC) containing access charges in CABS (Carrier Access
Billing System) and SECABS (Small Exchange CABS) formats, and validates formats and loads the same
Telco Account Database (TAD). Passes MCI usage information from switches, summarized by the Traffic
Summarization System through Telco Usage systems (TELUS). Stores MCI circuit information received from
the network provisioning system (NETPRO) in Telco Automated Audit (TAA), which audits LEC bills by
comparing Telco data in TAD to the MCI data in TELUS. Audited data are passed to Telco Account
Management System (TAMS) for the creation of bill payment vouchers.
Roles:
 Team member for first 3 years of ETL activities.
 Team Lead and subject matter expert for 4 years for ETL Development, Maintenance,
Enhancement, Performance Tuning, Implementation activities of TAD and TAMS applications.
 Point of Contact for Configuration Management activities, Local Exchange Carrier issues (LEC),
Change Management Requests, Problem Management Requests, and CA7 activities.
Responsible for:
 Maintenance and enhancement, and smaller development of ETL & Mainframe projects within TAD
and TAMS applications. Metadata creation & Archival process.
 Data cleansing and data profiling.
 Developing 2 FCC mandatory major CABS releases for TAD by applying project management life
cycles methods and decommissioning 2 old releases from the system ever year.
 Delegated work requests to the team members in USA and Brazil.
 Interact with the client to assess priorities of enhancement and maintenance requests initiated by
them.
 Execute their AD HOC requests to make changes to existing data.
 Analyze the production applications and databases periodically for any process improvements.
Ever increasing LEC data volume needed these improvements.
 Assist users in UAT, and assist internal and external auditors during QA.
 Upgrade TAD test environment written using REXX and ISPF Panels.
 Submit change requests to system admin and DBA group as needed, to make any changes to the
system software and databases.
 Ensure data integrity and integrity of the application, and provide performance report and ABEND
metrics of the systems to the upper management.
 Ensure old data are archived properly and Record Retention process is complete as well.