Ali Raza

Senior Solutions Architect | SharePoint & Power Platform

Salary / Daily rate

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

SQL Queries.NETNo-code ApplicationsPower BIWebsitesHTMLTypescriptJavascriptReactAngularC#AzureCSSMicrosoft SQL ServerNo-code Automations

Languages

EnglishUrdu

About me

Intro

Sr. Solutions Architect with 15+ years expertise in SharePoint, Power Platform, and cloud migration. Led enterprise-scale BI solutions, automated processes with RPA, and delivered 60% deployment time reduction through microservices. Specialized in end-to-end digital transformation and custom development for business optimization.

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Work experience

Sr. Team Lead SharePoint & Power Platform

Intertec Systems

Dec 2021 - Present

4 years 11 months

Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates

• Working as Senior SharePoint, EPM & Power Platform Architect • Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement, and develop and implement solutions and manage both functional and technical requirements while deciding on technical solutions. • Manage both functional and technical requirements while deciding on technical solutions. • Accountable for steering all the aspects of the projects, including project management, resource allocation, project documentation, client engagement, and change management. • Coordinate project progress roadblocks to stakeholders and make recommendations to remove roadblocks leading to on-time and on-budget project delivery. Support integration activities via creating and delivering technical documentation. • Carry out the application testing, Give training to users, and take sign-off from the business user after ensuring bug-free delivery and adhere to application Engineering methodologies, standards, code reviews. • Collaborate with Business Stakeholders to compile the requirements • Develop BRD & SRS documents. • Work closely with all team members to interpret & evolve requirements into product features. • Part of all aspects of software product - architecture, quality, user experience. • Automation of processes using RPA with Power Automate Desktop & UiPath. • Extraction & classification of documents using OCR with Microsoft Syntex. • SharePoint & EPM Farm Administration & Services management • Architect BI & Software Projects. • Developing custom webpart using .Net & SPFx for SharePoint, EPM Server & SharePoint O365. • API Development using Azure Functions & MS Graph. • Apps/Forms development using Infor Path, Power Apps and Nintex Forms. • Workflow development using Power Automate, Nintex and SharePoint Designer. • BI solutions using SSRS & Power BI. • Data Cleansing & Modeling using Data Flows, Power BI & Sql Queries. • Dashboards & Reports development. • Advance Sql query writing.

Sr. Solutions Architect

Mideast Data Systems

Mar 2017 - Oct 2021

4 years 8 months

Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates

• Responding to RFI/RFQ/RFPs from Technical point of view and drive POCs to meet the customer success criteria • Prepare Technical or/and Financial proposals. • Work with internal and external stakeholders to analyze the needs • Conducting requirement gathering and elicitation using various techniques to define business and functional requirements and processes. • Develop BRD & SRS documents. • Pre-Sales Activities • Azure Capacity planning of infrastructure & licenses • VM Management on Azure Active Directory. • Identifying required technology & 3rd party tools • Communicate Conceptual & Detail Designs to the client as well as the Development team • Preparing & Providing Presentations or Trainings about Products for Customers. • SharePoint Administration • Migrating File Shares to SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business in O365. • Migrating SharePoint server between different domains. • SharePoint Farm deployment and management • Identify, research, and organize information to assess the appropriateness and sufficiency of data to facilitate effective analysis. • Create, prepare and validate analyses, reports, presentations, quantitative exhibits, and other client deliverables regarding project scope and/or results of work performed. • Lead BI solutions using Power BI & Tableau. • Data Cleansing & Modeling using Power BI & Sql Queries. • Dashboards & Reports development. • Advance Sql query writing for extraction of data from related data sources. • Design, code, test, document and maintain software solutions. • Architect BI & Software Projects. • Work closely with all team members to interpret and evolve requirements into product features • Leadership by mentoring and assisting technical and non-technical staff members • Lead Workflow development using Power Automate, Nintex and SharePoint Designer. • Implementation of e-payment gateway. • Worked on TRA guidelines for Portals.

Sr. IT Applications Consultant

GreenHouse Consultancy LLC

May 2015 - Mar 2017

1 year 11 months

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

• Managed and Developed Projects. • Presentation of Proof of Concepts. • Writing solution proposals. • Business Analysis. • Documenting requirement gathering and drafting mock ups. • Design, build and deploy BI solutions that helps to visualize data and information for various stakeholders through the creation of reports and queries. • Integrating data from different sources. • Writing Sql Queries to fetch & format data from required sources. • Data Modeling. • Data Cleansing. • Data Formatting. • Implementation & Administration of BI Solutions. • Development of BI Reports & Dashboards using Tableau & Power BI. • Administration of SharePoint. • Migration of File Shares & SharePoint On Premise to SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business. • Responsible for developing custom webparts, Application Pages, Master Pages and Layout pages, configuring & maintaining SharePoint libraries and implementing SharePoint Infrastructure • Analyzing & managing the migration of content between SharePoint different versions. • Communicate Conceptual & Detail Designs to the client as well as the Development team • Configure &maintain document libraries, lists and WSS site collections; deploy SharePoint at the enterprise level in a distributed global environment • Workflow development using Nintex and InfoPath. • Management of the architecture of the project solution. • SharePoint Farm deployment and management. • Custom web parts development for various clients. • Development of E-Services and Integration with back end systems. • Worked on TRA guidelines for Portals.

Majid Al Futtaim

Aug 2012 - Mar 2015

2 years 8 months

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

IT Web Master / SharePoint Developer

Apr 2013 - Mar 2015

2 years

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

I worked as IT Web Master / SharePoint Developer. My responsibility includes management of organization SharePoint based portal, Management of organization websites, Development of SharePoint WebParts, Development of Adhoc business reports & KPIs and Leading the development of outsourced web projects. Project:-  Development of .Net & InfoPath based business forms on SharePoint 2010 to automate the business flow.  Development of business workflow using .Net & Nintex.  Project management for the development of IFly online booking system. http://www.theplaymania.com/ifly/welcome  Project management for the development of Little Explorer online booking system. http://www.theplaymania.com/little-explorers/welcome  Analysis & Development of Internal Audit System enabling Audit Department to manage all observations & recommendations throughout all the entities.  Analysis & Development of BI reports for the Finance Department  Development of KPIs for the Finance AP Department showing the progress on the processing of invoices.  Project management for the development of Health & Safety Online Contractor Management system. http://www.mafsafetymanagementsystem.com

Sr. Technology Consultant

Aug 2012 - Mar 2013

8 months

Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates

I worked as a Sr. Technology Consultant on a project for Asset Information & Tracking System using SharePoint 2010 and developed Adhoc & forecast BI reports using Sql Server Analysis Services. My responsibilities included meeting with business users & analysis of requirements, development of SharePoint Applications using best practices. Projects:-  Asset Information & Tracking System.  Financial Reports

Sr. Executive ERP Consultant

Datasoft Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd.

Nov 2009 - Jul 2012

2 years 9 months

Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

• Consultative engagements with complex enterprise customers. • Advising and executing on strategies • Advising, using strong interpersonal skills, functional and/or technical knowledge to deliver customer ROI. • Interact with both technical and functional customers to understand requirements, analyze information, and design comprehensive solutions. • Collaborate with Business and IT teams to ensure Technical and functional feasibility analysis done to cater the needs • Prepare functional and technical specifications • Provide support to different teams including business during UAT • Demos and presentations to various stakeholders • Providing post implementation and ongoing production support. • Collaborate with UI/UX Architects Technical Leads/Project Managers and Business teams • Resolve product or service technical problems. • Customizing, implementing, and testing ERP application elements and coding • Creating customized code when needed • Develop business reports using Sql & Crystal Reports • Updating of project status to Project Manager & other concerned persons. • Experience on below modules of ERP: o Retail o Sales o Purchase o Inventory o Shipping o Trading o Finance o Payable o Receivable o Forex

Team Lead

EfroTech

Jan 2009 - Oct 2009

10 months

• Participate in requirements analysis • End to development, testing, technical documentation, integration, and training. • Writing clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages. • Developed code in 3 layers architecture. • Writing Sql queries for data operation in application and for reporting. • Developing business reports using Crystal Reports. • Test and deploy applications and systems • Collaborating with other technical team members • Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) • Participate in development of below projects: o ERP o Integrated Business Suite o Sales & Distribution System o ePos o eTravel


Education

Karachi University

Masters in Computer Science

2007 - 2007

1 year

Karachi University

Bachelor's degree

2002 - 2005

3 years 2 months

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