
Ali Raza
Senior Solutions Architect | SharePoint & Power Platform
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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