
VISHAL SHARMA
Senior Integration Specialist | BizTalk & Azure
Salary / Daily rate
Antwerp, Belgium
Mobility: Cologne, Frankfurt, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
MCTS Certified Senior Integration Specialist with 15+ years of expertise in BizTalk Server, Microsoft Azure, and EDI solutions. Successfully delivered 100+ enterprise integration projects across oil & gas, shipping, and hospitality sectors with proven team leadership experience. Specialized in end-to-end BizTalk development, Azure cloud migrations, and complex system integrations that drive business transformation.
Work experience
Senior Integration Specialist
NTT DATA
Aug 2025 - Present
1 year 3 months
Remote
• Designed and developed complex cloud native applications using Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions to integrate with vendors like Walmart US, Canada, Amazon UK, Europe. • Collaborated with cross functional teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical specifications. • Developed and deployed Azure Function Apps for serverless execution of tasks, optimizing performance and cost efficiency. • Migrated all existing Python Azure Functions from (older runtime version) Python 3.9 to Python 3.12. • Performed monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of existing workflows using Azure Monitor and Application Insights. • Worked closely with developers, data architects and business analysts to create robust, end to end integration strategies. • Actively participated in Agile ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective meetings.
Senior Integration Specialist
Textify Analytics
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Senior Integration Specialist
Baloise BE
May 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 4 months
Belgium, WI, USA
• Performed development of end-to-end solution using BizTalk Server 2020 • Developed XSD Schemas, maps using XSLT. • Performed daily monitoring, issue resolution of the Production environment to ensure smooth operation. • Performed peer review for the code developed by the team members. • Solved technical issues of the team members. • Performed unit testing using Bizunit, SOAP UI for the BizTalk interfaces. • Involved in SIT with other teams, provided required support
Senior Software Professional
Puratos
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
1 year 6 months
Belgium, WI, USA
• Performed end-to-end development for the various EDI & EAI flows • Worked on EDI integrations using both X12 and EDIFACT standards • Developed XSD Schemas, maps using XSLT, used XPATH queries in Visual Studio • Performed regular health monitoring of the Production environment to ensure smooth operation. • Worked together with the various stakeholders to ensure timely completion and delivery of deliverables • Handled high pressure scenarios and ensured high quality deliverables • Collaborated with the Biztalk developers and technical architects to carry out successful delivery. • Provided on call support after office hours for critical production issues. • Worked on Migration project to migrate on-premise applications to Azure. • Developing applications in Azure using Azure logic apps. • Worked on Azure service Bus topic, Azure blob storage, Azure functions. • Worked on Azure Key vault, Storage account. • Experience in using Monitoring tools such as Azure Monitoring.
Senior Middleware Consultant
ADDC
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 8 months
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
• Understood business requirement through meetings, documents. • Acted as key enabler to transform business requirement into technical solution. • Developed orchestrations in BizTalk Server 2016, created XST Maps, Schemas Developed. • Deployed Business Rules & Policies using Business Rule Engine (BRE) • Presented end UAT to the client & got signoff's. • Drove the project through the various phases – like SIT, UAT and finally delivered the project successfully to the end client
Senior Biztalk Consultant
Emaar Hospitality Group
May 2018 - May 2019
1 year 1 month
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
• Understood the business requirement of the client and proposed technical solution. • Carried out end-to-end development for the various interfaces. • Created BizTalk artifacts (like orchestration, XSD schemas, XSLT maps etc.) • Developed application to consume RESTful service & JSON messages Performed testing in UAT environment, with the vendor. • Upon UAT completion, performed code deployment on the Production environment. • After Production deployment, successfully performed go-live for this project.
Senior Biztalk Consultant
DXC Technology
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
9 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Developed BizTalk applications using BizTalk 2016 • Created BRE rules & policies. • Designed Orchestration, XSD schemas in Visual Studio. • Acted as Team lead for the development team, carried out end-to-end client delivery for BizTalk interfaces.
Senior Biztalk Consultant and Team Lead
Accenture
Jul 2013 - Jan 2017
3 years 7 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
YASREF (Yanbu Aramco & Sinopec Refining) Project • Carried out end-to-end development for the various Interfaces, of this greenfield Oil & gas refinery Project. • Designed orchestrations in BizTalk Server 2013, developing XSLT maps for the various projects, created XSD Schemas (both XML and Flat File). Motiva Oil and Gas Project • Acted as Team lead for Motiva oil and gas project. • Leading a team of 10 resources and carrying out end-to-end client delivery for BizTalk project. Royal Dutch Shell Global Functions • Worked on the Migration project from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2010 environment. • Analyzed, investigated and solved highly complex and critical issues present in interfaces during migration.
Senior Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Servicess
Jun 2011 - Jul 2013
2 years 2 months
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
ZIM Shipping Project • Single handedly Initiated the U.S Customs Project for the ZIM Shipping client, in Israel carrying out end-to-end development work for the various Inbound and Outbound Modules in BizTalk 2010 • Lead a training course on BizTalk Server, for the client's EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Team in Israel, upon client request. • Assisted & mentored the ZIM EAI Team members, with their BizTalk Issues and queries. • Developed complex orchestrations, XSLT maps, XSD schemas in Visual Studio for Biztalk Server 2010.
Information Technology Associate
Mindgate Solutions
Dec 2010 - May 2011
6 months
New Delhi, Delhi, India
• Creation of BizTalk Projects, Orchestrations, pipelines, XSD schemas, XSLT maps. • Designed XSD schemas for storing account Validation, Cheque related information and the Transaction details of various Bank users. • Used Envelope Schemas for generating separate schema instance, for each of the Banks.
System Engineer
Nihilent
Apr 2008 - Jul 2010
2 years 4 months
Pune, Maharashtra, India
• Understood the Project requirement, from the existing documentation Carried out R&D related activities, for the project. • Prepared BizTalk related documentation, for the project Involved in Developing orchestrations, XSD schemas. • Performed deployment and testing, for the BizTalk interfaces
Education
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer science and Engineering
2003 - 2007
4 years 3 months
Licenses & certifications
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Biztalk Server
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