Sachin Powar

Enterprise Solution Architect @ KPMG

About

Seasoned Data & AI, Cloud & Infrastructure strategy leader with 15+ years of global experience across pre-sales solutioning, consulting and managed services covering AI transformation, hybrid cloud, datacentre migrations, ITSM & Tools. Proven track record in aligning technology with business outcomes.Extensive exposure across Europe, UK, US and Middle east – driving pre-sales solutioning, strategy, enhance customer success and enable impactful C level engagement. This includes support to pre-sales lifecycles: Qualification, solutioning, commercials and bid defence. Recognised for customer-centric solutioning and cross functional collaboration across sales, delivery and product teams.

Country

India

City

Pune Division

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Project Bidding, bid defence, Software Architecture, Data Architecture, Software Project Management, Pre-Sales Support , Engineering, Software Design, Technology Pre-Sales, Cloud Computing, Data and AI, Pre-Sales Technical Consulting, Senior Stakeholder Management, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Cloud Computing IaaS

Experience

Enterprise Solution Architect

KPMG

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Pune District

- Led solutions for 100+ proposals, generating multi-million revenue in pounds. - Delivered 25+ C level presentations and bid defences - Designed enterprise, Data & AI and cloud solutions across industries (e.g., BFSI, Retail, and Insurance). - Led technical discussions, workshops, and solutioning for large RFPs - Collaborate with sales leadership to define go-to-market(GTM) strategies and help to drive revenue targets - Drove alliance with Google and Microsoft helped with 20+ leads - Created new solution artifacts, tools, solution estimators and client facing collaterals towards Practice maturity and competency build

Solution Architect

Tech Mahindra

2021-9 - 2023-1 · 1 yr 5 mos

Pune Division

- Owned cloud strategy, planning and executive presentations - Delivered multi-cloud assessment and strategic Azure offerings, including 25+ workshops - Architected and delivered public cloud infrastructure solutions for highly distributed enterprise environments, aligning with scalability, security, and performance needs. - Collaborated with Microsoft SMEs and cross-functional stakeholders to define solution recommendations and optimize application modernization strategies. - Presented proposals to C-suite executives to defend solutions, gathered technical requirements & fine-tuned solutions in Due-Diligence workshops - Partnered with client to nurture and grow engagement through proactively identifying potential whitespaces and promoting up-sell/cross-sell of services

Technical Architect/Manager [C2]

Capgemini

2019-10 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs

Pune Division

- Led solution design and cloud transformation initiatives for large-scale on‑premises applications to Microsoft Azure to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architectures - Delivered presentations, solution demos to client executives, effectively influencing decision-making and strengthening pre-sales engagements. - Engaged with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into solution architectures, and deliver compelling technology blueprints aligned with enterprise IT strategies. - Supported the full pre-sales lifecycle, including solution strategy, proposal inputs, transition planning, and client relationship management.

Technical Architect/[C1]

Capgemini

2017-1 - 2019-9 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Senior Consultant [P4]

Capgemini

2013-1 - 2016-12 · 4 yrs

Mumbai

Consultant [P3]

Capgemini

2009-11 - 2012-12 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Software Engineer

Orion Innovation

2008-2 - 2009-11 · 1 yr 10 mos

Mumbai

- Developed fully electronic environment [eAudit] for KPMG USA that allows client to plan, perform and document audits efficiently and effectively - With cutting edge technologies C# .net framework, WPF, WCF, Groove and SQL Server.