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TCS Careers
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About a decade ago, fresh out of college, I chose TCS to pursue the next phase of my life. The starting point, as with every newbie, was all about crossing the bridge from campus to corporate as a trainee or through the TCS ILP (Initial Learning Program). Since then, my career path has meandered through roles and projects, business domains, learning initiatives, and social causes. Over the years, I layered in TCS’ vibrant learning culture to align with my own curiosity to learn, grow, mentor, and make a difference to the business and to other young professionals like me.
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My growth story (it could become yours too!)
Learning the value of soft skills and corporate etiquette
I kicked off my three-month transformation phase with a palette of technologies and simulated small projects, as I also learnt the importance of and the value in equipping myself with soft skills and corporate etiquette.
My first project was in Retail—implementing smart solutions to ensure that systems and applications run smoothly. Soon after, I was absorbed into the Banking and Finance domain where I began working on data warehouse and reporting applications for business risk management. This got me that prized lifetime opportunity to work within a client’s environment—onshore—as a technical lead for various Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence (DW/BI) applications. My professional responsibilities included assessing requirements, defining solutions, technical architecture, implementation, and delivery of enterprise portfolio projects. The next few years were spent soaking in real-world business domain knowledge. Using my cross-domain skills and technology landscape, I've now produced a dozen DW/BI applications, additionally supervising several projects in niche technologies, particularly to report front-end enterprise delivery.
Learning and mentorship
TCS helps build on one’s core conviction as a technology expert
TCS has an organizational rhythm—a pace at which professional learning unfolds—that is best suited for my self-motivated quest for knowledge. There are new things to learn daily that not only feed into realizing my personal career goals –in terms of strengthening my personal brand and enhancing my visibility among teams, but the learning also helps me navigate technology disruptions—a critical feature any technology consultant must learnt to embrace. Over time, I honed my digital proficiencies to the point where I could mentor my fellow associates at TCS. I have adopted multiple roles in TCS. I am a Gold-certified Mentor, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt™ professional, and I became the Process Improvement Officer moving on to provide an objective assessment of how well a company functions offering suggestions for how we can make processes simpler, faster and effective, saving over USD 4 million annually for TCS and our customers. All of these are opportunities that have come to me because TCS helps build on one’s core conviction as a technology expert.
I have adopted multiple roles in TCS. I am a Gold-certified Mentor, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt™ professional, and I became the Process Improvement Officer moving on to provide an objective assessment of how well a company functions offering suggestions for how we can make processes simpler, faster and effective, saving over USD 4 million annually for TCS and our customers.
Becoming a Contextual Master
Contextual Masters™ is a great initiative by TCS to mine into the collective intelligence
At TCS, we believe that rich industry experience when translated to contextual knowledge can become a tool of change. Contextual Masters™ is a great initiative by TCS to mine into the collective intelligence of its teams. It feels great to be one of those 26,000 people identified as having domain mastery. A US-based bank holding company and financial services corporation approached us to figure out an alternative for their existing manual reporting process which was becoming inept and tedious. This was the perfect time to dig into my deep insight of finance reporting that I had gained over the last few years across diverse banking and financial services and insurance (BFSI) projects. As I understood the customer’s business ecosystem, I developed an enterprise-wide system using only in-house tools. This was instrumental in saving the client USD 500,000 per year as the customer didn’t have to pay an annual licensing fee for an external third-party tool. It also reduced their report generation time from seven to just one day. We had blended design thinking with contextual knowledge to arrive at this particular outcome. It felt deeply gratifying to be able to offer what we did to the customer as a team.
Wrapping up
No dearth of opportunity
This is typical of a TCS work environment: the freedom to pursue goals without organizational constraint or restraint. It has set me up for future learning in an organic way. I keep thinking of ways to better how I can be an ally to my clients, my team, and to society at large. There is no dearth of opportunity, and no opportunity is ever wasted.
