IT Team Leader
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Total years of experience :9 years, 5 Months
• Leading a team in elicitation, analyzing, designing and building out the Open Banking API architecture to enable the rapid delivery and to innovate customer centric digital journey that meet long term business strategy, product road-map and business model; by following open banking regulatory and GDPR compliance
• Collaborating with Business sponsors, stakeholders, product managers to gain broad understanding of business drivers, industry treads and innovation;
o Conducting analysis to determine best path for solving business need/opportunity that may include process improvement, System enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement
o Assisting SMEs / product owner in documenting lean canvas, business case, product backlog
• For digital customer journey module of various web-online, mobile, and digital banking channels;
o Responsible for architecture assessment, impact analysis, and technology implication of emerging trends and techniques
o Collaborating with architect, developers, testers, support, and infrastructure teams to define architectural, functional, and non-functional requirements and specifications for refinement of product backlog, Sprint Backlog and Definition of Ready
o Responsible upon solution developed are “done” and aligned to industry standards and principles; meet strategic perspective and financial targets (cost and benefits)
• Assisted in defining enterprise wide benchmark for Cloud Services portfolio deployment (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) & their integration with on-premise solutions; provided framework for collaboration to design best practices and guidelines for security challenges involved in deploying Cloud Applications
• Collaborated with product sponsor groups across the organization to elicitate need and to analyze business strategy for recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders by ensuring business and technology alignment
• Coached and mentored Development teams (local and remote) to establish technical vision for budgeted & timely delivery; and to identify opportunities for better collaboration and process improvements
• Led the development of the architecture and design of individual solutions that meet standards and best practices for quality and maintainability
• Collaborated with cross-functional analysis, development, testing, implementation teams for product backlog refinement; sprint planning, review and retrospective ceremonies
• As proxy-Scrum Master, Championed use of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD pipeline), with svn- SonarQube -Jenkins integration, leading to improved developer productivity, better product quality and shortened feedback loop
• Accomplishments:
o Successfully coached the cross-functional teams in scrum and helped them move from waterfall to agile as part of broader enterprise wise agile transformation, Established Scrum in diverse teams of complex multi-vendor, multi-stakeholder environments
• Collaborated with product sponsor groups across the organization to elicitate need and to analyze business strategy for recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders by ensuring business and technology alignment
• Coached and mentored Development teams (local and remote) to establish technical vision for budgeted & timely delivery; and to identify opportunities for better collaboration and process improvements
• Led the development of the architecture and design of individual solutions that meet standards and best practices for quality and maintainability
• Collaborated with cross-functional analysis, development, testing, implementation teams for product backlog refinement; sprint planning, review and retrospective ceremonies
• As proxy-Scrum Master, Championed use of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD pipeline), with svn- SonarQube -Jenkins integration, leading to improved developer productivity, better product quality and shortened feedback loop
• Accomplishments:
o Successfully coached the cross-functional teams in scrum and helped them move from waterfall to agile as part of broader enterprise wise agile transformation, Established Scrum in diverse teams of complex multi-vendor, multi-stakeholder environments
• Achieved experience of implementing large-scale projects from conception to completion, Accomplished System Analysis, Design experience on Financial Accounting & Cost Controlling domain
• Collaborated with internal and external business process owners for requirement elicitation and analysis, scope identification;
o Translated business requirements and use cases into system requirements and technical specifications
o Prepared effort estimation, resource utilization; Business, functional and technical design artifacts
• Regularly interacted with onshore and offshore teams to communicate functional, technical & non-functional requirements and to resolve conflicts and impediments
• Served as technical subject matter expert on introducing design patterns to promote ease of maintenance and to improve performance
• Suggested architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulated methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.
• Established self as an expert and led and mentored onshore & offshore developers; conducted training sessions for on Java/JEE technology stacks and industry best practices
• Provided framework for collaboration across development, testing teams & Business Stakeholders to monitor the progress of the project as per schedule & budget and ensuring timely completion & quality delivery of the project
• Managed all aspects of Client UAT completion & new product roll out including post-production training sessions for internal & external clients & system support, IT Infrastructure teams
• Accomplishments:
o CIO Excellency Award in Q1, 2013 for designing innovative and business user-configurable utility bill payment module
o Star Employee Award in Nov’2014 for leading implementation of scalable and dynamic DOAM (Delegation of Authority Matrix) module for annual CapEx budgeting
• Achieved retail banking domain knowledge and development & design experience of building software systems for Barclays Bank with improved functionality, code quality and productivity along with consistently meeting business expectations and deadlines
• By practicing efficient way of coding and best practice, developed reusable plugins and components which were used across the project; enabled the existing system to scale better without any problems when additional functionalities were added and to improve development productivity
• Accomplished design & development of complex key module, replacement of legacy desktop application to web-based application, single - handed
• Involved in evaluating and recommending key technologies to Subject Matter Experts (SME) for redesigning and refactoring of Chordiant specific modules
• Established self as an expert and led module; mentored junior developers on back-end driven saving product serving module
o Reviewed code, encouraged junior developers to use key Java/JEE design patterns and OO design concepts, best practices, exception handling, identifying and fixing potential memory leak & performance issues
• Produced project feasibility, impact & cost analysis, end-to-end detailed design artefacts on Dual Authorisation module by participating in meetings and training sessions conducted by business analyst and technical architecture
• As a Java trainer, conducted induction training program for new joiners of Accenture
• Accomplishments:
o ACE (Accenture Celebrates Excellence) award in Q3 2010 for "Maximizing Team's Performance” in team effort category
o ACE (Accenture Celebrates Excellence) award in Q1 2011 for "Organizing Quality Work Efforts" in individual category
o ASDA (Accenture Solution Delivery Academy) Application Developer certification in 2011
• Conducted theory and practical classes of Java, Oracle 9i (SQL/PL-SQL), C, C++, HTML, Visual Basic for graduate and post-graduate students
• Mentored and assisted students for internship projects