Taurai Benhura

• Led comprehensive cloud migration strategies, optimizing efficiency and identifying cost effective solutions for legacy application migration.
• Created robust cloud platform frameworks and designs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Designed solutions for real-time visibility and performance monitoring of critical business workloads in the cloud, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Defined integration patterns and governance protocols for seamless connectivity and efficient data flow across systems.
• Managed diverse AWS cloud solutions, aligning with company objectives and scalability requirements.
• Implemented a microservices architecture and distributed event streaming, reducing dependencies and enhancing scalability.
• Introduced architectural innovations such as microservices and API-driven architectures to promote modularity and rapid feature development.

• Led the evolution architecture for Core Banking Platform(Temenos Transact) migration to AWS cloud, splitting the core banking monolith into domain services and relevant bounded contexts.
• Designed comprehensive cloud architecture solutions for core banking, defining core, supporting, and generic domains to guide buy vs build decisions.
• Successfully implemented Temenos Transact on the cloud, ensuring seamless integration patterns and defining secure integration patterns for third-party SAAS services.
• Ensured architectural evolution alignment with organizational vision and strategy and collaborated closely with IT security to enhance cloud privacy and implement safeguards.
• Defined the technical direction and roadmap for cloud migrations, including the implementation of Data Event Streaming for Core Banking Platform using Kinesis for full decoupling.
• Implemented Microservices architecture and distributed event streaming framework, enhancing scalability and fault tolerance, and applied the AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess and optimize cloud solutions.
• Defined Enterprise Architecture principles for the core platform and ensured governance compliance within the portfolio, contributing to the overall architecture board.
• Defined business capability models, executed capability maturity assessments, and identified high-impact, low-maturity capabilities for prioritization.
• Conducted stakeholder analysis, creating the right viewpoints for the right stakeholders by considering their interests and influence.
• Built architecture capability, defined reference architecture, categorized enterprise continuum, transformed ABB to SBB, performed gap analysis, and facilitated transitional architecture plateaus to business value.
• Developed and managed baseline, transitional, and target architecture roadmaps.
• Defined architectural principles and aligned them with organizational strategy, vision, and principles, ensuring stakeholder buy-in and alignment.
• Implemented security practices such as defense in depth, edge services security, and design for security (zero trust).
Solutions Architect - FNB Rest Of Africa
• Enhanced architecture capability in FNB Rest Of Africa, aligning with FirstRand Group strategy and standards.
• Contributed to Firstrand Architectural Board, providing insights into solution assessments across architecture, design, security, and cloud.
• Developed Enterprise Architecture principles for CoreLite, aligning with business objectives.
• Led assessment of CoreLite on-prem architecture, optimizing tech stack for performance.
• Formulated cloud-native CoreLite architecture, overseeing vendor implementations for scalability and efficiency.
• Defined cost-effective customer-centric solutions, presenting to architecture boards for approval.

• Implemented Robotic Process Automation (RPA), defining architectural principles and optimizing operational efficiency.
• Led RPA implementation for debit order switching, focusing on data exposure risk mitigation in compliance with POPI/PCI standards.
• Established RPA development standards and patterns, ensuring consistency and quality throughout the automation lifecycle.
• Implemented DevOps practices, enhancing automation development and deployment efficiency through monitoring and log aggregation solutions.
• Contributed to the architectural design of the FNB Card Delivery Platform, ensuring secure and seamless card issuance processes.
• Designed a layered architecture for debit order disputes, streamlining resolution by encompassing both business and application cooperation.
• Led the implementation of Digital Secondary User Know Your Customer (KYC) and electronic KYC (eKYC) processes, enhancing identity verification for digital users.

• Spearheaded technical solution design for the Plexus ecosystem project, enhancing system scalability and agility through microservices architecture.
• Conducted comprehensive analysis and design for the FNB centralized debit order disputes project, creating a centralized gateway for real-time reversal of fraudulent debit orders.
• Led the end-to-end solution architecture design for FNBs pioneering One Time Pin client contracting solution, integral to the Genesis lead generation process for client onboarding.
• Played a key role in the Appazon delivery and tracking solution, contributing to all domains (Business, Data, Application, and Technology).

• Developed and Deployed T24 Solutions: Designed and implemented various T24 modules, including Retail, Corporate, and Treasury, to streamline banking operations.
• Transformed operational efficiency by replacing time-consuming, error-prone manual processes with sophisticated, automated solutions.
• Led enterprise migrations and core banking system upgrades, ensuring seamless transitions and showcasing adeptness in managing high-volume transactions.
• Rectified a General Ledger anomaly, correcting a 2 million dollar discrepancy in the year end report.
• Defined and prioritized technology investments, ensuring cohesive alignment of process, technology, and business objectives.

• Core Banking Systems: Temenos T24 (TAFC, TAFJ)
• Integration Tools: T24 IRIS, BizTalk
• Developed and Deployed T24 Solutions: Designed and implemented various T24 modules, including Retail, Corporate, and Treasury, to streamline banking operations.
• Objective: Integrated a new payment gateway with T24 for streamlined transaction processing. Technologies: SOAP Web Services, T24 jBC

• Designed and implemented a robust distributed system, integrating the core banking system with the revenue authority (ZIMRA) using BizTalk Server.
• Enhanced Zimra integration by incorporating SMS notifications for clients with offline payments.
• Developed algorithms utilizing client data to predict the likelihood of default and collaborated with corporate banking and risk business units.
• Conducted in-depth process analysis, root cause analysis, and cost-benefit analysis across various business units, presenting recommendations to enhance efficiency.
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• Objective: Integrated a new payment gateway with T24 for streamlined transaction processing. Technologies: SOAP Web Services, T24 jBC. Integration to the Tax revenue authority.