Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

• + Business Banking
• Define high level solution and help delivery teams to estimate work for business case
• Represent architecture team in stakeholder discussions across all sub domains of business banking
• Define and use capability model for reporting and communication of the technology solution
• + Digital cash
• Define conceptual solution for branch free cash transactions focussing on the customer segments of small & medium enterprises and institutional
• Elaborate deliverables for delivering partner teams
• Develop end to end POC to provide three-dimensional understanding of concept to stakeholders
• Liaise with vendor partner technology organisation for outsourced parts of the solution
• Define API specifications and continuously consult for all delivering partners.
• Follow up on design and PoC deliveries.
• + Cards
• Define solution for features like wallets, limits & controls, 3D secure, dynamic CVV, etc
• Liaise with schemes to achieve transformational agenda
• + Define Fraud landscape and roadmap
• + Mentor, guide, line manage, open opportunities, and grow the team.
• + Work closely with product owners and stream leads on business features.
• + Collaborate with engineers at coding level to realise the solution ideas.
• + Provide consultation for subject matter on payments, transactions, statements, cards, and cash.

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Define direction setting on solution architecture and design for functional features
• Provide consultation for subject matter on payments solutions and landscape
• Establish framework for engineering consultation of architecture thinking
• Conduct shared clarity sessions for flowing down the architecture & design to engineering and development
• Guide and mentor squads on architecture to enable them to discover their original ideas for fulfilling epics
• Take charge to develop implement worthy roadmap

Jul 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Guide, consult, lead and own platform designs for multiple platforms to execute on the overall payments landscape design thus achieving the enterprise payments strategy through regular project work.
• Chair and run governance forums for payments technology to align architecture to delivery for platforms
• Define payments API strategy and micro services approach to agree with management for execution and continue to govern the implementation
• Mentor, guide and consistently instruct engineers as a thought leader for a high performant, continuously available and modularised platform for enterprise transaction management and payments processing to meet business strategies for better STP and versatility
• Pioneered implementation of new technologies and new to the organisation patterns spotting appropriate opportunities in projects
• Architect solutions for business problems to meet the business needs for customer propositions
• Consult for subject matter on payments business and technology solutions
• Aid innovation lab (designed and built demonstrable prototype for a chatbot)

Feb 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• As Program Architect – Payments Transformation
• Contributed, lead and owned cross project design activities to ensure the integrated design for the program.
• Developed and governed execution payments transformation roadmap
• Ran Payments Design Working Group consisting of lead designers of the transformation projects
• Resolved solution details for the projects and established program library of artefacts

Oct 2014 – Feb 2015 · 4 mos

• Create, review and own the solutions and ensure all technical & functional aspects are implemented as designed for the major Payments Transformation Program executed through multiple projects with specific focus on a project that is building the payments and transaction manager.
• Responsible for design choices and prescribing standards to software developers for development platforms, coding, development methodology e.t.c
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining engineering practices for software development that would fulfil the design and enterprise strategy to ensure the quality of the output being high class
• Work with multiple SCRUM development teams spread across three geographies and governing the overall design and maintaining coherent vision of the to-be-built system

Feb 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Designed solutions for rolling out GCP (cash management platform), GPP (payments processor) with clearing integration in five countries, India, Philippines, China, Japan and Indonesia
• ◦ Mapping requirements to existing capabilities of vendor products
• ◦ Deciding functions for each application and their integration in overall landscape such that it meets requirements
• ◦ Challenging requirements and providing workarounds
• ◦ Validating vendor solutions for gaps and its fitment in the overall solution design for each country roll-out
• ◦ Managing stake holders in project, business analysis, products, operations, solution architecture, application design, development and testing
• ◦ Authoring Integrated Solution Design document for each country roll out ready enough for development and implementation
• Designed solution for an in-house built Limits Management System to replace a legacy system
• Ensured conformance of Enterprise architecture guidelines and principles in solutioning and in design and development through appropriate governance
• Quickly understood the transaction banking IT landscape and created solutions that were approved by stakeholders in the first presentation
• Yielded around 200 K AUD savings through reusable and fit for purpose solutions
• Awarded the Platform Architecture and Design champion for “Above & Beyond” contributions to the practice