Rakesh S.

Rakesh S.

Enterprise Architect

Dubai , United Arab Emirates

Experience: 24 Years

Rakesh

Dubai , United Arab Emirates

Enterprise Architect

63360 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

24 Years

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About Me

Over 24+ years of experience in IT with 14+ yrs. As an enterprise architecture, Cloud, integration, and Digital, Big Data architecture, and development experience, mainly in Banking and Finance, Insurance, Energy and Utility Trading and Technology (P...

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Description

Working with multiple clients like banking, smart city initiative, and the manufacturing sector as an enterprise architect, digital and data science implementation/transformation strategy consultant. Working with Government and Public/Private Sector Company to provide a roadmap on digital and data science initiatives with overall enterprise architecture transformation. Also, working on defining enterprise architecture with future vision with long-term objective identification. Major activities are,

  • Enterprise Architecture implementation
  • Business architecture and Stakeholder Management
  • IT and Business Governance rollout
  • Technology and processes long term strategy roadmap
  • Tools and Technology selections based on budget and time to market
  • Deliverables based on the selected Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
  • Architecture event and workshop organization to address the business and other stakeholder requirements
  • Innovation and digital strategy roadmap with an implementation timeline
  • AI, IoT and Blockchain strategy roadmap and architecture
  • Information (data) management and governance mechanism – Data Lake (Hadoop Distribution)
  • Infra architecture and technology roadmap with end-to-end implementation design

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Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Ltd (PCHFL) is a startup in the financial sector, Catering large unsecured loans and financial portfolios. PCHFL is India’s one of the leading non-financial lending company in the housing and capital finance. I am responsible to provide business - IT architecture and technology vision align with top management’s direction on growth and expansion. To stay ahead in the local market, the company has to provide a very responsive and user-friendly solution to the low cost and under budget. I am responsible for evaluating and defining the direction of the technology ecosystem and business – IT participation engage internal user and customers to provide innovative sand mobile-friendly solutions.

  • Enterprise architecture (TOGAF based) vision and roadmap
  • Delivered solutions based on the business requirement, vision, and direction
  • Lead and provide the solution and technical expertise to end-user
  • Proposed strategic (long term) and tactical (Short term) roadmap
  • Setup the innovation lab to introduce cutting-edge tools and technology
  • Single point of contact between business and technology team
  • Leading the innovation agenda and digital transformation initiatives
  • Provide functional a technology perspective input into new product and vendor selection process
  • Actively participated and lead the design & architecture development and governance activities
  • Extensive implementation experience on business architecture models like Value-chain (stream),
  • Successfully delivered large scale enterprise applications which met BFSI client business goals and objectives
  • Integration Google-Apigee
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure Cloud
  • DevOps: NodeJs, AngularJs, Html 5, Bootstrap, Redis, Node BB, API Gateway, Docker, Puppet, RabbitMQ WebStrom, Nginx, Jenkins, JIRA
  • Block-Chain: Azure and AWS Blockchain, Open Source tools (Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, Multichain).
  • AI/ML/RPA: UIPath, and WorkFusion
  • Big Data/Data Science: Cloudera 5, MapR 6, R-Studio 2.11, Python, Spark 1.3, MongoDB, Cassandra

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IDFC First Bank is a Greenfield bank and I associated with the bank before the startup of the bank. Worked as an enterprise architect and my responsibly was to define and secure implementation of enterprise architecture framework across various verticals of the bank like Core, Retail (a hole, auto, and personal loan) and commercial, trading and treasury, also responsible for payment system. Also heading the innovative solution group to provide a clean and regulated solution for the bank. Effectively set up the highly skilled governance like Demand Management, Change Advisory board, and Release Control Board to govern the business – IT relation.

  • Enterprise architecture (TOGAF based) vision and roadmap to align with company strategy and vision
  • Business Architecture with roadmap and timeline
  • Evaluated current business and technology ecosystem and delivered gap analysis
  • Customer, market and operational risk analytics, customer DNA, segmentation and fraud detection analysis.
  • Prepared short and long term goals based on enterprise vision, technology strategy, budget, architecture
  • Evaluated, architect and developed the complex banking event processes (SOA – Microservice)
  • Architecture design and governance process, including planning and monitoring efforts, review process
  • Implemented Big Data, Service Virtualization and DevOps(CI/CD) based development and Blockchain.
  • Architecture decisions to implement the Omni-Channel initiative in retail banking.
  • Outlined the service-based cloud service architecture and automation design strategy
  • Cloud orchestration landscape and service-based automation.
  • Proofs-of-concept (POC), including building a business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.
  • Integration: Google-Apigee and TIBCO
  • Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud
  • DevOps: NodeJs, AngularJs, Html 5, Bootstrap, Redis, Node BB, API Gateway, Docker, Puppet, RabbitMQ WebStrom, Nginx, Jenkins, JIRA
  • BlockChain: Azure and AWS Blockchain, Open Source tools (Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, Multichain).
  • IoT: ThingWrox and open sources tools like ThningBoard and Mainflux
  • AI/ML/RPA: Blue Prism, UIPath,
  • Big Data: Cloudera 5, MapR 6, R-Studio 2.11, Python, Strom 9.5, Spark 1.3, Apache Hadoop 2.6.0
  • NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, KDB+, SAP Hana, HazelCast, GigaSpaces, Hadoop 2.0, Spark

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Worked as a principal enterprise architecture consultant for the client like Citi Bank (UK/Singapore), BNP Paribas (Switzerland/Singapore), M&T and Fifth-third bank (USA). Also handle clients like British-Oil and Gas, Firmenich (Switzerland). Responsible for developing enterprise-level business and IT transformation strategy from legacy to new age processes and technology. Engaged with client’s top management to provide the digital and innovative strategy to implement service-based integration (API/Micro-service), Blockchain, IoT, AI/ML/DL, Big Data As a Service, and tactical process and solution improvement. In this duration, I have handled five banking client and three non-banking clients with an estimated project cost 32 million Euro.

  • Banking enterprise architecture vision and roadmap to align with future organizations requirements
  • Evaluated product for banking applications like CBS, LOS/LMS, and internet banking.
  • Short and long term strategy on vision, technology, budget, architecture, and implementation,
  • Used ARIS Business Architect, TIBCO BPM, and JBPM tools for clients for high-level business processes.
  • Service-based integration solution architecture (SOA-ESB) 100+ banking application
  • Transformed the legacy system to service-based (SOA) cloud application
  • Manage and define the design standards with regard to functionality, customizations and potential performance impacts
  • IoT based real-time asset monitoring, Inventory, and Material Tracking, Single view for the operator
  • BigData NoSQL solutions using Hadoop, Hunk, and Splunk.
  • Delivered analytics projects on Predictive and Real-time based solutions (R, Storm, and Spark)
  • Engaged Big Data providers like Cloudera and Teradata to customize solutions based on the requirement.
  • Analyze and designed the Data Visualization tools like Clickview, Power BI and Node JS.
  • Provided design and implementation TIBCO based integration and Complex Event Processes

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