Jinal Chhajed

• Developed and maintained COBOL applications for financial transaction processing, ensuring reliable transaction handling and compliance with financial regulations to ensure smooth BAU processing of overnight batches.
• Coordinated with project managers, designers, and developers to streamline task execution.
• Designed and optimized DB2 SQL queries for performance improvement.
• Performed unit testing and debugging of COBOL programs along with code reviews to ensure best practices and high code quality.

Projects :

• IMS to DB2 Migration & Transaction Modernization-
  Worked on a large-scale modernization initiative to migrate transaction processing from IMS DB to DB2, replacing hierarchical data structures with relational DB2 tables and SQL-based processing to
  improve scalability, performance, and maintainability
• ZoS API- Developed and optimized multiple UK retail banking IMS and DB2 APIs processing 2M+ monthly transactions, boosting scalability and improving platform reliability
• Business Banking product simplification - Managed delivering new market-leading Business Banking current account processing, driving new customer acquisition and retention for about 650K accounts overall by implementing business rule changes and functional enhancements for business banking
• Collaborated with cross-platform teams(cards, customer systems) to deliver projects, resulting in a 15% reduction in system downtime and enhanced scalability for high-transaction platforms.
• POC for mainframe modernization -Automated manual tasks using Gitlab duo , Jenkins pipelines,Vscode, ISPF panel and Rexx, improving delivery efficiency and reduction in manual tasks