Mahesh Jagtap

Part of the Payments Solution Architect role at Western Union involves providing architectural and domain leadership to build capability, promote innovation, and develop new solutions and product offerings in the payments domain in the USA.

Defined product enhancement opportunities in association with the commercial payment product team.

Evaluated operational processes and recommended cost-effective solutions.

• Ensured compliance with data privacy and security regulations in solution designs.
• Developed system models using automated tools to analyze performance under various operating conditions.
• Provided technical guidance to other team members in the development of solutions.
• Facilitated stakeholder meetings to align technology solutions with business goals.
• Participated in client meetings to discuss project requirements and provide feedback on potential solutions.
• Developed and supported implementation of company-wide business solutions.

• Company Overview: Client Name HSBC bank, Grate Britain, UK
• Involved for GSP implementation in HSBC - CMB
• Responsible for identifying and analyzing the requirements after discussion with functional teams across the different locations
• Produce clear choice and solution proposal documents
• Work closely with change delivery to manage and control the business requirements Operating
• Biweekly sprint planning meetings based on which user stories are created by Scrum master
• Estimates management, Design review meetings
• Working on the new changes/enhancement to the applications every time, working on online modules
• Doing Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing functionality initiated by the client/Business
• Coordinating with client Business Analysts and Technical Architect / SME to evaluate various approaches to fulfill requirements
• Client Name HSBC bank, Grate Britain, UK
• Projects Worked On: Earth & Moon Migration

• Company Overview: Client Name Capital One Bank, USA
• Led performance tuning of various batch and online processes to realize annual cost saving of $2M by reduction in CPU utilization
• Saved $5M in fraud loss every year by implementing true random account number assignment logic
• Increased throughput of Level 3 support by 100% through standardization and automation of repetitive activities performed by team
• Client Name Capital One Bank, USA
• Projects Worked On: IRIS Migration

• Company Overview: (a member company of Principal Financial Group, USA) Client Principal Financial Group, USA
• Worked as a Global Technical Member as Module lead for large size projects (hours >500)
• Key technical member in Pune office for complex and critical projects - implementation of new products and production abends
• Direct interaction with US teams without an onsite coordinator
• Direct interaction with Business Analysts, Compliance leads and US Project Manager
• Involved in all stages of SDLC in Projects from Requirements gathering to production implementation
• Global point of contact and key member for release management and production releases
• Partnering with the US development team on projects estimation/execution (hours>500)
• Responsible for taking the requirements from business users to track the development in the project
• Interact with the Business users and the development team to track the status of the project in UAT and production deployment
• (a member company of Principal Financial Group, USA) Client Principal Financial Group, USA
• Projects Worked On: Client Contract Administration, Sales Management System

• Company Overview: Client Name First Data International, USA
• Worked in 3 major projects (duration > 6 months) on Vision Plus system for Client HSBC, FDI
• Involved in enhancement and support of the CMS (credit management system)
• Responsibilities include analysis, design, coding and testing of components
• Coordinated with interdependent teams to carry out SIT and UAT and Performance testing
• Provided Level 2, Level 3 support and troubleshoot issues and recommended solutions to business
• Wrote and updated technical documentation such as detailed module specifications, user manuals, and training materials
• Ensured high quality code is delivered that meets specifications
• Client Name First Data International, USA
• Projects Worked On: CMS-One HSBC (Vision Plus), FDI 9.01 Development
• (Vision Plus)