PRATIK SONPAL

o Application Owner (AO) of Trade Channel Front End (TCFE) application (critical external-facing application used by clients to initiate trade finance transactions like letter of credit, open account etc.)

o Delivery of “Change the Bank (CTB)” and “Run the Bank (RTB)” initiatives using Agile and Waterfall methodologies

o Managed end-to-end delivery of business requirements and functionalities

o Infra Lead – Hardware upgrades at web, app and database layers and Connectivity setup across tiers using various protocols like MQ, SFTP, Web Service

o Application Stability & Resiliency setup – High Availability & Sustained Resiliency, Technical Resiliency Application Plan (TRAP), L3 lead

o Risk & Control Lead – Single Point of Contact for all audits applicable for the application related to Design, Data, Security and Tools as well as location-wise audits

o Budget planning, hiring, resource allocation and timeliness of projects

o Led hardware upgrades and ensured application stability and resiliency

o Transitioned from Waterfall to Agile methodology along with setup of distributed delivery teams

o Developed and maintained relationships with senior management, business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment of delivery priorities with business objectives

o Stability – Zero P1Sx issues in five years

o Reuse – Delivered Web Service project for Mobile UI, leveraging existing Service and DAO layers, thereby reducing the development and maintenance cost

o Data Masking – Setup of Performance environment database with production data dump including data masking

o Resiliency – Consistently achieved 2hr RTO (Recovery Time Objective) against maximum RTO of 4hrs

o Actively participation in various initiatives

• Led “Know Your Technology (KYT)” quiz for Global Trade under “Employee Engagement Experience” theme
• Development of Interface Check utility and increased its awareness for adoption by other projects as part of “Observability” initiative under Stability agenda
• Primary presenter of TCFE application for Global Trade Tech new joiner bootcamps

o Application Lead of

• Global Client Access Review System (GCARS) – Web-based application to capture and retain Due Diligence / Know Your Customer (KYC) information and documentation on CIB clients during on-boarding and re-certification reviews
• Project Compliance and Operations Control (PCOC) – Web-based application that replaced a desktop KYC application (a KYC Database with a front-end in Delphi). It is centralized compliance information for all CIB clients.

o End-to-end delivery of business requirements and new functionalities

o Led setup of new team for end-to-end project delivery

o Member of Client On-boarding stall that won first prize for Best Content and Best Explained stall

o Developer in FlexCube API team

• FlexCube is the flagship product of i-flex Solutions Ltd. It is a Core Banking Solution product covering modules such as FCR (FlexCube Retail), FCC (FlexCube Corporate), FC@ (FlexCube online) etc. Flexcube API is the API version of FlexCube product. It is a step towards the standardization of FlexCube's suite of products to serve the demands of a rapidly changing banking industry. Banks, especially large ones, with large IT teams require a comprehensive API to enable them to easily integrate their small systems with the Flexcube core banking system.

o Developed API of existing Flexcube transactions, incorporating the entire functionality

o Developer in MercuryFx application

• MercuryFx is a web-based foreign exchange (Forex) transaction workflow management application to enable Forex transactions between branch users and dealers.

o Developed following modules

• Live status of Pending transactions, Rate type wise transactions and GUI for terminated deals
• Daily currency wise buy/sell report, live branches report

• Data analysis of store-wise inventory
• Allocation of containers to stores
• Container and store-wise inventory management

• Maintaining system configuration with a quality of 99.5%
• Launching new system configurations and making updates of prices, status, descriptions