Rakesh Vikhar

• As an Enterprise Architect as FSG Tech’s Central Architecture function I was responsible for
• In charge of the Technical Architecture Council to review solutions across FSG Tech
• Collaborated with other (cross) functional architects, solution architects, domain architects and application architects in order to achieve a consistent and coordinated IT architecture
• Worked on creation of FSG Tech’s target technical architecture that supports regulatory and FSG business drivers and aligns to strategic vision of Infrastructure Architecture
• Performed thorough GAP analysis for FSG technical architecture function and formulated a plan for addressing non-compliance
• Devised the idea of tech domains to define principle, standards, best practices for different technologies used with the function
• Part of the CS wide innovation team to work toward couple of Blockchain initiatives namely a PoC for
• Digital Distribution of CS product over blockchain network' over a third-party regulator network: this involves etherium/polygon network, Smart Contract over solidity and A custom built UI using ReactJS
• Second is the CBDC project Fnality: Fnality Payments System is an independent distributed financial market infrastructure (dFMI) which will operate a private, permissioned distributed ledger to support the creation of a settlement asset for use as an on-chain, digital payment instruments
• Credit Suisse is one of the consortium banks building and testing the Fnality system
• Technology involves Hyperledger Fabric and smart contract based on java script.

• As a CTO Enterprise architect I am supposed to do Governance for specific technology products as well as solution design for the Major Growth initiatives (MGI) so that the new architectures are in-line with architecture principles
• Architecture guidance and solution design for Private Label Credit Cards and GAP integration over AWS and private cloud
• This includes Microservices, Oauth, Akana, Mulesoft, private Cloud to AWS integration and multiple AWS services
• Leading the banks Resiliency efforts by tracing the critical Front to Back processes and following resilient by Design Approach
• Quorum member to review the project architecture visions in Technology Architecture Council (TAC) and Large Program Design Authority (LPDA)
• Control Guild member to perform technical review and signoff the API, Web and Mobile architecture visions for US consumer bank
• Proficient in following Lean Control Tool (LCT) process for reviews and logging risk stories for any technology risk and acceptance criteria
• Leading the US Consumer bank resiliency assessment for key business processes and user journeys
• Following the distinctive concept of front to Back (F2B) process to identify and fix the key technology resiliency Hotspots
• Leading the solution design for Barclays Fulfilment Services (BFS) having Cybersource and Fire (Payment Initiation Service Provider PISP) system integration
• CTO Architect for Barclays Webhooks platform to be built over AWS
• Leading the Group Technology Strategy for ‘Optimise our code base and software assets for acceleration of Business Growth’
• This involves creation of catalog for OSS libraries consumed in the bank, analysis of the pattern and guidance on how to reduce the footprint to reduce duplication of used frameworks
• Responsible to drive a cloud first approach by challenging legacy technology evolution ensuring security, resiliency, and scalability
• Worked in close collaboration with the Lead Architect, Solution Architects and the Technology and Business functions of the group for Creation of the technology strategy, roadmaps and vision for the US Consumer Bank initiatives
• Defined the API integration Patterns and created catalogue to be referred by Solution Designers
• Proficient in Enterprise Architecture tool ‘Avolution Abacus’

• For Customer Master Migration to Open Source project I was responsible for
• PoC for Migrating from IBM MDM to Open Source technology
• Defining the architectural Roadmap for migration
• Conducting Technology evaluation and Building a Proof of concept using Springboot, MariaDB, Spring Board and Mulesoft
• Designing the sustainable solution architecture using Spring framework
• Defining Data Model, Building Microservice and RESTful APIs for the new solution
• Technology Stack, Java8 , Springboot 2.0, Service Mesh, Mulesoft, Akana, zuul gateway, Maria DB 10.3, Atomikos, Ehcache, Spring Batch, Config server, JBoss EAP 7.1 / Tomcat ,Docker, Kubernetes,Openshift, Git / Maven

As a Technology lead for Customer Master Data Hub project I was responsible for

· Participate in Business Requirement Discussions and Impact Analysis

· Solution Designing for Master Data Management, Data StewardShip UI and Enterprise application integration

· Conducting Design and Code reviews

· Development and customizations to MDM server and DSUI

· Defining approach for IBM MDM upgrade from v9.0.2 to v11.6 and doing the execution

· Defining Architectural Principles and Purge Policy

· Managing full life cycle MDM development projects which include requirement elicitation, effort estimation, stakeholder management, analysis, design, data modelling, development, Integration and UA Testing, release implementation and warranty support

• For Customer Master Data Hub project I was responsible for
• Participate in Business Requirement Discussions and Impact Analysis
• Solution Designing for Master Data Management, Data StewardShip UI and Enterprise application integration
• Conducting Design and Code reviews
• Development and customizations to MDM server and DSUI
• Defining approach for IBM MDM upgrade from v9.0.2 to v11.6 and doing the execution
• Defining Architectural Principles and Purge Policy
• Managing full life cycle MDM development projects which include requirement elicitation, effort estimation, stakeholder management, analysis, design, data modelling, development, Integration and UA Testing, release implementation and warranty support
• Technology Stack:
• J2EE, IBM Infosphere MDM Server v11.6, Oracle 12c Database, JMS, SOAP, RESTful services, Websphere Application Server 8.5.5, SVN/Git
• Java

• I was responsible for
• Conducting discussions with client’s architecture team about hosting standard and defining E2Earchitecture for customer master
• Creating architecture and design documents
• Designing the SOAP WebService APIs
• Data Model creation and Attribute Mapping
• Mapping business requirements to Technical
• Performing reviews for System Design document and other technical design documents
• Lead the team for IBM MDM customizations which includes Data Addition, Data Extension, behavioral extension, business proxy, external rule, batch processor, Suspect Duplicate processing, custom search, TAIL, webservices, DSUI modification etc
• Integration of Infosphere MDM DSUI with Oracle Open SSO
• Coordinating with different teams and clients
• Trained the team of 6 on IBM MDM while in Capgemini MDM CoE
• Java Tech Lead for Leading US Bank @, I was responsible for
• Creation of project estimates and execution plan
• DDL and DML Analysis amongst WCC 6.5 and MDM 8.5
• Converting addition and extensions to PureQuery
• Converting all the customizations from WCC 6.5 to MDM 8.5\
• Leading all the MDM initiatives (offshore) right from the LLD phase till delivery
• Leading the Offshore development team and coordinating with onsite-offshore as well as upstream application teams
• Creation of project estimates and build plan
• Mapping business requirements to technical and customizing the WCC product
• Creating Project documentation and performing reviews
• Creating the Data Additions, Data Extensions, Composite Transactions, web services APIs, OAG APIs etc
• Technology Stack:
• J2EE, IBM Websphere Customer Center 6.5, DB2 UDB 8.2, Websphere Application Server 7.0

• Product Information Management for Retail Industry (PoC) using Java/IBM Infosphere Product Center
• MCDI SOLUTION for Manufacturing Industry (PoC) using Java /IBM Infosphere Customer Center
• Proficiency Certification for Reliance Petroleum (RPL) where I was responsible for Analysis of the field data, Creating UI screens and coding using VB.net, Creating webforms using ASP.net and migration of Data from excel into the SQL server