Ahmed Al-Shurafa Email & Phone Number

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Eg

Cairo, Egypt

Transforming How Businesses, Financial Institutions, and People Interact, by availing the financial products and services Everywhere the customer is expected to need them, through an extremely simple yet extremely secure experience.

Riyadh

* Please check my list of projects and solutions I have developed and architected In the "Accomplishments" section below.As a Senior Solution Architect, I was responsible of:• Creating the solutions architecture, technology selection, leading implementation, and developing critical components of the critical solutions assigned to me.• Providing High-level solution designs aligned with the digital transformation principles to leverage the usage of (APIs, data streaming, mobile apps, ..)• Maintaining and verifying adherence to the Architecture Principles guidelines and policies applied for new projects.• Defining the integration architecture specifications for some solutions and projects.• Working with Business product owners to implement Banking Strategic digital services through identifying the technical impact analysis, providing high-level solution architectures, service flows, APIs, assumptions and risks, application security, and systems roles in implementing Banking Strategic digital services through digital channels.• Investigating approaches to rectify the current design issues and assist in performance tuning from a design perspective.• Analyzing the requirements and map the technical capabilities and services to business requirements and design consumption pattern• Leading the technical walkthrough Sessions and technical grooming sessions with impacted teams to introduce the solution design.• Assessing vendors’ solutions for evaluation and supervising POC scenarios and presentation sessions with various vendors for new solutions.• Assisting in projects scoping, technical proposals.• Providing consultation assistance for business problem analysis, solution design, solution value analysis, and software requirements analysis.

• Solution / Application Architect, with more than a decade of diverse highly critical projects experience in banking and financial industry.• Certified Enterprise Integration Specialist, with extensive implementation experience using Integration Patterns, SOA , ESB and heavy web services, to integrate organizations and systems, with a loosely coupled architectures which is easy to change or expand, with re-use and simplicity in mind.• Combine SOA best practices and BPM approaches in designs or optimizations of Business Processes, to establish and robust and dynamic business processes that is easy to scale and change based on business needs.

• Spring Framework Certified Professional, with long experience in multiple IT technology areas, including JEE, best of breed open source frameworks, Web Services, Database, Object-Oriented methodologies, design patterns, that enabled successful delivery of n-tier and service based solutions.

• Full Technical Management of a highly demanding mission-critical channel, Riyadh Bank B2B Gateway, I am managing development & production support management (please see full details below).• Worked in various roles including Java developer, Technical Consultant, Team Lead, Solution Architect, and has a broad view of enterprise applications / integration solutions.

• Provide technical leadership by directing, collaborating with involved teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects to maintain a cohesive solution.• Train and mentor team members, Evaluate architects, team/tech leads and developers.• Lead R&D, proof of concept/prototypes, and systems' simulators, performance/testing tools to cover extreme situations testing.

• Worked in variety of systems, with different teams and nationalities and cultures, in different industries, hospital, banking, government, education, … implemented a lot of projects, my presence in the company improved the performance, quality of deliverables., and helped me sharpening my experience.

Cairo

Development of Lotus notes, HOD (Host On Demand), BIDI (bi-directional text) for arbitration of IBM Applications.

Cairo

• Business processes and workflows development.

Ciaro

• Payroll Management System for Some Egyptian Government Enterprises.• Training & Education Systems for IBM Training Center.