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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Responsible for the migration of CBD’s Fraud and AML monitoring systems to CBD’s tenancy in Ingenuous cloud.• Have studied the CBD and CBUAE’s mandatory requirements in moving the bank’s data to cloud.• Framed the network architecture for the communication between CBD and Ingenuous SaaS such as, S2S VPN tunneling, IP NATing, reverse NATing, Asynchronous PGP encryption, SFTP file transfers, SSL certificates and IP level firewall policies.• Designed the data flow between the upstream and Intuition SaaS application.• Automated the E2E batch process.• Technically integrated the on-boarding and payment channels with API services exposed by Intuition SaaS.• Successfully integrated the CBD’s Azure AD with Intuition SaaS for SSO using oAuth2.0 protocol.• Driven tasks such as the segregation of data load and AGP to improve the performance of batch upload. • Co-ordinated business user testing and upheld the user profile matrix, system functionalities in cloud environment.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

UAE merger:• Post legal merger of FGB and NBAD, the technology merger was set with a target completion of 1 year.• With FGB using Norkom product and NBAD using SAS product as AML solutions, our role was to implement SAS AML as a unified solution for bank FAB.• Along with the merger, it was also a AML database migration from Teradata to Oracle.• With a change in the core banking application from intellect to T24, the data feed for SAS AML has also to be migrated from intellect to T24. Hence the role was also extended to provide the data mapping between T24 and SAS AML applications.• Provided the design documents and design walkthrough to SAS vendor and the AML compliance team.• Supported dry run, dev testing, silver and gold run.• Supported 5 dress rehearsals which is a mock merger.• Fixed many issues including SAS10020 scenario, memory, post AGP mail notifications and user sync under the absence of vendor.UAE Fit for business AML:• Post technology merger, FGB has plans to increase the number of AML scenarios to support the strict compliance policies of FGB.• Hence new scenarios to trap money laundering through credit card, early loan closure and many more are suggested by the advisory and audit wings of compliance unit.• Also customer segmentation to narrow down the false positive alerts are recommended.• As an AML solutions architect, my role was to study the data in a data mart environment and suggest a parameter threshold values for scenarios based on customer segmentation.• Another key initiative is also to increase the alert and case ratio for better AML compliance system.US merger:• In US T24 migration of FAB data, management decision was to continue with FIS AML for AML solutions.• As a solutions architect, my role was to provide the data mapping sheet between FIS AML and the T24.• With a change in the location of the data center, my role was also to give extended support in creating AML file transfer scripts.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Implemented the Anti-Money Laundering 4.2 product of SAS - changing the design architecture and scenarios for SAMBA London based on the compliance policies and regulations of Bank of England. • The core architecture of the SAS AML 4.2 has been changed to have a parallel run of the load ETL and AGP which is not possible in the original version.• The new AML scenarios are created to cater the requirements of the compliance policies and regulations of the central bank of England.• Handling data analysis, data mapping and data cleansing that are extracted from the STAR system for all the products of the bank to the AML system.• Analyze the requirement identifying the potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, fixing / creating the code, testing of the code according to the SDLC process.• Interaction with the compliance users of London branch in order to train them on the new application.• Ensuring the quality of the deliverables and the paperwork required for the audit.• Subject Matter Expert & SPOC for the entire AML application of the bank.• Migrated AML4.2 to AML5.1 as a SAMA mandate project.• Integrated SAMBA site minder with AML UI investigator application.• Fixed referential integrity issues related to Account event, transaction and cash flow.• Created new scenarios related to SAMA blocked customer transaction alert generation.• Fixed 17 scenarios during AML5.1 migration which were not working in AML4.2. • Development and enhancement of the ETL to load all the transactions of the bank to the AML system.• Coded and delivered a java web service and Excel Macro for Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) reports which is capable of pulling data from AML, Core Banking and MIS systems.• Implemented lot of projects like, Card Mangement System migration to Cortex, FATCA and KYC.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Working as project manager cum team lead for SCMS (Samba Card Management System) unit, a unit of SAMBA-STG (SAMBA Technology Group) which deals with customer cards and payments. To keep up the card information confidentially SAMBA decided to migrate SCMS data to Cortex. Cortex is one of the successful banking solutions in maintaining card data though their own encrypting mechanism. Also has little knowledge on ATM machines and HSM servers.Projects worked/working as a project manager cum project lead:• Development and enhancement of the ETL to load all the transactions of the bank to the AML system.• Interaction with other products of the bank (e.g., Credit cards, Speed Cash, Corporate and Consumer Loan etc.) to resolve compliance issues.• Analyze the requirement from SAMA / country compliance for the possible money laundering scenarios to track the suspicious transactions and SAMA rules.• AML risk flag derivation project which was compliance mandate.• Enhancing the CPS system to apply sanction GSS checks in all the applicable KYC screens.• Implementation of CPS for SAMBA London.• Dubai ATM Card Carrier.• Replacement of SAMBA Old SCMS by Cortex card management system.• CPS Audit Trail Purging implementation in KSA, DXB and PAK environments.• CPS Iqama# update restriction for all the department users (done in Ajax).• CPS offline ATM mobile update with CORTEX old SCMS switch (done in MQ).• CPS FATCA information capture for US tax reporting.• Did lot of implementations related to KYC.Roles and tasks (management):• Responsible for guiding team members during new enhancements / fixes.• Responsible for gathering requirements from the users. Documenting it as RDD for business review.• Analyzing the RDD and preparation of HLD after system study.• Organizing business meeting with the business and the development team.• MOM preparation.• Time sheet management.• Project estimation and risk analysis.• Task creation, allocation and approval.

Chennai Area, India

• Handling maintenance and the enhancements, which may be major or minor depending upon the requirement submitted thru PPMS or SCR respectively.• Analyze the requirement, fixing / creating the code, testing of the code.• Responsible for job monitoring of the production account.• Fixing the production and the user-related issues which need an immediate fix which may have business impact within the SLA of 2 hours.• Creating the new 4GL scripts that may be included in the DOCS / DMS front end screen.• Role also extends to fix the tickets which are burning problems in production and that require immediate analysis / user instructions / permanent code fix.• Handling fast tracks, which are non-release PPMS and code needs fix within 3 to 5 days.• Interaction with the client on the updates for the daily occurring issues and the weekly PPMS status.• Ensuring the quality of the deliverables and the paperwork required for the audit.• Interaction with the client on the updates for the daily occurring issues

Chennai Area, India

Worked as Software Engineer for AIGD-DRC, a unit of AIG Personal Lines Division, which undertakes the private auto insurance all over US.• AIG’s auto insurance requirements may be minor changes or major enhancements and the same will be projected as SCRs. As a MFCOBOL developer, my role is to analyze the requirements, fixing the codes and testing.• The role also extended to fix the heat tickets, which are burning problems in production and that require immediate analysis / user instructions / permanent code fix.• Handling fast tracks, which are emergency SCRs and code needs to be fixed and moved to production in 10 to 15 days.• Responsible for job monitoring and fixing the production cycle issues of personal auto insurance.• Responsible for job monitoring of the model office and developers test account.• Fixing the production and development issues which need an immediate fix which may have business impact within the SLA of 2 hours.• Subject Matter Expert for the production support process.• Trend analysis of the performance of the jobs.• Reporting on the frequent occurring issues.• Training the new joiners about the process.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science, 1St Class

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering