SUMMARY:

• Pega Certified Business Architect Professional with a progressive 7+ year experience in consulting IT services to Banking and Financial Institutions, worked for various organizations in multiple roles as Pega Lead Business Architect, Business Analyst, and System Analyst.
• A multi - tasking, motivated leader with a proven history in the areas of Client Engagement /Relationship Management, Client Services & Delivery, Project Management, Support Pre Sales and People Management. Led engagements for major BFSI clients in Business Transformation.
• Experienced in using PEGA PRPC 7.1.8/ 7.1.7 / 6.3 / 6.2 / 5.4 for creating Application Profile and conducting DCO sessions
• Expertise in Business Analysis, Use Case Development, Sequence Diagram, and Process/ Workflow Diagrams
• Extensive experience in requirements gathering (using various Elicitation techniques such as user interviews, brainstorming, questionnaire, and survey) and project delivery following top software development methodologies such as Agile/ Scrum, Smart BPM and Water Fall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensive experience in Retail Mortgage Banking (Loan Origination, Post Closing and Servicing), Card Management System (Application Processing, Back office & Fulfillment, Card Issuance, Merchant Processing, Acquired/ Issuer Reconciliation, Claims & Chargebacks), and Retail Banking, Investment Banking & Brokerage, Asset Management System (Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds), Corporate Functions, Commercial Lending
• Having experience in Swift Messaging and exposure in FIX Messaging for trading gateway
• Good exposure to Forex and Fixed Income Securities (Bond Market and Money Market Instruments)
• Good exposure to Fidessa front-end Equity Trading application/ Loan IQ Commercial Lending System
• Offshore outsourcing and day-to-day interaction with Project Managers/ Lead System Architects, QA Managers/ System Architects/ Testers located overseas
• Extensive experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of various software solutions for banking and financial institutions
• Worked 3 years in USA. H1B Visa valid till December 2016 with my previous employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, Confluence

BPM Tool: Pega PRPC 7.1.8/ 7.1.7/ 6.3/ 6.2/ 5.4

Application Lifecycle Management Tools: HP-ALM, Rally(CA Agile Central), SharePoint

Product Applications: HiPortfolio/ 3-Asset Management (DSTi), Investment Order Management Settlement System for Local/ International Brokerage (CSE), BankWORKS Card Management (RS2) and IST Switch (eFunds), Vision Plus, Credit Risk Management (Algorithmics), Loan IQ, Fidessa Trading Application, VISA Edit Package, IPM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Playing a major role as a PEGA Business Architect in leading and assisting to identify and optimally define process flows, user stories and requirements.
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues

Environment: PRPC 7.1.8 (BPM Tool), Confluence, Rally

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Playing a major role as a PEGA Business Architect in leading and assisting to identify and optimally define process flows, use cases/user stories and requirements during Direct Capture of Objectives (DCO) sessions.
• Involved with Business SME for requirement priorities, understands business requirements, prepare process flow diagrams, business rules document, Use cases & design the user interface etc. for several modules of FIA Rules Engine.
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues

Environment: PRPC 7.1.7 (BPM Tool), DCO tool, WebSphere application server version 7.1, MS Visio

Confidential, Washington, DC

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved Upgrading 5.4 to Pega 7 provides an opportunity to automatically enhance existing Pega applications by taking advantage of underlying capabilities available in the Pega 7 platform.
• Support multiple projects for BOUI changes.
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues

Environment: PRPC 5.4 / 7.1.7 (BPM Tool), MS Visio

Wellpoint Inc, Mason, OH

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and synthesizing business requirements, and translated into functional and non-functional requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications
• Created Application profile and conducted DCO sessions.
• Wrote and reviewed scope, use case, SRS document and User Guide with the internal teams and client
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues

Environment: PRPC 6.3 (BPM Tool), WebSphere application server version 7.1, MS Office, MS Visio, DCO tool

Confidential

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and synthesizing business requirements, and translated into functional and non-functional requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications
• Created Application profile and conducted DCO sessions.
• Wrote and reviewed scope, use case and supply specification document with the internal teams and client
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues

Environment: PRPC 6.2 SP2 (BPM Tool), JavaScript, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel), DCO tool

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Pega Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and synthesizing business requirements, and translated into functional and non-functional requirements to be used as input to the functional design specifications
• Prepared workflow diagrams in MS Visio for the System
• Worked on use cases document the flow of the system comprising of pre-conditions, success scenario, alternate flows, post-conditions, and special requirements
• Prepared supplemental specifications to document field and data mappings and High Level Design (HLD) of the system
• Created Application profile and conducted DCO sessions.
• Wrote and reviewed scope, use case and supply specification document with the internal teams and client
• Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders, and tracked leads to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss, and resolve open issues
• Interfaced between the Development/ QA team and the Client Service team

Environment: PRPC 6.2 SP2 (BPM Tool), JavaScript, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel), MS Visio