Rakesh Sharan

• Conducted thorough research and evaluation of available tools to determine the most effective method for developing artifacts, showcasing my analytical skills and ability to make informed decisions.
• Put together a strategic plan to align solutions with company and industry standards.
• Designed solutions for modern and legacy applications.
• Developed application frameworks, standardized procedures, and managed delivery processes.
• Created multi-site system architecture plans to reduce redundancy across the entire organization.
• Gathered, defined, and refined requirements, led project design, and oversaw the implementation.
• Authored full Center of Enablement (CoE) design plan optimized for governance and performance metrics sought by RTA.
• Put together a strategic plan to keep solutions aligned with company and industry standards.
• Incorporated cloud architecture into new facility planning, reducing the need for on-site equipment and technical support personnel.

• Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for the bank.
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• Designed and implemented application security and data assurance.
• managed the use of various types of databases and configured, installed and upgraded new ones.
• Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.

Responsible for implementing the enterprise architecture framework and the business/digital transformation strategy and architecture to meet the business goals and objectives. Assist the business team in articulating the business requirements and end-to-end value delivery system. Responsible for developing and implementing digital architecture and supporting the development to release of microservice-based mobile and data platforms.

· Conducted design architect reviews, gap analysis, and assessment

· Identifies, publishes, and communicates strategic technology standards, frameworks, principles, and roadmaps

· Architect, design, and implement small-scale to large-scale integration solutions

· Strategic planning to keep solutions in line with company and industry standards

· Defined mobile application frameworks and standardized procedures

· Developed policies and standards for digital platform solutions and governance

· Design and govern the in-premise and cloud-based API gateways.

· Accelerated digitalization and invented digital strategy, roadmaps, and partner engagement

· Conducted technical evaluation of solutions, platforms, and new technologies

Developed and maintained the technology stack to include commercial or open-source integration platforms s

Delivered enterprise architecture artifacts like business, information/data, infrastructure, and application architecture document to support long-term business goals. Initiated and monitored digital and process transformation and data management implementation. Established a governance committee/board with stakeholders for demand management, project execution, risk assessment, security, capability, competency evaluation, and investment/cost optimization. Design and implemented the latest digital technologies, including API, Microservice, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, IoT, data science and analytics, cloud computing, Integration, and DB technologies (relational, time-series)

· Enterprise architecture and strategic planning

· Digital strategy, architecture, blueprint, and transformation execution

· Cross-functional strategy and architecture

· Business architecture and stakeholder management

· Long-term business and technology roadmap

· Enterprise frameworks, policies, and principles

· IT best practices, standards, and architecture pattern

· Designed solution for platform-based mobile application

· Microservice-based cloud (native and edge) architecture

· AI, ML, IoT, and Blockchain strategy and architecture

· Designed data models for complex analysis needs.

Management and deployment of APIs on the cloud and on-premises.

Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Ltd (PCHFL) is a startup in the financial and insurance sector, Catering to large unsecured loans and financial portfolios. PCHFL is India's leading non-financial lending company in the housing and capital finance

· Business strategy planning, vision, roadmap, and architecture

· Business - IT architecture and technology vision

· Identified and executed business and strategic integration opportunities

· Evaluated and define the direction of the ecosystem and business – IT

· Proposed digital strategic (long-term) and tactical (Short term) roadmap

· Cloud-based Native computing architecture (Banking and Health)

· Digital technology implantation's AI, Cloud, and Blockchain

· Setup enterprise-level security architecture and governance

· Setup the innovation lab to introduce cutting-edge tools and technology

· Transformed from legacy to Microservice-based architecture

· Cloud-based Native computing architecture (Banking and Health)

· Digital technology implantation's AI, Cloud, and Blockchain

· Setup enterprise-level security architecture and governance

· DevOps implementation and IT governance

Associated with the bank before the startup of the bank as an enterprise architect. Responsible for defined and secured implementation of enterprise architecture framework across verticals of the bank like Core, Retail (home, auto, and personal loan), commercial, trading, and treasury. Effectively set up highly skilled governance processes like Demand Management, Change Advisory board, and Release Control Board to govern the business – IT relations

· Enterprise architecture (TOGAF-based) vision and the roadmap

· Business Architecture with the transformation roadmap

· Short- and long-term objectives and roadmap

· Worked with the development team of Core, retail, tread, and asset banking

· Customer DNA, segmentation, and fraud detection analysis

· Evaluated, architecture, and developed (Native -Microservice)

· AI, ML, NLP, and Blockchain for documents, Images (pic), bot

· Architecture design and governance process

Planned and led professional development reviews ews

Worked as a Principal Enterprise Architect and Team Leader - Strategy for the client like Citibank (UK/Singapore), BNP Paribas (Switzerland/Singapore), M&T and Fifth-third Bank (USA), Government (India), Insurance (GIC and IDBI). Worked on the 32-million-euro project with clients like British Oil and Gas and Firmenich (Switzerland)

· Developed enterprise-level business and IT transformation strategy from legacy to new-age processes and technology

· Engaged with the stakeholders for a digital transformation strategy

· Banking enterprise architecture strategy, vision, and digital roadmap

· Merger and acquisition of banking and financial company

· An evaluated product like CBS, LOS/LMS, and internet banking

· Transformed the legacy system to Cloud-Native and Edge computing

· IoT-based real-time asset monitoring, Inventory, and Material Tracking

· AI and NLP-based solutions for process automation

· Implement a large Data Science project with a large customer (citizen of India)

Delivered design and implementation integration solution

My initial responsibilities were to understand and analyze the requirement of the risk and safety engineering group and study the existing processes and applications to draft a cutting-edge technology Enterprise solution proposal for top management for budget approval.

· Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades

· Established enterprise architecture portfolio and baseline enterprise architecture

· Design and develop business process models for complex business requirements

· Defined the master data management and data governance process and information synchronization

· Planned and coordinated the technology migration, including network, protocols, and Design and develop business process models for complex business requirements

· Designed the initial level of risk analysis data warehouse

Defined the master data management and data governance process and information

Banking, Airline, and Insurance Worked on multiple clients' projects, and my responsibility was to provide an enterprise-level architecture solution. Worked with the client's architect and the management team to initiate and plan enterprise architecture migration

· Defined the business objectives and, vision, architecture models to support the client's roadmap and policies

· Established the enterprise architecture framework and methodology to govern the implementation process

· Implemented the architecture governance and reference architecture documentation to support the business vision and objective

Defined SOA governance and reference architecture for future implementation