Amit Handa
Solution Architect
Leeds
Summary
Experience of 22.0 years in Solution Architecture and Software design and development in the industry. Skilled in handling new and complex tasks requiring collaboration with multiple business units and functional groups. Excellent experience in customer facing roles to gather requirements, systems integration and writing new proposals. Strong experience of Insurance/Banking, Telecom, Healthcare and Consulting (Product management & delivery)
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Solution Architect
Allianz Insurance
1 2021 - Current
- Solution Design on Inspection services for premises to maintain their equipment in order, as per H& S guidelines solutions
- Provision of coarse-grained roles & fine grained permissions
- Technologies: AWS, DevOps, SOA ESB, Microservices(BFF & BFI), ETL, JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence, Event Driven Architecture.
Solution Designer
Telefonica
11.2014 - 12.2020
- Solution Design on projects large and medium of various scopes strengthening the Telefonica operations
- Some key projects as below O2 Extras: Integrating partner services: Responsible for end-to-end design and delivery of partner services as part of O2 sales proposition using REST APIs OAuth model
- (APIs federated on SOA) Integrating Apple Watch in O2 ecosystem
- Lead design with a team of 5 designers and responsible for end to end delivery of eSim (embedded sim) with O2s ecosystem
- End to End delivery: Responsible for end to end solution from design until delivery of solution in live
- Technologies: AWS, DevOps, SOA ESB, Microservices, AWS, BI(Nucleus), ETL, Apps(iOS, Android), Bigdata(Hadoop), JIRA, Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, iOS, Android, Partner REST APIs integration, SaaS (Salesforce), Sparx EA.
Solution Architect
Co-op Bank
03.2014 - 10.2014
- Design on various projects for strengthening security of the bank
- Data Leakage Protection using Pentura/Symantec
- Deployment and replacement of Data Leakage Prevention and Intrusion Prevention System devices within Bank estate
- Quantum Decommissioning and Reporting Project Manage stakeholders, design, lead and present solutions for sign off (governance) as required.
Solution Architect
Aviva Insurance
01.2013 - 12.2013
- Solution designs for various projects to integrate Guidewire Policy Centre and Claims Centre with Aviva’s business processes
- Policy Centre Design services for Commercial Credit Data (Duns & Bradstreet, ELTO, Address input) Provide various design inputs to premium journey for calculation of a premium policy
- Provide design support for policy journey of uber product till premium calculation
- Manage Renewals, reinstatement, reinsurance, and coinsurance of high premium policies.
Solution Designer
Lloyds Bank
01.2012 - 12.2012
- Design for projects on Fraud and Financial Crime Projects
- Working with other solution architects i.e., Security, Data and Infrastructure in leading solution designs
- Projects worked at are Strategic Network Fraud, Falcon and Base24, Cross Channel Transaction Monitoring(CCTM), Integrating SIRA (from Synectics)
- Proactively worked with customer to incorporate new features in products like Actimize (for Nice) and Hosted Net Reveal (for Detica).
Solution Architect
CSC
10.2007 - 12.2011
- Client: Virgin Atlantic Airlines & NHS UK Client Virgin: Responsible for designing and delivering PCI DSS i.e., Payments Cards Industry Solution for Virgin
- This involves designing a solution to interface HP’s CDE i.e., payment gateway and VAA’s internal applications
- Client: NHS: As part of SystmOne Primary Care Design team am responsible for working with Connecting for Health(CfH) Writing high level and low-level designs based on requirements
- HL7 messaging using Message Implementation Manuals (MIM)
Solution Designer
British Telecom
08.2006 - 09.2007
- Project: NHS Spine Identity Management System, NHS, UK
- Responsibilities: Technical Lead and Solution Architect Integration of SafeNet Luna HSMs to store root key credentials as part of Identity Management work
- Provision of Auth and Content certificates to end customers.
Technical Lead/Developer
Sun Microsystems Inc.
05.2001 - 07.2006
- Project: Java Specification Request 221 (JDBC 4.0) Team Size: 12 From July ‘04 – July ‘06 next generation of APIs through which developers will access database using Java are being developed through this JSR.
Software Developer
HCL Perot Systems
11.2000 - 05.2001
- Environment: WebLogic documentation, LDAP server (MS Site Server) This is a dedicated offshore team for Time0, a subsidiary of Perot Systems, Boston, USA
- Developed Market CAP 2.0, a B2B solution for digital marketplaces, which incorporates various technologies such as EJB.
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies Ltd
08.1999 - 11.2000
- Client: ABN AMRO Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
- Environment : Oracle 7.3, Java, Servlets
- Scope: ABN AMRO Bank, Frankfurt is dealing with customers in different type of transactions
- Inv.-OFM is one application, which deals with different products like Foreign Exchange, Securities, Cash Derivatives etc.
Education
Skills
Extensive experience in architecture life cycle including governance, testing, release, implementation, and support
Proven experience in solution design/architecture of large-scale enterprise applications within Finance, Healthcare & Telecom
Proven hands-on experience in Unified Modelling Language (UML) using Sparx EA, Rational Rose
Delivery of high transactional financial services systems
Hands on experience in Six Sigma, RAD, Scrum/Agile (TDD) and RUP methodologies
Certification
MS Azure Fundamentals
Technical Speaker
Presented technical talks at JavaOne Conference in US, India as a Java Specification Lead.
Consultant
Performed result-oriented pre-sales activities in various countries. Excellent experience of Presales and Post-sales support as part of bids for CSC, Mastek and Sun Microsystems.
Personal Information
Nationality: British
Timeline
Solution Designer
Telefonica
11.2014 - 12.2020
Solution Architect
Co-op Bank
03.2014 - 10.2014
Solution Architect
Aviva Insurance
01.2013 - 12.2013
Solution Designer
Lloyds Bank
01.2012 - 12.2012
Solution Architect
CSC
10.2007 - 12.2011
Solution Designer
British Telecom
08.2006 - 09.2007
Technical Lead/Developer
Sun Microsystems Inc.
05.2001 - 07.2006
Software Developer
HCL Perot Systems
11.2000 - 05.2001
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies Ltd
08.1999 - 11.2000
Solution Architect
Allianz Insurance
1 2021 - Current