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Deepak Balakrishnan

Deepak Balakrishnan

Milton Keynes

Summary

A Solutions driven Agile Project Lead / Technical Business Analyst with 15+ years experience leading cross functional teams in the full SDLC with innovations during the attainment of business goals.

Agile and Waterfall methodologies practitioner known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables exceeding expectations with regards to timelines and budgetary factors.

Well Experienced on Media and Finance domain like Banking. Worked on Digital transformation including Cloud and Data Transformation and Programme delivery.

Overview

1
1
Certification
16
16
years of professional experience

Work history

Agile Scrum Master / Technical Business Analyst

Mastercard UK (Fulcrum Digital)
London
2021.10 - Current
  • Delivered ZAPP Payments journey business change project in line with project specifications.
  • Define Product Roadmap for ZAPP Payments Journey.
  • Analysis of requirement and collaboration with Product owner, Architect and Dev teams
  • Product Roadmap to EPIC and Story creation.
  • ZAPP Payment journey's Data Transformation.
  • Data Format ownership using YAML and JSON Schemas.
  • Lead API Transformation (Merger) with Architects and Product Managers.
  • Lead API Operations design with Architects and Technical Leads.
  • Co-ordination with Dev teams to implement updated Merged API's
  • Preparing Monthly update Amendment Tracker Log for client submission.
  • Project Reporting using JIRA Reporting tool.
  • Defect and Risk management
  • Mastercard Developer Zone (API Catalogue) ownership & maintenance for Project APIs.
  • Mastercard Client On-boarding and User maintenance.
  • Lead Documentation activities with Confluence.
  • Lead Show & Tells, Demos internally and externally.
  • Owned Director responsibilities for 6-8 months.

Agile Technical Business Analyst

Santander UK (ITC)
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
2011.07 - 2021.10

Project Manager / Technical Business Analyst

DORADOS

  • Built roadmap, designed and delivered DORADOS Project.
  • Digitally transformed existing BankSphere application using AngularJS and RESTful APIs.
  • Successfully implementation application in AWS Cloud and OpenShift On-Prem Cloud.
  • Built and nurtured professional relationships with stakeholders.
  • Led technical delivery teams with in-depth understanding of processes and techniques to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Streamlined multiple plans and dependencies across range of teams into single overarching perspectives and plans.
  • Managed RAID successfully, governing milestones and noting adherence in line with project plans.
  • Designed and built multiple testing environments for multiple products automation testing.
  • Documented appropriate project plans and controls in line with change lifecycle.
  • Built Scrum teams and ways of working, Agile Ceremonies.
  • Managed team from multiple Geo locations (UK, Spain and India).
  • Implemented Release and Change process and Managed releases.
  • Created and maintained JIRA EPICs and User Stories with Product Owner.

Technical Analyst

RISK (Credit Score & Persistent Debt)

  • Lead and Delivered RaaS Applications using SaaS based model with Cloud ready solution to OpenShift On-Prem cloud platform.
  • Built JIRA Projects from scratch for Persistent Debt Project and demoed to Internal and External teams.
  • Risk Assessment service for bank with DSaaS (Domain Software As A Service) model.
  • Built detailed roadmap and plan for service with OpenAPI and AWS Cloud migration.
  • Designed & Delivered AWS cloud migration prototype.
  • Working with Technical Leads to build Data Schemas using XML and XSLT, JSON.
  • Built delivery roadmap using JIRA EPIC Roadmap for Persistent Debt project and delivered on time.
  • Liaised with Credit Risk Policy Team for designing and configuring Policy Engine.
  • Lead documentation process in Confluence.
  • Worked with customers and partners to harmonise multiple APIs in workflows.
  • Facilitated technical decision-making, providing architectural guidance to development and product teams.
  • Built and Maintained RAID logs (Risk, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies) for multiple projects.
  • Built and Automated project reporting using JIRA with KPIs and charts.

Technical Lead

Retail Banking (Mortgages & Cards)

  • Lead, Design and Develop, Review development changes based on Business Requirements.
  • Developed multiple new enhancements and journeys in Mortgage and Cards functionalities.
  • For Unsecured Personal and Business Loans in Retail banking, owned service operations and enhancements.
  • Designed and built RESTful APIs and SOAP web services.
  • Designed and built frontend systems using Banksphere.
  • Code Reviews and mentor junior team members.
  • Unit Testing using JUnit.
  • Manual Functional testing and Automated Functional Testing using Selenium & Cucumber.
  • Non functional Testing using JMeter.
  • Developed Data model using JSON, XML and XSLT.

Senior Software Engineer

AOL Health
Bengaluru, India
2010.12 - 2011.06

Software Engineer

Star TV India
Bengaluru, India
2007.04 - 2010.11

Education

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Bharathidasan University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bharathidasan University

Skills

  • Business Analysis
  • High Level Design
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Systems Analysis
  • Functional Requirements
  • API Design
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Agile EPIC and Story creation
  • Core, Retail Banking & Finance
  • Payment Systems
  • Credit Risk Management
  • Risk & RAID Management
  • Technical specification interpretation
  • Digital business transformation
  • Agile people management

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Languages

English
Fluent
Spanish
Beginner

Timeline

Agile Scrum Master / Technical Business Analyst

Mastercard UK (Fulcrum Digital)
2021.10 - Current

Agile Technical Business Analyst

Santander UK (ITC)
2011.07 - 2021.10

Senior Software Engineer

AOL Health
2010.12 - 2011.06

Software Engineer

Star TV India
2007.04 - 2010.11

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bharathidasan University

Master of Science - Computer Applications

Bharathidasan University
Deepak Balakrishnan