Praviin Dograa
Manchester
Summary
Experienced enterprise and solution architect with over 20 years of expertise in shaping and delivering digital strategies and transformation roadmaps that align with business objectives and drive desired outcomes. Specializing in the financial services industry, I have gained valuable exposure to various sectors including mortgages, loans and savings, wealth management, corporate banking, cards and payments (Barclaycard), as well as retail and private banking. With a strong passion for technology, consistently demonstrating the ability to deliver successful solutions and drive impactful business initiatives.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Enterprise Architect
Barclays Bank plc
04.2013 - 04.2024
- As a CTO aligned Enterprise Architect, I implemented API life cycle strategies and setup effective governance to use API-related technologies and design patterns
- I have worked in tandem with multiple business areas including Retail, Corporate, Investment Bank, Cards and Payments, Private Bank, Wealth, Risk (RFT) and Functions to manage and transform their digital platforms
- Ensured regulatory compliance, conducting regular audits and implementing required updates to systems.
- Simplifying Barclays System integration services landscape by implementing API and other technical strategies to meet the business goals, defining target architectures and roadmaps, ensuring security and compliance, adapting to changes, scalability, and highlighting the risk factors and how they can be mitigated
- A strong communicator, including non-technical, collaborating with CIO architects, product managers, senior leaders and key stakeholders to define organisational strategies for microservices, Service Mesh (Istio and AWS AppMesh), API gateway (Tyk), and API management and integration (Akana), API testing tools like Insomnia/Postman, Kafka, Noname Security, Open Source Tyk API Gateway was one of CTO strategic choice over existing proprietary Api Platform MuleSoft which saved the Bank license cost of circa £5m, involved the API platform migration from On-prem (VMware servers) to BLZ (Barclays AWS Landing zone EC2 / ECS)
- Facilitated Architecture governance to ensure that architecture design proposals aligned to the organisational strategy and policies, by conducting design reviews that underpin the group-wide API design and security standards through architecture forums and design authorities
- I have published artefacts including architecture decisions, capability models, guidelines, principles, roadmaps, reference models, and solution designs (requirements, user stories, BPMN, UML diagrams and models, technical diagrams (including AWS) to align stakeholders to a common goal
- I have defined the strategy and roadmap for a hybrid cloud architecture, such as setting up live communication channel between the Contact Centres and MongoDB database in BLZ using WebSockets and Lambda Functions (AWS)
- I drove the launch of the API Domain Technology Radar, providing a holistic view of emerging technologies and patterns for CIOs, solutions architects, and project teams to make informed decisions when choosing the next API technologies to invest in
- I defined the API strategy and roadmap for migrating the legacy point-to-point communicating systems (TIBCO, BPM, MuleSoft API Platform) to help reduce technical debt and saving License cost saving of £7m and productivity gains (30% loss of time prior to using the API management platforms)
- I have provided recommendations for the data architecture of our product recommendation and lifecycle management tools, targeted towards Service Now and using Tableau for the reporting
- I have applied both Agile and Waterfall methodologies in delivering strategies and projects
- Leading the strategic direction, empowering and mentoring teams, fostering a collaborative environment, problem-solving, and open to feedback
Technical Lead and Solution Architect
Sopra Steria
11.2001 - 03.2013
- As a Technical Lead, I was responsible for laying the framework for the application and data management strategy
- I followed TOGAF to establish best practices for the data migration strategy, and that service levels agreements (SLAs) are aligned to ITIL guidelines for managing the live services post production
- As a Solution Architect, I defined the data migration strategy, ETL processes, and data mapping for a complex loan system
- I also led the data migration workstream for the Barclays Loan App, including migrating some of the bespoke solutions to a COTS solution for the Loan and Savings system
- I lead the design, implementation and management of the Loans and Savings B2C applications
- I provide the lifecycle management application support, managing stakeholders, clients and suppliers to achieve business goals
- I lead the migration and consolidation of 100 legacy (on-premise) Loans applications to a new digital web platform, and reduced technical debts, using MS-SQL and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for the migration
- I led data generation of Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) being sent to HMRC, ensuring data quality and are sent securely (using Connect: Direct) on a timely manner to ensure regulatory compliance
- I established and led an offshore software development team based in Chennai, India to run UK-based projects
- To ensure a seamless link between the offshore development team and the onshore UK-based environments, a VMware farm was setup
- This required standardized virtual machine templates with pre-installed operating systems, applications, and configurations to streamline deployment and reduce errors
- I have mentored teams, both onshore and offshore, providing guidelines and technical assistance, and in turn helping to enhance their career and uplift their skills
- I have set up various test and sandbox environments and used automation to improve developer quality of life and to deliver change at pace
Senior Software Engineer
Experian
04.2000 - 10.2001
- I was a key part in the Solution Design and Delivery team that owned the credit score engine
- I was responsible for ensuring the architecture and design of the Lambda components (score module) aligns to existing and future business strategies and processes, working closely with business and IT stakeholders
- I was also responsible for designing the user interface and algorithms for the credit score capabilities, following architecture practices to align to the Future Operational and Commercial mode
- I have worked closely with key stakeholders within internal practices and IT Prime Partners to establish a joint solution to help reduce cost of delivering services in a highly commercial environment
- I was involved in reviewing contractual obligations with stakeholders and suppliers to help ensure the right decisions are made to achieve business goals in the most cost-effective and efficient manner
- I helped interpret and refine the factors that the scoring engine consider while deciding whether to accept the application
- I led the adoption of credit scoring platforms that underpin the new generation of digital services
- I have mentored, developed, and managed workload with a team of Business Analysts and Solution Designers
Education
Bachelor -
Electronics & Telecommunication
Advance Software Engineering -
IIT DELHI
Skills
- Architecture Practice
- Solution Design
- IT Governance and Best Practices
- Architecture Standards and Patterns
- Information & Data Architecture
- Baseline and Target Architecture
- Risks, Security and Compliance
- Strategic and Tactical Planning
- Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
- Cloud Strategy and Migration (AWS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
- Architecture Artefacts
- Strategy and Transformation Roadmap
- Integration Middleware
- Asset Lifecycle and Information Management
- Capability Based Planning
- Leadership & Mentoring
Certification
● 2023 AWS Solution Architect Associate
(CAA- C03)
● 2022 ICAGIL|E Certified Professional (ICP)
● 2012 TOGAF 9.1 – Certified Professional
(The Open Group)
● 2012 MCSE SQL Server 2012 –
Business Intelligence
● 2009 ITIL Foundation – Version 3 Certified
● 2006 Technology Specialist (MCTS) in VB.net,
C#
Other Exp.
Xansa Consultancy, Software Engineer
Timeline
Enterprise Architect
Barclays Bank plc
04.2013 - 04.2024
Technical Lead and Solution Architect
Sopra Steria
11.2001 - 03.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Experian
04.2000 - 10.2001
Advance Software Engineering -
IIT DELHI
Bachelor -
Electronics & Telecommunication
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