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Vikas Yadav

Vikas Yadav

London

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+44 7775438771
Title: Consultant

Vikas Yadav

 

Mobile : +44 7775438771

Email : [email protected]

 

Professional Profile

Am seasoned IT professional with more than 16 years of experience and track record of delivering comprehensive IT solutions. Most of my commercial experience had been to design and implement solutions based on IBM Middleware technologies. Along with strong technical skills, I have also performed roles which require ability to organize, priorities and execute on multiple and diverse objectives. With proven ability of developing projects from inception through to final delivery, ensuring that all work is effective, appropriate and delivered within agreed timescales. I have worked with Agile methodology for more than Six years.

 

Key Technical Competencies

Payments : ACH Clearing and Settlement schemes, SEPA, BACS, Chaps, Faster payments & Mobile Payments (PayM)

Messaging Standards : ISO 20022, ISO8583, SWIFT, FIX, FpML, FiXML, SOAP, EDIFACT

Middleware : IBM Websphere MQ, IBM Websphere Message Broker (Ver. 2.1 till Ver. 8.0.0.8), IBM Integration Bus Ver. 10.0.0.1, Core Java, J2SE 5.0, J2EE, XML, XSLT, WSDL

Frameworks : SOA, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Enterprise application integration (EAI), Message-oriented Middleware (MOM), Hibernate ORM, familiarity with Spring

SDM : Agile software development, Scrum, Kanban (development), Spiral

OO : UML, Rational Rose, Design Patterns, Use-Case-driven development

Database : IBM DB2, Oracle 8.0.5, SQL Server

Continuous Integration using GIT, Gerrit & Jenkin. Scripting with Python & Unix Shell Scripting.

 

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication

Professional Certifications

  • IBM Certified - MQSeries Specialist

  • IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Application Server, V 3.5

  • IBM Certified - Advanced Application Developer

  • Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF-9 certified)

  • PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner

  • Certified Scrum Master

 

Professional Experience (Recent)

 

Mar 2015 – Till date

METRO BANK

Design and Implement solution for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) supported over IIB 9 for Bank. Support IIB based ESB solution for various projects. Contribute for design of SOA based Enterprise Integration Architecture.

ESB Designer

  • Design new Flows in IIB Ver. 9 and version 10.

  • Improve performance of existing flows.

  • Design new solution for multiple protocol support.

  • Design new adapter based solution for high throughput and enhanced response.

  • Design solution to integrate Core Banking application with CRM.

  • Design WebService based solution through IIB. Enhance java based solution for Global Cache.

 

Nov 2014 – Feb 2015

Jaguar Land Rover

B2B Integration of ERP system (SAP) with partner systems using IBM Websphere Message Broker as ESB platform.

Integration Analyst

  • Liaise with stake holders to capture and define Integration Agreements and Service Contracts

  • Capture and define Business Requirements

  • Liaise with 3rd Party suppliers to define Data Models in EDI, EDIFACT & ANSI X.12

  • Understand and define functional and non-functional requirements

  • Create FRS (Functional Requirements Summery) for Development team

  • Support Integration and Business functional testing

 

Feb 2014 – Nov 2014

SITA Aero (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques)

Implement Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to Airport Integration solution based on SOA with IBM Websphere Message Broker (Version 8.0.03 & IBM Integration Bus) as primary Integrator. Agile methodology of development to achieve work on multiple airports across the globe at same time. Continuous integration practice to minimize production defects and reduce testing efforts.

ESB Designer

  • Design new Flows in IBM Message Broker Ver. 8.0.0.3 & IBM Integration Bus Ver. 9.0.0.2

  • Define Rules and Routes to perform rules based transformation and routing

  • Write test suite in soapUI for Component & Smoke test

  • Build & deployment of Customer release packages

  • Code in XSLT, ESQL & Java for data transformation in IIB

 

Feb 2013 – Feb 2014

Bank Of Ireland

SEPA Payments implementation for Bank of Ireland. The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment-integration initiative of the European Union for simplification of bank transfers. Agile methodology of development.

Solution Designer

  • Design messaged based payments solution as per SEPA Rule Book.

  • Design Data Models for integration between existing banking application

  • Co-ordinate with Business team to deliver detailed design from business requirements for SEPA Payments implementation

  • Design new message flows (Websphere Message Broker 8.0.0.1 & Java) to facilitate SEPA payments from current payments applications

  • Build components of SEPA payments Engine to facilitate both single shot outbound credit transfer and Direct Debit payments, based on EPC rulebook

  • Build data dictionary for SEPA payments based on ISO 20022 Message Standards (SEPA Data Formats) & SWIFT

 

April 2012 – Jan 2013

Jaguar Land Rover

To design and implement the artifacts of enterprise wide ESB integration solution using the WebSphere Message Broker.

ESB Developer

  • Design new ESB interfaces for integrating various legacy systems

  • Code in ESQL & Java for data transformation in Message Broker flows

  • Develop Message Flows & Message Sets in WBIMB for integrating third party/legacy application with SAP systems

  • Design new interfaces to integrate external systems i.e. HMRC, DVLA & commercial banks with ESB, design data dictionary for Legacy to SWIFT messages.

  • Co-ordinate with business analysts to understand business requirements for solution design and support existing interfaces

 

Feb 2012 – 06/04/2012

George International (Walmart)

Integration Manager

  • Provide expert level support for Websphere MQ and Websphere Message Broker implementation

  • Designing and supporting new MQ Cluster infrastructure which combines George Cluster with Walmart MQ Cluster

  • Review Data dictionary, project handover documentation, completion report, test reports & non-functional performance report

 

May 2010 – 31st Dec 2011

HBOS (LLOYDS Banking Group)

Maintain, Support & Enhance IBM Websphere Message broker based ESB. Support and advice on integration of LLOYDS TSB's Payment infrastructure with HBoS SOA based ESB. Design, build and support pre & post-merger integration framework of banking systems.

Sr. Consultant

  • Design and support new MQ Cluster infrastructure which combines HBoS’s MQ Cluster with LLOYDS’s MQ Cluster

  • Design and deliver new Interfaces (Message flows) for architecture framework to accommodate new transport requirements

  • Review Data dictionary, project handover documentation, completion report, test reports & non-functional performance report

  • Provide BAU production support for payments infrastructure

  • Capacity planning and future scoping for common integrated middleware infrastructure

  • Document new standards, naming conventions and change details to infrastructure

 

February 2010 – 30th April 2010

Capgemini UK

 

July 2009 – 31 December 2009

AXA Investment Management

Sr. Consultant

  • Provide support for data exchange between Trading platforms

  • Transform business requirements into solution design document

  • Design and develop new Interfaces to connect existing or new back end disparate trading systems (FIX, FIXML & FpML)

  • Write Project overview document, Data Dictionary (FIX, FIXML & FpML), Interface Design, deployment document & Test Strategy

  • Redesign existing interfaces to make then more SOA compatible

  • Develop message flows & message sets in WBIMB. Open rules based routing and XSLT is used for transformation.

  • Code in XSLT, ESQL & Java for data transformation in IIB

  • Optimize existing message flows to improve throughput and response time

 

July 2008 – July2009

Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS)

Design and build integration solution for Retail banking. Add new services to existing SOA based frame work for third party integration and B2B e-commerce inter communication. Integrate Banks application with legacy applications and external partners.

Sr. Consultant

  • Understand business requirements and the map them to IT functions

  • Design and develop new Interfaces to connect existing or new back end disparate systems

  • Write and review various project related documents i.e. Business Transaction Design, Project overview document, Data Dictionary, Interface Design & Test Strategy.

  • Review and redesign existing interfaces to move solutions towards fully SOA compatible

  • Develop message flows & message sets in WBIMB

  • represent Message broker team at project scoping and high level designing

  • provide technical inputs at project initiation phase

 

October 2007 – July 2008

LLoydsTSB Bank, London

Consultant

  • Develop Message Flows & Message Sets in WBIMB to extend Faster Payments to commercial banking

  • Build new test environments to be used by test team

  • Create new test plans for implementing faster payments in commercial Banking

  • Assist in build process, enhance Perl and korn shell scripts

  • Configure and run schedule process to test faster payments and payments using BACS

 

May 2006 – October 2007

Morley Fund Management, London

Halifax Bank of Scotland, London

Systems Analyst

  • Provide 3rd level support for data exchange between Trading platforms

  • Implement SSL security solution to middleware components

  • Design and set-up Qpasa views and rules for active monitoring

  • Product / version increment evaluation

  • Configuration Management

 

October 2005 – May 2006

RAC, UK

Team Leader

  • Lead a team of six software engineers

  • Define and achieve system level agreements

  • Plan offshore business logistics

  • Team supervision and performance management

  • Plan and execute of Staff training

  • Monitor and advise on operational costs

 

April 2004 – Sept. 2005

Deloitte Consultancy, India

Senior Analyst

  • Design and development of middleware infrastructure

  • Development of Message Interfaces to integrate PeopleSoft with Oracle, Fuel Facts and other proprietary software

  • Configure Adaptor to synchronize various enterprise application systems. Also double as configuration manager and DP representative

 

June 2003 - April 2004

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

DUPONT (USA, Europe)

EAI Specialist

  • Support WebSphere MQ infrastructure for CSC clients

  • Troubleshoot any bottleneck in message flow

  • Create and test new MQ objects as per client request

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