Elena N. - Lead System Architect (Insurance domain)

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Jun 2015 - Present

10 years 3 months

Munich, Germany

Lead System Architect (Insurance domain)

AGCS

Coordinating several Pega projects being part of CoE: role – LSA, participate in major architecture meetings, run LSA coordination meetings, provide guidance to the projects teams, help with technical issues resolution including performance problems, contribute to improving developers best practices and guidelines, provide expertise in ensuring high system availability, run PoCs, responsible for deployment pipelines implementation.

My individual targets are rated over 100% every year.

Jun 2013 - May 2015

2 years

Moscow, Russian Federation

Lead System Architect / Line manager (Banking Industry)

IT Co Group

CRM project: role – LSA/ project manager/ Business analyst (being part of the venture company we had to complete the whole E2E Pega implementation with a help of 2 senior resources including me and a group of internship students): collect business requirements, architecture and design elaboration, business process implementation, teaching junior resources, adapting Pega BPM methodology to the current project needs, fulfilling major project management activities, manage the client engagement, interviewing new people. This project won in the “Best IT project” nomination.
several concurrent Pega implementation projects including automation of the loan process: role - LSA / Developers team lead. Architecture and design elaboration, implementation of the complex business stories, participation in technical architecture meetings, providing guidance to the junior resources, interviewing new team members, code quality checks, doing PoCs.

Sep 2012 - May 2013

9 months

London, United Kingdom

Pega Developer in System Integration (Banking Industry)

Accenture

E2E Simplification (in one of the biggest UK banks): role –Pega SME, develop high level design and architecture for Pega application, provide technical expertise for the offshore delivery teams, implementing most complex requirements, ensure high code quality, participate in the CoE activities targeted to enable the client resources to work in Pega delivery teams, doing bug fixing.

Mar 2011 - Aug 2012

1 year 6 months

Moscow, Russian Federation

Pega Developer/ Business Analyst in System Integration (Banking Industry)

Accenture

Paperless Back-Middle Office (First Implementation of PRPC in Russia): role – Developer/ Business Analyst, business process analysis, gathering requirements during DCO sessions, developing business process diagrams (both “as is” and “to be”), elaborating automation approaches, building Application Profile in PRPC, requirements implementation in PRPC (including the development of the whole processes, reports, UIs, activities, list views), supporting the implementation of reusable components in PRPC, assisting other teams in analysis and bug-fixing in PRPC.
Migration Support (Merge of two large banks): role – Business Analyst, conducting meetings with operational departments of two banks to identify the target business processes of the new bank; analysis of the organizational structure of two banks and mapping the access roles of users in IT systems of two banks.

Mar 2010 - Feb 2011

1 year

Moscow, Russian Federation

Business Analyst

Diasoft (IT company developing Core banking systems)

Modification of the existing system based on the changed legislation (regulatory reporting): analysis of the changes in legislation and creating technical specifications for developers.
Obtaining requirements for a new system (Limits&Positions module): conducting meetings with bank’s SME to identify gaps in existing IT solutions, creating UML diagrams to describe data structures, classes, algorithms, creating project documentation based on TOGAF.
Modification of the existing system based on banks’ requirements: phone communication with banks’ SME in order to get their requirements for the following modules: money market, interbank loans, creating technical specification for developers.

Was nominated to the be the “Best Employee of the Year”

May 2007 - May 2009

2 years 1 month

Moscow, Russian Federation

System Analyst/ Account Manager

Paralles

Conducting web-conferences with European and American customers to collect detailed feature requests in order to include them in the future releases
Collecting requests for custom development and working on specification, development and deployment of custom features
Fixing minor client issues
Conducting trainings
Being a contact point for several customers, helping them to solve the issues

Gained customers’ credibility, each development project was finished on time.

Mar 2006 - Apr 2007

1 year 2 months

Developer

Paralles

Development of the framework used for testing of Parallels Business Automation
Creation of implementation plans, delegation of tasks to junior developers

Became a leader of a group after several months of working

Summary

Lead technical architect with over 17 years of overall IT experience including over 10 years of working with Pega platform in banking and insurance domains, vast experience in end-to-end automation of complex business processes in a variety of roles: as a delivery implementation lead, as a senior technical architect, devOps engineer and as a business analyst, leading onshore and offshore teams, technical couch, presales activities. Experience in working on a partner and client sides.