Ravi (Kishore) K.

Lead System Architect

Bedford, United Kingdom

Experience

Apr 2025 - Present
5 months

Lead System Architect

LTIMindtree

  • Project: Global KYC
  • Client: Nordea
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 8.8
  • Team Size: 10

Pega CLM/KYC being chosen as the Global KYC Tool, Nordea needs to define and configure the taxonomy and the organisational structure in the application.

Defining the taxonomy and organisational structure is a key element in the beginning of the application setup as it; Links the standard organizational structure with the work groups and work baskets, providing the ability to associate departments and work queues to each operational level and making it easy and unambiguous to manage and route work. Controls how and what products the operators can access based on their association to a given operational level.

  • General developer roles.
  • Design analysis and code reviews.
  • Functional and Technical analysis.
  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.
  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.
  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA, UAT signoffs.
  • Handling Postproduction support and KT sessions for the Prod support team.
  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles
  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis
  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
3 months

Lead System Architect

Mercator Group

  • Project: Record Management
  • Client: HMRC
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 8.8
  • Team Size: 5

Cross-Cutting managed platform support for HMRC’s Customer & Record Management team

  • Follow the design pattern and create a secure workflow for business areas that require customers to be segregated for discrete units.
  • Creation of RBAC model for our production service of Data Insights, and our dev and test environments that plugs into the Client's SSO infrastructure.
  • Supporting the acceleration of a single centralised repository for Common REACT modules, working with the existing REACT development team to create this.
  • Tangible contribution to the reduction of the REACT technical debt.
  • Supporting the code optimisation roadmap to ensure we meet our goals to reduce enduring costs related to external supplier reliance.
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
1 year 9 months

Lead System Architect

LTIMindtree

  • Project: Global KYC
  • Client: Nordea
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 8.8
  • Team Size: 10

Pega CLM/KYC being chosen as the Global KYC Tool, Nordea needs to define and configure the taxonomy and the organisational structure in the application.

Defining the taxonomy and organisational structure is a key element in the beginning of the application setup as it; Links the standard organizational structure with the work groups and work baskets, providing the ability to associate departments and work queues to each operational level and making it easy and unambiguous to manage and route work. Controls how and what products the operators can access based on their association to a given operational level.

  • General developer roles.
  • Design analysis and code reviews.
  • Functional and Technical analysis.
  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.
  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.
  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA, UAT signoffs.
  • Handling Postproduction support and KT sessions for the Prod support team.
  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles
  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis
  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
1 year 1 month

Lead System Architect

Virtusa

  • Project: CDD Strategic InLife
  • Client: Natwest
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 8.5
  • Team Size: 15

CDD In-Life Management is a key part of the Bank’s priority to move its overall controls in Financial Crime from a current CEC rating of ‘4’ to a rating of ‘2’, accompanied by regulatory attestations and commitments to do so. The solution approach was reset in Q4 2019 with clear outcomes established to achieve the Bank’s regulatory commitments over 3 years. These outcomes include the design and implementation of a scalable, sustainable and efficient In-Life Solution and Operating Model for the current Commercial & Business book and further expanding to Private and Personal book.

  • General developer roles.
  • Design analysis and code reviews.
  • Functional and Technical analysis.
  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.
  • Sprint planning and tracking tasks.
  • Managing the sprint release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA, UAT signoffs.
  • Handling Postproduction support and KT sessions for the Prod support team.
  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles
  • Observing PDC alerts on a regular basis
  • Handling Pre and 3 Amigo sessions with BA’s
  • Maintaining regular sessions with teams on ways of improving the design
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
2 years 8 months

LSA/LDA

Coforge

  • Project: NEOBrain
  • Client: Santander
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 7.2
  • Team Size: 10

NEOBrain is the Omni-Channel decisioning platform. It’s a centralized campaigns strategy framework was designed to serve both inbound channels (Mobile, Online Banking, NEOCrm) and outbound channels (Email, Outbound calls).

Before NEOBrain there wasn’t an automated campaign platform as such, and the campaigns activity was based on manual selections for both inbound and outbound channels with some important limitations in terms of scalability, channel connectivity, efficiency and relevancy of the communications to customers.

NEOBrain platform brought enhanced capabilities in terms of customer data, decisioning rules (including self-learning models), automation, productivity and channels connectivity/orchestration.

  • General developer roles.
  • Design analysis and code reviews.
  • Functional and Technical analysis.
  • Single point of contact for all technical discussions.
  • Assisting campaign development team on a daily basis.
  • Responsible for technical deliverables
  • Code and design reviews
  • Main liaison between client and Coforge.
  • Managing the application release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA, UAT signoffs.
  • Handling Postproduction support and KT sessions for the users.
  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.
  • Observing Kibana Logs for potentials errors.
  • Creating and maintaining Seed customers, Model office props for strategy and campaign testing
Jan 2019 - May 2019
5 months

Lead System Architect

Coforge

  • Project: Underwriting Workbench
  • Client: QBE
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 7.2 (Cloud)
  • Team Size: 15

QBE Insurance uses Pega to handle insurances for multiple line of businesses.

New Business and Renewal insurance tasks and their workflow is handled using Underwriting Workbench Application is in Pega Cloud. The purpose of this project was to create a solution to streamline the current transaction capture and approval process. The goal of this project was to improve consistency and accuracy of the data supplied to approvers and regulators.

  • Analyzing business requirements
  • Providing project estimates and timelines
  • Understanding workflow processes
  • Responsible for technical deliverables
  • Code and design reviews.
  • Main liaison between client and Coforge.
  • Managing the application release cycles from Dev to Prod and handling QA, UAT signoffs.
  • Handling Postproduction support and KT sessions for the users.
  • Monitoring the code deployments in Pre prod and Prod.
  • Maintaining Six cloud environments provided by Pega and three nodes for each environment.
  • Verifying the health check report provided by Pega on daily basis.
  • Managing the Scrum process via sprint cycles.
  • Observing Kibana Logs for potentials errors.
  • Deploying the code in Production and performing post deployment checks.
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 7 months

Senior Pega Developer/Production Support Analyst

Synechron

  • Project: Horizon
  • Client: Asurion
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 7.1, CPM Framework
  • Team Size: 5

Mobile Insurance application for client like KPN, 3UK, Tesco, Virgin, Rogers and Fido etc across the globe. The end user for this application is the agent to process, maintain a mobile insurance claim for Asurion insured customer.

  • Manage the Asurion EU Pega division.
  • Coordinate with Leads in Asurion, USA.
  • Improve the application code quality by following the best practices.
  • Perform code reviews and document the solutions to share across teams.
  • Train the team on the new functionalities on the need basis.
  • Provide technical support to product owner to have better view of the final product.
  • Work with teams across clients to maintain common code base and make the application robust.
  • Provide the technical support during production deployments and fix the production issues using logs, tracer, clipboard and other tools.
  • Successful Go-Live of KPN and 3UK clients.
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
5 months

Lead System Architect

BNY Melon

  • Project: Financial Data Management
  • Client: Bank of NewYork Mellon
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 7.1, CPM Framework
  • Team Size: 5

Financial Data Management application is to provide a workflow process for create cases for a 3rd party system ‘MAF’ to process the case.

Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
1 year 1 month

Lead System Architect/Business Architect

Mindtree Ltd

  • Project: Newedge Pega Accounts Control
  • Client: Newedge UK financial limited
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 6.2, CPM
  • Team Size: 10

Internal Account Control application is to provide a workflow process for create, amend and close internal account process for all the House, Control and Finance accounts.

Sep 2012 - Feb 2014
1 year 6 months

Senior Pega Developer

Mindtree Ltd

  • Project: GES
  • Client: Chartis Insurance (AIG)
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 6.2
  • Team Size: 25

Managing location-based risk is increasingly important in the insurance business. This Enterprise Risk Management/Global Exposure System project will enable Chartis to recover from a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis other competitors and take a leading position with a concomitant beneficial effect on loss ratio and overall profitability.

Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
7 months

Senior Pega Developer

Mindtree Ltd

  • Project: OMeGA
  • Client: Chartis Insurance (AIG)
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 5.2
  • Team Size: 5

Omega is the first PEGA project to be done by Mindtree for Global Markets. The application is developed in PEGA 5.2 version. The documents which are already uploaded into Omega are saved in the Database which is raised a concern by the client as a database space issue. As part of the requirements, we use the DGB CMS V5 web service to upload/retrieve the documents.

Oct 2011 - Jan 2012
4 months
United States

Associate Consultant/Module Lead

IBM

  • Project: Fraud Dispute Services Portal
  • Client: American Express, USA
  • Technologies: PRPC V5.5, IBM Web sphere, DB2, XML
  • Team Size: 10

The Fraud – Disputes Services Portal (FDSP) Integration project implements Fraud case processing web-based application that will serve as a single interface for managing Fraud cases in American Express. Proposed system will be used to present all account and case information at one place. It will be used to simplify complex processes (e.g., Chargeback) for Operations, minimize step out to other systems while processing cases.

  • The perceived solution will Leverage existing architecture of DSP (Disputes Services Portal) to provide web interface
  • Build to enable expansion, combination of portals in future as per growing Fraud operations requirements.
  • Leverage capabilities of PEGA as a middleware and rule-based engine to enable implementation of complex business processes and rules to achieve flexibility, reusability and efficiency.
  • Achieve reusability of technical and application components.
  • Enable fraud operations users, ease of use, operational efficiency through a single interface for case review and processing operations.
Jun 2010 - Sep 2011
1 year 4 months

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys

  • Project: S&P Credit Estimates System
  • Client: Standard and Poor’s
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 5.5
  • Team Size: 8

Standard & Poor’s is a leading provider of financial market intelligence. The world’s foremost source of credit ratings, indices, investment research, risk evaluation and data. Standard & Poor’s provides financial decision-makers with the intelligence they need to feel confident about their decisions.

The primary objective of S&P Credit Estimates project is to build a web-based Credit Estimates solution that will support the end-to-end S&P credit estimate process. Credit Estimates system performs Credit Estimates for unrated assets for the given CDO portfolio. External and Internal users will use the system. External users are corporate clients who will submit request to S&P to perform Credit Estimates for unrated assets for the given CDO portfolio. Internal users are S&P Credit Estimates team should be able to submit request on behalf of an External users. Internal user (whose role is Manager) will be able to allocate unrated CE request to the appropriate analyst. Analyst takes the unrated CE request and performs the Credit Estimates.

Aug 2008 - May 2010
1 year 10 months

Senior Software Engineer

Virtusa

  • Project: S&P business locations
  • Client: Standard and Poor’s
  • Technologies: Pega PRPC version 5.5
  • Team Size: 7

Employees at certain S&P business locations request location changes or additional security clearances to be added to their corporate identification badges, at present the request is all manual in nature.

Jul 2007 - Jul 2008
1 year 1 month

Module Developer

Virtusa

  • Project: Authoring – Unified Admin Toolkit Version1
  • Module: Workflow Customization, Choice list
  • Client: FIS
  • Technologies: Core Java, J2EE, XML, JavaScript, HTML, Web services, SOAP, Axis, Spring, iBatis.
  • Team Size: 25

FIS provides banking and payment technologies for financial services firms and businesses worldwide. The toolkit is so modular that allows for easy adoption of new Banking Platform releases and provide the ability to simulate and test a client’s authored changes prior to deploying them into a production-readiness environment.

The authoring toolkit will allow a master or client administrator to create re-usable workflows. Each workflow consists of Steps and they each step consists of one or more pages. Groups are optional in a workflow. We can use group Technique when we have a specific operation to be performed in a set of steps/pages. Types of operations differ from one another.

Summary

Dynamic and seasoned Certified Lead System Architect with over 17 years of hands-on experience in PEGA BPM tool across various versions, specializing in the Banking and Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) domain. Proven track record in project management, Agile Scrum methodology, and client engagement. Proficient in Pega Marketing 7.2.2, CLM/KYC framework, and adept at managing large-scale programs. Skilled in onsite-offshore delivery models, version control systems, DevOps, and Java environments.

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