Farhan Nizar

• Worked effectively in Agile environments to maintain efficient project work for modern and legacy applications.
• Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
• Created sets of pre-fabricated systems architecture models for deployment at multiple facilities across enterprise-class organizations.
• Employed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) products to reduce initial outlay in systems purchasing 60%.

Selected Project Experience

iMAL Core Banking Implementation

• Authored full Center of Enablement (CoE) design plan optimized for governance and performance metrics sought by client.
• Complied with regulatory guidelines such as Shari'a-Law, IBAN complies with the ISO 13616 standards, PCI-DSS, AML, FATCA and CRS, and ISO20022 payments standards in design architecture, ensuring adherence to strict privacy and security laws.
• Drafted conceptual and logical data models for high-level system planning tasks, optimizing each model to customers' needs and budgets.

IMS Payment Gateway Implementation

• Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
• Provided current best practices and third-party solution alternatives when necessary for functional design documentation.
• Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.

AML System Implementation

• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders, auditors and legal counsel to confirm compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Implemented improvement initiatives and developed compliance testing program to monitor and identify gaps in new and existing practices.
• Confirmed data and licensing information through investigations and notified violators of required changes to bring operations into compliance.

Azure Cloud Infra and OpenShift Implementation

• Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
• Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.

• Architected and prosecuted an enterprise-wide framework that standardized business processes and enabled swift integration of new technologies, optimized system performance and reduced overall operating costs.
• Cooperated with cross-functional teams to create a comprehensive product roadmap that aligned with the company's vision and goals; imposed agile methodologies that accelerated team efficiency and narrowed delivery time.
• Established process re-engineering initiatives to improve end-to-end user experience (UX); consolidated frontend design with Micro Frontend across digital channels, resulting in a reduction in redevelopment time and refurbished UX.

Selected Project Experience

Rubix Digital Retail and Corporate Banking solution

• Established and executed an end-to-end enterprise architecture assessment, including the identification of 15+ opportunities for consolidation and optimization of the banking client's platform roadmap and capabilities; streamlined IT portfolio and reduced operational costs.
• Orchestrated the migration of 10+ apps to the microservice architecture by hosting in Kubernetes, resulting in a increase in page loading speeds and a reduction in application response time.
• Spearheaded the deployment of an enterprise-wide Retail and Corporate system that boosted customer engagement and reduced response time.
• Forged partnerships with RedHat, Microsoft, NGINX, AppDynamics, Redis and Mirantis into Rubix Digital Transformation journey.

Innovative functional adoption

• Orchestrated strategic partnerships with BNPL providers, SME finance firms, and digital cross-border payment processors to integrate new features into the Digital Transformation journey.
• Established, initiated and optimized business development strategies based on company targets, product specifications, market data, and budget factors.
• Analyzed and reported on KPIs to validate and demonstrate success of market competition.

• Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
• Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with Internal and External Stakeholders.
• Applied consultative methodologies to analyze business requirements and distinguished 100+ areas for optimization; launched customized solutions.
• Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for the various business entities by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.

Selected Project Experience

Data migration (legacy to target bank)

• Contributed to financial management conversion by performing functionality, capability and system integrity testing prior to launch.
• Combined with cross-functional teams to identify critical areas of improvement in data migration for 3 product teams, resulting in a increase in successful transfer of data to target bank; analyzed metrics to measure the impact and effectiveness of improvements.
• Orchestrated the seamless migration of data between two legacy systems (NBAD and FGB) for the global operation and payment services, ensuring zero data loss and enhanced operational efficiency.

NBAD Payment Gateway

• Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
• Remodeled the SDLC process and ensured timely delivery of project milestones by supervising cross-functional teams and enforcing strict adherence to project timelines and budget.
• Implemented a Payment Gateway solution with workflow management to handle Online channel Payments, resulting in a reduction in processing time; renovated bulk payments, cheque clearing, direct debit, payroll, and international payments.
• Drove weekly meetings with IT, product, and branch teams to discuss payment system development progress; tracked KPIs and discovered areas for improvement.

Wages Protection System

• Initiated and facilitated a comprehensive requirement gathering session with business teams, ensuring detailed requirements were captured to guide solution development; contributed to the delivery of a high-quality solution that met business needs.
• Facilitated cross-functional meetings to align regulatory requirements and bridge the gap between the central bank technical team and IT team, enabling the timely release of wages files; concentrated payment errors and boosted payment processing efficiency.
• Focused salary file processing for 500+ companies by automating manual operations, reducing processing time and eliminating errors caused by human intervention.

Em-Trak (Electronic Message Transfer and Tracking System)

Automated electronic messaging process and consolidated with NBAD's core banking system; waned transaction processing time and lessened the error rate.

Governed the development of project requirements and secured delivery of the final product; collaborated with the development team to enhance product delivery.

Controlled market and user research to identify pain points and unmet needs; formed and instigated new features that expanded user satisfaction.

• Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
• Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
• Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
• Analyzed existing systems and databases and recommended enhancements to solve business needs

• Diagnosed software issues and applied troubleshooting techniques to resolve problems.
• Performed quality assurance and quality control assessments of support ticket fulfillment.
• Advised project managers on simultaneous technical workstreams, aiding in alignment of broader business goals.
• Communicated technical findings via lay terminology to keep interdepartmental teams informed on vital developments.

• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
• Partnered with development team on product development and application support plans.
• Worked closely with sales team on understanding customer requirements, promoting products and delivering sales support.

• Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
• Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.