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Gowri Arumugam

Ontario,Canada

Summary

Initiative-taking and resolute professional with over 14+ years of experience in the banking and finance sector with responsibilities involved in requirement gathering, collaborating with business stakeholders, implementation, testing and production support. Proven expertise on various Flexcube modules like CASA, IC (Interest & Charges), CL (Corporate Lending), FT (Fund Transfer), Payments, Swift Messaging System, EOD, Generic Interfaces. Skilled Professional as a Database/ETL Developer in Oracle PL/SQL, SSIS, ODI ETL.UNIX with touch base of AWS DMS Cloud Service. Enthusiastic about leveraging technologies to drive efficiency and innovation for a dynamic IT environment where I can continuously learn and apply emerging technologies to create scalable and efficient software products.

14+ years Of IT Experience | Flexcube, SSIS, ODI ETL, Oracle PL/SQL, UNIX, AWS DMS

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Lead

Stridely Solutions
11.2024 - Current
  • Assessed project milestones and team performance to keep staff on-task.
  • Developed strategic roadmaps for technology initiatives aligned with organizational goals while maintaining focus on resource allocation efficiency.
  • Spearheaded migration of legacy systems to cloud-based platforms for increased scalability, cost-efficiency, and security measures.
  • Boosted operational efficiencies via automation of manual tasks, allowing team members to focus on more strategic projects.

Senior Principal Consultant

Desjardins Financials
04.2023 - 11.2024

· Worked as an Onsite technical lead and SME for Oracle FLEXCUBE v10.5, coordinating with international teams in a multi-branch bank to meet the local regulatory and business requirements.

· Involved in gathering a complete requirement cycle during Flexcube Customizations and CL/ OBCL Migration.

· Collaborated with Business stakeholders to collect their requirements and prepared the Business Requirements Documents (RD140), Functional Specification Documents (FSD), and use cases documents for Flexcube Customizations and CL/ OBCL Migration.

· Prioritized and coordinated with technical teams to meet project milestones, ensuring that the projects delivery without sacrificing promised deadlines.

· Involved in the Project Implementation sessions to discuss the roadmap, requirements and identify the dependencies with other upstream/downstream systems.

· Functional expertise in various Flexcube modules like CASA (Customer Accounts and Saving Accounts), FT (Fund Transfer), Payments, Loans, Nostro Reconciliation, Bills and Collections, Clearing and Generic Interfaces.

· Participated in Customer and Account Setup associated with UDF (User defined field), IC Products, Instrument, Account Statement configuration.

· Exposure on Interest & Charge Product and Rule setup using the Data elements which can be applied at Account/Account Class level.

· Have In-depth knowledge and exposure on consumer lending (CL) module, including loan product maintenance, CL Account creation, Loan disbursement, Loan Payments, and Amendments.

· Worked on Data migration from Flexcube v10.5 to FLEXCUBE v14.7 where I was involved into analyzing and mapping the current business requirement to migrate Pending Loan schedules, Active and Matured loans, Future Value Dated Loans, CL Product, Core maintenances into Flexcube v14.5.

· Have knowledge on all the Core maintenances like BIC Code, Branch Code, Transaction Code, CCY Code, GL, Bank Parameters and Interfaces.

· Good understanding on End of the Day Process which performs various Transaction posting, Accounting Handoff, IC Accrual, IC liquidation, Reconciliation, Date Change etc.

· Strong knowledge on SWIFT Messaging, PreSTP (straight through processing), STP maintenances, Info9 name matching process.

Senior Principal Consultant

Oracle Financial Services Limited (Offshore)
02.2020 - 04.2023

· Worked as Offshore technical lead for Oracle FLEXCUBE, coordinating with Desjardins Customers.

· Participated in Data migration from legacy systems to FLEXCUBE, developing scripts to migrate customer,transactional data and Loans into the new core banking system Flexcube v14.5.

· Analyze and modify the Flexcube customizations to restore the expected functionality.

· Developed and customized PL/SQL solutions to address specific client needs, resulting in improved functionality and client satisfaction.

· Involved in developing, customizing, and supporting Oracle FLEXCUBE core banking solutions.

· Track and report on the status on a periodic basis of all requests and incidents reported for the FLEXCUBE

application that affects the bank’s customizations and interfaces.

· Collaborated with senior developers and business analysts to gather requirements, perform gap analysis, and provide customized solutions for FLEXCUBE modules.

· Validate any break-fix provided by the FLEXCUBE Global Support team.

· Supporting customers in Implementation of software changes and in different testing phases like SIT and UAT.

Senior Data Engineer

NdVOR IT Solutions
02.2018 - 01.2020

· Created and optimized AWS DMS tasks to facilitate database migrations for 250+ Tables, managing data transformations and ensuring schema compatibility between source and target databases.

· Troubleshot AWS DMS migration issues such as network connectivity, replication lag, and data type mismatches using CloudWatch and detailed task logs.

· Involved in developing comprehensive schema mapping strategy for Database objects such as view, procedures, triggers, packages, functions etc. from Oracle 12c to AWS RDS Oracle 21c using AWS SCT.

· Involved in development of scripts for extensive testing strategy for validating the post migration data and DB objects.

· Automated movement of the Reporting files from On-premises reporting file system to S3 buckets using AWS Lambda functions.

· Maintained YAML-based CloudFormation templates for the provisioning of AWS services. Integrated these templates into the Bamboo pipeline for deployment using forge manifest processor.

· Configured ongoing replication using AWS DMS for real-time data synchronization between on-premises databases and AWS RDS for Oracle.

· Involved in implementation support activities Post Data migration activities.

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
07.2013 - 01.2018

· Design and Developed SSIS Packages for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading process from various sources (Oracle, MySQL, flat files) into an Oracle DB with accurate data mapping.

· Automated ETL workflows using SQL Server Agent Scheduler and Shell scripting, reducing manual intervention, and improving process reliability.

· Conducted performance tuning and optimization of existing ETL processes, leading to significant improvements in efficiency.

· Responsible for development, support, maintenance, and implementation of small to medium non-complex components of a project module.

· Involved in the Development and unit testing of new developments and enhancements.

· Jobs monitoring in Production.

· Co-ordination with onsite personnel.

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2011 - 07.2013

· Designed, developed, and deployed ODI solutions to manage ETL using Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB).

· Implemented ODI Interfaces, Packages, Procedures, and Load Plans to automate daily and batch data integration processes.

· Assisted in the development and implementation of ODI flows and packages to support the organization’s data

integration needs multiple data sources (Oracle, SQL Server, flat files) to streamline business processes.

· Participated in ETL testing and validation to ensure that data was being correctly loaded into the target systems.

· Integrated multiple data sources (Oracle, SQL Server, flat files) to streamline business processes across different applications.

· Designed data validation processes and resolved discrepancies to maintain data accuracy.

· Involved in monitoring ODI jobs failures and implement error handling mechanisms and alerts.

· Worked with Business analyst during the requirement gathering.

· We had regular discussions with Schneider client manager to finalize the implementation approach.

· Involved into the elevated level of ETL development tasks.

Education

Master of Technology (MTech) - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani University
01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Seshadri Puram College
01.2011

Skills

    Banking Suite

  • Flexcube (v105, v145), Payments, Loans, CASA, FT, NR, Clearing, BC (Bills and Collections), IC, Swift
  • Cloud Platforms

  • AWS (DMS, RDS, Bamboo CI/CD Tool, CloudWatch, Schema Conversion Tool, Liquibase
  • RDBMS

  • SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle 11g, Oracle 21c
  • ETL Suite

  • SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 11g
  • Scheduler Suite

  • ControlM, Oracle Scheduler
  • Programming Languages

  • SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, JavaScript, XML
  • Developer Tools

  • Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Plus, GitHub
  • Business Analyst Skills

  • Requirements Elicitation, Stakeholder Management, Risk management, Data Analysis, Project Planning Strategies, Change Management, Documentation
  • Defect Tracking Tools

  • Jira, Ivanti, ServiceNow

Timeline

Senior Technical Lead

Stridely Solutions
11.2024 - Current

Senior Principal Consultant

Desjardins Financials
04.2023 - 11.2024

Senior Principal Consultant

Oracle Financial Services Limited (Offshore)
02.2020 - 04.2023

Senior Data Engineer

NdVOR IT Solutions
02.2018 - 01.2020

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
07.2013 - 01.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2011 - 07.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Seshadri Puram College

Master of Technology (MTech) - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani University
Gowri Arumugam