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Ahmed Alam

Ahmed Alam

Senior Integration Consultant / Tech Lead
Riyadh

Summary

Senior Integration Consultant / Lead with 12+ years of experience in Enterprise Application Integration and SOA solutions in diverse business domains like Telecom, Retail and Banking.


Operated and guided various enterprise scale projects and solutions in different multinational organizations and Banking sector.


Extensive hands-on experience using IBM App Connect Enterprise/Integration Bus (formerly IBM WebSphere Message Broker) and IBM WebSphere MQ.


Hands-on experience in APIs design and development using IBM App Connect Enterprise, API Design and Development using IBM DataPower IBM API Connect, IBM Rational Software Architect, Open API Specification (formerly swagger).


IBM Certified for WebSphere MQ Administration & Solution Developer.


Currently heading a middleware team as a part of Digital Transformation Vertical within the bank. Key areas of expertise Integration Architecture Systems Integration SOA Enablement Solution Design & Development Technical Consultation Team Leadership & Mentorship Requirements Analysis Technical Project Management Banking Solutions Government Business Digital Transformation

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
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Work History

Senior Integration Consultant

Al Rajhi Bank
Riyadh
07.2021 - Current


  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.

Senior Integration Consultant / Lead Digital Transformation

Bank Al Bilad
09.2018 - 06.2021
  • (Bank Al Bilad), Established and governed the enterprise integration architecture in the bank towards the ministry vision regarding digital transformation
  • Guided and mentored the technical team executing the design and development activities of integration
  • APIs, and successfully led the team to overcome different technical challenges then to meet the delivery date according to a tight schedule
  • Designed and developed the integration layer infrastructure, components, gateways and system interactions all the way to the level of integration services design and development guidance
  • Executed the integration layer installation, setup, configuration, administration, deployment, and operational activities
  • Initiated and established the enterprise standards and guidelines regarding REST APIs design, applying best practices, and adopting performance tuning tweaks according to the available products
  • Led and directed the business requirements analysis process, identifying gaps, aligning with business strategies, identifying integration touch points that is required for the government e-services portal
  • Worked on receiving subscriptions for world’s largest ever public IPO (ARAMCO) and implemented a full life cycle of IPO subscription within very short time and recognized as outstanding achiever for swift delivery using Agile methodology
  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Senior Integration Developer

05.2012 - 09.2018
  • Managed and led a high-performing team towards carrying out the duties and responsibilities of integration unit inside the bank, adopting SOA best practices, and bank standards regarding the quality and efficiency of integration aspects
  • Designated & conserved the integration principals, conventions and guidelines throughout the different phases of solutions development, starting from integration architecture, requirement analysis, services design, up to services development
  • Coordinated with different teams in the bank, and boosted the bank vision regarding digital transformation, which led Bank AlBilad to be the first bank in KSA to afford opening digital accounts without visiting the branch
  • In the same year, the bank is awarded as the best digital bank in KSA in 2018
  • Steadily emerged as a reliable reference for different teams inside the bank, whether architecture team, development, testing, operations, or application support teams
  • Guided & mentored operations teams and application support teams in analyzing and resolving different incidents and issues
  • Led the training and orientation of new team members, from both technical and team spirit perspectives, which helped in getting them coincided and harmonized within the team in a short time
  • This resulted in great team collaboration, outstanding achievement, and impressive team morale.

Middleware Developer

02.2009 - 03.2012
  • Vision & innovation IT consulting company), KSA
  • Efficiently operated many significant migration and upgrade projects of different bank systems and assessed its impact on integration layer, like Core Banking System -Temenos T24-, Card Management System -FIS
  • Cortex-, Card Issuance and Printing System -Gemalto Dexxis-, and MFA solutions
  • Contributed in analyzing business requirements, identifying the gaps, hence providing a detailed design of new integration services, along with assessing the impact on existing services
  • Developed integration services using IBM WebSphere Message Broker (Business Services Development, EAI
  • Framework Development, enhancement and performance tuning)
  • Executed the entire message broker and MQ environment administration, maintenance, upgrade and expansion activities
  • Managed the migration and deployment activities of integration artifacts from environment to another (deployment prerequisites, steps, scripts, validations and rollback plans)
  • Migration from Java based CMS to Cortex Card Management System by FISGlobal for Bank AlBilad using web services.

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies ltd
04.2008 - 12.2008
  • WALMART-ASDA Integration
  • Worked on Design & Development for Error handing & Audit flows for WALMART STORES, USA
  • Kick started integration of several stores where the data transformation was done extensively
  • Order fulfilment required XML data to be converted to TDS format and sent according to the receiving client’s requirement
  • Automated request were picked up and orders created after data transformation and reordering and the order authorization was met at regular intervals
  • Two vital stores PAM and ATG were exchanging data in different formats
  • IBM WebSphere Message Broker Development Activities (Business Services Development and EAI Framework)

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra ltd
05.2006 - 04.2008
  • Manage Event Notification (MEN)
  • Worked on the development of a project named Manage Event Notification (MEN) for BRITISH TELECOM, UK
  • A capability that provides publish/subscribe mechanism for propagating event messages, generated when significant business events occur within capabilities, to other capabilities and other BT systems
  • Allows systems to subscribe to
  • Event Messages using a subscribe operation
  • Accepts Event Messages from Capabilities via a publish operation and tests them against all of the appropriate registered subscriptions
  • When a subscription's criteria match an Event message then the message is sent to the associated endpoint
  • An unsubscribe operation is provided to remove subscriptions and a query operation is provided to read them
  • MEN currently provides the clients with IBM MQ Series, BEA JMS and HTTP transports
  • Team Size was 20 people across 2 cities in India and followed Agile methodology.

Education

Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering - undefined

VTU

Skills

Technical Skillsundefined

Timeline

Senior Integration Consultant

Al Rajhi Bank
07.2021 - Current

Senior Integration Consultant / Lead Digital Transformation

Bank Al Bilad
09.2018 - 06.2021

Senior Integration Developer

05.2012 - 09.2018

Middleware Developer

02.2009 - 03.2012

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies ltd
04.2008 - 12.2008

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra ltd
05.2006 - 04.2008

Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering - undefined

VTU

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