Kamal Khan

Highly experienced Senior Manager Digital Delivery seeking a dynamic and innovative work environment to leverage expertise. Committed to exploring and enhancing potential while delivering strategic and technical solutions that drive business success.

• Expert level proficiency and knowledge of OCI IaaS offerings include Compute services such as Bare Metal Instances, Virtual Machines, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), and GPU Instances; Storage services like Block Volumes, Object Storage, Archive Storage, File Storage, and Data Transfer Appliance; Networking solutions like Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), Load Balancer, Fast Connect, VPN Connect, and DNS Service; Security features like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Vault, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Data Safe, and Cloud Guard; and Edge Services such as Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Edge Services.
• Excellent implementation level understanding of OCI PaaS portfolio includes Database Services such as Oracle Autonomous Database (ATP, ADW), Oracle Exadata Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and MySQL Database Service; Integration & Application Development tools like Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle API Gateway, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Visual Builder, Oracle Functions, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Analytics and AI/ML services like Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle AI Services, Oracle Data Science Platform, and Oracle Big Data Service; Observability and Management tools such as Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, Operations Insights, Resource Manager, and Cost Management; and Hybrid and Edge Solutions like Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud@Customer.
• Excellent knowledge of end-to-end implementation of Open Banking, including secure API integrations between banks and third-party providers, enabling seamless data exchange and enhancing customer experiences while ensuring compliance with PSD2 and other regulatory frameworks.
• Excellent knowledge of end-to-end implementation of Banking as a Service (BaaS), including the architecture and deployment of modular, scalable financial solutions that allow FinTech’s and non-bank entities to offer services like payments, lending, and account management through API-driven platforms.
• Leads the planning of enterprise-wide infrastructure directions based on market developments and enterprise vision. Establishes and advances strategic direction of corporate IT systems infrastructure.
• Leads the definition of hardware platform and technologies established as corporate standards and to be used with specific initiatives.
• Migrating workloads from on-prem and Oracle Cloud with near-zero-downtime involving situations full of lift and shift and re-platforming scenarios.
• Excellent experience in guiding complex, long-term vendor engagements. Common examples would be large-scale migration to the cloud, migration from one cloud to another, or large-scale net-new applications on the cloud.
• Knowledge and experience in providing leadership, oversight, and direction of public/private cloud adoption projects.
• Works with vendors on solutions to minimize cost of ownership to the enterprise. Works with implementation and support teams in determining technological improvements to increase implementation efficiency.
• Expertise in guiding technical design sessions, architecting, and documenting technical solutions that are aligned with client business goals, and identifying gaps between the client's current and desired end states.
• Experience across more than one cloud platform: OCI, GCP, AWS, VMware Private Clouds on HCI Infrastructure.
• Ability to facilitate an in-depth client meeting/workshop across a broad range of topics including discovery, cloud compliance, and security.
• Building hybrid-cloud solutions based on VM and containerization technologies, such as VMware, RedHat OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Ability to communicate across business units and the ability to interface with and communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Assists clients in clearly defining requirements and builds technical designs using existing standards.
• Proven ability to develop architectures that incorporate High Availability, Elasticity and Scalability.
• Excellent grasping capability of complex concepts and technologies quickly, effective time management capability and concurrent handling of multiple infrastructure requirements and issues.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of the Streaming solutions like Oracle Streams, Kafka, Rabbit MQ and the case study where they deemed suitable for fit.
• CASB (Cloud Access Security Brokers) knowledge, Implementation roadmap and use case scenarios.
• Good knowledge and experience in recommending backend solution like PostGre SQL, Amazon Aurora, Autonomous Exadata DB, SQL Server based on the application compatibility and case study.
• Oracle Consulting Saudi Arabia
• Principle Cloud Architect
• October 2022- Dec 2023
• Managed the end-to-end implementation and management of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) products, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions for over 23 fintech companies.
• Guided FinTech’s through the full product lifecycle, from initial concept through development, testing, and launch, ensuring seamless integration of cloud-native services, automated infrastructure, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Collaborated closely with stakeholders to define the technical roadmap, aligning OCI cloud services with each fintech’s unique business needs and future growth strategies.
• Played a key role in migrating legacy systems(Data Centre Migration) to OCI, optimizing performance, improving system reliability, and significantly reducing operational costs through cloud adoption.
• Designed and deployed enterprise-grade, highly available, and disaster-resilient infrastructure environments for mission-critical financial services applications.
• Advised on the best practices for security, governance, and compliance within cloud environments, helping FinTech’s maintain stringent industry standards.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration between development, operations, and security teams, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with the product roadmap.
• Leveraged OCI’s advanced AI, machine learning, and data analytics tools to drive innovative features, enabling fintech’s to differentiate their products in the competitive financial services landscape.
• Delivered continuous enhancements post-launch, optimizing performance, scaling operations, and providing support for evolving business requirements.
• Banque Saudi Fransi
• Senior Manager Delivery & Manager Technology Architect(Previous Role)
• June 2017- Nov 2022 & Presently working
• Worked as part of the Enterprise-wide Infrastructure Architect Team, responsible for designing the architecture of the BSF Core Banking i.e. TcsBancs Infrastructure Solution; encompassing formulating the design of the IBM Power Machines using RHEL 8 for the application servers, MQ servers for the middleware.
• Conceptualized the design, implementation of the EMC private Cloud Infrastructure machine using EMC Hyper Converged Infrastructure for the virtualization of entire physical application servers to HCI VMware logical machines.
• Designed complete Database Infrastructure for the Core Banking Tcs Bancs for the BSF Bank using the state-of-the-art technology of Exadata X8M-2 and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance from the start till the end of deployment and configuring support using Platinum Support Gateway.
• Excellent Knowledge of implementation ExaCC, Zero Data Loss, and on premise Exadata Machines.
• Design and configure backup solution for the dBs using Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance.
• Complete DB Infrastructure migration of BSF from RYI to Exadata Machines in phased manner without any performance impact and minimal downtime. This has been achieved using in house DBA’s and without any ACS oracle support thus helping BSF with more than 3 million SAR.
• Estimating, designing and architecting the Solution for the Hyperion Enterprise Financial Suite for the budgeting, estimating and projecting financial forecast to use by the Financial Department of the Bank.
• HRMS Cloud module implementation design solution using the OCI and its security using CASB and Data Safe.
• Extensive knowledge in protecting the bank financial data using the encryption, redaction, vault usage and data masking. Using TLS 2 for the safe transfer of data for end-to-end points.
• SABB
• Senior Consultant
• 04/2013-2017
• Designed SABB DB Infrastructure to incorporate High Availability, Fault Tolerant Connections between clients and DBes, and to balance workloads among the nodes by controlling multiple server connections.
• Single handedly managed complete disaster recovery solution of the DB Infrastructure from SAN Replication to Oracle Dataguard and Always-On for the SQL Servers.
• Provide fastest replication and distributed database computing solution using the IBM technology called CDC.
• Implementation and configuration of Goldengate File Adapters for heterogenous data streaming and replication.
• Responsible for storage migration of the complete database stack from IBM to EMc powermax using the technologies of Automatic Storage Management rebalancing for Oracle DBes.
• Design and configuration of the application and DB security using various technologies like WAF, Oracle Vault and Guardium technologies.
• Business Reporting solution proof of concept and its implementation of Hyperion Enterprise Financial Planning suite from the scratch till the implementation.
• Architecting and configuring the Datawarehouse and Archiving solution using the Teradata DB Machine.
• Application server failover and high availability design and implementation using the F5 Load Balancer.

• Oracle Products: Exadata Machines X5/X6/X8M-2, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, Goldengate Replication Technology, Oracle Streams, Recovery Manager, ASM, Real Application Cluster, Dataguard Disaster Recovery Solution, Oracle Virtual Machines, Oracle Secure Backup Tape Library Integration
• Other Vendor Products: MySQL, SQL server, Teradata DB, Shareplex Distributed Database Computing, NetBackup, Data Domain Backup, EMC Hyper Converged Infrastructure, EMC PowerMax Storage
• Cloud Services: Kubernetes, Docker Container, Amazon S3, EC2, CASB SIEM Integration, FailSafe, Computes, Block Storage, FSS, Object Storage, Load Balancer, Web Application Firewall, IAM, Autonomous OLTP/Warehouse, AWS Aurora, PostGre SQL, VPC, ExaCC, Autonomous Exadata, OCVS on OCI
• Modelling Tools: Erwin 4.0, Rational Rose
• Operating Systems: RHEL, Solaris, Hp-Unix, Ibm-AIX, Windows, Dos

• Best Performer award by HP for the month Jan 2011.
• Best Performer award by HP for the month Jul 2011.
• CAB(Critical Assignment Bonus) from Wipro Infotech.
• 1st prize in singing competition in M.H.S.S
• 2nd prize in Singing competition in VESIT.
• 1st Prize in Group Discussion and Debate competition of our college society DEBSOC.
• Won certificate in films discussion debate.
• Receiver of JRD Ratan Tata Scholarship.
• Diploma 3rd Ranker in Maharashtra in the year 1999.

• Hobbies: Reading books, Exercising, Singing, Listening music
• Father's Name: Kabis Khan
• Date of Birth: 11/19/80
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married