Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
Personal Information
Timeline
CustomerServiceRepresentative
MOHAMMED WASIF ALI

MOHAMMED WASIF ALI

Application Support Consultant
Riyadh

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with over 17 years of industry experience. Specializes in IBM Safer Payments and currently serving as Senior Risk & Compliance Support at STC Bank since Feb 2024. Previous roles include Application Architect at IBM Middle East Saudi Arabia for client STC Pay, Senior Manager for IT Production Operations at NSE (National Stock Exchange), and Application Consultant for Cloud Modernization at IBM India Pvt. Ltd. for client CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) from May 2007 to Oct 2022.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
4
4
Languages

Work History

Senior Risk & Compliance Support - IBM Safer Payments

STC Bank
02.2024 - Current
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather requirements and define the architectural framework for secure payment systems.
  • Design, develop, and implement payment processing solutions using Safer Payments technologies, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and regulatory standards.
  • Lead and guide development teams in implementing Safer payment system architecture, providing technical expertise and guidance throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Perform security assessments and risk analysis of payment systems, identifying potential vulnerabilities and recommending appropriate mitigation strategies.
  • Collaborate with third-party vendors and technology partners to integrate their solutions into the safer payment architecture effectively.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Assurance (QA) team to develop and execute comprehensive testing plans to validate the functionality and security of safer payment systems.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry standards, regulations, and best practices related to payment processing systems, security, and compliance.
  • Provide technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, system design specifications, and technical guidelines.
  • Technical production Support issues for Safer payments in all the engagements.
  • Implementation of IBM safer Payments fraud prevention solutions across a variety of payment channels such as credit/debit, online and mobile banking.
  • Production systems availability of safer payments and upgrades with enhanced features with limited to or no downtime.

Application Architect - IBM Safer Payments

IBM Middle East
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Worked as functional and technical production consultant for Safer payments in all the engagements.
  • Meeting with relevant stakeholders to determine project requirements and details.
  • Identifying key areas of enhancement and improvement in architecture designs.
  • Formulating prospective informational designs and templates for further development.
  • Designing prototypes for architecture flows and experiences.
  • Developing draft architectures for final products to be used by the company.
  • Implementation of IBM safer Payment's fraud prevention solutions across a variety of payment channels such as credit/debit, online and mobile banking.
  • Implementation of detection of Live fraudulent transaction using integration system IBM API connect and end financial system T24.
  • Working with business teams to simplify and improve operations by analyzing processes and creating end to end processes.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of the Technical issues and functional process.
  • Discussion with the IBM Expert Lab team or development teams for the technical issues and fix using the latest patches.
  • Deployment of major versions of Safer payments from 6.2.x to 6.5.x.

Senior Manager - IT Trade production

NSE India
10.2022 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: Mumbai
  • Production Deployment for Trading Systems.
  • NSE Trading Systems and keep the system up and running with zero downtime during market hours.
  • Leading and managing team of 40+ resources and leads of vendors teams.
  • Maintenance of trading systems including deployment, UAT testing, and releases in UAT and production env.
  • Maintaining a detailed understanding of trading platform.
  • Identifying automation and optimization opportunities to reduce repetitive tasks/avoid manual human error-prone areas.
  • Incident, Problem and Change management.
  • Frequent review of troubleshooting/contingency procedures.
  • Business development and serve as a liaison between business users and IT to provide technical and business solution to fulfil their need by gathering business requirements, testing, and delivery.
  • Driving and executing projects, including all phases of SDLC.
  • Outstanding success in building and maintaining good relationships with stakeholders, clients, vendors.
  • Proactive and effective engagement of key stakeholders relating to assigned forward schedule of tests, execution and post exercise reviews.
  • Analyze and understand business operation strengths and weaknesses to identify opportunities for automating the process and functions.
  • Ensuring and encouraging teams to follow best practices of framework like ITIL and SDLC.
  • Audit management for external and internal audits requirement within trading system scope.
  • Making and maintaining shift plans for teams and vendors to ensure adequate people are available for the required production activities.
  • Resiliency, recovery, and contingency: Business continuity champion for maintaining, analyzing, design, testing, and implementation of high-quality troubleshooting and business continuity/disaster recovery failover planning, documents and procedures.
  • Mumbai

Application Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2007 - 10.2022
  • Company Overview: Mumbai-India
  • Customer Delivery: Interacting with Client for the requirement gathering for High Level Design for the Transformation of CIBC Client Pricing data project for cloud modernization.
  • Completed the High-Level Design for the Transformation of Oracle to Azure SQL.
  • Gathering requirement on the Technical Detailed Low-Level Design with the PoC of Transformation.
  • Requirement gathering on the Table structure, Schema and conversions.
  • Information of the Build Activities for the Dev Environment.
  • SIT / UAT build and Testing's.
  • Information gathering Azure Data factory and Data bricks for the DevOps Pipeline for the migration of the Information data.
  • Evaluating the performance of database architectures through analysis and research.
  • Enhancing existing information database architectures to be more interactive friendly.
  • Updating team members on db architecture design principles and developments.
  • Improving information architectures for products and services in both digital and print mediums.
  • DIT Exit report of database migration.
  • Data Migration Report.
  • Database design document readiness and approvals.
  • Mumbai-India

Education

B.Sc. - Computer Science

Gulbarga University

Skills

Certification

Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows 2003 Server, 09/2004

Accomplishments

Awarded best Performer into the migration of billing system from Arbor 10.1 to Kenan-Fx 11.7 towards data readiness and cleansing.

Personal Information

  • Total Experience: Over 17+ years of IT industry experience of which 3+ years as Solution Architect, 6 years as an application consultant, 8 years as Application Support Analyst.
  • Passport Number: U 5251011
  • Passport Date Of Issue: 02/13/20
  • Passport Expiry Date: 02/12/30
  • Date of Birth: 04/10/82
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Senior Risk & Compliance Support - IBM Safer Payments

STC Bank
02.2024 - Current

Application Architect - IBM Safer Payments

IBM Middle East
01.2023 - 01.2024

Senior Manager - IT Trade production

NSE India
10.2022 - 12.2022

Application Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2007 - 10.2022

B.Sc. - Computer Science

Gulbarga University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
MOHAMMED WASIF ALIApplication Support Consultant