Senior Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Adabas DBA, Software Engineer

Zensar Tech
Standard Bank (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Run the Bank - Legacy BOL
Senior Software Engineer
Technical Specialist
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
Jan2021-Current


Role & Responsibilities:

* Automated numerous tasks. Latest being automating the stats update to the stakeholder using
mainframe tech and POWER AUTOMATE.
* Have been responsible for bringing the immediate payment to stability with an increase in
transactions processed from 3000/day to 60000/day. Expert in immediate payment system.
* Responsible for adding new columns/descriptors to the ADABAS tables for the changes
* Have gained knowledge of almost all the different types of payment and collection services in
SA.
* Working as a single point of contact for any queries/issues/solutions related to real time
clearing payments.
* Was working as a senior developer and lately the technical specialist from Joburg since Sep
2018.
* Critical in ensuring that we have a good rapport with the client and bringing the best in the
offshore team.
* Not a data engineer, but very good at handling the massive data and generating and creating a
report for the stake holders to show for our work in the product we support.
* Excellent working knowledge in SQL's.
* Designed and developed the project to save the data of actual customers by breaking the data
into different destination and then scrambling it and putting them in test env, to protect the
identity of real customers.
* Mentored and provided guidelines for junior software engineers.
Key Achievements

* Received a lot appreciation by the business stake holders for the solutions and support
provided.
* Received the award for customer centricity and innovative solution provided.

Role & Responsibilities:

* Batch stream stabilization -Root cause analysis for the Batch incidents, Applying permanent
fixes
* Analysis of core functionalities of the TOOLS like DBCTR & PPACK to determine the efficient
way by which the R&D is done
* Responsible for automation of the Report and tasks, to minimize human intervention in the
process
* Was responsible for upgrading zOS(1.12 to 2.1), Natural (4.2.3 to 8.2.3), Adabas(4.2.3 to
8.2.3), Natural Security
* Was responsible for any changes to ADABAS files (adding, deleting fields)
* Lead the team of 8-10 in offshore for the SOFTWARE AG upgrade project from Munich, Germany.

Key Achievements
* Automation that saved 200 Man hour/week
* Received feather in my cap award for the solutions and automations.
* With just 3 years of exp, was leading the team from Munich, Germany for a critical project
within Nokia.

Wipro Tech
Project - Protecting the North
Client - Suncorp Insurance (Australia)
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016