Razi Ullah
Head Of DevOps/Senior Solutions Architect
Islamabad
Summary
Skilled Solutions Architect with additional specialization in DevOps, having 13+ years of industry experience, possessing strong product and solution designing skills while leading cross-functional teams locally and remotely. Proven ability to excel in diverse roles and capacities concurrently. Eager to embrace challenging opportunities in the dynamic and expanding IT/FinTech sector.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT / HEAD OF DEVOPS
AION Digital
Islamabad, Riyadh
09.2021 - Current
- Engage with Business & Design teams to finalize customer requirements and hold critical solution related discussions
- Prepare front-end, API and DB designs for user features related to various banking processes (Corporate/SME banking/Customer onboarding)
- Create User stories for DEV teams while conducting walk-throughs and backlog grooming sessions with all relevant teams
- Ensure end-to-end readiness and delivery of features to the client
- Prepare POCs & Architecture artifacts for potential customers and deliver presentations with Sales team to various clients from Banking and fintech sector
- Lead the DevOps stream across the AION group for different projects undertaken by the company and provide the required leadership.
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Concurrent Systems
Islamabad
02.2016 - 09.2021
- Map customer requirements with product fit and map customer journeys
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders around customer solutions for sales enablement
- Guide and advise the Technical Account Management team on implementing designed solutions
- Prepare sales presentations with service offerings, case studies and proof points
- Own and approve all architectural artifacts produced and published by the technical teams
PRODUCT OWNER
Concurrent Systems
Islamabad
02.2016 - 07.2020
- Managing the implementation of new features for CS SaaS (Software as a
- Service) products by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each piece would work
- Writing user stories to express customer needs and product features for intended development and actively collaborating and conversing with the stakeholders, the Development team and customers (including visiting customer sites) to better realize winning products
- Allocating and approving team resource usage
- Providing continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing software solutions and products
DEVELOPMENT TEAM MANAGER
Concurrent Systems
Islamabad
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Owning the processes and leading improvement of the core development related activities from design through to release
- Working with other team members to ensure processes support the effective transition of projects into and through delivery phases, while working with delivery manager and customer to ensure project timelines are met
- Actively working with DevOps teams to identify, trial and implement process improvement ideas
- Facilitating the translation of system roadmaps and strategy through projects system and solution designs.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Concurrent Systems
Islamabad
01.2015 - 02.2016
- Engagement with the Development team to get the features site-ready after quality assurance
- Prepared feature demos to deliver to the team and business stakeholders
- Deployed software updates and fixes
- Built tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Developed scripts to automate visualization.
SUPPORT & INTEGRATION ENGINEER
Concurrent Systems
Islamabad
07.2013 - 02.2016
- Providing support and maintenance of HxC solutions (involving USSDGw, SMSGw and Provisioning platform integrated with Ericsson Charging System 5.2, PCRF, HLR, HSS, CRM, ADM, Geneva Billing system, Voucher server etc)
- Business Configurations analysis, Support and Consultancy and assistance in UAT.
- Development of automated reports for analysis of 75 Million Subscriber Database (Mongo DB).
- Pro-active maintenance for HxC nodes through bash scripting for all kinds of health checks and automated alerts configuration.
CHARGING EXPERT
UFONE GSM
Islamabad
06.2012 - 07.2013
- O&M of OCS nodes like CBP, SCP, SDP, BMP, UVC, IN URPs, IP/TDM USAUs
- Provisioning of IN services like VPN, MNP, E-Voucher, FNF, Call screening and definition of package plans, IR Partners and public numbering plan (PNP) for corporate customers.
- UVC recharge card life cycle management (generation, loading, issuing, activation) and O&M of EVC platform.
- Operation and maintenance of CRBT platform
SUPPORT ENGINEER
Jazz GSM
Islamabad
09.2010 - 06.2012
- As part of the Core Team managing all the HLR entities nationwide, main responsibilities included:
- Managing Motorola HLS (4.0) and Nokia Siemens NT-HLR architecture, planning and synchronization of all entities for optimal performance
- Managing the routine O&M of HLS and NT-HLR, containing all together 40 million live subscribers, distributed all across the country
- 24/7 Alarm monitoring of HLR entities nationwide and coordination with other teams for problems regarding both HW and SW
- Proactive approach to highlight and solve any issue before it causes an outage
- Stats and KPI analysis of HLS and NTHLR
- Creation of shell scripts in UNIX (Shell / Perl/ Spml scripting) for HLS
Education
Bachelors - Electrical Engineering
College of E&ME, NUST
Islamabad, Pakistan 08.2006 - 08.2010
High School Diploma -
Bahria College
Islamabad, Pakistan 08.2004 - 08.2006
Skills
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Major Projects
- AGTB Abu Dhabi – Corporate Digital Banking Solution AION Digital – Bahrain/Pakistan Oct 2022 - Present
Working as the Lead Solutions Architect/PDM & Head of DevOps to design and develop a greenfield digital corporate banking solution for one of the emerging banks in Abu Dhabi with complete public cloud deployment. Migrated AION’s application stack to the cloud’s RedHat OpenShift environment, while ensuring the integrity and security of the solution in place.
- SIMAH Credit Bureau (KSA) – Digital Member Onboarding Platform AION Digital – Bahrain/Pakistan Apr 2022 - Present
Working as the Lead Solutions Architect/Product Development Manager to design and develop a greenfield digital onboarding solution and enterprise workflow automation for one of the major credit institutes of the Kingdom.
- JAZZ RBT MIGRATION PROJECT Concurrent Systems - Jazz Pakistan Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Worked as the Lead Solutions Architect & Product Owner to design, develop and migrate Ring Back Tone (RBT) feature provisioning from incumbent system to Concurrent’s bespoke solution for Jazz.
- JAZZ-WARID CONSOLIDATION PROJECT Concurrent Systems - Jazz Pakistan June 2019 - Oct 2019
Worked as the Technical Head/Solutions Architect & Product Owner to realize one of the biggest prepaid networks consolidation involving subscription data of more than 14Million subscribers, while adhering to strict timelines and limited man power.
- SCE & OSG SWAP PROJECT Concurrent Systems - Moov Benin & Moov CAR May 2018 - Jan 2019
Designed, developed and delivered CS Service Creation Environment (coaleSCE) and Open Signalling Gateway (OSG) to two major operators in the African Region as the PO/Solution Architect for these products, by ensuring seamless development, testing and deployment by the FE and BE teams.
Certification
TOGAF 9.2 Certified
Timeline
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT / HEAD OF DEVOPS
AION Digital
09.2021 - Current
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12-2020
TOGAF 9.2 Certified
10-2020
DEVELOPMENT TEAM MANAGER
Concurrent Systems
01.2017 - 01.2020
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Concurrent Systems
02.2016 - 09.2021
PRODUCT OWNER
Concurrent Systems
02.2016 - 07.2020
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Concurrent Systems
01.2015 - 02.2016
SUPPORT & INTEGRATION ENGINEER
Concurrent Systems
07.2013 - 02.2016
CHARGING EXPERT
UFONE GSM
06.2012 - 07.2013
SUPPORT ENGINEER
Jazz GSM
09.2010 - 06.2012
Bachelors - Electrical Engineering
College of E&ME, NUST
08.2006 - 08.2010
High School Diploma -
Bahria College
08.2004 - 08.2006
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