Hamid Ostad, Developer in Sydney, Australia
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Hamid Ostad

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Solution Architect and Developer

Location
Sydney, Australia
Toptal Member Since
August 11, 2022

Hamid is a senior solution architect with over 20 years of experience in the financial and public sectors. He led multiple architecture and project teams to deliver effective, agile, cost-efficient, and sustainable solutions in highly complex and challenging customer environments.

Portfolio

9Yards Consulting
Card Payments, Real-time Systems, Real-time Data, Core Banking Solutions (CBS)...
Accenture
Solution Design, Card Payments, Digital Payments, Mobile Payments...
Department of Planning and Environment (NSW)
Data Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), SAP ERP...

Experience

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

The most amazing...

...data architecture assessment and gap analysis I've made for a major financial services firm had 200 different sources of data captured from 60 various services.

Work Experience

Payments and Financial Services Solution Architect

2021 - 2022
9Yards Consulting
  • Designed an uplift to core banking functionality to leverage modern technologies, reduce technical debt and hollow out functions that were not fundamental to a core banking capability, and offer these as integrated services.
  • Assessed target state, developed the solution option analysis and mitigation plans to integrate back-office systems, internal and external upstream and downstream systems for re-platforming the whole investor registry system.
  • Assessed the shortlisted solutions proposed by vendors for establishing the new AASB 17 financial regulatory reporting.
  • Assessed the shortlisted solutions proposed by vendors for migrating all offline forms to online document management and the eSigning platform.
Technologies: Card Payments, Real-time Systems, Real-time Data, Core Banking Solutions (CBS), API Integration, Data Integration, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Payments and Program Solution Architect

2021 - 2021
Accenture
  • Reviewed and assessed technical architecture to identify critical path application dependencies and delivery risks of a major joint venture program between a world-leading payment processing company and the card acquiring the business of ANZ.
  • Provided professional services to NAB for RFI and RFP preparation to engage vendors for re-platforming its unsecured lending business to the capability-led modern platform, which could offer a range of best-in-class products in the ever-growing market.
  • Provided professional services to assist with a program to analyze the current automated vehicle monitoring system for DOT Victoria.
Technologies: Solution Design, Card Payments, Digital Payments, Mobile Payments, Core Banking Solutions (CBS), API Integration, Data Integration

Senior Solution and Data Architect

2020 - 2021
Department of Planning and Environment (NSW)
  • Analyzed solution options to deliver integrated core regulatory systems that support end-to-end incident management and compliance functions reflecting the consolidation of processes and workflows rather than the development of disparate systems.
  • Designed a Government Property Register migration to a purpose-built repository solution that could deliver a data governance framework for consolidated data profiling, quality, integrity, and security measures.
  • Designed an uplift technical solution for the state-wide species protection program to deliver more integrated and responsive capabilities required to achieve the program's objectives.
Technologies: Data Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), SAP ERP, Salesforce, Solution Design

Senior Solution and Data Architect

2019 - 2020
Cuscal Limited
  • Designed and established an iterative approach to migrate legacy data sources to a modern platform that could deliver data acquisition, storage, transformation, conformation, visualization, and segregated microservices for integration.
  • Designed a fully integrated CRM, enterprise billing, and contract management ecosystem and plan for the legacy system's gradual migration and adaptation to target state architecture.
  • Reviewed and uplifted New Payments Platform (NPP) APIs according to microservices' best-practice patterns. Impact assessment and risk analysis on NPP payment engine and services for planned NPP and Osko releases.
  • Assessed recommended technical data design approach using a range of cloud-native as well as cloud agnostic solutions, then built and tested the nominated solution through PoC.
  • Designed and implemented a liquidity management API to provide payment services and risk teams with appropriate visibility on customers' liquidity across all subscribed payment channels in real time.
Technologies: Solution Design, Data Architecture, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Card Payments, Payment APIs, Digital Payments, Billing Systems

Lead Solution Architect

2016 - 2019
BPAY
  • Acted as the key member of BPAY's architecture team responsible for designing the first overlay service on NPP's basic infrastructure, Osko.
  • Designed and delivered the Osko Certification and Testing Platform (XCEPT), a comprehensive set of microservices and components that allow orchestration of development, testing, and certification of the Osko participants onboarded.
  • Designed and audited the NPP's PKI infrastructure, which underpins the close circle of trust required for resolving documents referenced in payments.
  • Worked on the architecture team who planned, designed, and implemented BPAY in-house data center migration to Macquarie Cloud Services.
Technologies: Real-time Systems, Card Payments, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Goverment Property Register

NSW Government agencies, all embedded in various high-level clusters, are required by legislation to ensure Property NSW is kept up to date with details of all land vested in, owned, occupied, leased, or controlled by them.

Government Property Register is the purpose-built repository system for this information, owned by PNSW to achieve:
• Federated login and access management.
• Smooth textual and spatial interoperability.
• Data governance framework for consolidated data profiling, quality, integrity, and security measures.
• Golden record protected by data ownership framework.
• Reliable and extensible data integration platform.
• Virtual conformed layer on all data sources.
• Enhanced user experience for browsing search and report.

Paradigms

Real-time Systems, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Platforms

Software Design Patterns, Salesforce

Storage

Data Integration

Other

Software Design, Card Payments, Real-time Data, Solution Design, Digital Payments, Mobile Payments, Data Architecture, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Payment APIs, Software Development, Core Banking Solutions (CBS), API Integration, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Billing Systems, SAP ERP

Languages

Java

1995 - 2000

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Iran University of Science and Technology - Tehran, Iran

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