Hamid Ostad
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solution Architect and Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Payments and Program Solution Architect
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.
Senior Solution and Data Architect
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.
Senior Solution and Data Architect
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.
Lead Solution Architect
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.
Experience
Goverment Property Register
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.
Skills
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
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Iran University of Science and Technology - Tehran, Iran
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