Abhijit Shedage

Result oriented senior leader with 15+ year’s experience in product and service organization, having expertise in delivering global projects, setting up new practices & competencies. Enhancing the operational and process efficiencies in a geographically distributed environment specializing in cross-border payments and clearings. A decisive leader, who strive to inspire those around. Experience of working with senior leadership team.

• Robert Walters, Business Analyst, November 2023 to Till Date, Singapore
• Speridian Technologies, Product Engineer, September 2022 to November 2023, Dubai, UAE
• Cognizant Technology, UAE, Manager, April 2014 to August 2022, Abu Dhabi, London, India
• Oracle Financial limited, Senior Developer, September 2011 to April 2014, India
• Siemens India pvt ltd, Senior Developer, January 2007 to March 2011, India

• Total 15+ years of experience in IT industry. 12 years of relevant experience as Techno functional analyst in SWIFT, SEPA & core banking product GPP (classic + SP), BANCS, T24, Murex.

• Worked as and SME for different payment hubs. SWIFT MT, ISO 20022, PAIN, PACS, FED and CHIPS, CBPR+, GPI.

• Experience working as BA, Technical Architect, SME, Techno Functional analyst and Application Support Analyst (PROD + BUILD).

• Worked as BA for Swift related projects, routing rule changes or architectural changes.

• Worked as SME for BANCS product in a reputed bank of UAE.

• Worked on Local clearing like NEFT (India), SARIE (KSA), FTS (UAE).

• Have hands on experience on ISO20022 CBPR+ translation and truncation analysis for payments and statement messages.

• Develop robust interfaces and APIs, expertise in ISO20022 standards and MT to MX migration.

• Well versed in SWIFT MT and MX payment messages, their business use, routing and configuration in banking application.

• Working as lead resource for Build & production support team for Swift products like SAA, SAG, HSM in a reputed bank, UAE.

• Worked on Fin, Interact, Fileact of Swift. SwiftNet, RMA, Swift Archival tool (SIDE Enreporting) hands on experience.

• Hands on experience of ADKs like Firco, DDAS, EnTDR.

• Worked on Swift messaging from/to T24, Finacle, Paymenthub, Corona, Intelimatch, Murex, Calypso, Eximbill etc.

• MQ connectivity, SRDF replication, Tibco JMS queues.

• Hands on experience of JIRA, Remedy, servicenow, clarity, confluence.

• Worked on Nimbus an alerting tool used for raising automatic incidents in production env. Oracle & MS-SQL DBA skill sets in accordance with Scripting.

• Tools – worked on TWS Tivoli, Jenkins, Star Team, EditPlus, Winscp, Putty, Textpad, Visual Studio 6.0, PL/SQL Developer, Reqpro, Message Queues connectivity, Blade logic, Toad, Nexus, MS Excel, Weblogic.

• Finastra certified in GPP-SP with 90%

PROJECTS DETAILS

Title – Swift and ISO20022 SME/Architect, Business Analyst.

Client -  BNP Paribas, Singapore

Duration – Nov 23 – Till now

· Working as Payments business analyst and technical SME/Architect engineer for bank and involved in ISO20022 migration with CBPR+

· Assessments of the impact in Payment’s product for any enhancement requests and liaise with vendor for implementation.

· Working on major project of ISO20022 CBPR+ MT to MX conversion for international as well as domestic regions/payments systems.

· Completed tech refresh project of swift to migrate from AIX to RHEL

Title – Payments SME for payment hub BANCS & SWIFT in Bank

Client – ENBD Bank, Dubai

Duration – Sep 22 – Nov 23.

· Working as Payments product engineer for UAE bank and involved in ISO20022 migration with CBPR+ working group.

· Involved in end to end payment flow from Chanel to swift network using payment hub & API integration.

· Assessments of the impact in Payments product for any enhancement requests and liaise with vendor for implementation.

· BANCS Payments Product integration with multiple channels eg. Online, Branch, Core banking product, Mobile and Card System etc.

· Handling the issues reported by testing team for payments product, deployment of fixes received from vendor and technical configuration                 changes when required.

· Exposure to various program management tools such as JIRA, REMEDY, Trello, Jenkins etc.

· Develop robust interfaces and APIs, expertise in ISO20022 standards and MT to MX migration

Project #1

Title – Hosted Database for Swift Alliance Access

Client – ENBD BANK, Dubai

Duration – May 2022 – Till Date.

Location - UAE

· Worked along with architecture team for design.

· Requirement gathering, impact analysis and implementation in lower as well as prod env

· Now the database is separate in bank for swift alliance access.

· Test cases review and signoff for this project.

· Implementation is successful first bank in gulf and now in 1% across the world who has Hosted DB for Swift.

Project #2

Title – Implementation of SWIFT Product and its components (SAA, SAG, SNL and AWP) R7.6 version on RHEL 8.5 and timely swift component upgrades.

Client – FAB BANK, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Duration – Jan 2018 – Aug 2022

Location - UAE

· Working as a techno functional in coordinating with customer to inform them about the prerequisites. Involved in requirement gathering like hardware requirement to proceed with the migration project.

· Planning and preparing document for Linux environment which includes a step-by-step process to be followed by team during the implementation so as to avoid any discrepancies.

· Investigate the technology stock and conduct meeting with leads, managers and explain to them.

· Creating environments like, UAT, Prod, Backup and DR servers for the Alliance Access.

· Creation of operator profiles and operators, configuring the routing rules, configuring message partner with Back office according to the client requirement.

· Experience in handling SAA interfacing requirement with varying back-office applications/Core Banking systems. Implementing the Back-office applications through AFT, MQ in Message Partner with Alliance access.

· Creating and Managing PKI certificates On O2M, on behalf of client. Certifying SO and Fin certificates on SAG.

· Creating Message partners and endpoints on SAG.

· Supporting the message management testing and making the go live.

Project #3

Title – RMA evolution & ISO20022 for Nov 2022

Client – FAB BANK, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Duration – December 2021 – Till Date.

Location - UAE

· Working on RMA portal, project is to centralize the RMA system in the bank.

· Requirement gathering is done, now implementation started.

· Leading role in adoption of CBPR+ in bank env.

· Prepared lower envs for adoption of CBPR+ messages.

Project #4

Title – DR Drill as per customer requirement

Client – Reputed Bank in UAE.

Duration – January 2018 – Till Date (every 6 months)

Location - UAE

· Preparing a POA for customer, which includes availability and responsibilities assigned to bank individual

· Sending pre-requisites checklist to customer to check readiness of the system and application.

· Completing messages which are present in live, to take message archive and message archivebackup.

· Creating SSL certificates. Checking working of replication tool used to transfer data to disaster site.

· Pre checking the logins in DR site, matching versions of applications installed in PR and DR server etc.

Project #5

Title - GPI Universal Confirmations | SWIFT GPI.

Client – Reputed Bank in UAE.

Duration – December 2020 – October 2021

Location - UAE

· Created the user access for the GPI server. Created personnel token certificate in O2M to access the GPI tracker.

· Assigned the required roles to the certificates. Configured the browser setting and Java settings to access the basic tracker URL. Configure rules     for GPI enabled entities.

Project #6

Title – SIDE Upgrade & API configuration| Eastnets

Client – Reputed Bank in UAE.

Duration – June 2020 – December 2020

Location - UAE

· This is SIDE version upgrade project to upgrade the existing version in bank to 3.2

· It involves F5 load balancer of 3 application servers along with DB servers.

· Implemented API services in bank, this service will fetch the payment data using API service provided by eastnets vendor.

Project #7

Title - SRP Ring Fencing project for retail customers in LV payments , UK

Client – Barclays Bank, London, United Kingdom.

Duration – August 2015 – December 2016

Location – UK

· As per UK regulatory this project is introduced in a client bank. Main objective is to ring fenced the retail customers by separating their sort in codes, account numbers from corporate banking. This project is in two phases. First phase is to allocate different sort codes for existing customers and second phase is to move these sort codes under different office

· Working as a senior Associate and Lead consultant in the team of 4-5 developers group, also guiding and mentoring the junior team members.

· Attend the story elaboration calls placed by design teams to understand requirements.

· Implement and unit test these newly written scripts on test envs.

· Defect fixing and assigning to core(FT) team as per analysis Reviewing Detailed Design proposed by Middleware teams

· Also handling the responsibility as a backup to Team Manager in his absence.