Mohammed Abukhiran
Principal Architect
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Principal Architect with over 10 years of experience in designing innovative business solutions. Skilled in cloud computing, security, application development, and networking. Complex problem-solver with an analytical mindset and ability to communicate across organizational levels. Committed to helping organizations achieve maximum benefit for their IT investment.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Principal Architect
First Command Financial Services
01.2019 - Current
- Proactively evaluate technology market trends and facilitate proofs of concept to assess new technology, where and when applicable
- Communicate ideas and share information with executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources
- Build and maintain architecture roadmaps and multidimensional business capability views demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities
- Collaborate with technical, project, and business stakeholders to solve business needs and ensure solution is aligned with business drivers
- Help to develop, maintain, and communicate enterprise application and infrastructure frameworks
- Ensure that all systems and architectural documentation are kept up to date with current and future states
- Produce high level system design documents to facilitate hand over to project and support teams
- Participate in design reviews to assist in ensuring uniform enterprise application design standards
- Provide technical leadership and direction for enterprise wide Salesforce transformation
Software Architect
First Command Financial Services
05.2015 - 01.2019
- Champion creation and adoption of reusable technology assets to improve effectiveness while minimizing cost and technical debt
- Build reusable architecture patterns and fit for purpose technology standards that teams can leverage for delivery
- Maintain awareness and deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and consult with business where opportunities are found
- Mentor and coach cross-functional teams to create enterprise solutions based on evolving business requirements
- Participate in development and review of business continuity and disaster recovery plan
- Champion execution of non-functional requirements as part of solution implementation to ensure scalability and performance
- Drive definition and execution of technical enablers to facilitate building architectural runway
- Facilitated customization of systems by encouraging engineering team to adopt emerging standards for software application architecture and tools
- Guided adoption of robotic process automation solutions for back-office operations while reducing costs, increasing operational excellence, and improving employee experience
Lead Software Engineer
First Command Financial Services
03.2013 - 05.2015
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications
- Supervised teams of developers engaged in project for creation of new financial planning and straight-through processing systems
- Created procedures for system monitoring, recovery, backup and optimization
- Built outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers which significantly boosted overall success of organization
- Collaborate with designers to create clean interfaces and simple, intuitive interactions and experiences
- Lead multiple communities of practice to evangelize and evolve coding and design standards
- Works with architect role to evaluate new technologies that will define parts of the development technology roadmap
- Migrated numerous legacy systems to newer technologies, reducing costs and enhancing efficiency of all computing tasks
Software Engineering Consultant
Farr Group
06.2011 - 03.2013
- Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code
- Complete detailed programming and development tasks for front end public and internal websites as well as challenging back-end server code
- Researched, designed, and implemented scalable applications for data extraction, analysis, retrieval, and indexing
- Introduced methodologies and best practices that enhanced product definition, release processes and customization of applications to user needs
- Maintained current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs and objectives
- Worked effectively in Agile environments to maintain efficient project work
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics And Computer Science
Berea College
Berea, KY 08.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
- Software applications
Web-based software engineering
Virtualization technologies
Solutions deployment
Engineering standard
Summary
- Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, solution design, code development, and agile software development life cycle
- Experience in modern cloud architecture and cloud native solutions with proficiency in Microsoft Azure
- Extensive experience in cloud security, networking and hybrid deployment models
- Hands-on experience in continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing
- Experience in legacy application modernization and infrastructure cloud migration
- In-depth knowledge of cloud native data architecture and machine learning implementation
- Deep expertise in developing enterprise solutions for banking and financial services industries
- Experience in designing and implementing core banking business processes applications, enterprise banking, and online banking projects
- Experience in building architecture roadmaps and multidimensional business capability views
- Experience in mentoring teams and sharing skills while encouraging each member to execute their design and technical vision
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technology and lead delivery of high quality solutions
- Passionate to update knowledge and skills thought continuous self learning
- US Citizen
Certification
Azure Solutions Architect
Timeline
SAFe Architecture
04-2021
Azure Solutions Architect
02-2020
Principal Architect
First Command Financial Services
01.2019 - Current
Software Architect
First Command Financial Services
05.2015 - 01.2019
Lead Software Engineer
First Command Financial Services
03.2013 - 05.2015
Software Engineering Consultant
Farr Group
06.2011 - 03.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics And Computer Science
Berea College
08.2007 - 05.2011
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