RIZWAN KHALID
Fishers,IN
Summary
With a proven track record at CNO Financials, I excel in leading architectural initiatives and optimizing business processes, blending my expertise in Cloud Computing and team leadership. My achievements include spearheading the LDTI project and enhancing system efficiencies, demonstrating my ability to drive innovation and foster collaborative success.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Solutions Architect
CNO Financials
12.2020 - Current
- Extensive success in planning, influencing, and leading architectural initiatives across IT, business and Managed
Services teams. - Focus on continuous improvement to drive a seamless, modernized associate/user experience.
- Successfully implemented LDTI (Long Duration Targeted Improvement) a multiyear significant initiative by CNO to
migrate most of back-office ETL applications from on-premises to Microsoft Azure while working closely with IT,
Business and managed services/cloud/infrastructure vendor teams to providing architectural solutions to the
development teams. - Helping team to design and implement a custom DR solution for different Azure Storage Accounts using Azure
Data Factory pipelines (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics. - Spearheading efforts of Identity & Access control management (IAM) based on RBAC, Microsoft Entra (AD groups)
and Service Accounts on CNO Azure tenants for different on-cloud resources (including DevOps/Jenkins accounts)
within DEV/UAT/PROD resource groups. - Leading the solution and its architecture/design for configuring off the shelf third party software to handle
Anti Money Laundering transactions monitoring efforts by organization. - Helped integration (SSO based) and implementation of a third-party application named MyOwnMed to track
Covid vaccination for all the employees. Worked on solutioning of employees provisioning / deprovisioning.
Application Architect
Trial Court Technology
09.2018 - 12.2020
- Working (Application architecture & Design) on brand new Cross-Platform& Single Page Application (SPA) named Senior Judges Portal to help retired judges register to work as contractors for different county’s courts. Involvement in Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Application Architecture, DB design as well as UI design of the application utilizing AngularJS, JQUERY, Sweet Alerts2, C#, entity framework, Web APIs, SQL Server 2016/2018, ReSharper 2019 and TFS.
- Supporting couple of already existing TCT applications for Guardianship Registry, My Indiana Accounting(https://myina.courts.in.gov/), online Traffic Ticket payment (https://public.courts.in.gov/pay/#/) as well as Court Fee Payment.
- Supporting Juvenile Detention Management System (JDAI-DMS) and Parenting Time Calendar(https://public.courts.in.gov/PTC/#/).
Application Architect / Team Lead
Baker Hill
12.2017 - 09.2018
- Worked on latest release of NextGen product for Loan Origination involving Commercial Lending, Consumer Lending, Small Business Lending for Financial Institutions.
- Spearheading digital transformation initiatives, optimizing existing systems for improved efficiency, and ensuring the highest levels of security for customer applications.
- Participated in Analysis & Design, Requirements mapping and application architecturesessions to brainstorm ideas on feasibility of which tools/technologies should be used and why, what benefits and flexibility one provides over the other and which tools align with company’s future technical road maps for design and usage flexibility.
- Worked on design, testing and execution of Compliance & Credit approval process for Loan origination utilizing available API integration with different credit bureaus for individuals and businesses.
- Utilization of Cloud (Azure) based Source Control as well as CI/CD services integrated with Gitas well as Team
Services within Agile Development methodology.
Technical Team Lead
Indiana Department of Transportation
04.2015 - 12.2017
- Hands on development as well as Application Architecture and database design.
- Following S.O.L.I.D Design Patterns and principles like Factory, Command, IOC, Open-Closed principal etc. throughout the application life cycle along with MVC and ReSharper 8.0 to put together a solid scalable and extensible Web-based solution with ORACLE 12g DB.
- Utilized Windows Azure cloud to host a test Web API to provide certain generic functionality to ASP.NET MVC application being under source control on GitHub.
- Working on brand new application from scratch using ASP.Net 4.5, MVC5, ORACLE 12g, C#, jQuery, JavaScript, Entity Framework, Telerik UI controls & ReSharper 8.0.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Punjab University
Lahore, Pakistan04.1998
Bachelor of Science - Advanced Maths, Physics
Punjab University
Lahore, Pakistan04.1994
Skills
Solution / Application Architecture
- SQL Server Reporting Services / Integration Services
- Design & architecture of Loan Origination tool involving Commercial, Small business and Consumer lending
- Help design customizable dashboards for Legal, Real estate and energy domain data visualization
- Data Science and Prompt engineering for NLP, LLM using Python and Pandas
- Cloud Computing/Architecture
Business Process Optimization
- Legacy Applications Integration & conversion
- Handling compliance, efficiency, cost management and regulatory challenges around Commercial Lending
Technology Roadmap
- Maintenance ownership of current state architecture while envisioning future state architecture aligned with corporate technology objectives
- Technology roadmaps to smoothly transition from current state to desired future state
Teamwork assignments
- Leading Corporate Application assessments for SOX compliance work
- Project Planning, Time Tracking and Resource allocation
- Leading the development & code reviews
Certification
AI and Data Science
- Post graduate Program in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science with University of Texas, Austin (2024).
Microsoft MCP ID: 3057381
- AZ-900Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
- 70-100 - Analyzing requirements & defining Solution Architecture
- 70-229 - Database designing using MS SQL SERVER 2000
- 70-536 - Microsoft .NET Framework, Application Development Foundation using C#
Timeline
Senior Solutions Architect
CNO Financials
12.2020 - Current
Application Architect
Trial Court Technology
09.2018 - 12.2020
Application Architect / Team Lead
Baker Hill
12.2017 - 09.2018
Technical Team Lead
Indiana Department of Transportation
04.2015 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Punjab University
Bachelor of Science - Advanced Maths, Physics
Punjab University
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