Jagannathan Sundara Rajan

Eviden Senior Consultant | Java, RectJs & NextJs Technical Design Lead and Developer | AWS Cloud Practitioner | Mulesoft Certified Developer | Aspiring Scrum Master

Professional Summary

Technical Design Lead and Lead Developer in Java, ReactJS, NextJS, Mulesoft with 17 years of Overall experience and 10 years of relevant experience in the areas Technical Design, Planning, Estimation, Development, Unit Testing and Post go live support.

  • Working experience in various domains like Health Public Sector, Life Sciences Banking.
  • Strong knowledge in Agile/Scrum methodologies and experienced in leading Agile - scrum teams and conducting scrum ceremonies.
  • Hands-on with majority of Technical Skills including Java, Springboot, ReactJS, NextJS, Mulesoft, Gradle, Maven and various CI / CD tools like Jenkins, GoCD, Azure Pipelines and AWS CodeBuild.
  • Experience in managing teams of about 20-25 as a Technical Project manager handling activity of Project Planning, Estimations, Resourcing, Development, Risk Assessments etc.
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with hands on experience of Deploying applications on the AWS Cloud.
  • Mulesoft Certified Developer level 1 with hands on experience on Design and Implementation Mulesoft API's.

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Experience

  • Technical Design Lead, Senior Consultant, Eviden UK (ERSTWHILE Atos Syntel)

    Client: STUDENT LOANS COMPANY (SLC), GLASGOW
    Duration: 01-Dec-2021 to Till now
    • Technical Lead Developer in the Customer Portal Team in the SLC’s flagship project building the brand-new Generic Apply cloud-based application using the ReactJS & NextJS framework for the first time.
    • Technical Lead Developer in the FE Team working on the FE Portal Upgrades in ReactJS and Springboot and Mulesoft API Design and Development.
    • SPOC for IVR Team (Operations Delivery) for design, development, and implementation of the new Soap Webservices for the IVR Systems within the legacy technology stack.
    • Technical Lead for the analysis, design, documentation of Call Flows, planning and the development of new OTP Module in the IVR Call Flow applications along with identification of risks, issues, and mitigation steps.
    • Involved in analysis of various IVR Systems and Webservices upgrade project as part of the inception phase of Technology upgrades program of the Systems.
    • Scrum Team Lead and Developer on the Customer Portal team, implementing the Part Time Applications as part the Roll over and application support.

  • Technical Design Lead and Lead Developer, Accenture Services, UK

    Client: NUANCE AGP, GLASGOW
    Duration: 01-Apr-2021 to 12-Nov-2021
    • Lead Application Developer, implementing a Nuance HMRC Rules engine website frontend and backend components using React JS and Springboot and hibernate. The Rules engine would be used by HMRC for configuration of the IVR process flows.
    • Implementing the DevOps Pipelines for the Cloud IVR implementation for one of Public Sector Clients.
    • Identified, developed, and implemented a new Static Help Website using the ‘Docusaurus.io’ framework for the new Cloud IVR application being implemented.
    • Setting of Azure Pipelines and Releases for the Cloud IVR related Java / ReactJS applications.
    • Design and Development of one of the important Synch components which would be used for synch of the IVR Prompt Audio files from a backend database to Audio server.
    • Installation, configuration of Hashicorp Vault and implementation of the Hashicorp Vault API for the Cloud IVR related applications. Hashicorp Vault is used for storing application specific secrets which is fetched dynamically at the boot of the applications.

  • Scrum Team Technical Design Lead and Lead Developer, Accenture Services, UK

    Client: STUDENT LOANS COMPANY (SLC), GLASGOW
    Duration: 01-Sep-2018 to 31-Mar-2021
    • Scrum Team Technical Design Lead and Lead Developer from Accenture at SLC Glasgow, implementing the new Digital Evidence Upload and the Digital Repayments System built on Spring and Springboot Microservices.
    • Scrum Team Lead and Developer on the Customers IM team, implementing the OIDC and OAuth2 Security based integration with Okta IDP from the Digital Repayments Systems.
    • Technical design lead in the Digital repayments system, anchored the approach plan, process flow, design, data flow and the development activities of the whole Resubmits feature, which also includes the transformation of existing transactions to adhere to the MIT compliance rules setup by the Payment aggregator. Built on Springboot Microservices architecture.
    • Scrum Team Lead and Developer on the Digital Evidence Upload team, anchored the development and review of the development activities. This system replaces the manual scan and upload of the supporting evidence for the loan applications.
    • Key member involved in the technical solution design sessions and provide the feedback on the technical implementation of the project & perform code review and provide constructive feedback on the stories of the sprint’s.
    • Joined as Lead developer for PGL 1920 and PG Welsh Masters Products teams when the project started. Member of the build master’s group responsible for planning and co-ordinating the releases.

  • Technical Project Manager, Accenture Services, India

    Client: NA Based US Pharma Clent, Bangalore
    Duration: 01-Jul-2017 to 31-Aug-2018
    • Leading a 12-member team supporting a portfolio of 32 applications across landscape in pharma and Life Sciences for a Leading LS client.
    • Teams’ skillsets include Java, .NET, Informatica, Tableau & Sterling Integrator.
    • Daily stand-up calls with the team on various activities, projects and sort out any impediments in the project.
    • Weekly and Monthly reporting of applications support progress and Service Performance of the team.
    • Technical Assessment and Scope Assessment and SOW preparation and estimation and costing & Budgeting for the new or Enhancement work.
    • Identify improvement opportunities to reduce the AM tickets, manual monitoring activities and implementation of Automation ideas.
    • Self learnt Service Now development and completed couple of use-cases in Service Now which can be used across the client operations reducing TAT.

  • Associate Project Manager, Accenture Services, India

    Client: NA Based US Pharma Clent, Bangalore
    Duration: 01-Jan-2016 to 19-Jun-2017
    • Managing a 15-member Service Now team and 3-member Splunk team as an Associate Manager for a Large US Pharma Client.
    • Handle the Quarterly, monthly releases and assign and track the various activities of the team.
    • Status reporting to the Client and Accenture Leadership on a weekly or biweekly period.
    • Daily scrums with the teams on various releases and sort out any impediments in the project.
    • Status reporting and managing the project in various Accenture project reporting tools and handle the Audits and CMMi reviews.
    • Project Estimation and Budgeting and forecasting.
    • Plan and implement Continuous Improvement Ideas, AM Tickets reduction plans, Automation ideas.

  • Technical Team Lead, Accenture Services, India

    Client: NA Based US Pharma Clent, Bangalore
    Duration: 10-Sep-2014 to 31-Dec-2015
    • As an Individual Contributor, I worked in developing a SOAP based Web service and hosted the webservice for other applications to utilize.
    • Leading 2 separate teams of Java capability supporting the various applications.
    • As part of the team lead activities, I am involved in tracking of the tickets assigned, follow up on the high priority tickets, assignment of tickets to the various team members.
    • Estimation, Design and Requirement documentation of the new projects & Hosting of new applications.
    • Project management activities – Reporting the tickets assigned, resolved. Reporting the project health and activities in the various Accenture internal applications. Involved in Bench Estimation, Coming up with plan for resourcing.

  • Software Developer, Technology Lead, Infosys Technologies Ltd

    Client: Multiple Clients
    Duration: Nov-2007 to 21-Aug-2014
    • Was involved was a Software Developer, Technology Lead across multiple implementations of Finacle eBanking Application.
    • Anchoring the offshore customization activities (design, development, unit testing) and onsite implementation activities (integration testing, SIT, UAT, soft launch and go-live).
    • Leading the 9-member onsite customization & L2 teams from Client location at ING Vysya Bank, Bangalore.
    • Was the single or main point of contact at multiple implementations from client locations Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados as part the Finacle eBanking implementations for the Republic Bank Limited, West Indies.
    • Involved in Design, Development, Customization and Unit Testing of the modules Online Registration, Login, Mutual Funds, Money Market, Point-Of-Sale, Multilingual Reports, and Transfers from offshore and Onsite coordinator during the SIT and UAT phase of the Finacle eBanking implementation for Banca Mifel in Mexico.
    • Involved in BRD Discussions, Analysis, and design and effort estimation of the critical modules Tax Payments, Paysure, and Cash Pooling modules in the Internet Banking application.
    • Was involved in discussion with bank on the new requirements, finalization of approach, analysis and effort estimation for the various new modules & assignment of CR’s to team members, review of releases.
    • Configuration Manager for the project, bringing up the working RAD setup and VSS setup and maintenance activities related to the project artifacts.

  • Project Engineer, Wipro Technologies Ltd

    Client: Multiple Clients
    Duration: 24-Jul-2006 to 30-Oct-2007
    • Maintenance & Support of various applications as a L2 Support for the major US credit card company.
    • Member of development team for one of the Shopping Cart modules for 1800flowers.com.
    • Involved in Portal Development using the Liferay Portal.
    • Single handedly developed and hosted an internal portal for the offshore development team.

Skills & Certifications

  • Skills:

    Languages : Java 8,11, Spring MVC, Springboot, Microservices, Python.
    Software Methodologies : Waterfall, Agile (Accenture Agile Professional Certified), ITIL V3 Foundation Certified
    Web Technologies : Webservices, Mulesoft API
    Development Tools : Eclipse, Idea IntelliJ, TOAD, MS Visio, SQL Developer, VS Code
    Project Management Tools : Microsoft Project Professional
    Cloud Technologies : AWS, Azure – Setting up of Git Repos, Pipelines.
    Other Technologies : Service Now, Splunk, Jira, Hashicorp Vault, Docusaurus, Git
  • Certifications:

    Scrum Trained Professional & Certified Scrum Fundamentals Professional from ScrumStudy in 2019
    Accenture Agile Professional Certified
    ITIL V3 Certified (June - 2017)
    AWS Cloud Certified Practitioner – May 2021
    Mulesoft Certified Developer Level 1 – Dec 2022

Education

  • BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING)

    College / University: PADMASRI DR. B.V RAJU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NARSAPUR, JNTU.
    Year: AUG-2002 – APR-2006
    Completed my Graduation with 73.2% (distinction) and I was one of the first students from my class who was selected as part of the Campus recruitment with Wipro Technologies.

Acheivements & Interests

  • Acheivements:

    • Wipro’s Feather-in-my-Cap award for the exceptional work for setting up the Internal Portal.
    • Monetary Award Recipient of Accenture Celebrates Excellence award for FY17 Q1.
    • Multiple On-the-spot awards for the outstanding work with Accenture.
  • Interests:

    • Playing Cricket - I recently started playing with a Cricket Club in Glasgow.
    • Lawn Tennis
    • A little bit of free hand sketch.

Personal Details

  • Current Location: Glasgow
  • Visa Status: On Skilled Worker Visa (PBS) valid till 28-Nov-2024.
  • Any other details can be provided on request.