Azlan Tahir

Experience

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  Access Group

  Sept 2014 - Nov 2017

  • Consult with users to Identify, Analyze, Refine and document business requirements.• Write functional requirement specifications.• Develop, co-ordinate and implement plans to test business and functional processes.• Analyzes the relationship between business functions and the system by preparing analysis on documents including requirements, entity-relationship models, and dataflow diagrams.• Involved in Feasibility and Risk Analysis to identify the business-critical and high-risk areas of the application.• Work with business stakeholders to define and finalize scope.• Gather requirements through different elicitation techniques and evaluate the requirements for correctness.• Capture and module the existing end-to-end business processes and proposed one.• Conduct IT-walk thru with the related Development teams and be the liaison between the business units, technology teams, and support teams.• Evaluate and participate in solution alternatives.• Provide Pre-Sales demos. Show less • End-to-end system integration.• Automation• Maintain and set up Staging, QA, UAT, and Production environments• Providing and Managing L2 support.• Look after application security, backup, UAT, SOP writing, and shell scripts.• Responsible to deploy the patch in UAT and Production environment in coordination with the vendor and other internal teams.• Maintenance, installation, configuration, and deployment of Fundamo (EE), IRIS, UBPS, Payment Gateway, and PCMSapplication.• Managing clients.• Client and Vendor management and liaison with all stakeholders regarding daily operational activities.• Assist internal teams during in-house development, testing, and UAT.• Responsible for sanity testing of all systems to ensure they are working fine, after deployments.• Prepare Incident reports if any disaster occurred in the production environment and share them with the management.• Ensure daily backup of all applications and keep track of any issue that occurred in backup activities.• Vulnerability Testing Show less

  • Business Analyst and Solution Architect

    Jul 2017 - Nov 2017

  • Application and Deployment Engineer

    Sept 2014 - Jul 2017
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  Faysal Bank Limited

  Nov 2017 - Oct 2018

  Assistant Manager IT

  • Solely responsible for end-to-end system integration.• Ensure the successful operation of all delivery channels.• Satisfactory customer-level services.• Regularly report progress to Senior Management and stakeholders• Vendor Management• Understanding the needs of multiple stakeholders.• Facilitating the negotiation of requirements among multiple stakeholders.• Facilitating design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.

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  Telenor Microfinance Bank Limited

  Oct 2018 - Jan 2021

  • ATM, POS, and Branchless channel integrations• SBP and 1LINK compliance handling• Core Banking Solutions, Planning, and improvements.• Revamping of applications.• Provides guidance and assistance to Junior team members for successful delivering tasks on time• Drive the adoption and execution of Agile methods and sprint working within the planning team • Vendor’s Evaluation.• Online/Offline billers implementation and integrations.• Stress Testing Applications both in-house and Outsourced to ensure committed performance.• Expert role in the governance of complete operations and implementations of standards. Show less

  • Sr. Functional Expert Digital Payments & FS Operations

    Nov 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Manager Core Banking Middleware, channels and IR

    Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
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  TPS Worldwide

  Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

  Senior Business Analyst
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  1LINK (Pvt) Limited

  Oct 2021 - now

  - Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, principles, and standards.- Lead a team of architects and provide guidance on architectural decisions and best practices.- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into architectural solutions.- Assess current IT systems and identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.- Define and communicate the long-term strategic vision for the organization's technology architecture.- Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to identify potential opportunities and risks.- Ensure that architectural designs comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards.- Drive the adoption of cloud technologies and modern architectural approaches.- Partner with other IT leaders to ensure alignment between architecture and other IT functions, such as security, infrastructure, and application development.- Provide thought leadership on enterprise architecture and promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Show less

  • Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Manager Enterprise Architecture

    Oct 2021 - Jan 2024