IT-Lösungsarchitekt bei eMan

As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Delivery team, I am responsible for leading the transition of an existing business towards newly enabled digital opportunities:

• Architecture a greenfield web platform for digital projects based on a Node.js serverless backend and React SPA frontend.
• Oversee the creation of a business case and the successful delivery of all advantages that come with a digital platform.
• Integrate new digital projects into already existing backends.
• Work with multiple vendor and internal delivery teams to collaborate on individual deliveries with a single goal in mind.

As a part of the IT Architecture team, I contributed to the transformation of current on-premise services to cloud, design of the infrastructure and networking, selection of platform-as-a-service options, and integration with existing software-as-a-service solutions.

Projects I delivered or contributed to include:

• Redesign of the pricing presentation for the fuel acceptance network for drivers.
• Client F/X — support for multi-currency invoices for end users.
• Enterprise Single Sign-On — unification of user identities across the company's portals and applications.

Working as the Czech market team leader on the Solution Architecture & Development team, I was responsible for a team of 3 solution architects and 4 developers (ranging from internal employees to contractors) in the following areas:

• Managing the Czech Provident application architecture, integration principles and the common architecture repository.
• Delivering solution concepts, estimations and integration architecture for group-wide and local projects and programs (see below).
• Leading an in-house development team using the Kanban methodology, providing coaching to new team members and setting the development standards.

The projects delivered or worked upon include:

• Strategic Digital Platform — introducing a new product concept for home credit, my team and I was responsible for the integration architecture, financial reporting, call-centre systems integration and bringing the legacy and digital systems to the same level of features.
• Agent Technology & Mobility — bringing a market solution to new markets, providing a common integration platform for mobile applications, developing a hybrid Android/iOS application for the sales team.

Working as a Solution Architect on Provident's Czech and Slovak IT Development team, I was responsible for delivering enterprise and application architecture as well as providing analytical and development delivery for selected projects. My responsibilities included:

• Creating and updating a centralized architectural repository for the Czech and Slovak markets, including enterprise and application architecture in Sparx EA.
• Creating a solution design for desired projects and programs, including detailed integration design, estimations and participating in vendor selection.
• Analyzing business requirements to provide a functional specification.
• Leading development teams on given projects and developing desired functionalities.
• Working with vendors on specifying and accepting deliveries.

The delivered projects included:

• Agent Cockpit application — a hybrid iOS/Android application for the sales force; the application was developed and deployed to all sales staff.
• New Product proposition — a complex project to introduce a new product to Provident "Modrá půjčka / Zelená půjčka, used by Provident till today. The delivery included a new architecture for handling bank transfer loans (spanning bank systems and CRM integration), tax and accounting integration, and new sales tools, such as as SPA applications.
• Organization Design project — a reorganization project introducing new sales tools and changes to the CRM design.
• Lead Management — introduction of an ESB to the application architecture and new backend integration systems.

The projects involved collaboration with several of Provident's vendors on architecture and development.

Developing server-side solutions (.NET & WCF, MS SQL, SSIS) for internal projects, developing a client-side solution (ASP.NET, jQuery & REST, ReactJS) for employees and agents; producing functional specifications and detail designs (ArchiMate, Enterprise Architect) of new software; processing change management to legacy applications; providing L3 support for new and legacy products.

Succesfully deployed solutions include:

• IT backing of the project "Prepaid Cards in Provident Slovakia", including an automatic bookkeeping and reconciliation system, integration platform between the card vendor, call center and accounting, client statement distribution.
• Implementation of a new "collection of claims" system, including integration platform between two vendors based on NoSQL and REST, migration and production L3 support.
• Synchronization of identity management systems between HR and IT.
• Android app (Cordova, Ionic Framework & AngularJS) for Provident's agent supporting existing business processes.
• Datamart layer (MS SQL, SSIS) of DWH from Provident's primary IS.

My responsibilities also included working with vendors — local (Czech & Slovak) as well as offshore (Indian) companies — throughout the entire process of designing an outsourced solution, working with teams on detail design and final acceptance of the delivered solution into testing.

Preparation of Eurowag PRIZE Challenge (later awarded to RedCute).

Mentoring participants of Hackaton over the duration.