Petr Hrdina | Principal Architect

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phrdina/

email: phrdina@gmail.com

4Finance a.s.

July 2015 – Present

Principal Architect

Accomplishments:

• Led and architected the implementation of Loan Management systems in various countries and products. Some of the Loan management systems were developed internally some delivered by vendor. Managed and mentored development teams working on system development, integration and migration, facilitated communication with business stakeholders, vendor and other global IT teams as Infosec, NOC, Business Intelligence, Data Science.
• Created solution architecture with integrations for described solutions.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure, Infosec, Business Intelligence and Data science stakeholders to establish enterprise architecture repository
• Led implementation of Analytical platform for Data science and Business Intelligence. Created platform architecture, prepared implementation timeline and platform development roadmap.
• Conducted technological due diligence of companies considered for acquisition.  Result of due diligence reported to top management.
• Managed the architecture of Capitalisation platform. Mentoring development team, working closely with product manager. Aligned with Compliance and Legal department assuring solution is compliant with legal and compliance standards
• Participated on core systems selection for various countries delivering technical assessments of systems
• Contributing to IT governance 

 Projects

• Completed projects implementing various loan products in Europe and LatAm, loan capitalisation (sales of receivables to corporate investor),  Analytical platform development project, Cloud scoring project, IT governance initiatives

Homecredit a.s.

July 2013 – June 2015

Solution Architect Department Lead

Team leader role: 

• Assembled and managed the team of solution architects while still acting as lead architect on development and implementation of core product supporting consumer loans and payment card business. Introduced solution methodology.
• Active cooperation with executive and senior level management, international customer, business analysis, product management, development and infrastructure departments.
• Content coordination of solution architects across their solution areas.

Solution role:

• Led the process to identify way of automation by information system including integrations, to cover business requirements raised by product or in scope of implementation projects. Designing solution of business functionalities automation. Distribution of business capabilities across the system components, designing internal and B2B integration. Prepare proposal of the transition from the baseline architecture into the target architecture. Identification and prioritization of architectural tasks.  
• Participated on projects scoping.
• Led the consultations of solution architecture, technical product as well as other technical matters with international customers (countries Kazakhstan, Vietnam, India and others) being prime contact for all technical matters and the coordinator for technical discussions. Conducting product overview presentations  
• Identification and assessment of risks, open issues and gaps which must be resolved in order to cover business requirements,  subsequent resolution eventually preparation of proposals to be decided by steering committee. Recording the decisions in architecture decision log. Creation of architectural concept in case when the solution of business requirements needs it..
• coordination cross functional discussions where the solution had an impact on different areas (development, infrastructure, maintenance, etc.)

Projects:

• Implementation of Core system functionalities supporting sales and maintenance of Consumer and Revolving Loans for customers in Asia, SNS, CZ and SK.
• Cross-project architecture design of new product having some functionalities of previous older product and introducing additional features. Architecture concept of credit payment module. Brand new concept covering needs of all the customers.

KBC ICT services

Jan 2011 – Jun 2013

ICT Architect

Main responsibilities:

• Aligning ICT and business architecture, creating architectural visions, proposing strategies
• Providing architecture checks for all the business domains aligning solutions with ICT   strategy, maintaining inter-project dependencies. 
• Within the context of IT governance and SOA adoption planning
• conducted SOA maturity assessment leveraging OSIMM method dimension base model, defined road map to service oriented architecture 
• conducted analyze and proposal of new service inventory
• contributed to preparations of new SDLC process.
• designed structure for configuration management database. 
• prepared definitions of service domains according to BIAN (Banking Industry architecture network) as a main pillar for solutions based on SOA
• leadership role for business analysts, aligning architectural proposals with frameworks, ICT strategy and architectural visions
• consultations for business departments, creating solutions proposals
• Architecture checks for all the business domains, guarding inter-project dependencies. 
• Preparation of  application architecture and integrations based on business architecture and requirements according to architectural frameworks and governance

Projects:

• Developed architecture for Mortgage origination solution, Concept of Sales platform with Loyalty program, Card processing – Idea clarification document based on business requirements, creation of concepts, created logical architecture, delivery of enterprise architecture.
• Created Concept and solution proposal of Document Management System for whole bank and partners

Raiffeisenbank Prague

Dec 2007 – Dec 2010

IT Architect

Main responsibilities:

• Consolidation of the Enterprise architecture in the bank after the merge (e-Banka and Raiffeisen Bank merged together and the desire was to consolidate whole enterprise)
• Analyzing of business requirements and creating solution alternatives with preferences. Internal advisory.
• Creation of methodology of enterprise architecture modeling and architectural principles. For architectural repository using Enterprise Architect as a main tool.
• Devising the whole IT strategy aligned with business strategy, proposals of strategic options 

Projects:

• “IT Merge” – Integration of IT landscape in both of former banks. Completed proposals of changes in existing architectural landscape
• Implementation of new Core Bank system along with Siebel CRM. Design of IT Architecture based on requirements resulting from business analyze, integration concepts.

BAWAG CZ

Jan 2004 – Nov 2007

Head of application development

Main responsibilities:

• migration of core bank system (target system Flexcube). Managed the interface team and migration team. Design of interfaces architecture, technical organization of data migration from former two bank systems into the new one

• Coordination of internal development team (4 Engineers)

• Define the software and data architectures

• Coordination of external solution teams

Completed projects:

• infrastructure of the interfaces around the migrated core bank system Flexcube

• 2004 design of Local Data warehouse for branch (design and realization)

• design and development of application processing Credit card transactions, porting transactions into main production system, integration the transaction details and card master data into the existing data warehouse

BNP-Dresdner Bank

Nov 2001 – Dec 2003

Software developer/architect

Design, development and implementation of software used on bank site and on sites of bank customers. Coordination of the development team. Design of software has covered activities (of XP projects) beginning as an interview with users followed by recording user stories, OO modeling, overall system design, testing and programming, finally writing the documentation. I used to work in a very small [1-2 developers], but flexible development team with high level of independence and responsibility.  Designed,developed and implemented:

• electronic banking software for handling payment orders and delivering customer statements.

• payment routing system, handling completely processing and data exchange of bank transactions between a mainframe and local branches (on platform of MS SQL as a database server and MQ Series as a messaging system)

• financial DataMart (on Oracle platform), complete design of architecture and processes

• software for trading of securities

• various interfaces between PC applications and host using real time messaging (MQ Series and EntireX)

• software for handling electronic signatures for internal bank use

• various n-tier applications