Ashish Singhal
Groningen,GR
Summary
- Pega Lead System Architect having 14 years of experience with proactive approach to leadership, consistently driving team achievement and success. Strong ability to articulate communication skills to ensure clear and effective collaboration across all levels.
- Proven track record in managing complex Pega projects and Pega portfolios along with leading teams to successful project completion.
- Leading end-to-end Pega project implementations, including solution design, system configuration, and integration.
- Proven track record of mentoring and guiding Pega developers. Delivered projects through strong collaboration, innovation and partnership
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and Pega platform updates, bringing innovative ideas to the table.
- Exceptional communication and leadership abilities to bring along people in my vision.
- Strong domain expertise in the Banking (Lending and Mortgage), Insurance, Telecom, Health Care Industry, Pension, Legal.
- Proven onsite (Netherlands ,Singapore) experience.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Pega Specialist
Achmea
10.2022 - Current
- Assisting two Pega teams in implementing generic components and solutions for complex business requirements and addressing technical challenges.
- Experienced in building and delivering Pega projects from scratch.
- Converted an old legacy application (ARIVA) to Pega.
- Integrated external systems using Kafka, Connectors, Services, APIs, BIX, and Listeners.
Pega Capability Lead (For Netherlands and Belgium)
Capgemini
04.2021 - 09.2022
- Led the Pega practice for Financial Services (Netherlands and Belgium), overseeing approximately 50 resources.
- Led RFIs and RFPs, won several deals for SWIFT (Belgium) ,SAB (Saudi Arabia Bank) ,Achmea , Swiss Bank (Sweden).
- Fulfilled client requirements in terms of resourcing, projects, and new business needs.
- Grew the Pega team from 18 to 52 resources.
- Participated in design discussions and created mockups to illustrate solutions.
- Acted as a liaison between technical, business, and testing groups, providing documentation and converting business requirements into Pega implementations (Pega BPM, Case Management).
Pega DevOps Engineer
KPN
10.2019 - 03.2021
- Collaborated with product owners to understand needs and translated them into a pega features
- Led an end-to-end Pega upgrade from 7.4 to 8.2.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Client : Rabobank)
07.2017 - 09.2019
- Acted as a liaison between technical, business, and testing groups, providing documentation and converting business requirements into technical specifications.
- Led DCO sessions to enhance business processes, created BRDs and FSDs, and monitored project implementation.
- Gained hands-on experience with Jenkins, CICD, Git, Nexus, Mesos, Marathon, Docker, and Pega deployment manager (PDM).
- Led a scrum team and was responsible for onshore and offshore Pega capabilities and resources.
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Client :TD Bank)
08.2016 - 06.2017
- Served as Account Lead, overseeing four projects in terms of deliverables, technical assistance, RFPs, and onsite-offshore coordination.
- Led DCO sessions to enhance business processes, created BRDs and FSDs, and monitored project implementation.
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture (Client :MOHH Singapore )
11.2014 - 08.2016
- Developed and delivered assigned modules/components for a care provider application.
- Responsible for development using HIF and CMF framework.
Software Engineer
TCS (Client : Deutsch Bank)
09.2013 - 11.2014
- Responsible for various business logics and UI in an application that enrolls new customers and performs KYC and due diligence.
Software Engineer
Infosys (Client :Carefirst Healthcare USA )
02.2011 - 08.2013
- Created UI screens and learned Pega integration mechanisms for a contract generation application.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computational Science
Arya Institute of Engineering And Technology
Jaipur , India09-2010
Skills
- Pega BPM
- Teamwork
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-solving
- Flexibility
- Openness to learning
- Openness to learning
- Positive attitude
- Agile and Scaled Agile Delivery
- Communication
Accomplishments
- Certified Lead System Architect part 1
- 4 Months Leadership Program from Harvard University
- Received award for Leadership and Innovation in KPN
- Received Ace Gold Standard Award (The Best Performer ) from Accenture in 2015
- Certified Senior System Architect
- Certified Pega Business Architect
- Certified Pega System Architect
- Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant
- Certified Robotics System Architect
- Completed various online courses from Pega academy for latest features in Pega
Tools
Agile tools : Pega Agile Studio ,JIRA ,Confluence .Azure DevOps
Tools : Pega from version 5.x to 24.x ,DCO tools ,PAL ,PDC ,Pega tracer viewer ,Pega Deployment Manager ,Linux , Jenkins , GIT ,Nexus ,Oracle , DB2 , Postgres ,Kibana ,Splunk ,SQL Developer ,HPQC ALM ,XL Deploy
Languages
Hindi
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Dutch
Elementary
A2
Additional Information
I have Netherlands nationality and having OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) .
The advantage of this : I don't need visa sponsorship to travel 192 countries for any business trip and I can work and live in India with OCI card for life time .
Timeline
Pega Specialist
Achmea
10.2022 - Current
Pega Capability Lead (For Netherlands and Belgium)
Capgemini
04.2021 - 09.2022
Pega DevOps Engineer
KPN
10.2019 - 03.2021
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Client : Rabobank)
07.2017 - 09.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Client :TD Bank)
08.2016 - 06.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture (Client :MOHH Singapore )
11.2014 - 08.2016
Software Engineer
TCS (Client : Deutsch Bank)
09.2013 - 11.2014
Software Engineer
Infosys (Client :Carefirst Healthcare USA )
02.2011 - 08.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computational Science
Arya Institute of Engineering And Technology
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