Information Security Officer
Resume:
Enterprise Architect: Digital Channels Security
Muhammed Zubair (Mz) Omarjee
Johannesburg, South Africa
+27-82-403-**** *********@*******.***
Value Proposition: Add significant business value through application of visionary thinking, strategic planning, digital transformation, risk orientation and effective delivery.
• Over 18 years of experience, with joint contributions spanning across:
• Design and delivery of innovative mobile and speech banking solutions to digitally transform the banking businesses
• Design and Implemented a Cyber Resilience Strategy in the wake of a Cyber Attack
• Crafted a Cloud Enablement strategy and implementation model to support digital delivery at scale with cost containment .
• Established a Security Architecture practice and instituted a cross functional Security Engineering practice.
• Transformation strategies to mature an Information Security Management practice
• Unique capability of being able to function interchangeably at various architecture perspectives, with the benefit of being able to satisfy various business and technology stakeholder needs.
• Delivery focused in ensuring foundational platforms are established for continuous enablement of new business features.
• Competence and expertise in Digital Transformation, Pervasive Technologies, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Core Banking replacement, Enterprise Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Software Development and Cyber Security.
• Robust appreciation of applying Enterprise Architecture as a foundation to execute a business strategy.
• Recognized as a thought leader in Information Security industry as was called upon to facilitated numerous intra company workshops, conduct research and deliver presentations at international conferences in Europe, Americas and the Asia Pacific.
• Board Member Director of the Board of Trustees of The SABSA Institute, a UK based entity that governs the body of knowledge as it relates to applying Risk Management and Information Security to business corporations.
• Co-authored three technical book publications and 1 research paper on the subject of mobile and pervasive computing for IBM Technical Research.
• Noted for outstanding performance, with an average career progression trajectory of 2 years and having been consistently rated amongst top performers. Work Experience
• Enterprise Security Architect – Standard Bank Group: January 2014 to current
• Drafted the Digital ID, Digital Know Your Customers (Digital KYC) and Next Generation Authentication Strategies for Digital Enablement of Business
• Defined an enterprise wide Cyber Resilience Strategy in the wake of a cyber attack, implementing controls to Predict, Prevent, Detect cyber threats and Respond to cyber breaches.
• Developed a group wide Cloud Enablement strategy for secure adoption of cloud services and hybrid workload migration to and from cloud platforms.
• Head Information Security Architecture - Standard Bank Group : April 2010 to December 2013
• Drafted the strategy for transforming a conventional IT Security unit to a business driven and risk oriented Information Security discipline.
• Established an Enterprise Information Security Architecture practice to ensure that information security is embedded within all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• As a thought leader, defined the strategy for an Enterprise Identity and Access Management initiative, defining a roadmap and framework for addressing access control at a user level, a logical resource level and at physical level. Satisfied ISO 27002 maturity control objectives.
• Defined the security model for enterprise wide core banking replacement initiatives.
• Enterprise Solutions Architect – Standard Bank of South Africa: January 2007 to March 2010
• Re-established the enterprise architecture practice at a leading bank in South Africa, using Bredemeyer and TOGAF and SAP EAF methodologies
• Drafted the strategic roadmap and sequencing of initiatives to migrate a mainframe legacy banking system to the SAP Banking Services platform. Achieved a service excellence award for providing a clear and well defined strategy.
• Defined a multi-channel architecture that integrates all horizontal and vertical business units using SOA and BPM methodologies.
• Technical lead: Pervasive Technologies – Standard Bank of South Africa: January 2003 to December 2006
• Introduced mobile banking to a leading bank in South Africa based on the Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD), Wireless Application Protocol(WAP) and SIM card application toolkit platforms. Achieved a star of the stars top 100 performer award for innovation.
• Introduced and developed a fully automated and natural language speech recognition telephone banking system for a leading bank in South Africa. This initiative was awarded Africa’s best innovation in 2006 Cannes awards.
• Senior Programmer – IBM South Africa: January 1999 to October 2001
• Core developer responsible for the end to end design and development(user interface, integration, communications, security)for mobile banking and e- business solutions.
Enterprise Architect: Digital Channels Security
Muhammed Zubair (Mz) Omarjee
Johannesburg, South Africa
+27-82-403-**** *********@*******.***
Core Competencies Overview.
Enterprise Architecture:
• Envisioning and target state identification
• Strategy definition, funding approval and execution delivery sequencing Business and IT Transformation:
• Cloud Enablement (Azure, AWS, Cloud Native, CI/CD)
• Distributed Ledger Technology (Hyperledger, Ethereum, Sovrin ID)
• Artificial Intelligence(Natural Language Processing, Process Automatn.)
• Cyber Threat Resilience (EDR, SIEM/SOC, Zero Trust, Privilege Acc)
• Digital Transformation (Disruptive Business Models, Design Thinking) Information Security:
• Architecture Risk Analysis
• Threat Modelling
• Secure System Integration (OpenID Connect, OAuth, SAML)
• Secure Code Development (Secure SDLC,DevSecOps)
Software Engineering:
• Complex System Analysis and Design
• Component Interface Design (API’s, Micro Services, Containers)
• Responsive Web Development (Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, Angular)
• Mobile Development(Android, Bootstrap, SIM Toolkit)
• Software Development (Java, .Net, SAP NetWeaver, COBOL, Natural, C/C++, Web, JavaScript, PHP)
Education Overview.
Primary Education :
• Matriculation in South Africa
Tertiary Education:
• B.Sc. International Honors Digital Design Technology and Innovation (Dublin Institute of Technology)
• Major in:
• Digital Transformation
• Customer Journey Mapping
• Digital Software Development
• Entrepreneurship and Business Model innovation
• National Diploma Information Technology (former WITS Technikon)
• Major in :
• Software Engineering
• Mobile Communications
• Information Systems Management
Certifications and accreditations:
• Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture(SABSA) Certified Practitioner
• Kaplan and Norton Certified Balanced Scorecard Strategy Practitioner
(Retired)
• Certified Associate SAP Enterprise Architect
• Certified Associate SAP Business Process Expert
• Licensed ZapThink SOA Architect (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Retired)
• Certified TOGAF 8.1 Practitioner (Retired)
Enterprise Architect: Digital Channels Security
Muhammed Zubair (Mz) Omarjee
Johannesburg, South Africa
+27-82-403-**** *********@*******.***
Enterprise Architect : Digital Channels Security
Muhammed Zubair (Mz) Omarjee
Johannesburg, South Africa
+27-82-403-**** *********@*******.***
Stakeholder
Name
Title Company Contact
Zunaid Vanker Chief Information Security Officer
(CISO)
Standard Bank Group ******.******@************.**.**
Theo Skosana Group Executive Head:
Digital Channels
Standard Bank Group ****.*******@************.**.**
Dr Busi
Mbuyisa
Business Executive Head :
Enterprise Business Solutions
Standard Bank Group ****.********@************.**.**
Stanton Naidoo Business Product Owner Standard Bank Group *******.******@************.**.**
Fanie Van
Heerden
Executive Head: IT Enterprise
Architecture
Standard Bank Group *****.**********@************.**.**
Michael
Hofmeyr
Head: IT Security Engineering Standard Bank Group *******.********@************.**.**
David Lynas Chief Executive Officer(CEO) David Lynas Consulting
(Northern Ireland)
*****@**********.***
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