Profile
With ** Years of experience in the IT industry as Senior Team Lead/Consultant, involved in all phases of SDLC including requirement analysis, system design, business process analysis, development, testing, documentation, client interaction. Have good knowledge in Banking, Transport and Retail domains. Skills/Tools
Cobol
DB2
Microfocus Cobol
UNIX Shell scripting
Xpeditor
Reflection Workspace
Visual Studio
Jira
NeoCICS
CICS
VSAM
Natural ADABAS
File Aid
Control-M
Eclipse - CVS repository
Confluence
AWS Cloud practitioner
NeoBatch
Education
05/2010 – 03/2014
Nitte, Udupi, India
Bachelor's of Engineering in Electronics and Communication NMAM Institute of Technology
CGPA - 7.9
03/2009 – 02/2010
Udupi, India
Higher Secondary Education
Vidyodaya Pre University College
Marks - 86%
Professional Experience
09/2021 – 09/2023
Bangalore, India
Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Roles are Responsibilities:
•Lead and manage a team of Mainframe developers, providing guidance, mentoring, and support. Delegate tasks, monitor progress, and ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.
Sooraj Acharya
Senior Consultant
******.****@*****.*** 974******* Noida, India
www.linkedin.com/in/sooraj-acharya-13401545
•Self-motivated and high target oriented individual with application development experience on IBM Mainframe using Cobol, JCL, VSAM, File aid, DB2, ADABAS, JCL, Endevor, JIRA and Xpeditor.
•Provide technical guidance and solutions, resolve complex technical issues, and conduct code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to coding standards.
•Coordinated with Business Leads to formulate solutions for effective production deliverance Facilitated project delivery under strict timeline restrictions Projects:
•GPG ISO changes, As clearing and swift migrate to ISO20022 MX message structures, instructions destined for FTS will be formatted as per the ISO standards. The MX message will considerable hold more data. As part of this, we had changes in ADABAS file, COBOL program and copybook structure and addition of new NATURAL code to change the layout of the file to contain more information.
•ATR changes - The changes here are also to support the new ISO format. Two new modules are created as part of this, one to load the MT210 to IMRF and another to parse and validate camt57 message.
•Canada Address validation - As per the old MT format, Address field is being dropped in the outbound processing if only BIC or Account is present. But as per the new ISO change, For Canada branch, address field is supposed to be sent in outbound, irrespective of any condition.
08/2020 – 08/2021
Bangalore, India
Software Development Specialist
NTT Data
The domain that I worked in this organisation is Finance/Transaction processing company.
Work methodology - Agile.
Roles are Responsibilities:
Requirement Gathering and creating detailed design documents Self-motivated and high target oriented individual with application development experience on IBM Mainframe using VSAM, File aid, DB2, JCL, Endevor and Xpeditor. Coordinated with Business Leads to formulate solutions for effective production deliverance Facilitated project delivery under strict timeline restrictions Provided assistance to peers on technical solution, evaluating design and execution details
Projects:
•Addition of new interchange indicator for Fiserv network. The purpose of this project is to override the debit interchange fee indicator in DE 125.7 from Fiserv based on the new Axis NA terminal table
•Voltage groups PAN encryption error. Voltage is encryption mechanism used within Stratus network. The issue was, whenever a short account number appeared in the queue, the account numbers after that were not getting encrypted. This was fixed by setting the expiration date to a new value and adding a service on functionality.
04/2019 – 08/2020
Greater Noida, India
Senior Software Developer
Coforge Limited (Previously know as NIIT technologies) Roles and Responsibilities:
In this organisation i got an opportunity to work in Airline domain and to work closely with Clients. Being a part of onsite team, i had to deliver the new requirements to offshore team, brain storm about the issue and possible solutions we will be giving the clients and also make sure the projects are delivered on time. Projects:
•BSP-23: The objective is to define the treatments to be performed in the Credit Billing environment. Changes involved are in COBOL, DB2 and JCL. Met all the expectations before deadline and always provided updates on daily basis to onsite/user.
•FTP migration: The main objective of this project is to migrate the server from windows to Linux environment. As part of this, we have migrated 22 applications in COBOL. Flight crew and Labor agreement. Generate multiple reports based on the coupons for crew members and labour's.
01/2015 – 03/2019
Mangalore, Mysore,
India
Software Developer and Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys
Roles are Responsibilities:
Requirement Gathering and creating detailed design documents Self-motivated and high target oriented individual with application development experience on IBM Mainframe using VSAM, File aid, DB2, ADABAS, JCL, Endevor and Xpeditor.
Provided daily status updates on the current project we were working on and before time delivery of given tasks.
Projects:
•Payment gateway: The project is about replacing the existing KI server with the new third party server called Aurus. Changes involved are in COBOL, CICS and JCL. Developed testing procedures and documentation and presented to clients for review. Communicated status updates to affected parties when issues arose.
•JCL tuning and optimisation: Delhaize America is one of the USA’s largest food retail companies. Some applications run on mainframe. These jobs needed some tweaking to complete the batch process as early as possible. This is achieved successfully by saving 1 hour of the batch process.
•MAPS (Merchandise accounts payable system): This project was all about receiving various inputs from different merchandising systems, validating the invoices and finally uploading the details to the vendor portal. As part of this, NMG one was brought up. Here all merchandise came under one unit. Some of the changes done as part of this are – Vendor to site number conversion, department number conversion and expansion, table mapping and screen changes.
•Legacy Remediation: The project is about the creation of new interfaces in MAINFRAME for WMS up gradation. Various files from different systems were fed to mainframe. These files were later validated and loaded into the new tables in DB2. As part of this project, we had to code new programs, change few existing programs and monitor the scheduled jobs. Coordinated between onsite and offshore teams. Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all production work orders.
09/2023 – present
Noida, India
Senior Consultant
Sirva
•Lead a team of Mainframe specialists in the successful implementation of critical system upgrades, resulting in a 20% improvement in system performance and a 15% reduction in operational costs.
•Advised clients on Mainframe modernization strategies, guiding migration efforts from legacy systems to contemporary platforms, ensuring seamless transition and minimal disruption to business operations.
•Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and execute comprehensive test plans, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of Mainframe applications in high- pressure environments.
Key Skills:
•Mainframe Systems Analysis & Design
•System Performance Optimization
•Project Management & Leadership
•COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, NeoCICS, NeoBatch, Visual Studio Awards
08/03/2020 Pat on the back
Coforge
This was awarded for my contribution on 2 successful delivery of critical projects. 13/06/2017 Bravo
Infosys
BRAVO and INSTA Award for Superior performance and excellent quality deliverables
References
Aliya Naim, Tech Lead, Coforge
Farheen Naaz, Technical Analyst, NTT Data
Sandeep Page, Tech Lead, JP Morgan Chase
Declaration
I, Sooraj Acharya, hereby declare that the information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Sooraj Rajagopal Acharya
Bangalore