Uzair Parker
Specialist Solutions Architect
Cape Town
Summary
Resourceful Solution Architect with 17+ years of customer relationship management and implementation support. Highly skilled in managing database performance and upgrades for ongoing efficiency and achievement of corporate objectives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist Solutions Architect & Team Lead
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
3 2021 - 3 2022
- Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers
- Business Requirements, Systems Solutions and Architecture design SD/ HLD/ LLD
- Re-engineering & standardizing CVM document tree within Confluence
- Solutions design on event streaming with Kafka
- Redesign of existing Deal Scoring Architecture DSE into microservices Next-Best-Architecture)
- Team lead for all CVM Altron analysts - Primary contact for all analysts, mentoring and knowledge share, KPA, goal setting and performance reviews, training & career paths.
Technical Product Owner
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
06.2019 - 07.2021
- Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers
- Driving new business initiatives and concepts from ideation phases through to deployment and beyond
- Ensure all relevant business & technical requirements are complete and meet the business expectations
- Benefit analysis of existing customer journeys on Upgrades & Sales and enhancements on existing journeys, expanding on customer portfolios and additional 3rd party integration
- Continuous integration & delivery pipelines, GIT, Bitbucket and peer code reviews, test automation and Python, bash scripting and workflows with Jenkins.
Technical Business Analyst
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
06.2018 - 06.2019
- Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers
- Systems solution, Design, Requirements & Architecture HLD/ LLD
- Maintaining existing customer sales, upgrades & churn management portfolios
- Enhancements of existing customer journeys through APIs and across various consuming channels Siebel, Online, Retail etc)
- Business engagement, design strategies, Agile PI planning and iterative workflows
- Writing technical & business specifications, Peer code reviews, managing code pull requests.
Systems Analyst
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
04.2017 - 05.2018
- Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers
- Systems solution and design HLD/ LLD
- Mapping out existing CVMi architecture
- ICAP integration, bundle and data provisioning
- Migrating existing functional specs and docs to Confluence
- Integration with downstream and upstream interfaces and services
Senior Software Developer
PayFast
06.2012 - 04.2017
- Ecommerce service in Cape Town
- Maintaining and supporting existing codebases and microservices, developing new microservices, error debugging and support, documentation.
Analyst Programmer
Woolworths MySchool)
- The MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet is a programme that focuses on supporting schools, communities in need, charities, environment, wildlife and many other great causes - raising over R7 million a month
- Through shopping at one of our 1500 partners nationwide and swiping your card, you can help support 7500 schools, charities and organizations
- Mentoring junior team members, maintaining existing infrastructures and services, monitoring of existing software intranets and services, developing stable codebases
- Developing new software and maintaining existing software and infrastructures and ensure code is written and documented according to company standards
- Ensuring that the VMP codebase is stable, maintainable and secure and with accepted standards-approved documentation
- Assisting with the requirements and systems analysis for various campaigns that are run throughout the year and then being the primary developer in the implementation of these requirements
- Researching, brainstorming and implementing new and innovative features that are on par with the latest development and technological trends
- Reducing the number of critical out-of-release hot fixes per deployment cycle (team goal)
- Reducing the number of tickets and queries from other business units by increasing turnaround time.
Education
B.S. Computer Science -
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South AfricaSkills
Data Architecture & Analysis
Microsoft Office proficiency
Business Intelligence
Performance Optimization
System Design
API Integration
Object-Oriented Programming
Software Development
Application Development
Cross-platform Development
Microservices
Software Debugging
Databases: MySQL, PLSQL, Postgress
Programming: PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, Swagger
Agile Applications: JIRA, Confluence
Version Control: GIT, Bitbucket
AWS Configuration: EC2,CloudFront, VPC, IAM
Event & Data Streaming: Kafka, NiFi, SQS
Process FLow & Visualization: MS Visio, DrawIO
Websites
References
Michelle Corns (Vodacom: Principal Specialist: Release Train Engineer)
email: michelle.corns@vodacom.co.za
contact: +27829943133
Johnathan Page (IT Manager: Payfast)
contact: 0836048194
Kevin DeKlerk (IT Manager: MySchool)
email: kdeklerk@vmp.co.za
contact: 0826220469
Johan Steyn (Lead Developer: Graydot)
email: Johan@publicismachine.com
contact: 0833534843
Wendy Robb (Product Manager at 24 Labs)
email: Wendy@tendril.co.za
contact: 0824414969
Adelah Ederies (HR Manager – Maxxor Business Solutions)
Contact : (w) 021 4474275 (c) 0834125678
email: adelahe@gmail.com
Timeline
Technical Product Owner
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
06.2019 - 07.2021
Technical Business Analyst
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
06.2018 - 06.2019
Systems Analyst
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
04.2017 - 05.2018
Senior Software Developer
PayFast
06.2012 - 04.2017
Specialist Solutions Architect & Team Lead
Vodacom On behalf of Altron BSI
3 2021 - 3 2022
Analyst Programmer
Woolworths MySchool)
B.S. Computer Science -
University of Cape Town
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