Radhika Kannan
Throsby,ACT
Summary
An accomplished software engineer having total of 20+ years of experience in the IT field. Experience in developing end to end enterprise scale architecture and design across multiple industry including airline, telecommunications and government. Technical experience includes delivering architectural strategy, solutions architecture, program transformation, team leadership, and systems integration. Major technologies worked on are RESTful APIs, Azure platform, Serverless technologies, SOA, BPM, Integration Mobile Architecture, Infrastructure Systems / Application Monitoring.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect
Dept Of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Wate
06.2022 - Current
- Managed end-to-end software development life-cycle, from initial requirements gathering to post-implementation support and maintenance.
- Improved solution efficiency by designing and implementing scalable architectures for enterprise clients.
- Developed comprehensive documentation for solution design specifications, ensuring clear communication between stakeholders at all stages of project lifecycle.
- Facilitated seamless communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders by effectively translating complex concepts into understandable terms for all parties involved in projects.
- Delivered high-quality solutions on time and within budget through diligent adherence to project scope, timelines, and resource constraints.
- Mitigated risks associated with solution implementations by conducting thorough assessments of potential vulnerabilities prior to deployment.
- Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
- Streamlined business processes through the development and implementation of customized software applications tailored to client needs.
- Provided technical leadership and mentoring for junior team members, fostering a supportive learning environment that promoted skill development and career growth.
- Ensured data security and compliance by establishing robust information governance policies and procedures.
- Leveraged cloud technologies to optimize costs, improve scalability, and facilitate seamless integration across platforms.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by collaborating closely with stakeholders to define business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
Senior Solution Architect
Idemia
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Develop design for new biometric platform.
- Contribute to security design of the system.
- Present design to ACIC design authority and get design approval.
- Design ReST APIs with Home Affairs to enable integration between ACIC biometric system to Home Affairs biometric system.
- Liaise with third party Vendors such as Citrix provider, Wallix Bastion provider to arrive at a design.
- Develop Cloud design for ACIC biometric platform.
- Build relationship with ACIC architects and Home Affairs stakeholders.
Solution Architect
AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Document the current state of service management platform.
- Participate in tender process to identify the right Vendor.
- Liaise with Business stakeholder to understand the current painpoints.
- Review the documents provided by Vendor.
- Provide governance and quality assurance for service management platform delivery.
- Provide input to program architecture to define the overall architecture.
- Created ArchiMate artefacts and maintained in iServer repository.
- Involved in tender process.
Solution Architect
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT
03.2021 - 05.2021
- To come up with future API landscape by understanding the current dependencies for new employment model.
- Provide governance to service provider delivery has used right pattern for the program.
- Understand the requirements and provide solution for Services Australia integration with DESE to load the data from Services Australia data lake to DESE analytics platform.
- Documenting and discussing solution with AI/ML team and Services Australia.
Solution Architect
DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS
12.2019 - 03.2021
- Design solution for various projects based on requirements.
- Work with Business and Enterprise Architects to come up with solution.
- Work with Security team and classify data. (UNCLASS/PROTECTED) and come up with appropriate security design.
- Get appropriate approvals from Enterprise Architects and Security Architects to take the solution to Production.
- Work with PMs to define Vendor work package.
- Undertook branch wide assessment for migrating platforms to another domain.
- Involved in designing and implementing SAML based authentication for the application.
Solution Architect
IBM (DEPT OF DEFENCE)
05.2019 - 08.2019
- Design SOA services
- Develop design documents and interface specification
- Liaise with Business (Defence team) to document business requirements.
Solution Architect
ATO
04.2018 - 05.2019
- Provide architecture direction and solution design to projects.
- Participate in RFI / RFQ tender process.
- Provide repeatable architecture pattern for modernizing the applications.
- Define architectural functional and non-functional requirements.
- Provide architecture design for migrating the data from legacy database to cloud DB.
- Participate in defining enterprise principles and patterns.
- Prioritize and plan the work load for multiple projects.
- Defining Microservices principles and APIs.
- Collaborate and work with multiple teams and vendors to achieve desired outcome.
Enterprise Learnin Solution Architect
Department Of Defence
09.2017 - 04.2018
- Provide solution options.
- Lead program of work.
- Review architecture artefacts.
- Identify learning technologies gaps and provide solution.
- Provide technical advice for integrating various systems within learning technologies.
- Work along with Defence enterprise architects to define target roadmap for learning technologies.
Integration Architect
IP Australia
03.2017 - 06.2017
- Plan, coordinate, architect, and assist in activities related to the integration within IPA applications.
- Identify logical sequence of work to developers.
- Provide leadership in integration space and service implementation to ensure consistency across scrum teams.
- Provide leadership on good practices / approaches to systems integration, software development, message-based middleware and SOA, APIs, API management, data modelling, and legacy integration techniques.
- Develop and maintain Technology strategies, standards and methodologies and associated design and solutions for integration domain.
- Translate business processes into integration architectural requirements and service contracts.
- Provide input to solution architecture and integration design decisions.
- Work with lead architect to define integration strategy for IPA.
- Conduct proof-of-concepts with latest middleware platform/ technologies.
- Prepare and perform option evaluations for design decisions.
- Perform code reviews for integration code and design reviews for integration artefacts developed within sprints.
- Suggest industry pattern based approach.
Integration Program Lead
Roads And Maritime Services
05.2015 - 01.2017
- Solution option proposal with various pros and cons and presenting it to program architect / enterprise architect.
- Attending design authority meeting
- Setting up the architecture principle to be followed based on requirements.
- Defining security standards
- Documenting solution architecture based on TOGAF standards
- Identifying integration patterns
- Performing POC on new products and technologies.
- Identifying building blocks for the solution proposed.
- Infrastructure capacity planning based on non-functional requirements.
- Defining integration roadmaps to enterprise architects.
- Maintaining service catalog for reuse.
- Reusable service identification.
- Identifying and defining integration pattern.
- Setting up SOA governance standards.
- Identifying security mechanisms for the services.
- High level design.
- Code review and review of detailed design.
Integration Officer
NSW POLICE
06.2013 - 05.2015
- Collect and baseline the existing applications by aliasing with business users.
- Review and provide inputs to the proposed architecture for legacy system migration.
- Review and provide inputs to upcoming mobile strategy at NSW Police.
- Developing Business cases for mobile strategy with various solution option and cost estimation for each.
- Identifying, designing SOA services based on SOA principles.
- Developed POC for mobile application with jQuery, NodeJS, Mongo DB.
- Designing high availability.
- Designing Restful API (URI design, Media types, Resource linking and expansion) for mobile applications.
- Designing various integration patterns for ESB layer.
- Implementing security concepts using CA API Gateway for mobile applications. Implementation of security concepts like OAuth, XACML in CA API gateway along with TIM TAM.
Technical Leader
Roads And Maritime Services
01.2012 - 05.2013
- Part of SOA standards group.
- Designing and developing WSDL, XSD and JSON schema.
- Designing REST API.
- Designing process flows using BPMN.
- Developing process flowing using BPEL (WPS).
- Rules development on WPS.
- Responsible for delivering SOA and Rest based project end to end.
- Security implementation.
- Implemented an integration project using various integration patterns like publish/subscribe, store-forward, request-response.
- Scrum master.
- Analyzing the requirements by interacting with Business.
- Delivering Interface specification for project.
- Delivering design for project.
- Delivering the code base with automated script.
- Freezing non-functional requirements.
- Data modelling.
- Managing and mentoring the team members
- Responsible for delivering the project end to end.
Solution Designer
VODAFONE HUTCHISON AUSTRALIA (TCS)
11.2009 - 01.2012
- Analyzing the requirements by interacting with clients.
- Designing and delivering both SOA based projects and Rest based projects.
- Developing WSDL, XSD.
- Delivering high level design for project.
- Delivering low level design for project.
- Delivering the code base with automated script.
- Involved in code development using Java, Spring, Oracle coherence. Used design patterns for reusing the components.
- Freezing non-functional requirements.
- Involved in analysis of various tools like terracotta, Oracle coherence, Oracle Timesten etc.
- Developed XSDs and WSDL for the project
- Finalizing the automated backup plan and automated recovery process
- Involved in architecture discussion for using the concepts like segmentation.
- Involved in hardware sizing.
- Migrated 5 million customer data successfully to new system.
- Managed team of 10 Developers onsite and offshore.
- Had Continues Interaction with business clients for gathering information
- Used to provide estimates for deliverables and organize Meetings.
- Involved in code reviews.
Developer / Architect
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
02.2003 - 08.2009
- Architecture, design and development for various projects.
Programmer
Various Employers
06.2001 - 02.2003
- Programming on various different technologies such as ASP .Net and Java
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering - Computer Science Engineerging
Bharathiyar College of Engineering And Technology
India05.2001
Skills
- Enterprise Architecture Design
- Systems design
- Microservices Architecture
- Data Integration Strategies
- Application Modernization
- API Design and Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Serverless Architecture
- Identity provisioning
- Big Data Solutions
- Architecture review
- Requirements Analysis
- Technical Guidance
- Technical Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Technical Documentation and Reporting
- Security and Compliance
- Stakeholder Communication
Certification
- TOGAF Foundation
- AtomSphere Integration Cloud – Integration Developer I & II (Dell Boomi)
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Timeline
Solution Architect
Dept Of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Wate
06.2022 - Current
Senior Solution Architect
Idemia
02.2022 - 06.2022
Solution Architect
AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION
06.2021 - 01.2022
Solution Architect
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT
03.2021 - 05.2021
Solution Architect
DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS
12.2019 - 03.2021
Solution Architect
IBM (DEPT OF DEFENCE)
05.2019 - 08.2019
Solution Architect
ATO
04.2018 - 05.2019
Enterprise Learnin Solution Architect
Department Of Defence
09.2017 - 04.2018
Integration Architect
IP Australia
03.2017 - 06.2017
Integration Program Lead
Roads And Maritime Services
05.2015 - 01.2017
Integration Officer
NSW POLICE
06.2013 - 05.2015
Technical Leader
Roads And Maritime Services
01.2012 - 05.2013
Solution Designer
VODAFONE HUTCHISON AUSTRALIA (TCS)
11.2009 - 01.2012
Developer / Architect
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
02.2003 - 08.2009
Programmer
Various Employers
06.2001 - 02.2003
Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering - Computer Science Engineerging
Bharathiyar College of Engineering And Technology
- TOGAF Foundation
- AtomSphere Integration Cloud – Integration Developer I & II (Dell Boomi)
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
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