Bank of America DQC

Provisioning authorized card analytics data to the Enterprise

Data Quality & Management

Having successfully managed a set of applications, groups & worked alongside senior executives, I was tasked to lead the the Card Analytics Transformation effort which focused on the digital transformation from legacy DB/2 into DB/2 Blue, Teradata & the Hadoop Data Lake. The effort also coincided with the European divestiture of Bank of America which was being acquired by Lloyds of London.

As the Solutions Architect, I spearheaded the dispositioning exercise in an effort to understand the application & data landscape that employed the bankcard FinTech. It enabled me to perform the necessary deep dives into the consumption of data, processes, distribution, usage & related activities impacting downstream application with the objective of trying to simplify, normalize, standardize data & to eliminate redundancy to alleviate the digital footprint, while ensuring regulatory compliances are being fulfilled. These included the need for securing data, ensuring authorized use, appropriating retention, & assessing the pattern of distribution or provisioning.

ARCHITECTURE DID GREAT THINGS!


Reduced
Footprint


38%
Redundant, objects,
un-used, storage, archives

Improved
Performance


26%
Higher SLA, better response, jobs, feeds, API, reporting

Simplified
Platforms


34%
Access to data lake
operational,
analytical

Modernize
Services


42%
Standardized provisioning, distribution

My previous experience as a Portfolio Architect allowed me to exact my skills to build a portal to augment the Card Transformation effort by providing servicing architects to engage clients using an integrated analysis tool enabling them to obtain a good understanding of their application landspace & capturing usage, classification, retention, downstream obligations. It also allowed them to help validate inter-connected data views in an effort to reduce their footprint by consolidating common uses while classifying domain access to ensure privacy enabled by developed permissible views. The successful utilization of the portal drove the dispositioning effort to define the necessary objects for the target-state, making it far more efficient, simpler & architecturally compliant supporting a big-data topology. The resulting system met the operational & analytical design needs that embraces a far more resilient while offering significant cost savings without compromising its promised SLAs. The overall architectural goals of governance where also satisfied by implementing Intelligent Data Management & Data Quality obligations by adopting data provisioning standards to ensure curated information is properly logged, monitored & managed supporting supply chain agreement rules.

Data Dispositioning

A critical discovery exercise in compliance, the proper identification, classification for authorized use of protected data ensures & drive consumers to meet regulation, standards & adopt practices to avert abuse, but increases trust by insisting on its accuracy, lifespan, consistency & quality.

European Divestiture

The effort allowed BAC to extend its target state platform for lease to its European partners, allowing them time to reclaim their data while ensuring existing business partners continue to provide reporting, compliance services using curated data offering consistent information for all parties.

Intelligent Data Management

A solution once adopted by the USAF makes new strides offering an advanced platform for cataloging, classifying, processing structured & unstructured data into data that can be calculated, & curated for enterprise use & distribution, while integrating into trusted models fit for use accurately.

Operational Platform

A transactional service devoted entirely to a managd digital operational support services businesses to supply precise, timely integrated processes that reflects true banking complexities that drives the execution of decisions, strategy, operational & applied business mechanics.

Analytical Platform

A high availability trusted service protects most critical decision making source delivering data insights, market intelligence, spatial comparitives, visualization details helps reveal actionable information curated instantenously for greater consumption for reporting & near online use cases.

Data Lake Platform

A centralized repository allows for the secured storage of native & aged data accessible throughout the enterprise is cost effective, fast & flexible designed to allow integrated processing circumventing traditional warehouse strategy leveraging multi-purpose big data architecture.