Priya Rani

Mainframe Technical Lead & Developer with nearly 10 years of experience delivering enterprise-grade solutions across the Banking and Mortgage domain, specializing in Mainframe Development, Modernization, Application Enhancement, and Digital Customer Journeys.

Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead & Mainframe Developer at Barclays (2015-02 – 2018-10)

Lead requirement gathering, technical design, development, and implementation of critical banking solutions, including new payment journeys through digital channels, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer experience requirements.

• Technical Leadership & Solution Development: Lead requirement gathering, technical design, development, and implementation of critical banking solutions, including new payment journeys through digital channels, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer experience requirements.
• Mainframe Modernization & Automation: Executed modernization initiatives by automating legacy processes using REXX and Groovy, establishing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment workflows, improve release efficiency, and reduce manual intervention.
• Customer Journey & Banking Domain Expertise: Designed and enhanced software solutions supporting multiple customer journeys within the banking and mortgage domain, leveraging strong functional, technical, and configurational expertise across mainframe environments.
• Cross-Functional Delivery & Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with business, technology, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope solutions, resolve technical dependencies, and deliver high-impact projects aligned with strategic banking objectives.
• Quality Assurance & Defect Prevention: Conducted comprehensive code and documentation reviews using structured quality checklists, strengthening development standards and proactively minimizing defect leakage across releases.
• Team Mentoring & Capability Development: Mentored junior developers on coding practices, application functionality, technical concepts, and project requirements, contributing to stronger team capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Modern Technology Exposure: Built working knowledge of APIs, XML, Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, REXX and Groovy as part of mainframe modernization and integration initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead & Mainframe Developer at Barclays (2022-02 – Present)

Lead requirement gathering, technical design, development, and implementation of critical banking solutions, including new payment journeys through digital channels, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer experience requirements.

• Technical Leadership & Solution Development: Lead requirement gathering, technical design, development, and implementation of critical banking solutions, including new payment journeys through digital channels, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer experience requirements.
• Mainframe Modernization & Automation: Executed modernization initiatives by automating legacy processes using REXX and Groovy, establishing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment workflows, improve release efficiency, and reduce manual intervention.
• Customer Journey & Banking Domain Expertise: Designed and enhanced software solutions supporting multiple customer journeys within the banking and mortgage domain, leveraging strong functional, technical, and configurational expertise across mainframe environments.
• Cross-Functional Delivery & Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with business, technology, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope solutions, resolve technical dependencies, and deliver high-impact projects aligned with strategic banking objectives.
• Quality Assurance & Defect Prevention: Conducted comprehensive code and documentation reviews using structured quality checklists, strengthening development standards and proactively minimizing defect leakage across releases.
• Team Mentoring & Capability Development: Mentored junior developers on coding practices, application functionality, technical concepts, and project requirements, contributing to stronger team capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Modern Technology Exposure: Built working knowledge of APIs, XML, Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, REXX and Groovy as part of mainframe modernization and integration initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. (2013-03 – 2015-01)

Developed strong functional and technical expertise in the Mortgage Serve system, understanding complex business workflows and application functionality within the banking and mortgage domain.

• Mortgage Domain Development: Developed strong functional and technical expertise in the Mortgage Serve system, understanding complex business workflows and application functionality within the banking and mortgage domain.
• Mainframe Product Development: Contributed to the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of Mortgage Serve products, delivering application changes aligned with functional and business requirements.
• Executed unit testing and integration testing to validate application functionality, identify defects, and ensure stable delivery of mainframe solutions.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication – MIET Gondia, Nagpur University (2012)