GCB Bank PLC
2019 – 2025Cloud & Platform Architect, Manager
- 99.98%
- Uptime delivered
- 57%
- Reduction in operating costs
- 70,000+
- Daily transactions
Context
Ghana's largest indigenous Tier-1 commercial bank, with GHS 52.6 billion in total assets and GHS 41.3 billion in customer deposits, operating in a highly regulated environment and serving over 2 million retail and corporate customers nationwide.
Modernize mission-critical digital banking and payments platforms, including core banking and mobile money, without compromising regulatory compliance, uptime, or security.
What I did
- Designed and owned the cloud and on-premises architecture for digital banking and mobile money platforms serving 1M+ users in a highly regulated environment
- Led end-to-end cloud migration and modernization initiatives
- Designed and governed AWS landing zones with security, identity, resilience, disaster recovery, and full compliance controls
- Architected enterprise payment platforms supporting 10,000+ merchants and 70,000+ high-volume daily transactions
- Modernized legacy on-premises systems (Oracle Flexcube and Huawei Mobile Money) into scalable cloud-native architectures
- Acted as trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating regulatory and business requirements into executable cloud strategy
- Earlier, as Product & Platform Specialist (Payments), designed reporting and reconciliation layers for enterprise payment and national disbursement systems
Stack
- AWS
- Oracle Flexcube
- Huawei Mobile Money
- On-Premises
- Landing Zones
Let's talk about your platform.
Fully remote worldwide, open to global opportunities. Working across US and EU time zones from Accra, Ghana.