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Don’t call us special

(K4)

Stream: Keynotes
Time: 17:00 - 18:00


Keynote

NatWest has a large mainframe estate supporting the daily banking needs of 18 million customers. It holds the master records of our transactions, balances and customer data. As the wider bank extends its digital journey the demands on the mainframe continue to increase, not just in terms of transaction volumes but in terms of access to the data and underlying processes. These are becoming increasingly complex and moving past the standard balance enquiry type request. There are architectural approaches to resolving this, but ultimately the applications on the mainframe needs to be able to change quickly enough to support this. This is where DevOps on the mainframe has become critical. The teams supporting and developing these platforms needs to be able to react to the speed and dynamism of the requests. NatWest has built a DevOps model and pipeline to support this. I will talk about the process to set this up, the lessons learnt and the benefits we have achieved through it.

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  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

  • Chris Booth at National Westminster Bank (Natwest)
  • Chris Booth is Head of Quality Centre of Excellence for NatWest Group. This is a bank wide function focused on improving the quality outcomes for all projects. It helps application teams change and improve their working practices through the use of best practices and SME knowledge. He has worked for NatWest for 13 years across a wide range of roles. He has run trading systems, global infrastructure setups, Payment, Middleware systems and Enterprise Service platforms and so has a wide experience of different technical approaches and challenges that exist in these different business scenarios. Prior to NatWest, Chris worked as an IT Consultant focusing on IBM integration technologies such as WebSphere and MQ. He has a particular interest in how testing and quality processes can be embedded into the daily interactions and processes that teams undertake and how these should not be seen as special or different.


    Email: Chris.Booth@natwest.com

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