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[ING Global Customer Data Platform]
As Technical Lead at HCL Technologies embedded within ING's engineering organisation, I lead the design and delivery of the Global Customer Data Management (GCDM) platform — a mission-critical microservices ecosystem that ensures consistent, accurate customer identity records across ING's operations in 40+ countries. The platform underpins KYC (Know Your Customer) compliance, fraud detection, and personalised banking experiences for millions of customers worldwide.
Java
Spring Boot
Microservices
Kafka
DDD
Azure DevOps
Kubernetes
Live Demo ↗Source Code
Role
Technical Lead
Timeline
Ongoing
Year
2022–Now
Status
Active
Project Hero Screenshot / Demo Video
Key Metrics
40+
Countries Covered
99.9%
Platform Uptime
DDD
Architecture
< 5m
Deploy Time
Overview
Architecture
System Architecture Diagram
Key Features
Domain-Driven microservices architecture
Event-driven processing via Kafka
Automated CI/CD with quality gates
Standardised observability & alerting
Cross-border regulatory compliance
Automated reprocessing on failure
Screenshots
Dashboard
Alert Config
Analytics
Mobile
Tech Stack
LanguageJava 17, Kotlin
FrameworkSpring Boot, Spring Cloud
MessagingKafka
DatabaseSQL Server, PostgreSQL
CI/CDAzure DevOps, SonarQube
CloudAzure, Cloud Foundry
ObservabilityDynatrace, Splunk, PagerDuty
ContainerDocker, Kubernetes
Challenges
Enforcing global data consistency across regional compliance boundaries
Zero-downtime deployments on a platform serving millions of records
Standardising alerting, archiving, security monitoring across distributed services
Integrating legacy data sources with modern event-driven architecture
Links
ING Bank ↗
LinkedIn ↗
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