Technical Application Manager · Rotterdam
Perkash Nokhai
Technical Application Manager
Professional with extensive experience in complex application environments across maritime, finance and pension sectors. Specialised in payments infrastructure, financial applications and cloud transformation. Currently driving the elimination of all on-premise infrastructure at PGGM.
Profile
A practical specialist with broad experience
Professional with extensive experience in complex application environments, active across the maritime, finance and pension sectors. My work centres on technical application and systems management, with a specialisation in payment processing and financial applications. I maintain good working relationships with vendors and external data providers, and take a proactive approach to every assignment. Currently working at PGGM as a DevOps Engineer, with the strategic goal of fully eliminating all on-premise infrastructure and migrating workloads to the cloud.
What I do
Core expertise
Managing complex application landscapes in regulated environments. Taking ownership of systems — including during handovers without formal transition — and ensuring continuity through solid documentation and stakeholder alignment.
Planning and executing on-premise to Azure migrations, including server domain migrations (450+ servers), ERP implementations on Azure, and database migrations from Oracle to SQL. Focus on minimal disruption to business operations.
Hands-on experience managing SWIFT Alliance, TRAX, treasury management systems and dealing room platforms. Coordinating with data vendors such as Reuters and Bloomberg, and running annual BCP and disaster recovery exercises.
Technical skills
Tools & technologies
Built up over a long career across finance, maritime and IT services — a working knowledge of the tools that keep complex application landscapes running.
Azure Administrator certified. IaaS, PaaS, Azure DevOps, migrations and infrastructure.
SWIFT Alliance, TRAX, treasury management systems and payments domain administration.
ESXi, Hyper-V, NetApp storage, Veritas Netbackup and large-scale server estate management.
SQL Server, Oracle, database migrations and performance management in production environments.
PowerShell automation, scripting for deployments and operational efficiency.
ServiceNow, ITIL practices, OpenText eDocs and enterprise content management platforms.
Credentials
Certifications & training
Career history
Experience
- Managing on-premise server infrastructure for one of the Netherlands' largest pension administrators.
- Assisting development teams in migrating workloads from on-premises to Azure cloud environments.
- Driving the strategic goal of fully eliminating all on-premise applications.
- Took over technical management from an external partner and facilitated transition to the internal business unit.
- Executed Unit 4 Business World upgrade independently, coordinating testing without external support.
- Managed Unit 4 Business World, SWIFT, TMS/ITS and HR Payroll systems.
- Implemented Unit 4 Business World Milestone 7 in Azure.
- Led technical migration from Oracle database to SQL database.
- Managed SWIFT Alliance and Treasury Management systems on a global scale.
- Project lead for retiring a legacy domain and migrating 450+ servers to a new domain.
- Coordinated upgrades, decommissioning and edge-case solutions for non-compliant systems.
- Mapped the full application landscape by investigating and analysing 100+ applications.
- Led decision-making with application owners on compatibility and version management.
- Took over Unit 4 Agresso Milestone 5 without a formal handover; produced thorough documentation.
- Designed and implemented the Joint Venture solution for Unit 4 Milestone 7 ERP at DITP.
- Delivered training to the service desk on first and second-line incidents.
- Managed the payments domain (SWIFT and TRAX) and middleware systems.
- Led migration projects for SWIFT, VMware, Netbackup and IBM hardware.
- End-responsible for dealing room and trading systems with Reuters and Bloomberg.
- Coordinated annual BCP and disaster recovery exercises.
- Managed the front office application Alaris and related batch processes.
- Reported to auditors and the Securities Lending directorate; maintained contact with international partners.
- Technical management of applications within the AEGON IT environment over six years.
- Technical Project Coordinator role (2006–2007) coordinating IT projects.
- Network engineering and infrastructure support at Formatex Information Technology B.V.
Education
Outside work
Interests & hobbies
A few things that keep me busy away from the keyboard.
Get in touch
Available for technical application management and Azure cloud migration assignments, primarily in the financial sector. Based in Rotterdam, open to assignments across the Netherlands.