$250
A 6-week, 9-module online course. This is a paced course, which is offered twice a year. It is one of three specialized streams leading to IIPS Certification.
*Students who have passed the IIPS Foundations exam are eligible to enroll in this course.
Start Date
19 October 2023
Duration
6 weeks
Delivery
Online, in our digital classroom
This course aims to equip technology specialists on IIP design solution teams with the knowledge to answer these questions:
- How should I approach an IIPS Technology Program?
- What are the Building Blocks of IIPS Solutions?
- How do I ensure my IIPS Solution design covers all the bases?
- What can I do to ‘future proof’ my IIPS Solution?
- What Deployment Architecture would best service my IIPS?
- How do I ensure constant alignment of the Technology domain to Business?
- How should I approach the build out of my IIPS solution?
- What are the Launch Readiness steps I should follow?
- How do I cater to, continuous improvement?
Course Schedule
Week 1: IIPS Tech Solutions - Where to Start?
The importance of aligning the Tech to the overall Business Vision and Strategy
The impact of regulations on your design
How did we get to IIPSs?
Innovation and improvement
Week 2: Technical Architecture Principles and Considerations
Defining your Technology Guiding Principles
Open source, bespoke or licensed?
Infrastructure Sourcing Procurement, Partnering and Collaborations
IIPS Solution Delivery Methodologies and Considerations
Enterprise architecture
Delivery Methodologies, Processes and models
Stakeholders, governance and the PMO
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
Week 3: IIPS Building Blocks and Design Guidelines
Key characteristics of IIPS systems and the associated building blocks
Building blocks of IIPS solution layers
Functional and non-functional business requirements
Solution Design
Technical standards and authorities
Typical IIPS use cases
How to enable a phased evolution of an IIPS
Week 4: IIPS Building Blocks
Foundational Building Block - Key requirements
Interoperability options
Why should we use an API-based integration architecture?
Consumer channels
Fraud and AML requirements
Week 5: Solution Enablers
Monitoring and Logging tools
Security tools
Deployment Architecture
Potential deployment options and how to decide
Containers
Business continuity and HA/DR considerations
Week 6: Solution Validation and Launch
Governance and QA
Functional and Non-Functional testing completeness
Launch readiness
Operations, Continuous Improvement and Change Management