Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Handling Strategic Products and Strategic Initiatives in Markets Post Trade Services Tribe
• Product roadmap planning, IT backlog prioritization and execution as per strategy
• Third party products Integrations IMSecurities/IMActions/Xceptor towards modernization of post trade service offerings
• Annual Business Review, Quarterly Business reviews and Monthly updates for the products
• Theme Integrator and group Product Owner
• IT vendor management governance, budget approvals
• Global Stakeholder Management
• integrations of new trading/investment/financial products.
• integrations of trading platforms and custodians/CSD.
• Mandatory Market Upgrades, Regulatory Initiatives
• Hybrid cross-functional Setup covering multiple global locations Inc. Denmark, Lithuania and India.
• Ways of working , Team building

Apr 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• ♦ Product roadmap planning , IT backlog prioritisation and execution as per strategy execution plans
• ♦ Extensive experience in prioritisation of project requirements across regions and defining IT roadmap for each region.
• ♦ Diverse experience in managing applications based on various platforms i.e. J2E client server architecture, Microsoft .net technology frameworks, distributed systems involving CRM/DWH etc.
• ♦ Ability to achieve the overall banking strategy and operations manage high STP exception based systems.
• ♦ IT vendor management governance, budget approvals
• ♦ integration of white labels financial institution clients in Europe and APAC.
• ♦ integrations of new trading/investment/financial products.
• ♦ integrations of trading platforms and custodians/CSD.
• ♦ RegTech projects related to trading and investment.

Aug 2016 – Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Delivery Head, Asset Servicing & Settlements, IT Post Trade Systems
• Integration with external market data providers
• Development of internal IT systems as per business & OPS requirements
• New Product additions
• Product upgrades
• Business, Operations , Vendor and IT stakeholders management
• Product analysis , Strategic programs , Product development
• Vendor Management
• Integrations and Migrations
• Regulatory and Market Upgrade
• Hiring

Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr

• Delivery Head, Market Reference Data

Dec 2010 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Product Delivery & Implementation Manager at TCS BaNCS™, Delhi India
• A Flagship product of TCS BFSI;
• Asset servicing and securities processing; alignment with business & operations of global custodian & investment banks like JPMC, CITIBANK, BNP PARIBAS
• Major KPIs included timely & quality delivery of product line to all clients
• Develop E2E STP systems; STP ratio of 75% ; exception management based OPS touchpoints
• Manage transparency of deliverables across product development teams, clients via Monthly Steercos

Nov 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

• End-to-end release management of various technical & functional upgrades on IBM Websphere Message Broker & ScanIT, which are the main message routing & message screening engines for Barclays.
• Project Plan & Milestone definition
• Effort & Cost Estimation
• Co-ordination of various technology groups towards release management
• Delivery & Supplier Management
• o Supporting collaborative working across GRCB Technology to facilitate the migration of new projects
• o Production of progress reports for the Payments Sanctions Programme Manager
• o Resource management including Barclay’s staff, 3rd party suppliers and non-people resources e.g. licences, hardware
• Release Management & Planning
• o Identifying resources required to provide technical and project support and making effective decisions on project go/no go criteria
• o Balancing the needs of the project and the business area with the requirement to maintain operational stability across all technical infrastructures.
• o Managing change control and configuration management for project scope
• o Responsibility for project administration, including RAIDs, Revised Annual Forecasts, change control, reporting and ensuring all GRCB Technology governance and performance measures and standards are adhered to
• Third Party Vendor & Stakeholder Management

Mar 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• The mandate of innovation center within testing services in Wipro Technologies is to create re-usable , scalable technology components across BSFI segment - which could be readily deployed both for internal and external customers and help in acceleration of the testing lifecycle, primarily around SWIFT testing.
• As a part of this group, Conceptualized a J2EE based SWIFT testing framework to accelerate testing lifecycle of recurrant test requirements for the banks using SWIFT as the messaging standard. Involved in the design, development implementation of the framework.

Jul 1999 – Jan 2007 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Paris Area, France

• Key Skills Attained
• Development , Customization & Implementation of TCS BaNCS™ for First National Bank, South Africa and BNP Paribas, Paris France
• C++, Unix, CICS, Sybase, ORACLE, MS OFFICE
• Capital Markets, Investment Banking domain knowledge
• Understanding the Vendor Feeds Swift (ISO 7775, 15022 and 20022), Telekurs, Bloomberg, Financial Times and other data providers and build business services components to process these market data feeds for various banks
• Performance benchmarking of various IT components to meet the volumteric requirements for the banks