Anukampa Malhi

A seasoned Project / Delivery / Development (Senior) leader with over 15+ years of experience in delivering applications, related projects, and entire programs successfully.

Experienced with managing and delivering high net worth projects.

PMP® and Certified SAFe® Agilist, skilled in all aspects of application(s) management.

Over 10 years of proven track record in leading large technology & digital transformation initiatives within well-reputed multinational organizations.

Strong prior software development and consultancy experience in various technologies.

Extensive experience in directing multiple technology teams across geographically distributed locations to deliver customer centric solutions.

Confident decision maker with strong interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) (Jan 2022 – Nov 2023) 

Senior Project Manager 

Managing Capital Markets Risk portfolio projects including regulatory applications - FRTB / Basel III / SMRS-MD / BCBS239/ cloud transformation project to migrate from legacy platforms (OnPrem) to Azure cloud.

• Manage and development of various digital transformation projects with both business and technical stakeholders and development operations post implementation.
• Managed delivery of multiple projects/programs worth 100K to 10+ MM in the entire portfolio.
• Liaised between various technology, architecture, and business teams to establish project charter, develop project plan, and project design/architecture for entire program including cloud transformation projects.
• Development manager for regulatory applications ensuring development and ensuring end-to-end project delivery.
•  Responsible for Governance of all applications from end to end for the Development portfolio.
• Communicate program status effectively to steering committee and senior management.
• Vendor procurement and management. Working with various external vendors – onshore / offshore for technology and support. Managing SOW, MOU, SLAs, contracts, billing for vendors. 
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and implement corrective actions for issues to ensure project completion within established timelines and within allocated budget.
• Ownership of project financials including overall project budgeting as well as monthly budget oversight for both business and technology. Primary spokesperson in monthly financial review meetings. Projects costs estimation and management – expenses and capital - monthly, quarterly, and yearly.
• Resource management – using onshore and offshore model managing task assignment, resource leveling, reporting, issues escalation and resolution.
• Stakeholder management including senior management, external business partners & vendors on an ongoing basis to maintain buy-in, interest and sponsorship.
• Ownership of status reporting for technology, data governance office, First Line, Second Line, Internal Audit, and other key stakeholders.
• Working with Bank’s Risk PMO to keep portfolio alignment in terms of financial and timelines commitments.
• Managing multiple levels of documentation including signoffs from all stakeholders - throughout the project cycle including Project charter, project plan, business and technical requirements and RAID logs.
• Managed and liaised with various internal / external teams for DevOps for level 2 and 3 support.
• Establish and execute project protocols - status reporting, issues resolution, risk management processes.
• Facilitated Agile Scrum adoption in the team as well as organization. Coached team in Agile/Scrum values and best practices. Established project management KPI metrics and helped teams improve speed and quality of delivery.

Scotiabank (Jan 2019 – Jan 2022) 

Senior Manager / Development Manager

Managed Enterprise Risk Regulatory Reporting and Data Science teams. Responsible for two critical enterprise risk applications within Enterprise data lake using data analytics – Retail Credit Risk Reporting (RCRR) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS9) (OSFI / BASEL / CCaR).

Managed and supported the cloud transformation projects - to move on-prem applications to Azure cloud.

• Development Manager for various releases of applications including new development and ongoing maintenance releases.
• Managed project milestones and phases; identified risks and issues; implemented mitigations and corrective actions to ensure project completion within established timeline and budget.
• Dev Ops manager for supporting and management of operations team - Dev ops, Azure Dev Ops for level 1 and 2 support.
• Managed teams across projects - onshore and offshore model. Responsible for performance and task allocations.
• Provided guidance and recommendations at a broad functional level based on product research and analysis.
• Liaison between Data Governance Office and various business managers, users and the technical development team.
• Provided project status updates in steering committee meetings.
• Responsible for Governance of all applications from end to end for the Development portfolio.
• Handled external and internal audits including Management Control Environments, handling audits, Records Management and SOX controls.
• Led multiple cross-functional teams, consisting of internal resources and third-party resources.
• Management and ownership of project financials - overall project budget as well as monthly budget oversight for both business and technology. 
• Managed business stakeholders, external business partners & vendors. Managing SOW, MOU, SLAs, contracts, billing for vendors. 
• Managing transformation of teams and processes to agile delivery. Trained the teams in Scrum methodology. Overseeing ongoing coaching and improvements.
• Established project management KPI metrics and helped teams improve speed and quality of delivery.

BlackBerry, Toronto, Canada (2008 – 2013)

Project Manager, Technical Lead 

• Led team to develop, test and implement highly efficient server-side application to send millions of BlackBerry push messages per day.
• Developed and verified various levels of test cases including UAT / SIT test sets.
• Worked on development of various releases of Blackberry Push application.
• As Tech lead, gathered and analyzed business/ user requirements as a part of product backlog. Translation of backlog items into tangible deliverables such as user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams for proposed mobile and web-based system.
• Coordinated with various geographically distributed stakeholder teams to formalize requirement specification, implementation and status updates and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Ownership of risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training.
• Created and implemented test plan strategy, including stress and performance testing, performed estimation and resource planning, managed Quality Assurance and test environment setup and coordinated with various test teams.
• Led and worked on 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration, and performance to verify the stakeholder’s needs are met.
• Led the initiative to implement agile software methodology, improving team efficiency. Acted as Scrum Master for first project release using Scrum.
• Performed project management using complete PMLC, including technical and financial estimation and risk management as well as stakeholder management.
• Managed risks, project scope, quality, and budget
• Mentored and trained junior team members.

Citibank (2008 – 2008) 

Software Consultant 

• Worked on Citibank Funds Transfers, tool to remit payments that need same-day execution and settlement, such as investments, treasury payments, foreign exchange settlements and third-party settlements. In EFT, initiation of payments is done electronically, via Electronic Banking, File Transmission, CPU or SWIFT
• Participated in the technical design of the latest release.
• Involved in Testing and Maintenance various tiers of the system including UI of the application.
• Actively involved in discussing system requirements.
• Wrote SQL scripts including stored procedures and functions for the back end of the application.
• Worked on various reporting modules of the application.

Aithent Inc (Client - CIBC, Toronto, Canada) (2005 – 2008)

Senior Software Consultant 

• System requirements management with various stakeholder groups for various new and maintenance releases of Online Banking application, which provides web-based retail banking services.
• Collaborated with stakeholders’ groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
• Alignment of client’s business requirements to technical specification by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models and functional / workflow mapping documentation.
• Developed various new and maintenance releases of Online Banking application, which provides web-based retail banking services.
• Designed, planned and executed test suits and test cases for sanity and regression test cycles.
• Led Development Integration and testing team for one of the releases.
• Worked on both manual and automated test scripting and test execution, test data creation.

HCL Technologies, New Delhi, India (2003 – 2005) 

Team lead, Senior Software Engineer 

• Client: National Cash Registers (NCR, USA)
• Managed client-side requirements and technical analysis and offshore development of software project
• Developed an e-Commerce site based on Trilogy’s e-commerce solution. The WOT (Web Ordering Tool) site is a quote management and order submission tool.
• Coordinated client site onshore team at and offshore team.
• Developed various levels of test cases including UAT / Integration tests.
• Involved in all aspects of software project development lifecycle.
• Mentored and trained junior team members.

India Today Group Online, New Delhi, India (2000 – 2002) 

Software developer 

• Developed various modules of the application of complete content management solution for the e-newspaper including front-end for providing simple interfaces for content developers to feed and manage content. Worked on back-end for syndication of the content.
• Developed web applications to implement SMS campaigns and generate various reports.

B. Tech. (Computer systems) Thompson Rivers University, Canada

Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering (Honors)