Harsh Otwani

Technology leader with 12+ years building modern cloud, data, and AI platforms that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Experienced in Azure architecture, enterprise data governance, and automation, with a strong record of partnering with executives to deliver secure, compliant, and financially optimized systems.

Senior Manager – Infrastructure & Data Management at Conexiom (2026-04 – 2026-10)

• Led Azure infrastructure modernization and FinOps optimization, reducing cloud spend and strengthening scalability, reliability, and performance across core data and platform systems.
• Partnered with CFO, CTO, CEO, and engineering leaders to shape infrastructure, SRE, and data‑management strategy, enhancing stability, observability, and operational efficiency while negotiating enterprise software contracts to balance cost and value.
• Directed adoption and governance of AI and automation tooling, establishing usage standards, preventing cost spillover, and enabling secure, scalable analytics and engineering workflows across the digital order automation platform.

Group Product Manager, AI & Document Intelligence at Ernst & Young (2020-10 – 2026-03)

• Led enterprise platform modernization initiatives across cloud, infrastructure, and data systems, aligning scalability, security, and compliance with long‑term business objectives.
• Architected and executed a mainframe‑to‑Azure migration for a Treasury Management Solution, migrating 20M+ records while improving system availability, recoverability, and operational efficiency (~$20M program).
• Owned Azure platform architecture and governance, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and data services, enforcing secure and compliant production standards.
• Championed reliability and resilience practices for mission‑critical platforms, strengthening uptime, data integrity, and operational stability across Finance, Risk, and Treasury workloads.
• Partnered with Finance and leadership on cost visibility and optimization, aligning platform design with budget controls and sustainable operating models.
• Established data and platform governance frameworks (quality, lineage, retention, certification), enabling regulatory readiness (AIRB) and audit‑grade production systems.

Senior Product Manager – Data Intelligence & CLM Automation at Deloitte (DTBA) (2018-02 – 2020-07)

• Delivered enterprise data and workflow modernization programs, improving reliability, governance, and operational efficiency across banking, asset‑management, and healthcare clients.
• Designed controls and remediation pipelines that reduced regulatory/operational risk by up to 50% and improved processing efficiency by 30%, while advising senior leaders on technology risk and modernization strategy.

Product/Engineering Lead – Workflow & Document Systems at Tata Consultancy Services (2012-12 – 2016-07)

• Engineered and optimized core banking platforms (payments, loans, SWIFT), reducing operational inefficiencies by $500K annually and improving system stability and customer experience.
• Led Agile engineering teams and enhanced analytics/forecasting capabilities, reducing data handling costs by $1M annually and strengthening production performance.

MS in Management Information System (MIS) – University of Illinois at Chicago (2016-08 – 2017-12)

BS in Electronics & Telecommunication – University of Mumbai (2008-06 – 2012-06)