Senior Director | SVP Technology | Strategic Technical Leader
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Accomplished financial services technology professional with extensive experience in IT governance, innovation and digital transformation, enterprise architecture, solution development, strategic technology planning and tactical implementation, relationship development, IT programme management, and people development. Front office trading technology and domain experience working with traders and quants in Securities Lending, Cash Equities trading, Swaps, and Payments at Goldman Sachs, J.P.Morgan, Currencies Direct, and Zoyo (start-up). Bachelors & Master's degree in Computer Science, 23 years' experience in London financial services technology sector.
Proven track record of leadership and management of technology teams (Dev/QA/Operations/Security/Infrastructure), design/architecture of near real-time front office trading applications, integrating (market data feeds, real-time pricing & positions, KYC & regulatory reporting, using emerging technology & partners to create business value, and minimize technical debt and operational risk. Ability to communicate effectively with management at all levels to prioritise activities and achieve defined objectives, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and deliver via global teams. Track record of working with cloud native platforms, containerization, serverless & managed services, service-oriented architecture, and microservices architecture.
Compassionate people leader/mentor/coach with near perfect manager metrics in current role.
Manager at AMAZON WEB SERVICES (2021-11 – Present)
Oversee collaboration between Engineering, Service and Product Design, Account Sales, and Delivery teams with RFP/RFQ for Tier-1 Financial Services customers. Lead a growing team of engineers/architects (DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, Application) focussed on the major global financial services customers (banking and insurance). Drive optimal growth, efficiency, and management by establishing effective collaboration among all stakeholders and partners, implementing proper processes, leveraging appropriate technologies (DevOps pipelines, Terraform IaC, migrations), defining relevant metrics, and fostering regular leadership interaction.
Ensure operations run smoothly and outcomes are achieved in a timely and efficient manner.
Head of Product & Platform Engineering and Architecture at CURRENCIES DIRECT (Global FX Services – Private Equity backed) (2020-02 – 2021-11)
Chief Architect at ZOYO GLOBAL (2018-04 – 2020-01)
As Chief Architect for fintech start-up (), I was responsible for building a greenfield cash equity, mobile-first, AWS cloud-native trading platforms covering 25+ exchanges. Worked closely with senior management regarding decisions related to technology strategy, solution and platform architecture, vendor evaluation, product selection, team structure, recruitment of development and operations team, patent applications, funding negotiations, and daily development activities. Participated in the FCA license application process and planning for robust cyber security, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
Led team in improving and sustaining product engineering standards, performance management, refining product development processes with quality deliverables and project planning. Mentored the team to constantly improve the product by integrating best-of-breed technical products, languages, and frameworks following guiding principles of microservices-based architecture and agile development practices.
Integration Architect at HSBC (2015-12 – 2018-02)
Worked as the Integration Architect in HSBC Sales IT during the rollout of a new global CRM platform to replace a decade-old legacy enterprise platform. Led integration and design discussions with in-house teams, third-party product vendors, consulting teams onsite and offshore, and stakeholders within HSBC. Provided guidance on extensive technical stack upgrades, detailed integration design patterns, and hands-on implementation.
Attended architecture review meetings and led technical discussions with vendors and in-house teams. Guided integration activities and future state design to the on-site/offshore team. Functioned as a key liaison between the technical project team, Project / Programme Manager, and DevOps teams.
Consultant at BARCLAYS UK PLC (2015-03 – 2015-12)
As a Senior Java Consultant, participated in architecture design discussions and provided mentorship to teams building POC applications with big data analytics using Spark and Web Services. Mentored remote teams in Asia to adopt best practices for new Java projects. Enhanced legacy risk calculation and aggregation application to improve its features and make it ready for production adoption by new business users.
Vice President at J. P. MORGAN (2013-08 – 2014-09)
Delivered global near real-time inventory and position keeping system, built to enforce regulatory checks on the equity finance and Stock Loan trading platforms for all Asia Pacific markets. Held responsibility for hands-on development, technical planning, architecture risk and delivery management, data, and technical service assurance. Transformed legacy batch data architecture into multi-region real-time architecture within tight time constraints leveraging collaboration with external vendors and cross-regional internal teams.
Consultant Technology Specialist at Credit Suisse (2011-05 – 2013-05)
Deliver centralized web portal-based access to over 32 business applications. This allowed every front office user to build customized dashboards for their individual needs. This also consolidated the security governance and operational support for all these applications to central back-office teams and paved the way for tech stack consolidation across multiple delivery teams.
Consultant Technology Specialist at HSBC (2010-08 – 2011-05)
Build market data stores and distribution caches and apis for a greenfield prime services technology stack. Responsibilities included functional and integration architecture design and implementation, create apis for distributing yield curves and real-time pricing information, access governance, build/deploy pipelines and resiliency.
Consultant Java specialist at Morgan Stanley (2009-10 – 2010-05)
Senior developer within the Securities Lending and Secured Funding business. Delivered real-time architecture to calculate dynamic classification to choose funding pools.
