Raghavendran Sivakumar

13+ years of experience with the leading Indian IT Firm – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), defining IT digital transformation strategy for leading banks across geography. Aspiring to continue digital transformation consulting for corporates by continuously embracing GenAI and other NextGen technologies and progress towards a sustainable business.

• Playing Presales Lead & Solution architect roles by providing Strategic solutioning, proposal management for a large Canadian bank across Line of Businesses - Wealth Management, Retail Banking, Payments, Internal IT systems, etc.
• Worked with sales, practice teams on multiple RFPs, RFIs and won multimillion dollar transformation & optimization deals including three whitespaces via competitive RFPs across domain and technology spanning across run the bank and change the bank span of activities.
• Designed solutions & implementation roadmap leveraging principles like Lean, Scrum, Kanban
• Conducted design thinking workshops and proposed transformational solutions for Insurance and retail clients.
• Orchestrated assessments on quality engineering and Agile maturity and constructed roadmap for improvement
• Identified potential GenAI implementation use cases within few of the assessed project space.
• Expertise in arriving at custom operating model for the engagements based on client landscape. Created complex PoV for product based operating model and Artificial Intelligence in operating model for complete wealth management line of business.
• Defined & drove implementation plans for multiple organizational strategies.
• Operations lead for teams of 350+ in Chennai and Bengaluru. Has strong understanding in IT delivery and operations.

Master of Business Administration (2013 - 2015)

Specialization in Finance & Operations ,

From IBS Hyderabad (NIRF Rank’2024 - 39), Telangana