CV

Brijesh Pandya

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brijeshpandya/

Driven, skilled, and highly motivated Technology Leader, with 20+ years of experience in technology strategy and implementation, a proven track record in digital transformation, cloud migration, and Fintech implementation across Wealth, Investment, Digital, and Asset Management.

Executive Summary

  • Proliferated and established partnerships with Global Practice units on data, analytics, and Cognitive/ML expertise required to build Data Lakes, Data warehouse, and Data on Cloud Solutions, provided advocacy and thought leadership to support Canadian and Global organization
  • Successfully leveraged technical and business acumen to communicate effectively with C-suite business & technology executives.
  • Managed and executed projects with an annual budget of 10 million+ USD, 50+ FTEs & contractors, and direct reports including architects, project managers, leads, and SQA.
  • Well versed in devising robust strategies & modeling –EA/Data/Integration, bring analytical and strategic views backed by detailed analysis to support the business case feasibility & execution
  • Diligent and professionally cemented attention to detail in building client relationship skills, and intricate ability to think outside the box.
  • Author of articles on evolving ML/AI features, FinTech landscape.
  • 20+ years in Software Design and Development, 15+ years in BFSI, and successfully delivered 13+ fin-tech transformation programs.
  • Financial domain expertise includes Asset Management, Collateral, Wealth and Private Bank, Equity Derivatives, Settlements, and Clearing

Core Competencies and Skills

  • Full Life Cycle Managerial Experience: 10+ years in IT Transformation, Technology Consulting
  • Technology Strategy: Design and Execution (Tactical / SWAT/ Transformation/Modernization)
  • Data: Strategy, Data Management, Engineering, Analytics & BI (Cloud/OnPrem)
  • Technology Transformation: Deep Dive assessment, Solution & EA Creation & Execution
  • Product Leadership: Data Warehousing, Open Architecture Framework, Scheduling, MIS
  • Tech. Consulting: Modern Architecture, UX/APIs/Microservices, Content Strategy
  • Enterprise Scale: IT Governance & Strategies, Operate roadmap
  • Domain: Wealth Management, Collateral, Investment Banking, Asset Management
  • Financials: Budgeting, Costing, Estimation, Revenue Growth, TCO optimization
  • Stakeholder Partnership/Management: Reporting, Scheduling, IT Governance, SLAs, SoWs
  • Client Focus: CX Initiatives, De-escalation, Prioritization, Communication Strategy/Plan

Publications

APAC Financial Services Trends

Modernizing Banking in APAC Financial Services Ecosystem

Experience Summary

Role
Organization
Duration
Program Manager (Technology)
Infosys Consulting, Singapore
Since Feb 2019
Solutions Architect
Barclays, Singapore
April 2014 – Feb 2019
Senior Business Analyst
Barclays, Singapore
March 2013 - April 2014
Development Lead
Barclays, Singapore
Sep 2010 - March 2014
Solutions Architect
BNP Paribas, India
Feb 2008 – Sep 2010
Technical Lead
Oracle, Singapore/India
Sep 2005 – Feb 2008
Project Lead
L&T InfoTech, India
Feb 2002 – Sep 2004
Senior Analyst
Gateway Techno Labs, India
Feb 2002 - Sep 2004

Experience

Role: Sr. Program Manager, Organization: Infosys Consulting, Since February 2019

  • Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Anchor-person for all client engagements.
  • Spearheaded Solution Consulting/Technology Advisory functions
  • full life cycle involvement of activities ranging from client interviews, technical assessment, architect, govern & execution
  • Communication expertise with cloud vendors (AWS/Azure/GCP), Application vendors, and the development team.
  • Delivery oversight – manage the team for PoC, product evaluations, ad-hoc services, and consulting projects.
  • Facilitate cross-program communication, dependency, and schedule management.
  • Team Mentor – manages client escalations, risks, and dependencies.
  • Coordinated and managed projects to deliver Operational Excellence thru data-insight-decisions / automation / achieved seamless integration with APIs where it makes sense.
  • RFP Preparation: create quality RFPs that ensure clients’ needs and robust design and delivery aspects.
  • Design and deliver Hybrid Cloud Solutions with enterprise application security standards and policies, Defined and implemented data retention policies in accordance with local and global data access needs.
  • Development Manager for Middleware implementation across the program, Designed front to back technical design architecture for enterprise middleware solutions using Informatica MFT, BDM, ETL and MuleSoft
  • Project estimation, costing, SoW, presentation, and approval.
  • Provide technical guidance on pre-sales, sales, project, and support/warranty

Role: Solutions Architect, Organization: Barclays, Singapore, April 2014 - February 2019

Architecture / DevOps:

  • Architect and Scrum Master for Collateral IT, Private Bank Wealth and Management Information System (MIS)
  • IT Architecture Owner and Team Mentor for the offshore development team, accountable for deliverables and quality
  • Delivery responsibility includes business and regulatory initiatives like MiFID II, Brexit, and Reforms Program.
  • Solutions Architect for Management Information System – Data Science platform for collateral optimization.
  • Leading cloud migration digital transformation strategy for application migration.
  • Designed a machine learning-based trade matching engine that processes a million trades each day.
  • Created data segregation framework for entity segregation for Brexit and GDPR initiatives.
  • Designed message publisher-subscriber framework for SWIFT MT535 to communicate across organizations.
  • Evaluated .NET Core MongoDB and compared No-SQL technologies with Hadoop and MongoDB.
  • Designed indigenous .NET Core Node.js solution that uses MuleSoft (Bank-wide API platform) as API Gateway.
  • Established Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery tunnel with Automated Testing approach. (NUnit NCover) and Quality Gates, CI CD pipeline uses TeamCity and Nolio as basic tools
  • DevOps champion: Pioneered BDD ATDD approach, used .NET SpecFlow for the behavior drive development and Acceptance test-drive development.
  • Drafted branching strategy and contributed to GIT migration from perforce,

Agile/Scrum:

  • Scrum Master for Collateral Wealth IT, Kanban practitioner for Management Information System project, Assisting POs with Ishikawa, Value-Stream, and process activity mappings
  • Facilitated communication between scrum team(s) and PO, monitor burndowns and act as a proxy product owner.
  • Facilitate Scrum of Scrums for Architecture Governance Forum and provide updates to Technology council.
  • Led scrum sprints using the core tenets of the scrum framework, identifying individual strengths and resolving issues.
  • Involved in costing, CAPEX, BCM, UX, Quality, Capacity & Performance.

Role: Senior Business Analyst, Barclays, Singapore, March 2013 - April 2014

  • Senior Business Analyst for Settlement Clearing, data modeling, requirement understanding
  • Introduced Asia clearers for margining, including Japan, Korea, and India clearer.
  • Regulatory reporting analysis, task breakdown, execution, and automated QA testing
  • Create a business validation case that allows widespread and exotic facilities to trade.
  • Perform System tests and assist users to perform operational acceptance tests.
  • Worked as a change coordinator across multiple streams to facilitate the seamless delivery experience for a product, user story creation, and implementation.
  • Responsible for quality-created automated test acceptance criteria and synced with user stories in Gherkin.
  • Designed CCP/CME feed processing framework, facilitate requirement prioritization with operations and business stakeholders
  • Analyzed and designed existing interfaces and LCH adapters. Enhancement of CME clearer adapters
  • As a Scrum Master, conducted sprint ceremonies like sprint planning, review, retrospective

Role: Development Lead&, Organization: Barclays, September 2010 - March 2014

  • Development lead for clearing team, managing a cross-functional team of 8 members
  • Introduced JIRA, a member of the Agile Working Group, introduced Agile within the bank.
  • Development lead for multiple regs. reporting projects, WCF-based web-service capabilities for the entire platform, and Contributed to platform migration exercises like infrastructure migration to 64-bit and Database Migration.
  • Volunteered for doing development based on behavior-driven development and Specflow
  • Lead the quality process innovation for CI/CD pipeline using TeamCity / SonarQube
  • Licence Management and product roll-out for SonarLint, organization-wide product owner.
  • Contributed to designing branching strategy for source code, involved in ClearCase and Perforce migration
  • As a Microsoft SME contributed to the organization-wide recruitment process, and lead the organization in hiring engineering talents from Singapore, China, and India.

Role: Solutions Architect, Organization: BNP Paribas, February 2008 - September 2010

  • Solutions Architect / Team Lead for GLOSS.net fully managed .NET variant of the settlement system
  • One-point contact for Gloss.NET deliverables, quality, escalation, and team-related issues.
  • Business and IT Stakeholder Management, CAPEX/ OPEX planning
  • Responsible for team building, recruitment, retention, and team size management.
  • Designed and implemented satellite application suite for GLOSS (Settlement System)
  • Designed a Real-Time interface for Settlement Clearing Adapters (SWIFT / FIX)
  • .NET Application design using Microsoft Prism, Unity, WCF/WPF, and SQL
  • Created report generation and distribution framework, added automated tests using NUnit
  • Setup process tools including JIRA, Perforce, and TeamCity introduced quality checks during testing
  • Designed automated deployment using Windows Scripting for Autosys using batch tools.

Role: Technical Lead, Organization: Oracle September 2005 - February 2008

  • Technical Lead for Barclays (iFlex Solutions), managed a team of 6 members at a client location.
  • Designed Equity Derivative / Middle Office Global Reporting framework.
  • Optimized feed processing and fund booking systems, created in-house simulators (Black-Scholes and Monte-Carlo), and designed distributed pricing engine using WCF, .NET
  • Pioneered Grid computing implementation using DataSynapse (TIBCO Grid)
  • Performed design and code reviews, post-implementation reviews, and QA checks for deliverables.
  • Initiated XP practices within the team, and advocated best practices for development and quality checks.

Role: Project Lead, Organization: L&T InfoTech, February 2002 - September 2004

  • C# Project Lead / Architect for SECORE Market Interface, responsible for project design and deliverables.
  • Designed Market Interface for SWIFT Messaging for OTC Products, including MT SWIFT message parsing.
  • Created Application using .net / MSMQ / Remoting, worked as DBA and performed review for SQL business procedures, optimized technical builds by setting automated builds
  • OTC / Non-OTC trading, SWIFT implementation, UI to read/analyze SWIFT messages.

Role: Senior Analyst, Organization: Gateway Techno Labs, February 2002 - September 2004

  • Lead Java /C# Developer / Programmer Analyst for Legal /Finance application,
  • SEO Package created Application using MSMQ / Remoting, designed Java-based Web-Crawler for creation of automated website creation.
  • Mobile ticketing system using Symbols API, WLAN-Mobile architecture. Multilevel Web-Service architecture for Autonomous vehicle tracking for European clients, Designed documents scanner.

Education

  • Diploma in Advance Computing, CDAC, DoT, India, 2002
  • Bachelor of Science, Saurashtra University, India, 2002

Volunteering

  • Citizen Ambassador at Barclays - Contributed to more than 20 citizenship initiatives and events across Singapore.
  • Active volunteer with Junior Achievement Worldwide since 2012 - trained 500+ students in Singapore.
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