Executive Director (Enterprise Architecture)
Current• Conceptualized and led the design & delivery of an Identity fraud verification service (C#), which simplified client account onboarding, improved customer experience, reduced risk and saved 2mn annually in fraudulent transactions. Service is used by 4mn Wealth Mgmt. customers through self-service channels and has a 99% uptime with 50ms SLA• Led IT modernization strategy, architecture and delivery of the next gen gateway(Apigee, Layer 7, Java, Python) for external partner integration and SaaS adoption; Reduced lead time for partner onboarding from 4wks to 1d• Driven performance optimization of the Robo advisor platform, reducing response time SLA for 2 billion market simulations from 2mins to 2secs, enabling new market opportunities by allowing open access to this service• Leading the cloud engineering team, to define a multi-year, cross-platform strategy and deployment topology for migrating customer- facing & front-office applications onto public cloud infrastructure. Conceptualized and delivered frameworks for application metrics driven auto-scaling & cloud-bursting (Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus), Cloud reach-back, Data synchronization (Kafka, CosmosDb, Azure functions, EventHub) & Identity bridging patterns to support phased migration and hybrid cloud topologies• Support franchise building efforts reporting to India org head (MD) and COO; managing a diverse team providing architecture consulting, workforce capability improvement and optimizing recruitment processes