Azure Cloud Fundamentals

Professional Agile Leadership™ I (PAL I)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) 

During my 4+ years in this position, I built and owned the Trading & Pricing services for Futures and FX trading provided to 40+ global exchanges with accountability for hands-on design/architecture/programming and testing, and supervised a team of ~20 developers.
	
I was honored to receive the CIO Award for developing the Rates Trading Platform used for client-focused innovative solutions.

Vice President • Development Manager / Architect

Consultant • Developer • Architect

In this role, I led Prime Derivatives (Futures/Options) Execution and Clearing IT in delivering solutions for Client Trading Screen (PrimeTrade), Client FIX Connectivity, Order Management, PreTrade Risk controls, and Exchange connectivity across 40+ global markets. I also managed a team of 80 spanning 5 international geographical locations.

Director • Global Head of Listed Derivatives Execution Technology

As Head of Equities Regulatory Reporting, I spearheaded the US Cash Equities Regulatory reporting technology for FINRA SEC compliance for CAT(Consolidated Audit Trail)/Best Execution/Blue Sheets and FINRA TRF Tape Reporting. Led team of 35+ across 4 geographical regions. 	

Furthermore, I presided over daily regulatory compliance and enhancement for new FINRA SEC requirements. I teamed up with Upstream Trading application owners to ensure data accuracy/ completeness and handling of all business flows/changes.

Director • Global Head of Equities Regulatory Reporting Technology

Head-up team of 300+ spanning 7 international geographical locations accountable for Trade and Transaction reporting of multiple asset classes (swaps/options/FX/rates/equities and commodities) trading regulatory compliance across global jurisdictions. 

Additionally, I:

Direct technology for daily regulatory trade/transaction reporting of FINRA CAT/MiFID/G20 OTC Derivatives and SFTR across 20+ global jurisdictions (SEC/CAD/EMIR/EU/UK/FINMA/HKMA/MAS/ASIC).

Manage a $30+ million annual IT budget for regulatory compliance and delivery, and govern the delivery of all regulatory change programs for the Investment Bank.

Partner with Compliance/Legal and Controls to ensure compliance with SLA, management, and escalation of regulatory obligations, and engage with regulators regarding audits, inquiries, and regulatory exams.

Director • Global Head of Global Markets Regulatory Reporting Technology

Leading a team of 70+ spanning 5 international geographical locations responsible to deliver Financing Data and Analytics platform (FDA). Platform hosts multiple Data Products for Client Data, Market Data and Financing transactions in a Data Mesh on Azure Public Cloud. Platform generates various business insights such as most optimal usage of Funding, Stock Loan Borrow, Collateral and Liquidity Stress management to improve the bottomline revenue.

Global Head of Financing Data Technology

AI executive leader at large financial organization

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