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Aditi  Arora

Aditi Arora

Bangalore

Summary

Global Engineering thought leader for software product development & delivery, integrations, platform development & delivery ownership, product roadmap, strategy and digital & agile transformation, having a total experience of 20+ years and 10 years in management & leadership.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager - Software Development

Silicon Valley Bank
Bangalore
02.2021 - Current
  • Role: Senior Engineering Manager for Risk & Compliance technology solutions, in Financial Crime & Risk Management(Global Compliance Services) division of Silicon Valley Bank
  • Team Management: Managed 50+ people (FTE and Vendor) including two managers, principal software engineers, principal system analysts, software architects and principal quality engineers.
  • Delivery ownership & Technical leadership: As part of second line of defense, owned and led the deliveries, end to end, for Risk technology Fraud, Sanctions and KYC applications. Led deliveries for various payment (SEPA,GTX,SWIFT, ISO20022 etc) integrations with our Sanctions applications. Case Management for KYC, Fraud, AML and Sanctions. Case Management, CTR and Special Approval workflow integration with Sharepoint on OFSAA(Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications). Built robust, secure and scalable platform for BSA/AML Compliance business. Managed Risk, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies (RAID). Led multiple platform development initiatives & processes for transformation of technology teams & service management.
  • Transformation Initiatives: Enabled Digital and Agile transformation for the technology teams.
  • Leadership : Established the technology strategy, product vision and delivery roadmap, technical and product direction. Established best practices , processes and identified training, coached team members for operational excellence & resilient platform.
  • Product Integrations for successful SVB and Boston Private merger to onboard BP wealth accounts, Clients and transactions. Bottomline Fraud product integrations and Firco Continuity product for Sanctions integrations and various payment integrations to FCRM systems.
  • Cross functional collaboration spans across multiple distributed development teams, quality engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, PSRE, product, program and business teams.
  • Tech Modernization implementation for the application using Encryption for data in rest and transit, Data obfuscation, product upgrades, J2EE Spring boot and microservices architecture, security vulnerability management, CyberArk and SailPoint integrations. Introduced various automations and innovation in solutions improving productivity and business operational efficiency.

Manager

Capgemini
Bangalore, London, Toulouse
04.2015 - 02.2021
  • Role: Agile Delivery Manager & Engineering manager for Airbus, Heathrow Airport, VMWare and Cisco
  • Team size 35+ geographically distributed people. Enhanced team performance by use of strategic and tactical approaches, motivational coaching and training.
  • Leadership: Established strategy, Process Improvements and dashboards for enabling smooth technical deliveries and to provide updates to senior leadership. Built roadmaps and led agile transformation. Overseen technical design and quality checks, Measured and ensured Customer & Client satisfaction. Led end to end customer lifecycle and the operational processes for delivery excellence and for sustained stability of the platform. Led the establishment of operations team & processes, follow the sun model & Devops capability for ensuring a high availability of platform 24 by 7 further transformation to follow agile methodologies. Led the feasibility study of the requirements for the cargo domain, roadmap and contracts review. Contributed to all the stages of the product development lifecycle, reviewed the architecture and enabled agile methodologies for the implementation and delivery.
  • Cross Collaboration with Business partners and other stakeholders to create clear program goals
  • Technical development and oversight of native applications being rewritten using micro services and deployed on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Reviewed the architectures based on domain driven design. Led decisions for choice of suitable technology stack, architecture diagrams, designs, reviews and DOD

IT Manager

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
Bangalore, Paris
03.2010 - 04.2015
  • Responsible for global delivery of applications responsible for backoffice Trade settlements, electronic confirmations and Fee management in Societe Generale Deal Processing business line.
  • Technical and Functional Leadership for product prioritizations, roadmap, release plans, and delivery of bank's deal processing applications, enhancements, established governance with various Project Managers to ensure Project and Change deliveries within stipulated time, scope and quality framework
  • Project management for Run the Bank and Change the Bank initiatives. Client Relationship Management and ensuring customer satisfaction. Task Allocation, Schedule Management, Risk Management, Scope Management, end to end project and budget planning
  • Technical development and deployment of applications. Tech stack: Java/J2EE, Documentum, SQL, Maven, Jenkins

Associate Software Engineer

Misys
Bangalore
03.2008 - 02.2010

Implemented application changes using Liferay, J2EE, MySQL, Postgres, Tomcat.

Corporate Trainer

Freelance
Bangalore
05.2006 - 02.2008

Trained Fresh Engineering graduates

Software Engineer

Rigel Microsys
Noida
06.2003 - 11.2005
  • Software development for Knowledge Management application and legal information web application using Java, Oracle, and UNIX

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Institute of Management Technology
Ghaziabad

Masters in Computer Applications -

IGNOU
Delhi

Bachelors in Applied Sciences, Electronics

Delhi University

Skills

  • Strategic leadership, innovation
  • Platform Ownership
  • Product Ownership
  • Project Management & People management
  • Digital & Agile transformation
  • Roadmap

Key Results

  • 99.5% adherence of Security Standards compliances for ~20 application of FCRM
  • >85% Test Automation Coverage
  • 5 times increased efficiency in test execution
  • 45% Platform Performance Improvement

Certification

  • Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner
  • Certified SAFE Lead Agilist
  • Connected Manager from Harvard Business School

Tools

  • JIRA
  • Microsoft Project
  • Version One/Azure Devops
  • Confluence
  • Visio
  • Slack, Teams, Zoom
  • Java/J2EE, SQL
  • OFSAA ECM, KYC, CRR

Timeline

Sr. Manager - Software Development

Silicon Valley Bank
02.2021 - Current

Manager

Capgemini
04.2015 - 02.2021

IT Manager

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
03.2010 - 04.2015

Associate Software Engineer

Misys
03.2008 - 02.2010

Corporate Trainer

Freelance
05.2006 - 02.2008

Software Engineer

Rigel Microsys
06.2003 - 11.2005

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Institute of Management Technology

Masters in Computer Applications -

IGNOU

Bachelors in Applied Sciences, Electronics

Delhi University
Aditi Arora