Aditya Kumar Sharma

Application:
Oasys Suite – A comprehensive derivatives trade capture, confirmation, and settlements platform.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the OTC suite of applications encompassing Trade Capture, Margining, Settlements, and Confirmations; address related user inquiries and issues.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in trade processing, foreign exchange (FX), and settlements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, development teams, and senior management to recommend and drive process improvements.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents; create problem tickets and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Handle escalations and coordinate with Level 3 teams for bug fixes and long-term problem management.
• Lead onboarding of new applications; review solution designs from a production support perspective to ensure operational readiness.
• Manage and maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) environments; coordinate and execute DR testing, including automation tool integration.
• Provide guidance and knowledge transfer (KT) to senior analysts; review their work to ensure quality standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across Lines of Business (LOB), working collaboratively to resolve issues and address operational challenges.
• Oversee vendor teams and obtain regular operational insights to ensure service quality.

Technology Stack:
Oracle, MSSQL, Autosys, Jira, ServiceNow, Unix, Shell Scripting, ITRS Geneos, Splunk, OpenShift, Grafana, Kafka.

Key Contributions:

• Assessed and optimized existing support processes, recommending improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
• Supported senior leadership by reviewing and prioritizing key strategic initiatives.
• Collaborated with leadership teams to define and drive long-term strategic goals.

Project: WORM System Onboarding for Compliance
Client: Barclays Capital
Technologies: Oracle, MS SQL, Jira, ServiceNow, ClearCase, Windows, Unix. Shell

Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead the onboarding of new systems onto WORM for regulatory compliance.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements through live meetings and formal requirement documentation.
• Convert business requirements into detailed, system-ready functional specifications for development teams.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including IT, Legal & Compliance, and end users, to align on functional requirements and project deliverables.
• Prepare and manage project tracking documents including daily status updates, monthly metrics, and milestone trackers.
• Conduct extensive data analysis using SQL: writing queries, creating tables, and managing data loads/feeds.
• Develop use cases and derive corresponding test cases; perform functional testing as required.
• Manage ongoing system maintenance activities: monitor incoming data feeds, conduct root cause analysis, report issues, and manage defect tracking.

Application Support – Trade Management & Risk Systems
Client: Barclays Capital

Applications Supported:

• TMS (Trade Management System): Supports EM & FI trades booked via Summit, QA Book, and eT.
• TOPL (T+0 PnL & Risk Application): Official real-time PnL and risk reporting for EM, FI Rates, Options, and Structured/Exotic trades. Includes regulatory batch support.

Role Overview – Technical & Functional Responsibilities:

• Ensure seamless trade flow from upstream booking systems; monitor trade load, position updates, and completion of SOD/EOD/batch jobs.
• Support critical regulatory and operational batches, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Automate manual tasks (e.g., report generation) using Autosys and scripting.
• Enhance and maintain batch jobs and scripts (Perl, Shell).
• Analyze and optimize infrastructure and application performance, providing recommendations for improvements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve trader and end-user queries related to trade flows and system processing.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation covering infrastructure, data sets, code repositories, and disaster recovery protocols.

Technologies Used:
Oracle, MS SQL, Autosys, Perforce, Jira, Clearcase, ServiceNow, Windows, Unix.