ALEXY THOMAS

• Data Leader for Financial Services, leading a partner group of 6 partners and a team of 3000 data engineers
• Leading complex transformations and data modernization programs at large Global Banks
• P&L ownership for the financial services data competency
• Author of thought pieces and speaker at industry forums on Data Governance, Data Strategy and Modern Data Architectures
• Domain leader for Banking - Retail, Wholesale and Asset & Wealth Management

• Established the data strategy and engineering team in India
• Global lead for driving the adoption of the firm's data strategy and Big data platform
• Global lead for reference data - Security Master, Index & Benchmark, Prices, Instrument Classifications, Issuer, Market Data, Party & Account
• Other focus areas - Rationalizing our database footprint; Developing our strategy for Public Cloud adoption; Product based organization
• Experience of running large multi-million dollar risk and finance transformations
• Led the Records Retention Program for the firm.

• Managed a geographically distributed team in Bangalore, Melbourne and Chengdu comprising of over 300+ employees & vendor resources
• Portfolio of projects in excess of AUD $40 million - regulatory and compliance programs including FATCA and APRA (Australian regulator) reporting and retail banking projects such as Next Best Actions
• Technology asset owner for the bank's data integration platforms (DataStage, Informatica and Ab Initio), data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle, DB2), reporting & analytics infrastructure (OBIEE, MS BI, SAS), Customer Master / MDM platform and Big Data platforms (Cloudera Hadoop distribution).

• Led technology programs for many Deloitte clients including some large universal banks in the UK: Barclays Bank - Master Data Management- Target Operating Model
• Lloyds Banking Group - Implementation of systems and processes for Basel II compliance for their Wholesale banking division
• Royal Bank of Scotland - Data Governance
• Cooperative Banking Group - Analysis and Planning for acquiring Verde business from Lloyds Banking Group
• Tesco Bank - Migration of General Insurance and Savings accounts from Royal Bank of Scotland
• Other roles included Enterprise Architecture at BP and Canon in Netherlands.

Technical Lead to build data warehouses and data marts for a few client engagements including Home Retail Group (Argos) to build their supply chain replenishment data warehouse.

Worked with Banco Santader on a number of their key projects such as Mortgage Application, Anti Money Laundering, Customer Profitability reporting, Interbank Cheque transfer in various roles such as developer, application designer, tech lead and project manager.