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Ankur Vaish

Ankur Vaish

Technical Program Manager
Gurgaon

Summary

A seasoned, polyglot techno-functional expert who brings more than a decade of product engineering and program management experience, catering to Financial Wealth and Asset Management sector, delivering cutting edge digital solutions while consistently providing realistic, actionable plans guaranteed to grow satisfied client bases. This experience is backed by strong interpersonal, technical and managerial skills with a knack to solve complex business problems, an ability to work with culturally diverse teams spread across the globe.


CSM - Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master

CSPO - Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner

SAFe® 6.0 - Certified Product Owner/Product Manager

Microsoft Azure Certified

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Senior Technical Program Manager

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS
Gurgaon
01.2020 - Current

Client/Account: World's leading Investment and Financial Planning company

Product: Proposal Generation for Wealth Management Financial Advisors

Active user base: 8000+

  • Responsible for liaising with Business stakeholders to gather requirements for building the product and define roadmap.
  • Leading the process of planning, scheduling, managing a software build through different stages and environments all the way from ideation to release. Defined various key metrics related to process, product and customer that need to be tracked to be communicated to stakeholders
  • Trusted with Identification of risks and detailing of a mitigation plan to ensure that the project stays on track in the event of delays or blockers
  • As a change agent transformed traditional process and tools to agile processes and tools to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of program based on iterative, feedback-loop based development paradigms
  • As a SCRUM master, I am also responsible for facilitating scrum ceremonies for a team of 20 individuals in a multi vendor setup interacting with various cross functional teams present in different geographies and time zones
  • Account specific responsibilities: Driving the overall offshore Wealth Management enterprise IT program for client, from EY GDS perspective. This involves active management of almost 100+ team members, who are working in different projects for client in the same business vertical


Technical Program Manager/Business Architect

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS

Client: World's leading Investment Bank (Fortune 500)

Product: Letter of Credit and Loan Booking

Active user base: 1200+

  • Worked in a high impact role as Lead Business Architect/SCRUM Master for a large scale PEGA implementation intending to bring Digital Transformation to the Letter of Credit and Loans booking process for client's Wealth Management Division
  • Lead a team of 15 individuals, in a multi vendor setup
  • Responsible for product ideation, stakeholder management, release management and business workflow design


Technical Program Manager/Business Architect

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS

Client: Strategy & Transactions vertical @EY

Product: Accounting Calendars Databook automation

Active user base: 5000+

  • This digital product is a cutting edge web application hosted on Azure cloud, which generates accounting schedules basis different accounting calendars. It is driven by complex business algorithms, data transformations and mappings
  • Product has an extensive user base spread across the globe including 10 non-English speaking countries
  • Lead a team of 16 senior developers, QAs and BA, while ensuring seamless technical delivery, which involved a technical overhaul of the product to utilize the latest frameworks and cloud capabilities, functional enhancements
  • Responsible for product ideation, stakeholder management, release management and business workflow design

Lead Techno Functional Consultant

Publicis.Sapient
London
04.2018 - 01.2020

Client: Invesco

Program: Portfolio Risk Analytics & Oppenheimer Funds (OFI) Integration

  • Worked at client location in UK, to facilitate the technical implementation for integrating their existing Portfolio risk measurement systems with that of Oppenheimer Funds which Invesco has acquired
  • Drove the successful end to end integration single handedly, including technical architecture design, business analysis, stakeholder management and solution delivery
  • This involved .Net based frameworks, Python, Informatica, PowerShell, Aladdin Green Package and MSCI Risk metrics

Lead Techno Functional Consultant

Publicis.Sapient
London, Gurgaon

Client: Natwest Markets/Natwest Bank

Product: CMRS (Compliance Management Reporting System) -BREXIT Implementation

  • CMRS is a Publicis.Sapient product (now known as DTCC report hub post DTCC acquisition) which provides facilitation of complex trade and transaction regulatory reporting
  • As part of the NWM-CMRS implementation team, worked as a lead techno functional consultant to analyze and implement BREXIT specific business rule changes in CMRS which enabled NWM to be compliant with respect to both European and UK markets in the event of a hard BREXIT
  • Also lead the technical enhancements of this product (involving SQL, .Net Azure) so that the BREXIT specic changes could be extensible for other clients too

Lead Developer

Publicis.Sapient

Client: Citadel LLC (Top Tier High Frequency Trading firm)

Program: Treasury and Cash Management

  • As a member of the Treasury IT team of Citadel, I was involved in leading the maintenance and enhancement of a big group of complex, low latency WPF applications which are used at Citadel for operations related to Portfolio Finance and Treasury Management
  • Lead a team of 5 offshore developers while managing tight timelines
  • Worked on the technology overhaul related analysis/product roadmap for various internal IT products involving cutting edge frameworks like ReactJS, VueJS and Electron framework

Lead Programmer

Fidelity International
Gurgaon, London
04.2018 - 01.2020

Charles River Investment Management System (CRD): Front office Trading - Platform customizations


  • Lead the delivery of a team of 10+ developers skilled in different tech stacks like Microsoft and Java while liaising with business teams distributed across Europe and APAC.
  • Developed WPF/WinForms, micro-services based customized, low-latency client solution on top of Charles River IMS (CRD) platform which is an Order management and trading solution
  • Built Custom Blotter Views(CBV) and Custom Blotter Actions(CBA) by using CRD APIs while using cutting edge multi threading solutions to achieve low latency in user action execution
  • Developed complex features Equity Holdings Dashboard, Fixed Income Roll screen, Real time price integration with Reuters data, B-PIPE, FS Target calculation screen - benchmark weight etc.

Lead Software Developer

S&P Global Market Intelligence
Gurgaon
09.2015 - 04.2018

Capital IQ Platform: Auto Extraction of Financial and Estimates data

  • The solution aimed to automatically extract tabular data from documents such as PDF, XML, XBRL, HTML and simple text les and was embedded with global Capital IQ platform
  • Lead a team of 6 developers working on complex implementations involving technologies like .Net, C#, multithreading, parallel programming, WPF
  • Lead the ideation and usage of advanced methodologies using NLP-NER/Machine Learning
  • Designed and lead the development of a statistical analysis application (Research Tool) in order to facilitate the analysis of various stages of Auto Extraction process in order to view optimization opportunities

Module Lead Developer

Infosys
Pune, Chennai
10.2013 - 06.2015

Client: American Express

Program: US Banking Compliance

  • Worked on a suite of ASP.NET based web applications involved in the creation of a compliance and regulatory framework within American Express to full the needs of US Banking Compliance norms and other risk reporting needs
  • Quickly promoted to the ranks of a module lead after a short stint as a fresh joiner, and lead the development of important tools while co-ordinating the effort with a team which was geographically diverse

Education

Intermediate - Computer Science

Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, ISC Board
03.2003 - 03.2005

High Scholl - Science

Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, ICSE Board
3 1993 - 3 2003

B.Tech - Computer Science

Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology
05.2006 - 6 2010

Certification

AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

Timeline

Senior Technical Program Manager

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS
01.2020 - Current

Lead Techno Functional Consultant

Publicis.Sapient
04.2018 - 01.2020

Lead Programmer

Fidelity International
04.2018 - 01.2020

Lead Software Developer

S&P Global Market Intelligence
09.2015 - 04.2018

Module Lead Developer

Infosys
10.2013 - 06.2015

B.Tech - Computer Science

Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology
05.2006 - 6 2010

Intermediate - Computer Science

Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, ISC Board
03.2003 - 03.2005

Technical Program Manager/Business Architect

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS

Technical Program Manager/Business Architect

EY(Ernst & Young) - GDS

Lead Techno Functional Consultant

Publicis.Sapient

Lead Developer

Publicis.Sapient

High Scholl - Science

Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, ICSE Board
3 1993 - 3 2003
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