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Gopala Reddy Bobba

Sr. Associate Director - Software Engineering
Hyderabad

Summary

  • A financial services industry technology professional with 24+ years of experience delivering the technology solutions in some of the world's top banks.
  • Experienced in leading global project teams and developing solutions for a wide range of financial products.
  • Experienced in planning, driving, and implementing strategic changes across multiple teams and levels
  • Experience in leading strategic programmes with budget of $10 to $15 million and IT teams of size 110+
  • Strong knowledge of products - Equities, Fixed Income, Equity Swaps, Prime Brokerage, Credit Approval and Collateral Monitoring
  • Experienced in DevOps and Agile Practices and forming high performing teams.
  • Passionate about creating a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Experience in technology modernization, breaking monolithic application into Microservices architecture.
  • Significant experience in budgeting the new projects/proposals and tracking/managing the costs of delivery.
  • Involved in all phases of the SDLC from analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance with timely delivery (Evolving from a Developer to Delivery Head)
  • Highly self-motivated with excellent communication skills and leadership skills and significant experience in running teams onshore and offshore and delivering critical programmes/projects.
  • Highly versatile and can quickly adapt to new roles and responsibilities.
  • Collaborative and solid team player with good decision-making skills, well organized, and committed to quality.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Sr Associate Director, Model Risk Management IT

HSBC Software Development
10.2022 - Current
  • Delivery Head / Technical Product Manager (TPM) for Model Risk Management (MRM) and Enterprise Risk Reporting (ERR), responsible for the delivery of the IT Services from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance, within the agreed budget, resources, organizational quality process and regulations.
  • Leading the strategic planning and execution of the programmes with budget of around $10 to $15 million and IT development teams of size 110+.
  • Delivering the key regulatory programmes (SS 1/23) for Model Risk Management Business using IBM OpenPages (vendor product), Yields Chiron (vendor product), and Appian SaaS/Hybrid solutions.
  • Partnering with Model Risk Management (MRM) and Enterprise Risk Reporting (ERR) Business leads to define strategy, OKRs and product roadmap and manage the technology budget and prioritize book of work to deliver the roadmap.
  • Improved Stakeholders relationship - building strong relationships with business stakeholders being more transparent and regularly providing updates in the governance forums, 1-1 Connects.
  • Improving Engineering practices resulting in quality enterprise software and improvement in risk and controls - Simplification, automation, Agile ways of working and DevOps maturity.
  • Clarity Status reporting, and status updates in multiple governance meetings and SteerCo meetings.
  • Identifying Risks/Issues and putting the mitigation plans in place with support from Senior Leadership.
  • Managing the budgeting and forecasting and tracking the actuals for both direct costs and recharges.
  • Forming strong partnerships with external vendors for both product development and resource augmentation.
  • Running RFI/RFP process by collaborating with procurement team to select the strategic vendor partners.
  • Coaching and mentoring to wider Risk & Compliance Technology people in their professional development.
  • Entity Management for Risk IT - Governance, Risk & Control IT team of size 250+ (includes FTEs and vendor resources).
  • Leading HSBC Technology India initiatives.
  • Leading Hyderabad Tech teams in HSBC Tech Fest (Infinit.ee).
  • Leading India Efficiency Council - driving awareness and adoption of DevOps change process to increase production release frequency.
  • HSBC Technology, Hyderabad, India

Head of IT Transformation, Wholesale Credit Risk

HSBC Software Development
10.2020 - 10.2022
  • Translating the Risk IT Transformation strategy into actionable roadmaps to achieve the transformation objectives with a special focus on Embedding DevOps using Double-Half-Quarter strategy resulting in 2000+ releases a year in Credit Approval system, a legacy application with AS400 back-end, and correspondingly improving the service quality by 50%.
  • Working with all the 45+ global PODs in Wholesale Credit Risk IT to implement the strategic changes and improve agile ways of working, providing leadership steer and guidance.
  • Promoting the value of transformation and aligning the delivery / implementation in sustainable and incremental manner continuously.
  • Driving developer productivity, monitoring DORA metrics and working with teams to improve the metrics.
  • Collaborating across different business/functions (GB/GFs) to learn the best practices and adopt them in Wholesale Credit Risk IT Teams.
  • Transforming Wholesale Credit Risk IT team as Learning centric organization - achieved best average learning hours per person by adopting Pod Based Learning.
  • Focusing on people development across Wholesale Credit Risk IT organization and ensure team receive necessary training, support.
  • Running pilot projects, facilitating training, and coaching to different project teams, running leadership retrospectives.
  • Managing IT Controls and Risk for Wholesale Credit Risk IT, providing the required expertise on controls and driving the controls automation and simplification.
  • Provide regular communication (through blogging, TechPride show cases, recognition etc.) to the senior management and wider Wholesale Credit Risk IT teams.
  • Implementation of the DevOps tools and practices in new Risk Data Refinery (RADAR) running on Spark clusters on the HSBC Internal Cloud Platform and the Google Cloud Platform - Creating the ability to daily production releases.
  • Wholesale Credit Risk IT

Delivery Lead - Stock Borrow and Lending (SBL)

HSBC Bank
01.2019 - 09.2020
  • Rollout the Stock Borrow and Lending product (Gloabl1) to new HSBC Europe entity post Brexit.
  • Successful delivery of market data optimization across all SBL applications saving $500k per annum in Bloomberg market data costs.
  • Business stakeholder relationship management and representing team and projects in steering meetings.
  • Budgeting and tracking/managing the costs.
  • Collaborating across different asset classes/groups to deliver the Brexit Project that includes Group Finance, Trading Systems and Post Trade and Asset Servicing teams.
  • Providing mentorship and guidance to development my team members.
  • Global Banking and Markets, Canary Wharf, London

Delivery Lead - Fixed Income , Portfolio Swaps

HSBC Bank
01.2015 - 12.2018
  • Implementing a vendor product for Prime Portfolio Swaps product and integrating with existing Prime Service Platform for consolidated Reporting and Margin and Risk calculations.
  • Delivery of in-house margin engine with offshore team to replace vendor system (Optima) saving $2 million on product license and resource costs.
  • Building offshore development team (China) and moving Client reporting team from London to offshore saving more than $1 million.
  • Breaking monolithic application into Microservices based architecture enabling independent and intraday releases and increasing the release cadence from 1 release in 3 weeks to daily release.
  • Adapting DevOps process across multiple PODS and Setting-up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Implementing group location strategy and building high performing Co-Located offshore teams.
  • Global Banking and Markets, Canary Wharf, London

Database and Reporting Developer - Prime Services

HSBC Bank
08.2010 - 12.2014
  • Coordinating with business teams and gathering business requirements.
  • Delivery of in-house reporting solution (STAR) replacing Actuate product using Open-Source software BIRT.
  • Designing interfaces and REST API with other systems to get the data into Prime Services data warehouse.
  • Designing and creating database tables, views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, triggers, and packages.
  • Performance Tuning of SQL Procedures and packages and tuning database parameters.
  • Working with DBA teams to generate AWR reports and analyzing the performance issues.
  • Building Actuate/BIRT Reports based on multiple data sources and scheduling the reports using Actuate iServer.
  • Global Banking and Markets, Canary Wharf, London

Senior Analyst Developer - Business Intelligence

Citibank Europe
01.2009 - 07.2010
  • Coordinating with business teams and gathering business requirements.
  • Designing and creating database tables, views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, triggers, and packages. Designed Star schemas and Snow-Flake schemas for OLAP purpose.
  • Performance Tuning of SQL Procedures and packages and tuning database parameters.
  • Creating Oracle External Tables, SQL Loader scripts to load feed files.
  • Writing Unix shell scripts for batch processing and scheduling the jobs in Autosys.
  • Writing Unix shell scripts for file transfer, and batch processing.
  • Working with DBA teams to generate AWR reports and analyzing the performance issues.
  • Creating and Modifying Abinitio graphs to load and process data.
  • Switzerland (Citibank)

Onsite Production Support Analyst - Credit Platform

Citibank Europe
12.2006 - 12.2008
  • Involved in analysis, design, construction, and testing of the Project.
  • Designing / Creating Tables, Views, Indexes, coding Oracle Stored Procedures, functions, and Packages.
  • Creating Oracle External Tables, SQL Loader scripts to load feed files.
  • Writing shell scripts for batch jobs processing and scheduling.
  • Supporting daily business and providing alternative solutions for urgent problems.
  • Redesigning batch programs to provide rerun option for all the batch programs and to achieve high parallelism - EOD Batch time reduced from 7 hours to 2 hours.
  • Coordinating with datacenter (technology) team for releases deployment.
  • Coordinating with business users for UAT Testing and performing UAT for Technical changes.
  • Switzerland (Citibank)

Senior Software Developer - Credit Platform

Polaris Software
04.2004 - 11.2006

Software Developer - Wealth Management System

Strabus Software
06.2001 - 03.2004

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU

Skills

Oracle Database

Certification

HSBC 'Fusion' management and leadership programme

Accomplishments

  • Leading Model Risk Management IT (MRM) and Enterprise Risk Reporting IT (ERR) teams, with budget of $15 million and team size of 110+ people
  • Delivery of consolidated Margin and Risk engine for Equity and Fixed Income products for Prime Service business demising vendor product saving $2 million on product license and resources.
  • Delivered optimized market data solution across all Stock Borrow Lending (SBL) applications saving $500k per annum in Bloomberg market data costs.
  • Delivered exponential release cadence i.e., 2000+ releases a year in Credit Approval system, a legacy application with AS400 back-end, and correspondingly improving the service quality by 50% using DHQ (Double-Half-Quarter) strategy.

Timeline

Sr Associate Director, Model Risk Management IT

HSBC Software Development
10.2022 - Current

Head of IT Transformation, Wholesale Credit Risk

HSBC Software Development
10.2020 - 10.2022

Delivery Lead - Stock Borrow and Lending (SBL)

HSBC Bank
01.2019 - 09.2020

Delivery Lead - Fixed Income , Portfolio Swaps

HSBC Bank
01.2015 - 12.2018

Database and Reporting Developer - Prime Services

HSBC Bank
08.2010 - 12.2014

Senior Analyst Developer - Business Intelligence

Citibank Europe
01.2009 - 07.2010

Onsite Production Support Analyst - Credit Platform

Citibank Europe
12.2006 - 12.2008

Senior Software Developer - Credit Platform

Polaris Software
04.2004 - 11.2006

Software Developer - Wealth Management System

Strabus Software
06.2001 - 03.2004

B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU

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