Dynamic, results-oriented engineer with a strong foundation in people management, technical leadership, and end-to-end program delivery. Proven track record of driving projects to completion while fostering collaboration and innovation within teams. Eager to leverage extensive industry experience in a techno-managerial role at a prestigious organization. Committed to achieving excellence and delivering impactful solutions that align with organizational goals.
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RAKESH KUMAR JHA
Vice President - Sustainability and Climate Engineering
Pune
Summary
Overview
13
years of professional experience
33
years of post-secondary education
Work History
MSCI
Vice President, Sustainability and Climate Engineering
12.2016 - Current
Job overview
- Versatile leader with 12+ years of experience. Proven ability to build and mentor engineering teams while simultaneously driving complex technical programs from inception to successful delivery managing stakeholders throughout.
- Experience across SDLC working exclusively in core domain over end to end systems and products catering to - Hedge Funds, Asset and Wealth Management Products, ESG Ratings, Sustainability & Climate at MSCI.
- Experience in building data platforms operating on a huge scale of data from ingestion, validations, calculations and cooking the data production ready.
- Proven ability to translate complex business needs into innovative and impactful product solutions that address critical environmental and social challenges.
- Hands-on delivery experience with end-to-end ownership of entire product & platforms from analyzing business requirements, backlog prioritization, defining user journeys, designing solution approaches, architectural decisions, estimations, implementation, collaboration framework setup across multiple groups/stakeholders to delivery roadmap in various roles.
- Expertise in defining operational optimizations, data flow, data transactional systems, data analysis and visualization, reconciliation and outliers, data driven quality assurance, reporting.
- Key driver and contributor in discussions pertaining to data platform architecture and adoption of best practices in Sustainability Engineering Ecosystem.
- Closely collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders (data operations, research, product personnel) to solutionize problems, improve operations and provide exceptional end user experience.
- Manages a 20+ member team engaged in various projects pertaining to Data Platform Pipeline, Technical Enhancements and Debt Reduction, Data Quality & Operational Efficiencies and Next-Gen solutions.
- Handles a business resiliency team from external vendor partners to ensure successful deliveries and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Reports to various levels of leadership on program progress along with platform and delivery KPIs each quarter including presentations.
- Initiates, drives, and participates in team bonding activities, takes interviews for MSCI campus/off-campus/virtual recruitment drives and sets up a framework to facilitate virtual/offline onboarding & training for new joiners.
- Mentors new team members to make them production ready and helps cultivate a collaborative culture.
NeoSoft Technologies
Senior Software Developer
01.2014 - 10.2016
Job overview
Affimintus Technologies
Software Engineer
08.2012 - 12.2013
Job overview
Education
IIM KozhikodeKozhikode, India
General Management Program from Business Excellence
University Overview
RTM Nagpur UniversityNagpur, India
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Technology
04.2001 - 01.2012
University Overview
Project Management Institute
PMP Certification from Predictive, Adaptive And Hybrid Project Management
04.2001
University Overview
Skills
Domain Knowledge in ESG Ratings and Reporting, Sustainability and Climate, Telecom, Real Estate; Sustainability Reporting Frameworks and Standards like TCFD, GRI, SDGs, IFRS, ISSB and BRSR
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Winner - MSCI AI Hackathon 2024 for creating an Innovative Product basis TCFD/ISSB Framework using LLM.
- MSCI Star Performer in 2024 for contribution in Sustainability Controversies Workflow Redesign using LLM
- Organizer - MSCI's First Global Hybrid Hackathon 2023
- MSCI Star Performer in 2021 for contribution to Azure Cloud Migration
- MSCI Star Performer in 2020 for redesigning Monolith platform to Microservice Architecture and implementation of new Event Messaging Framework in Sustainability Operations Engineering.
- Winner - MSCI Hackathon 2019 for creating a product promoting employee productivity.
- MSCI Star Performer in 2019 for leading ESG Rating Reboot Program in Sustainability Engineering and delivering timely.
Open Source Contributions
Open Source Contributions
- Authored “go_social” rubygem hosted at rubygems.org
- Contributed to several open-source repositories e.g., starter apps for developers worldwide to use in "RailsApps" Initiative with Daniel Kehoe. (https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-devise-pundit).
- Currently obsessed with the wonders of Gen AI and Agentic AI.
Timeline
Vice President, Sustainability and Climate Engineering
MSCI
12.2016 - Current
Senior Software Developer
NeoSoft Technologies
01.2014 - 10.2016
Software Engineer
Affimintus Technologies
08.2012 - 12.2013
RTM Nagpur University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Technology
04.2001 - 01.2012
Project Management Institute
PMP Certification from Predictive, Adaptive And Hybrid Project Management
04.2001
IIM Kozhikode
General Management Program from Business Excellence
01.2024
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