Parameshwaran Natarajan
Summary
Technology executive with 25+ years in digital transformation, specializing in architecting high-performance systems. Expertise in building distributed platforms for large-scale data processing, ensuring speed and resilience. Leadership in managing global engineering teams to deliver cloud-native, AI-driven solutions. Proficient in microservices, serverless computing, and big data, with hands-on skills in Java, Spring Boot, and NoSQL.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Director – Technology
JP Morgan Chase & Co
04.2017 - Current
- Company Overview: Leading the banking transformation program for Asset Wealth Management and Corporate Investment Bank leveraging Cloud, Microservices and Big Data.
- Leading the banking transformation program for Asset Wealth Management and Corporate Investment Bank leveraging Cloud, Microservices and Big Data.
- Responsible for architecting, designing and building banking products capable of handling millions of active banking customers on a daily basis with sub second response times and transaction volumes of up to 10 million records a day.
- Currently Managing, Mentoring and directing a team of 30+ Vp’s and Engineers in Asset Wealth Management and previously managed a team of 75+ people in Corporate Investment Bank.
- Responsible for introducing latest innovative technologies into the architectural landscape.
- Responsible for building Agile Feature teams for delivery.
- Improve code hygiene by tracking metrics around code reviews, code coverage, nvm scores etc.
- Build QA automation, Load Testing and DevOps teams to manage code quality and enable seamless software deployment and configuration in a distributed environment.
- Leading the banking transformation program for Asset Wealth Management and Corporate Investment Bank leveraging Cloud, Microservices and Big Data.
- Major Programs worked on: Party and Account Management, Liquidity and Account Services platform Transformation, Virtual Account Management (VAM), International Tax Platform.
Senior Director – Platform and Products
Cognizant
04.2016 - 03.2017
- Company Overview: Senior Engineering Director for a Big Data platform called BigDecisions.
- Senior Engineering Director for a Big Data platform called BigDecisions.
- BigDecisions provides a scalable, end-to-end solution from ingesting big data at scale to visualization it.
- BigDecisions allows Data Stewards to schedule ingestion of petabyte-scale multi-structured enterprise data in a secure fashion, validate, transform it and provision it in within minutes.
- This can be done in a self-service mode in less than half of the cost of traditional on-premises solutions and over 3x faster with no coding.
- Data Scientists can create and deploy Machine Learning models and use built in visualization tools on the provisioned data to derive meaningful insights.
- A built-in collaboration platform called Data Market place allows the data scientists and the community members to publish, share and search artifacts in the market place.
- The platform received 'Best Data Platform of the Year' award from Microsoft in 2017.
- Senior Engineering Director for a Big Data platform called BigDecisions.
- Role & Responsibilities: Build, Lead and Mentor a Global team of 60+ members, Identify product concept, Define product requirement, Design product and product specification, Ensure code quality, implement the design and ensure timely delivery of milestones.
Vice President Technology and Senior Engineer
Goldman Sachs
07.2010 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: Entrusted with the responsibility to build scalable enterprise platforms across various domains in Goldman Sachs.
- Entrusted with the responsibility to build scalable enterprise platforms across various domains in Goldman Sachs.
- These platforms should be able to synthesize massive amounts of data and manage complex business rules using specified J2EE technology stack, NO SQL, Microservices, Big Data technologies.
- Managing and directing a team of 30+ Software Development Engineers.
- Managed client and business analyst interactions.
- Entrusted with the responsibility to build scalable enterprise platforms across various domains in Goldman Sachs.
- Major Programs worked on: Big Data Lake for Trade Lifecycle Analytics, Unified Event Processing and Problem Management Platform, Technology RISK Detection, Assessment and Remediation platform.
Software Development Manager
SAP Ariba
07.2008 - 06.2010
- Company Overview: Software Development Manager-Platform for Ariba Now.
- Software Development Manager-Platform for Ariba Now.
IT Manager, Architect, IT Engineer & Consultant
Cisco Systems
07.1999 - 06.2008
- Company Overview: IT Manager, Architect, IT Engineer & Consultant.
- IT Manager, Architect, IT Engineer & Consultant.
Senior Software Engineer
Knights Inc (An Intel company)
08.1998 - 07.1999
Programmer
ISIL India Ltd (Subsidiary of IDBI)
06.1996 - 08.1998
Education
MBA - Finance
The ICFAI University
Dehradun06-2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Walchand Institute of Technology
Maharastra06-1996
Skills
- Cloud solutions
- Microservices design
- Data analytics
- Agile project delivery
- DevOps practices
Skills Information
Java 8, Microservices, Big Data Multi-threading, GOF Design Patterns, DB Design, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Netflix suite of products (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Feign & Ribbon), Spring Core, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, REST, GraphQL, JBPM, Drools, Web Services, Kafka, MQ, Rabbit MQ, Oracle, Sybase, Mongo DB, Elastic, Cassandra, Neo4j (Graph DB), Spark 2.4, Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, HBASE, Oozie, Impala, Angular 4, JavaScript, HTML, Elastic, Hazelcast, Python, Perl, Data Warehouse Concepts, OBIEE, Business Objects, Informatica
Certification
- OCP Java SE 8 Programmer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Domain Expertise
- Digital Banking
- Account Management
- Transaction Banking
- Treasury Services
- Virtual Account Management
- Corporate Tax
- Payments
- Technology Risk
- Incident & Change Management
Key Strengths
- Senior Management & Leadership, Proven track record leading large, globally distributed engineering teams to deliver critical business solutions with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and customer success.
- Cloud & Microservices Architect, Skilled in designing and implementing scalable reactive microservices architectures for both public cloud and hybrid environments. Experienced with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- AI Enabled Systems, Architected and built enterprise-grade AI enabled systems leveraging OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, Autogen VectorDB and MCP servers — with a focus on multi-agent orchestration, observability and seamless integration into complex cloud-native environments.
- Big Data Expertise, Built data products capable of synthesizing and analyzing large datasets using Big Data technologies like Spark, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Impala, Hive, Elasticsearch, and Machine Learning algorithms.
- Hands-On Technologist, Deep knowledge of core Java, J2EE frameworks, design patterns, Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j), and messaging middleware (Kafka, Tibco MQ, RabbitMQ). Proficient in building and maintaining data warehousing solutions.
Timeline
Executive Director – Technology
JP Morgan Chase & Co
04.2017 - Current
Senior Director – Platform and Products
Cognizant
04.2016 - 03.2017
Vice President Technology and Senior Engineer
Goldman Sachs
07.2010 - 03.2016
Software Development Manager
SAP Ariba
07.2008 - 06.2010
IT Manager, Architect, IT Engineer & Consultant
Cisco Systems
07.1999 - 06.2008
Senior Software Engineer
Knights Inc (An Intel company)
08.1998 - 07.1999
Programmer
ISIL India Ltd (Subsidiary of IDBI)
06.1996 - 08.1998
MBA - Finance
The ICFAI University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Walchand Institute of Technology