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RAHUL TOMAR

RAHUL TOMAR

Tech Leader With 18 Years In Insurance
Mumbai

Summary

Innovative tech leader with 18 years in insurance, orchestrating a transformative shift in IT's role to a strategic business ally. Recognized for elevating performance and service levels, delivering large-scale projects within budget and timelines. Adept at budgeting, technology design, and support. Seeking leadership role to infuse visionary leadership and drive technological excellence for sustainable business growth.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Vice President-Head IT Applications

Liberty General Insurance
05.2023 - Current

Key responsibilities:

  • Bridging gap between business needs and technical solutions with expertise in Business Analysis, Cloud Computing, Finance, Agile Methodologies, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Developing and implementing technology roadmaps with measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) to directly align with and drive achievement of specific business goals and objectives
  • Enforced robust information security policies per IRDA standards, bolstering data security and integrity.
  • Oversaw infrastructure maintenance for optimal performance and availability of critical business applications.
  • Hiring & managing employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols

Key accomplishments:

  • Spearheaded budgeting initiatives and optimized resource allocation, resulting in 40% reduction in operational costs
  • Managed process re-engineering project to improve and consolidate end-to-end service processes; restructured communication flow among 10 departments and cut down paperwork by 75%
  • Tech Stack: AWS Stack, Dot Net Core, MYSQL, Oracle, JAVA Springboot, Docker Microservices, API Gateway, Chatbots, ICR/OCR, ELK stack, DevOps CI/CD, OCR/ICR
  • Operating systems: Windows, RedHat

Vice President

Kotak Life
04.2020 - 05.2023

Key responsibilities:

  • Architecting business evolution: Leveraging digital, program management, and process expertise to drive transformative growth
  • From strategy to implementation: Leading cross-functional teams through digital and business transformations, fueled by data and customer insights
  • Translating IT vision into operational excellence through cross-functional leadership and agile execution
  • Implementation of internal, regulatory Cyber security guidelines, VAPT/Appsec frameworks & guidelines
  • Present and discuss tech strategy and initiative progress with senior leaders
  • Evaluate product development strategies and prepare alternative approaches to achieve faster go to market.

Key accomplishments:

  • EPIC- Implementation of New digital work flow for sales, branch, new business, underwriting business, Integration with 30+ different systems including setting up 900+ Nonfunctional requirement framework for future projects
  • Indiclaims- Digital workflow and transformation for claims process group and individual claims process
  • Testing automation - Setting up testing frameworks for D2C, partners, Ops Journey & regression testing automation to reduce time to market by 30%
  • New product launches - new product development across All systems. Delivered 25 life,12 Group products in < 3 Months. Support on Existing product features in year 2018
  • Tech Stack: IBM BAW, IBM DataMirror, IBM MQ,.Net Core, MYSQL, Oracle, JAVA Springboot framework, Node Js, Docker Microservices, WSo2API Gateway, Microsoft Biztalk, ICR/OCR, ELK stack, DevOps CI/CD, Redis, Uipath test Automation suite, Apache Kafka
  • Operating systems: Windows, RedHat linux, IBM linux, AIX

Associate Vice President

Kotak Life
07.2017 - 04.2020

Key responsibilities

  • AVM practice-Shift left initiatives, Creation and Implementation of Debt management framework including application maintenance & support for all applications.
  • Core Projects -Managing developments & App support of new products launches and Day-2 requirements in core systems Lifeasia and GroupAsia
  • RPA practice- Setting up RPA practice for ITOPS/ Business processes for automating EOD /BOD processes
  • Change governance - led implementation of change governance framework

Key accomplishments:

  • Successfully delivered 99.92% uptime for customer facing applications and key business features like payments, partner integrations
  • Increased SLA from 80% to 95% through aggressive tech debt reduction and app support streamlining
  • Instrumental in setting up application & IT infrastructure monitoring framework- led implementation of synthetic monitoring, Log monitoring, infrastructure using ELK stack
  • Automation of EOD/BOD Batch jobs using BMC tech stack
  • Awards: Celent AITA awards 2018, Singapore for IT operational excellence
  • Technologies managed: .Net Framework, Oracle, JAVA, ICR/OCR, AS/400 & DB/400, Windows communication framework (WCF)

Manager Business Systems

HDFC Life
06.2014 - 07.2017

Key responsibilities:

  • Application support & maintenance of Core systems Lifeasia , GroupAsia.
  • Audit compliance and regulatory support for internal and external audits
  • Integration support to peripheral applications
  • Monitoring and analyzing application performance to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments
  • Implementation of regulatory changes -implementation of GST, Unclaimed and TDS Changes across systems
  • Implement measures to reduce technical, operational, functional, knowledge debts
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members

Key accomplishments:

  • Application Support-Achieved SLA >90% for Life Asia and Group Asia, Reduction of cost of rework by 2 Man/Month
  • Reduction of EOD window by 60%
  • Successful implementation of regulatory, compliance projects
  • Technologies: IBM BPM, AS/400 & DB/400, Dot net
  • Operating systems: AS/400, Windows, RedHat Linux

Manager-Core Applications

Ageas Federal Life Insurance
06.2011 - 06.2014

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Managing both Group and individual policy Admin systems (Group/Asia & ELIXIR), Investment Management system (Mfund), Anti Money laundering system (AML), HRMS
  • It included vendor management, Cost optimization, Change management and Production support
  • Cross-train existing teams to maximize team agility and performance
  • Maximize performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members

Key accomplishments:

  • Led successful implementation of GroupAsia
  • Successfully stabilized individual life core system-ELIXIR and ensure SLA >95%
  • Technologies: Dot net, Oracle, Java, Mfund, IBM WebSphere, JBOSS
  • Operating systems: AIX, windows

Senior Software Engineer

Aegon Life
02.2009 - 06.2011

Key responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Product Design & production support in Policy Admin System (Graphtalk), Development of change requests, and defects resolution

Key accomplishments:

  • Took initiative to develop products in-house in order to maximize saving and reduce vendor dependencies.
  • Managed over 100 user incidents and request calls per day.
  • Led implementation of online term product, claims module and accounting module implementation
  • Technologies: Graphtalk (prolog-based technology), Oracle
  • Operating systems: Windows

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
10.2006 - 02.2009

Key responsibilities:

  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.

Key accomplishments:

  • Created automated scripts that reduced manual testing time by 50%
  • Refactored key code segments to improve memory usage by 30%

Education

Bachelors in Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology
Jaipur
06.2003 - 2006.06

Diploma in Computer Science & Engineering - Computer Science

Board of Technical Education
Jaipur
06.2000 - 2003.06

High School Diploma -

Board of Secondary Education
Rajasthan
05.1999 - 2000.06

No Degree - Chief Technology Officer Progamme

Indian School of Business
Hyderabad
2024.Apr - Current

Skills

Risk Managementundefined

Certification

Microsoft Azure for Developers - LinkedIn

Honors Awards

  • MD excellence award - Kotak Life
  • Awarded Celent AITA Award 2018 (Singapore) for IT Operational Excellence.
  • Best Performer of the Quarter - Aegon Life
  • Awarded best performer in IT for the quarter JULY-SEP 2010
  • Best Performer in Campus connect program - Infosys

Software

Net Framework

Java Springboot

Docker & Microservices

KAFKA

IBM BPM

Node Js& ReactJs

AWS

Timeline

No Degree - Chief Technology Officer Progamme

Indian School of Business
2024.Apr - Current

Senior Vice President-Head IT Applications

Liberty General Insurance
05.2023 - Current

Vice President

Kotak Life
04.2020 - 05.2023

Associate Vice President

Kotak Life
07.2017 - 04.2020

Manager Business Systems

HDFC Life
06.2014 - 07.2017

Manager-Core Applications

Ageas Federal Life Insurance
06.2011 - 06.2014

Senior Software Engineer

Aegon Life
02.2009 - 06.2011

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
10.2006 - 02.2009

Bachelors in Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology
06.2003 - 2006.06

Diploma in Computer Science & Engineering - Computer Science

Board of Technical Education
06.2000 - 2003.06

High School Diploma -

Board of Secondary Education
05.1999 - 2000.06
Microsoft Azure for Developers - LinkedIn
high impact presentation - Dale Carnegie Training
CPISI - SISA

Certificate in Risk Management for Insurance-IRM

RAHUL TOMARTech Leader With 18 Years In Insurance