Ravindra Wakodikar
Delivery Lead Market RiskIT
Pune
Summary
Seasoned IT leader with 17 years of experience across Risk IT, Asset Management IT, and Investment Banking. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams and specializing in data management and engineering. Proven track record of implementing AI and cloud-native solutions to enhance data accuracy and system performance. Currently excelling as a Delivery Lead in Market Risk IT, adept at navigating complex challenges and driving strategic outcomes in dynamic environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
AVP
Barclays
Pune
12.2018 - Current
- Lead Credit Asset Class Market Risk systems delivering enrichments and risk analytics for RWA and VaR calculations.
- Ownership for end-to-end application delivery, testing, and release in collaboration with frontend, data platform, and reference data teams
- Spearheaded AI integration across Market Risk projects, enhancing data accuracy and reporting capabilities.
- Established a high-performance engineering culture emphasizing quality, ownership, and agility, guiding developers to deliver robust software in a metrics-driven SAFe environment.
- Collaborate with engineers and managers, providing architectural guidance and feedback on new product features and implementations.
AO
UBS
Pune
03.2016 - 12.2018
- Led and scale up India Asset Management RiskIT.
- Managed a team of 15 engineers, BAs, Testers ensuring high-quality software development through Agile methodologies and code reviews.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Product and Design, to define and deliver the product roadmap.
- Developed and maintained scalable database, ETL and REST services using modern development technologies, resulting in improved performance and scalability.
- Implemented automated testing and continuous integration processes, resulting in faster and more reliable releases.
Senior Analyst
Bank of America
Mumbai
08.2010 - 03.2016
- Lead for Product Control and Finance Control IT at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
- Daily processing of humongous data for traded products, such as OTC derivatives and commodities.
- Batch enrichment for General Ledger recon and P&L calculation.
- Designed and developed software features using Java and SQL, resulting in improved application performance and reliability.
- Participated in the development of automated testing and deployment processes, resulting in faster, more reliable releases.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Nagpur University
Nagpur, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Data Management
Data Warehouse
Data Engineering
Data Analytics
ETL/ Ab initio/MSBI/CADIS
CI/CD
Microsoft Tech
MS-SQL
SAFe,SDLC, GIT,Agile
PI Planning
AUTOSYS
Timeline
AVP
Barclays
12.2018 - Current
AO
UBS
03.2016 - 12.2018
Senior Analyst
Bank of America
08.2010 - 03.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Nagpur University
04.2001 -
Roles And Responsibilities
- Manage design, development, and implementation of tightly integrated regulatory programs and projects.
- Responsible for solution delivery and performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality, and other metrics identified for each initiative.
- Role involves local management in RISKIT that include management responsibilities like Development, Goals Setting, Monthly 1:1s, Recruitment, Talent development, Performance Management and feedback.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationship with executive, senior, business and functional leadership.
Strengths
- Responsible for managing Credit asset class Market Risk technology portfolio to define and execute short- and long-term plans, and establish strategic technology roadmaps for the portfolio in partnership with business priorities.
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver multiple successful SAFe Agile projects, resulting in increase in productivity.
- Strong business understanding and stakeholder management.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with senior executives , Risk Managers and functional leadership.
Functional Domain
- Market Risk
- Asset Management
- Investment Banking
- Product Control
- Finance Control
- Product Owner/Manager
- RiskIT
- Jira
- Confluence
- Sharepoint