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VAIBHAV SRIVASTAVA

Bengaluru

Summary

Strategic technology leader with 22 years of expertise in legacy modernization, cloud migration, application development, and business process transformation across commercial lending and insurance. Currently serving as Executive Director at Wells Fargo, leading Equipment Finance India under Commercial Banking, driving scalability, stability, innovation, and cloud adoption for multiple applications. Proven track record in managing complex global projects, leading high-performing teams, and aligning technology with business strategy. Extensive experience in InfoLease technical ownership, Azure Cloud adoption & go-to-market strategy for Odessa, and core lending mainframe modernization to OpenFrame for GE Capital. Domain expert in payments and receivables, including ACH, lockbox, credit cards, direct debit, wires, cheques, SWIFT, and regulatory reporting. Skilled in fostering cross-functional collaboration, optimizing business processes, and delivering high-impact solutions that drive efficiency and growth. A hands-on techno-functional leader with a passion for innovation, client engagement, and change management. Known for creating synergies across business units, building scalable technology solutions, and navigating dynamic environments to deliver transformational outcomes.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Executive Director

Wells Fargo
02.2022 - Current
  • Heading Equipment Finance India under Commercial Lending providing management and technical leadership driving enterprise goals, Legacy modernization, and a culture of innovation, accountability and learning
  • Global Technology Application ownership and accountability for Infolease, a Solifi vendor product
  • Improved manual Decision efficiency for Underwriters and Risk from ~3hours to
  • Leading efficiency driver through GenAI based solution (POC) for the Annual Review Process with potential to save more than 60K hours annually for Operations
  • Led innovation and efficiency drivers with One Click Deployment and Testing Automation across Line of Business
  • Led Tech4Good initiative partnering with NGO Anudip Foundation delivering AI/ML based frugal solution to drive efficiency and accuracy in their placement workflow
  • Led ideation and development of 'Retro' tool as a viable alternative to Mural for retrospectives for internal use
  • Led effort on 15-factor methodology for cloud readiness, ensuring applications were optimized for cloud environments

AVP - Product Management

Odessa
09.2019 - 02.2022
  • Growing, leading, and managing team of 150+ as Unit Head directly reporting to SVP, Product and Technology
  • Responsible for all servicing features, Cloud adoption, BDD testing methodology adoption, and scalability initiatives on Odessa's lending platform on Microsoft stack
  • As Cloud Product Owner and Azure Solutions Architect, defined the Go To Market strategy and Azure Cloud adoption for Odessa's SaaS offering by liaising with Sales/Finance for pricing/costing
  • Own and prioritize the Cloud backlog and driving architecture decisions with Delivery/Technical teams
  • Recruited, Coached, Talent profiled, Budgeted, and drove product roadmap strategy with senior management

Technology Manager

Wells Fargo
09.2016 - 09.2019
  • Leading and managing multiple teams of 70 members with Java, SpringBoot, ReactJS, SOAP and RESTful services, Microservices architecture, JSON, Oracle PL/SQL expertise and consolidating multiple applications - the commercial lending applications brought over from GE Capital and InfoLease suite of applications used within Wells Fargo
  • Product ownership and SME for overall delivery, architectural design and code quality for the IN team(s) building RESTful services on Spring framework as well as consolidating applications
  • The One WFEF Integration is the largest and most complex conversion WFEF has completed, involving multiple teams across the organization as well as the largest portfolio conversion in the history of the industry
  • Received 'Champion' award for leadership during integration of PMS within Wells Fargo environment

Enhancements Leader

GE Capital
11.2009 - 08.2016
  • Leading the mainframe modernization initiative from IN and migrating to distributed platform using Tmaxsoft Rehosting software solutions and save $30MM over a period of 3 years
  • Leading India team on database migration/conversion/testing of 7 IDMS schemas, 900+ IDMS records and 17 MM lines of code followed by executing key initiatives from India with multi-location teams on Java, Spring, RESTful services
  • Delivered $2MM in productivity gains over 2 years with a $450K annual budget

Senior Systems Analyst

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2009
  • Experience leading development and maintenance on Life/Asia - the Life Insurance Policy Administration system
  • Led the development and launch of company's first Health plans and new versions of Group Products
  • Led the development and launch of commission clawback feature for Agents in case of mis-sell
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align product roadmaps with company's goals

Onsite Leader and Client Relationship

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
11.2002 - 06.2008
  • Cash SME and Onsite technical lead for Portfolio Management Services suite of applications
  • Leading design and build of technology solutions in alignment with business initiatives
  • Rewrite key batch processes reducing runtime by 65%
  • Improved code quality through multiple initiatives resulting in defect backlog reduction of aged tickets to 0

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Communications

IIT Roorkee
Roorkee
01.2002

Skills

  • Strategic planning
  • Talent management and staffing
  • Innovation management
  • Engineering leadership
  • Machine learning
  • Test automation
  • System Performance Optimization
  • Technical leadership
  • System architecture
  • Design oversight

Core Competencies

Provide leadership and architectural design direction to high performing teams, managers and technical architects., Work collaboratively cross-functionally, cross-border and vertically across a fast paced, changing environment., Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks while driving effective communication and collaboration with disparate stakeholders and senior leadership., Budget planning and team management including career planning, skills development, performance evaluation, correction and coaching/mentoring., Experience in Technology evaluation and feasibility study for new projects in alignment with the business needs., Identifying opportunities and driving process improvements in collaboration with stakeholders., Ensure applications are designed and built using modular, configurable solutions utilizing modern technologies, solid engineering principles and best practices e.g. BDD/DDD, Single Click Deployment., Financial planning, tracking, effective resource management, risk estimation and mitigation, communication., Product ownership for multiple teams leading Agile development strategy and deliverables with focus on continuous improvement, quality, resiliency and performance., 20 years' experience in building information architecture in relationship with business strategy on the commercial lending platforms spanning Touchless Originations, Decisioning and Servicing., Experience building new functionalities to existing Health products and new launches as approved by IRDA in collaboration with Actuaries, Operations and process owners.

Certification

  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert, 01/01/20
  • Post Graduate certificate program in AI/ML from BITS Pilani, 01/01/24
  • Certified in house trainer for 'Banking Essentials 101' program at Wells Fargo

Timeline

Executive Director

Wells Fargo
02.2022 - Current

AVP - Product Management

Odessa
09.2019 - 02.2022

Technology Manager

Wells Fargo
09.2016 - 09.2019

Enhancements Leader

GE Capital
11.2009 - 08.2016

Senior Systems Analyst

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2009

Onsite Leader and Client Relationship

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
11.2002 - 06.2008

B.Tech - Electronics & Communications

IIT Roorkee
VAIBHAV SRIVASTAVA