Vivek Khandelwal
Technology Leader
Pune
Summary
As a seasoned technology executive and leader with over 17 years of experience in the Financial Services sector, I bring extensive international exposure across the USA and Europe. My expertise spans technology implementation, product management, program delivery, and client relations. Currently, I am spearheading the Investment Operations Outsourcing and Derivatives technology organization at Northern Trust. I excel in aligning technology initiatives with organizational goals, driving digital transformation, and product development. My robust leadership abilities empower me to adeptly navigate teams through intricate projects, consistently excelling in delivering initiatives with an annual run rate exceeding $5 million.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Head of IOO and Derivatives Technology
The Northern Trust
03.2022 - Current
- Leading seven teams spanning IOO and Derivatives groups with run rate exceeding $15 million, with primary focus on project delivery, multi-year technology strategy and execution, financial management, and stakeholder engagement
- Setup IOO technology teams in APAC region ground up, led cloud transformation across multiple middle office products and setup “follow-the-sun” support model
- Collaborate with CXOs to define technology roadmap and manage capital allocation effectively.
- Heading hiring initiative for full-stack developers for over 25 teams across APAC region, collaborating closely with TA/HR teams to define hiring process and manage recruitment channels effectively.
- Leading Center of Excellence (COE) for Engineering Excellence and Microsoft Power Platform initiatives.
Technology Lead/Enterprise Architect, Transfer Agency
The Northern Trust
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Moved from Chicago to Pune to to lead Transfer Agency transformation program technical delivery. As part of this program we hired more than 50 engineers in London, Dublin and India and worked with the Product team to create 12 functional scrum teams. This new product will decrease onboarding time for new clients to just 1 week and streamline processing across more than 20 internal applications
- Hired more than 100 employees across Chicago, London, Dublin and India in the last 2 years. Led hiring practice for multiple business lines. Worked with Talent Acquisition and HR teams to setup new hiring process, on-boarding process, hiring channels which resulted in streamlining hiring process in APAC region
- Managed intern hiring process in a short span of 2 months. Worked with Senior APAC management to create presentations for colleges, with Talent Acquisition to identify colleges, conducted hackathon and defined end to end interview process. We were able to hire 60+ interns from colleges across India.
- Led End User Computation(EUC) group to create multiple bots in a short time of 6 months for our client Liaison teams in Singapore and Manilla. These teams were using a manual FX process which was resulting in high financial risk for the bank. We were able to transform this process and remove all manual touch points
Technology Lead, Trade Cloud transformation team
The Northern Trust
07.2016 - 09.2020
- Led private cloud onboarding initiative for Bank. As part of this project we moved one of our core trade processing platforms to internal cloud which resulted in annual hardware and labor saving of more than $1 million. We were also able to decrease time to market of new features to less than 1 month and whole project was delivered in less than 2 years
- Setup high velocity agile teams in Dublin and London. I moved to Dublin on multi month assignment to hire and coach new Agile teams and was able to setup 4 team in short span of time
- Collaborated with the Executive team to facilitate the retraining of employees transitioning from legacy technology stacks to cloud-based platform
- Led the collaboration with Pivotal Labs to establish new Agile teams, incorporating Xtreme programming and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies
Technology Lead, Internal Reporting Applications
The Northern Trust
01.2014 - 06.2016
- Led teams to create new Data warehouse solution for more than 20 Internal reporting applications
- Implemented performance enhancements in our Mainframe-based legacy applications, resulting in a 10% increase in efficiency and an annual monetary gain of $100k
System Analyst/Architect
The Hexaware Technologies
04.2008 - 11.2013
- Led technical delivery of a team of over 20 people across India and Chicago. As part of delivery we developed and supported more than 20 Internal Audit reporting applications
- Led key transformation greenfield project with annual run rate of more than 5 million a year across 4 years. As part of this project we developed a new reporting application, sunset more than 15 legacy reporting application which eventually led to multi million annual saving for client
- Defined test strategy, test plan and test cases, setup test data, reviewed test results with key stakeholders, managed defects till closure. Reduced testing cycle time by 50%.
- Driven requirement workshops, elicitation sessions with business partners from 4 different functional groups including product management, technology teams, client service teams and Operations teams
- Design/Architect new reporting, Audit and BI applications. These were very complex applications dealing with data feeds from more than 50 internal applications through multiple channels and flag data for errors.
- Reported project health metrics, performance indicators, risks and dependencies on a bi-weekly basis. Made monthly presentation to program steering committee
Senior Software Engineer
The Hexaware Technologies
08.2006 - 03.2008
Education
INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives -
INSEAD
Fontainebleau, France 07.2022 - 07.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Rajasthan University
Jaipur, India 01.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
Digital Transformation
undefinedTechnology Skills
• Cloud Architect
• Java/Spring Technology stack
• REACT, Redux
• NOSQL
• Testing Strategy
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace
• AWS, Azure, PCF
• Docker, K8S, CI/CD
• Event Driven, Microservices Architecture
• Mainframe, Datastage
Certification
AFSI LOMA
Hobbies
• Travel and specially long drives
• Volunteering
Timeline
INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives -
INSEAD
07.2022 - 07.2023
Head of IOO and Derivatives Technology
The Northern Trust
03.2022 - Current
Technology Lead/Enterprise Architect, Transfer Agency
The Northern Trust
10.2020 - 03.2022
Technology Lead, Trade Cloud transformation team
The Northern Trust
07.2016 - 09.2020
Technology Lead, Internal Reporting Applications
The Northern Trust
01.2014 - 06.2016
System Analyst/Architect
The Hexaware Technologies
04.2008 - 11.2013
Senior Software Engineer
The Hexaware Technologies
08.2006 - 03.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Rajasthan University
01.2002 - 06.2006
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