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VIVEK SRIVASTAVA

VIVEK SRIVASTAVA

Pune

Summary

  • Technology leader with experience of 25+ years in Software development, Engineering, Digital transformation & Architecture.
  • Led Digital transformation for top 50 Global organizations.
  • Worked in Banking/Financial services, eCommerce, Core tech and Retail domains
  • Deep knowledge and understanding of Private banking and wealth management within financial domain.
  • Expert in Digital transformation via APIs, Data Strategy & PAAS/Cloud platform.
  • Experience with Applied Data Sciences.
  • Expert in DevOps tech stack and Agile processes
  • Expert in setting up and scaling Global Consulting and Captive tech centers in India with sensitivity to manage cultural diversity (Lived and worked globally) i.e. Adobe, Fidelity, Target, SocGen & Citi
  • Highly valued as “People's leader” with a track record of retaining top talent, mentoring and coaching at different levels.
  • Managed Cost centres, budgets, P&L for Business units
  • Champion of Transformation, Innovation and Change management across service lines
  • Worked extensively with startup and Innovation ecosystem in India
  • Known to build great relationships, partnerships and trust among stakeholders
  • Big believer in open source tools, technology and platforms

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Head for PBWMT/Global Head for Digital & APIs

Citi Service Center
05.2018 - Current

Site head of Personal Banking and wealth management technology. Functionally playing role of global head for APIs, integration and partnerships in Digital Engineering. Managing team of ~1700 at Pune.

  • Grew Wealth tech team from 200~ to 1700 in last 4 years.
  • Drive Digital and APIs function globally.
  • Leading Digital/API platforms & framework for Global wealth Business
  • Driving customer journey automation through Digital levers across wealth domain i.e. Customer acquisition, Banking/Lending, Investments and Data Strategy.
  • Raise bar on talent in terms of skills and competency
  • Lowest attrition of 8% across Pune site.
  • Drive Quality delivery and discipline across development i.e engineering dashboards
  • Drive Agile transformation and DevOps mindset i.e. CI/CD automation, test automation and no touch deployments.
  • Key role for Data strategy and real time solutions
  • Key focus in transformation of Tech stack, people and culture
  • Key role in vendor strategy
  • Key role in Architecture for global wealth
  • Champion of Inclusion and Diversity at Pune Site i.e. Gender diversity of 40%+ , Defense veterans, Returning women, LGBTIQ+ & disabilities
  • Focused teams on developing innovative and cutting-edge solutions at all levels
  • Key lead for College Grads Intake program at Pune site

Senior Vice President - Architecture, Engineering and Digital Transformation

Societe General Global Solution Center
09.2016 - 05.2018
  • Heading Engineering and Architecture for Investment banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking and Security services in Bangalore
  • Leading COE for transformation of applications and solutions across Investment banking division
  • Leading Cognitive Automation through AI/ML Platforms
  • Leading PAAS/Cloud initiative using Docker PAAS, Public cloud (AWS & Azure) & Private cloud
  • Championing Banking as service by driving API by design architecture
  • Setup engineering best practices and open source model for key services and offerings
  • Champion of Innovation on PAAS/Cloud, Machine learning and Cyber Security
  • Key role in Skills and competency drive across ITEC
  • Hired best engineering talent for raising bar on skills and competency

Director - Engineering

Target Corporation
03.2014 - 08.2016
  • India leader for Cloud platform engineering & Enterprise services platform
  • Key role in building DevOps aka CD/CI platform for enabling rapid delivery of Applications and APIs
  • Implementation of Spinnaker for CD/CI pipeline which support hybrid cloud strategy
  • Instrumental in building ELK stack for Application monitoring and time series analytics
  • Key role in hybrid cloud strategy involving AWS & Open stack
  • Key role in setting up Kubernetes, Docker containers, Immutable images and continuous deployment using Chef
  • Key role in introducing Mesos on camel for replacing Datastage platform for ETL. Evaluation of Talend platform for DataStage replacement
  • Built solid talent pool on enterprise services stack - Kafka, Cassandra, Elastic search, Camel and Chef

Senior Group Manager - Digital

Target Corporation
03.2012 - 03.2014
  • India Leader for Target.com/Mobile Site reliability Engineering team
  • Lead global 3 years strategy for SRE, Application Support, Guest experience and infrastructure
  • Leader for supporting business of 2.5 Billion USD for eCommerce and Mobile
  • Key leader for ensuring performance, scalability and stability for fast changing platform
  • Managed platform stability by partnering with application teams and building monitoring,circuit breakers and auto toggles for key functionalities and critical path to checkout
  • Introduced operational analytics based on models created using historical data and patterns inlogs/click stream data
  • Rationalization of APM tools by evaluating Dynatrace, New Relic and App Dynamics
  • Moved strategy from responsive to preventive and Predictive.Accountability for all eCommerce applications, fulfillment and Customer experience across digital channels.

Group Program Head - eCommerce

Adobe Systems
03.2009 - 03.2012
    • Key leadership role in Global application and infrastructure strategy for transformation for Adobe.com
    • Moved Adobe.com to new ecommerce platform (ATG)
    • Introduced Best in class customer centric user experience for buyers (Via Omniture & Day)
    • Enablement of new business models like subscription, usage & metered
    • Managed large scale eCommerce Platform re-engineering program through Global teams

Senior Delivery Manager

Fidelity Investments
05.2003 - 03.2009
  • Lead tech teams in Fidelity eBusiness, Fidelity Brokerage technology and Fidelity Net benefits globally.
  • Setup offshore delivery models in India from ground up
  • Managed delivery, engineering and Infra for respective BUs

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

Delhi University
New Delhi, DL
1993

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration

AIMA-CME
New Delhi, DL
2000

Skills

  • Platforms and framework
  • Digital transformation
  • APIs
  • Data Strategy
  • Engineering
  • Architecture

Timeline

Site Head for PBWMT/Global Head for Digital & APIs

Citi Service Center
05.2018 - Current

Senior Vice President - Architecture, Engineering and Digital Transformation

Societe General Global Solution Center
09.2016 - 05.2018

Director - Engineering

Target Corporation
03.2014 - 08.2016

Senior Group Manager - Digital

Target Corporation
03.2012 - 03.2014

Group Program Head - eCommerce

Adobe Systems
03.2009 - 03.2012

Senior Delivery Manager

Fidelity Investments
05.2003 - 03.2009

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

Delhi University

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration

AIMA-CME
VIVEK SRIVASTAVA