Technology Project Manager

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Analytical, innovative and results-oriented IT Project Manager with over 18 years of proven track record in delivering projects using Prince2 and agile project management methodologies. Expertly multi-task, plan and coordinate detailed responsibilities within quality standards, established deadlines and budgetary requirements. Has extensive expertise and knowledge of fixed income derivative products including complete trade lifecycle. Able to lead, motivate and develop geographically dispersed teams through good communication and interpersonal skills as well as relationship building and influencing abilities.

Address: London, UK

E-mail: amit.r.kamat@gmail.com

Phone: 077-4070-4609

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Programme Manager - Information Services Division Cloud Migration - London Stock Exchange Group (Consultant)

Apr'2020 – Current

Senior Project Manager - Compliance Business Transformation - HSBC (Consultant)

Jan'2019 – Current

Programme was to migrate 17 real time applications to AWS & AZURE cloud to remove technical obsolescence & improve efficiency within FTSE Russell Index business.

Defined scope & priorities with cloud board to minimise the impact to index business as well as reporting to FCA committed milestones around technical obsolescence.
Delivered real time index building legacy platforms to cloud requiring several vendor product upgrades, code refactoring and extensive testing.
Managed 70 member project teams consisting of network, development, architects, cloud engineers, testers and production support executives.
Followed stringent approval process to meet the Compliance, Legal, Procurement and Risk regulations around Cloud Compliance and Data Privacy.

Streamline the compliance advisory process across group-wide businesses, build a cloud based technology solutions to support the new operating model, capture & standardizes centralized data, quick extraction of information using Chabot plus federated search capabilities & reports quality, risk controls & management information required to meet several regulatory obligations.

Delivered AWS cloud based technology application which helped to reduce the FTE cost by 30%.

Delivered simplified target operating model for Marketing Material & Data Control Compliance Services businesses through implementation of segregation of risk ownership model to improve time-to-market for business products from 15days to 3days.
Implemented SCRUM process to help bring both business transformation and technology teams together – which helped to remove in-efficiencies related to information handover & improved time-to-market by 2 weeks.

AWS

GCP

SAFe Program Consultant

MS Project

JAVA

Sybase

Unix

Web Technologies

JIRA

GreenHopper

Jenkins (CI)

Maven

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Senior Project Manager - Model Controls Remediation - HSBC (Consultant)

Oct'2017 – Dec'2018

Senior Project Manager - HSBC (Consultant)

Oct'2016 – Oct'2017

Role was part of HSBC Official Trade Reporting Platform involving planning & management of all regulatory reporting commitments. Some of the key initiatives involved budgeting & planning, restructuring of team to improve efficiency & business value focus delivery, improvements to existing platforms, strategic solution planning & design implementations across all jurisdiction. Primary stakeholders included Compliance & audit officers, Business Change Owner & external regulators representatives.

Senior Project Manager - HSBC (Consultant)

2014 – Oct'2016

Role was part of Debt Capital Market business area involving management of 4 critical front office applications. Some of the key initiatives involved improving SDLC efficiency, applications stability and globalisation of Syndicate & MTN desk onto single technology platform for streamlining & consolidating deal capture & Management Information reporting. Was also responsible for managing all deliverables and distributed technology teams globally across these applications to deliver projects within allotted budget. Tracked and reported portfolio financials to stakeholders on bi-weekly process. Primary stakeholders involved were Chief Operating Officer, Business Change Owner & origination desk.

Senior Project Manager - Barclays

2013 – 2014

As a part of Official Risk Calculation team, managed multiple medium to large project deliverables including regulatory, core technical and Emerging Market CSA valuation changes for their Global Fixed Incomes Risk Managment & Product Control Group teams. Working closely with Risk Managers to deliver key measures needed for improving the VAR and RWA impacts. Deliver key PnL feeds to Front Office, crucial in the formation of hedging strategies and managing risk. Responsible for coordination, analysis and development of end to end solutions for new structured products involving Curveset, Hedging Templates & QA teams for their correct processing and valuation.

Senior Project Manager - JPMorganChase

2005 – 2012

Managed EMEA counterpart for deliveries related to strategic trade capture, blotter and revenue reconciliation platform for OTC Rates Sales & Marketing group with an annual budget of $3-5m supporting 3000 users. Managed relationship and performance of outsourced functions representing an additional headcount of 60+ FTE in Mumbai.

Java Developer - JPMorganchase

2003 - 2005

- Developed several global functional solutions for “Trade capture and processing systems” within Sales & Marketing technology group.
- Designed, developed and implemented daily automated revenue reconciliation reporting tool saving 6FTE per week.
- Designed and developed web user interface, business data models and workflow frameworks using design patterns for trade capture and processing of Fixed Income derivative trades.
- Build complex framework to control editing of sensitive financial information based on business process workflow for Asia Pacific foreign bond sales team.
- Played key role in all phases of application development from requirements definition through implementation.

Senior Web Domino Developer - CSC Ltd.

1998 - 2002

- Lead developer on several Java/Domino projects for Schroder Asset Management.
- Headed the quality assurance team for the EMEA region.
- Managed, designed and delivered critical “Option event tracking” system for middle office teams saving substantial manual processing cost.

Technology Consultant - Digital Equipment Ltd. ( ICICI Asset Mgmt. Company)

1996 - 1998

- Maintenance and support for Novell Netware, Lotus Domino & SYBASE Servers.

- Hardware maintenance and support for PC and Servers.
- User support for all PC software applications used for Research & Development purposes.

System Support Executive - Microland Ltd. ( Deutsche Bank)

1995 - 1996

- Maintenance and support for Banyan Vines Network, Unix & SYBASE Servers.

- Hardware maintenance and support for PC and Servers.
- User support for all PC software applications used for back office operation team.

Education

Bachelors degree in Electronics

1989 - 1993

Appointed on personal recommendation to lead extremely sensitive project with stringent deadline, involving remediation of Significant Deficiencies in Pricing Models Change Controls within Primary Trading Systems. Hosted daily stand-ups meetings & Show-n-Tell ceremonies along with information JIRA dashboards for weekly updates to external audit teams.

Single-handedly completed the analysis & remediation of IT change process controls required to meet Critical Success Criteria saving 3 FTE.
Designed & implemented new model approval solution, across all in-scope Primary Trading Systems through introduction of agile KANBAN processes and auto-tracking of code changes from requirement gathering to production deployments to resolve controls gaps and avoid further audit failures.

Successfully completed analysis & reconciliation of “in-use” models within primary trading systems to Model inventory golden source to meet audit requirements.
Helped in the implementation of continuous integration & build tools across Equities (SOPHIS) & Credit (CALYPSO) trading platforms to bring necessary controls and transparency in the model change process and achieve automated controls to meet SOX obligations.