FIX Trading Protocol
Navaneethakumar Balasubramaniam
Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
Singapore
Summary
Competent Product Specialist with more than 16 years of experience working in Financial Markets - Trading and Execution. Skilled in Product Management, Business Analysis, Projects & Stakeholder management, Customer engagement and Application lifecycle management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates
3
3
Languages
Work History
Product Specialist & Client Integration
MarketAxess Singapore Pte Ltd
Singapore, USA
06.2014 - Current
- Strategize EM-Asia markets features with Product management teams from conception to release and review.
- API Product owner for Asian bond market trading protocols across client and dealer exchange gateways.
- Managed 8 major features, 14 epics as part of firm' Agile transformation from traditional SDLC.
- Managed APAC client onboarding, integrations and implementations in the region.
- Working with pre-sales teams on product pitching, venue offerings and tailoring OMS/EMS solution proposals according to business needs.
- Actively engaged in market events, exchange programs to demonstrate and collaborate new innovations in FIX Trading community.
- Working with external clients, Business teams & internal stakeholders to gather requirements, build user stories and plan product rollouts.
- Co-ordinate and work with ART/Scrum teams on features, epics, enhancements and manage backlogs for APAC products.
- Work with DevOps & Production services teams on performance metrics, bugfixes and application lifecycle management.
- Trained & mentored team on Agile-Scrum process best practices to improve team efficiency and transparency for Management reviews.
- Built and drive through technology roadmap for Asia Business from inception to operation model, inline with global streams.
- Deployed IT framework for Asia for monitoring automations, KPI metrics, breakpoints and escalation process for Ops team.
- Developed automated Robo responder solution for assisting external client and dealer platform integration developments.
Project Manager
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
07.2012 - 03.2014
- Managed Integrated technology team for FOMO – Traders and Product Controllers covering FI/FX Rates and Derivatives desks.
- IT Suite includes: Viper, Murex, Euclid - FX Rates & MM Trading, eFX FOBO, Currenex/ION for MMI gateways, Calypso, Sophis for Pricing, Risk & Pnl.
- APAC Project Manager for reporting, gather key requirements, SOW for user requests & BAU escalations.
- Successful delivery of FXS, eFX FOBO to Trade/MO Ops by 3Q, 2013, despite resourcing limitations.
- SG team lead for Onboarding, STP/Trade flow, pricing/booking, subscriptions, etc.
- Implemented SOX system Product Lifecycle with KPI metrics for OLA, SLA, BCP & CSA controls.
- Enforced integrated Ops monitoring framework for high availability, Service & Quality improvements.
- Performed Entity Onboarding, Product segregations, subscriptions for MM trading for APAC markets.
- Setup automated Monitoring with Sentinel/ITRS for FX Rates Derivative trading systems suite.
- Exercised 3 failovers with RTO <=1 hour for Rates Clearing platform / RDM for FX/FI products.
- Reduced system breakpoints, Money Market customizations, MDS, Limits & Rate Curve setup.
- Team: 6 Members – PERL/Shell, Python, Java 1.4, FIX, MQ, Oracle, Autosys & Websphere
Senior Associate Project Lead
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
Singapore
04.2011 - 06.2012
- Integrated ION Marketview to eFX/eTrade execution platform by co-location grid for Asia
- Improved performance for Rates Trading business volume STP processing through co-location
- Configured Market accesses and customized layouts for ION-MMI for Emerging Markets traders
- SME for BAU Trade support, APAC System customization and External client on boarding
- Established standards for component interfaces, Loaders, Layouts for improving uptime & reliability
- Created One Stop Screen for Cash trading, Futures and UST bonds
- Team: 9 Members – PERL/Shell, Python, Sybase, MQ, Java 1.4, FIX, Autosys & C#.NET
Senior Project Associate
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
Singapore
10.2010 - 03.2011
- Implementation project lead for transforming Murex 3.1 to In-house architecture
- Business Support for Trader and Middle Office, pricing and execution operations for FX/FI products
- Performed server setup, firewalls for external subscriptions & pricing stream
- UAT regression and BCP setup for high availability and quicker turnaround for incidents
- Setup production parallels and manage cutovers, batch automation to reduce need for monitoring
- Team: 4 Members – PERL/Shell, MSSQL, Java 1.4, Sybase, Tibco RV, Autosys & Websphere.
Senior Associate
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Singapore
01.2009 - 09.2010
- On boarded TriParty repo trading workflows with internal enhancement that updates firm positions
- In addition to Business support, performed server setup, enhancements to Application components
- Configured reports delivery to user profiles to improve user report sets, reducing system bottlenecks
- Integration to ION-Market view Bus stream to capture Cash/Future order status and market taking
- Team: 4 Members - PERL Scripting, C++, Sybase, Shell Scripting, Control-M & Websphere
- Markitwire Clearing Broker for Rates Derivatives
Associate
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.
Singapore, Singapore
11.2007 - 12.2008
- Enforced framework for Change management whereby L1/L2/L3 is integrated for change process.
- SME for Murex Risk/Position server migration (MLC), upgrade, batch & environment management.
- Trader support handling of STP issues, Reporting/Data mart issues, MxML/Trade capture issues
- Exercised System Fail-over testing half-yearly by ensuring, intraday failover meets Business RTO
- Implemented cross-functional SME rotation to improve service quality and quicker turnaround
- Successful delivery of Mercury Trinity architecture – Cost-efficient Grid architecture based, Trade STP system with less Hardware footprint, coupled with automated E2E flow monitoring
- Developed Management RAG system dashboard for Asia Rates Trading/Pnl systems
IT Associate
LeggMason Global Asset Management
Singapore
07.2006 - 10.2007
- Lead for Singapore team with responsibilities includes but not limited to: Service & systems availability management, Incident Management, Capacity management, Trading System transitions & migrations from Citi Group to LeggMason Corporate network
- Associate in Project team from Singapore covering APAC region.
- Successful migration of Latent Zero Systems, BBG POMS to Charles River Systems used by Front Office.
- Successful upgrading of Thomson Reuters Accounting system Portia for BackOffice
- Rollout of SOA based, front to back STP flow from CRIMS, BBG to flow through Omgeo, Salerio & OG.
- Automated SWIFT Message processing for SSR reconciliations with Portia.
- Integrating Queue processing STP setup with workflow routing logic to upstream/downstream
- Team: 12 Members – UNIX, PERL, Sybase, MQ, XML, JSP & Websphere
Software Engineer
Telesis Global Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
Chennai, India, India
06.2004 - 06.2006
- Engineer for conducting Business Process Analysis, gathering SRS, cross system interfaces, Implementing FINACLE Treasury across SBI Foreign Offices
- Automated deal capture flow from REUTERS to FINACLE Treasury.
- Developed interfaces for Treasury & CORE Banking systems for Audit Reporting.
- Developed real-time Market Rates capturing interface from REUTERS to FINACLE Treasury.
- Customized SWIFT Message generation for Trade Settlements according to Bank Branches & delivered tool for OFAC Counterparty validations.
- Delivered FRS Reporting for SBI – Hong Kong & Singapore.
- Implemented Treasury application to SBI – Singapore desks and Deal Capture interface for Foreign Offices -Treasury Bills trading.
- Application deployment, developing interface with SWIFT Gateway, capturing Live Market rates from REUTERS 2000.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Technology
Periyar University
Mahendra Engineering College 07.2000 - 05.2004
High School Diploma -
Higher Secondary Education
TamilNadu, India 06.1999 - 05.2000
Skills
Product demonstrations
Stakeholder management
Scrum methodology
Waterfall methodology
Features & Story planning
Product Management
Application Lifecycle
Project Management
Scrum and Scaled Agile framework
Technical Writing & Documentation
Workflow & Gap analysis
Business process mapping
Predictive modeling
Software
PERL
SQL
Python
Java, JSP, REST
Certification
SAFe Certified Product Owner
Affiliations
- Scaled Agile Framework Community
- Project Management Institute
- Emerging Markets Trading Association
- FIX Trading Community
- Toastmasters
Accomplishments
- Certified SAFe Agilist - Product Owner / Product Manager
- PMP – #1383385 from Project Management Institute (PMI)
- CSTM - CyberSecurity Threats Management certified.
- COBIT v5– Trained on Framework for the IT Governance, Management, Risk Controls & Audit.
- ITIL – Certified associate - IT Infrastructure Library for better IT Governance.
- EMS systems :: Murex (Mx3), ION Trading systems, BBG AIM/TOMS, AxeTrading, AxessIQ & BATS.
- OMS Systems :: Aladdin, CRIMS, BBG AIM & ThinkFolio.
- DevOps: Azure Devops, Jenkins, ITRS, Sentinel, Nagios, Control-M & Autosys.
- Coding:: C++, Java 1.4, Perl, Python, UNIX, JSON & XML.
- Databases : Sybase 15, Oracle 11g/12c & MS SQL.
Technical & Functional skills:
Timeline
SAFe Certified Product Owner
08-2021
CyberSecurity Threat Management
05-2021
BlockChain for Capital Markets
04-2021
COBIT v5
06-2015
Product Specialist & Client Integration
MarketAxess Singapore Pte Ltd
06.2014 - Current
PMP, Project Management Institute
01-2013
Project Manager
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
07.2012 - 03.2014
Senior Associate Project Lead
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
04.2011 - 06.2012
Senior Project Associate
Nomura Holdings Inc, Singapore
10.2010 - 03.2011
Senior Associate
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
01.2009 - 09.2010
Associate
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.
11.2007 - 12.2008
IT Associate
LeggMason Global Asset Management
07.2006 - 10.2007
Software Engineer
Telesis Global Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
06.2004 - 06.2006
Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Technology
Periyar University
07.2000 - 05.2004
High School Diploma -
Higher Secondary Education
06.1999 - 05.2000