Deepak Puliyampatta
Director
Singapore
Summary
- 17 Years of experience in Finance industry with emphasis in Design, Development & Delivery of IT solutions.
- Business acumen with a strong background of understanding technologies, executing several IT operations in the Banking Sector
- 8+ years of experience in designing and implementing Liquidity models for LCR Relevant applications.
- Data Architect for implementing strategies and detailed approaches to integrate BigData with existing applications such as Oracle , SQL Server.
- 3+ years of experience driving solution architecture, defining data management framework and delivery of Reference Data Applications in Big data platform employing DataBricks, development in Apache Spark and orchestration by Apache Airflow.
- 7+ years of program management experience including business analysis , project scoping, building prototypes, documenting risks, hiring/ training resources and interfacing with Senior management.
- Experience with Metadata,data quality and data profiling tools and techniques
- Knowledge of programming languages like python, Apache Spark, Scala.
- Experience with Software Development Life Cycles (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum)
- Customer handling experience as Product owner / Delivery Lead / Solution Architect
- Responsible to support program financial's, regular projects progress and milestones report to management.
- Execute projects in Agile, conduct crew events, manage Risks, resolve impediments for crew milestones.
- Proven strengths in problem solving, coordination and analysis
- Strong interpersonal, learning and leadership skills matched with the ability to manage stress, time and people effectively
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Director
UBS AG
01.2024 - Current
- Responsible for the strategy, roadmap and OKRs (Objective and Key results) as Product Owner for LIFE GT Data Foundation POD.
- Handled the role of Crew product lead managing 100+ products across treasury, 15+ cross functional POD's across 5 regions.
- Responsible for creating impactful change to Treasury clients through the delivery of LIFE PaaS while ensuring the high quality and compliance of the product with risk and security policies.
- Deeply understand the needs of Treasury users for LCR applications, act as their voice within the Pod and prioritize epics and user stories in the backlog accordingly to achieve business goals.
- Mitigate impediments to the team's goals, align across pods and with crew leads and act as pod's ambassadors towards internal stakeholders and clients.
- Motivate and energize pod members and contribute to their growth and well-being.
- Responsible for driving the LIFE migration program handling scope, design, budget, resourcing, stakeholder management, governance, risk and controls.
- Partner with the Business Users to solve the business problems using BI, Data Engineering and Data Science.
- Oversaw all LCR Migration projects to cloud including Group / Regionals simultaneously, managed full life cycle of projects from inception through completion.
- Recommended solutions to improve user experience building ML models as POC in lower environments.
- Execute projects in Agile, conduct scrum ceremonies and events, managed Scrum board- back log in JIRA, manage Risks, resolve impediments for smooth delivery of releases, getting business signoffs by iteration.
- Designed the risk framework and implemented the controls for reporting in PowerBI.
- Responsible for structuring the data for efficient data governance in Big Data platform. Implemented tenants / data concepts and data elements for all applications scoped under cloud migration.
Associate Director
UBS AG
10.2018 - 01.2024
- Responsible for designing and executing the strategy on migration of Reference Data applications to Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Gathering requirements from business users and providing design solutions by establishing POC.
- Responsible for driving the LIFE migration program handling scope, design, budget, resourcing, stakeholder management, governance, risk and controls.
- Partner with the Business Users to solve the business problems using BI, Data Engineering and Data Science.
- Developing and Driving solution architecture employing data management, establishing governance framework and design patterns.
- Build the data models for insights into Crisis scenarios and to predict the liquidity.
- Analyze Optimizing the current data models implemented for Reporting.
- Oversaw between 5 to 10 projects simultaneously, managed full life cycle of projects from inception through completion.
- Responsible for analysis, gap assessment and delivering Refdata tenant on big data platform. Developed on Pyspark employing Databricks for cluster management, Azure data lake for storage and Apache Airflow for Orchestration.
- Execute projects in Agile, conduct scrum ceremonies and events, managed Scrum board- back log in JIRA, manage Risks, resolve impediments for smooth delivery of releases, getting business signoffs by iteration.
- Responsible for delivery of individual programs and reporting to central PMC as POD / Chapter lead.
- Designed the risk framework and implemented the controls for reporting in PowerBI.
- Responsible for structuring the data for efficient data governance in Big Data platform. Implemented tenants / data concepts and data elements for all applications scoped under cloud migration.
Project Lead (Treasury)
UBS AG
10.2016 - 10.2018
- Handled the position Project lead for Treasury Applications distributed at APAC and Zurich regions.
- Involved in designing, analysis, testing and implementation of operational models for all Core treasury and secured funding applications with key focus on subject areas such as Support Model, Key Risk Indicators, Performance Measures, User roles, Security Level.
- Involved in defining crew OKR's and ensured the completion of all 5 projects contributing to OKR's on time.
- Responsible for Business analysis and development of LCR related applications for ongoing changes in regulatory requirements as per Basel accord.
- Successfully collaborated with developers, DBA's and technical team to perform root cause analysis of all issues.
- Participated in PMO activities, including demand and project portfolio management, facilitated prioritization workshops and communicated with senior management and stake holders.
- Established Finance, regulatory, IT processes, Change management in compliance with organization policy, governance framework and regulatory requirements.
- Headed the core team for the implementation of Asset Repository program in Treasury. Involved in impact analysis, design flow, team structuring, coordinating with Vendor and implementation for all applications in treasury scope.
- Responsible for analyzing and reporting the performance to Senior Management on a quarterly/adhoc basis with key focus on Benefits achieved, KPI's, Audit lines and Risks.
Automation / BA Lead - Treasury
UBS AG
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Gathering, Analyzing and Elaborating Business function requirements.
- Identifying and Validating business objectives and generating proposed technical solutions for LCR APAC.
- Responsible for identifying areas of improvement and automating business solutions.
- Have created data models for insights into crisis scenarios.
- Involved in the analyzing / investigating data quality issues with Business and ensuring the data lines are as per Business expectation.
- Headed the initiative to design the solution for asset allocation principles in APAC as per MAS requirements. Involved in developing the end solution.
- Responsible to plan, scope, backlog management, develop domain migration roadmap, collaborate with product leads, firm up requirement, analyse and solutioning in API, architecture.
- Responsible leading squad, upstream and downstream collaboration, test management, projects execution. Recruit squad members, evaluate team performance, run projects and coach team for progress and quality deliverables.
Consultant
National Commercial Bank - Capital
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Worked on the proposal of SBP program to replace the existing capital markets Brokerage Settlement and Capture systems with a functionally rich, world class (THOMSON REUTERS and FIDESSA) product set, along with the addition of a new middleware (TIBCO) and a customer portal.
- Responsible for working with the business and the vendors to gather requirements for coming up with IT solutions as part of the SBP program. The implementation of the program will enable the client multi market, multi-currency and multi product, capability.
- Worked with different stakeholders (Infrastructure, Front Office, Back Office, Middleware, Testing) to fill the gaps and analyze the dependencies of the existing legacy systems with all the channels. Came up with the high level conceptual architecture of the trading platform to scope the proposed new model.
- In charge of coordinating and tracking the project streams, key milestones within that stream and the associated key assumptions. Provided status reports to the business on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis to the business and respective vendors.
- Successfully implemented the first phase project by rolling out for in-house customers.
Developer (L3 support)
National Commercial Bank - Capital
01.2010 - 01.2012
Software Engineer
GoldManSachs
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Key player in the development of Mutual fund suite applications, responsible for the project plan, scheduling time frame, roles and responsibilities, budgeting, and reporting the progress to the program manager/Executive.
- In-charge of leading the Mutual fund operations team and responsible for L2 support and maintenance of applications such as CORFAX, AML, Asset Management.
- Responsible for coordinating with business and developing IT solutions for new products/enhancements under Mutual Fund domain.
- Responsible for maintaining the production DB and DR slots, taking backups, and for carrying out all the DB related activities. Involves activities like debugging, carrying out schema updates, and housekeeping.
- Responsible for carrying out RCA, scripting, attending CAB's and to face escalations for all issues addressed for applications under MF domain.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - EEE
Anna University
Sri Ramakrishna Institute Of Technology 05.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Problem-solving
Project management
Operations management
Team management
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Architect Technologies, 06/01/21
Languages And Technologies
Progress 4GL, PL/SQL, Python, Apache Spark, Windows, Unix, Solaris, Linux, Progress DB, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Web logic, Web sphere, JBOSS, Apache, Databricks, Apache Airflow, Power BI, Azure cloud suite, HP Open view, Service Desk, BAC, Autosys, AppDynamics, Splunk, JIRA
Personal Information
- Passport Number: Z6753264
- Date of Birth: 06/29/85
Timeline
Director
UBS AG
01.2024 - Current
Associate Director
UBS AG
10.2018 - 01.2024
Project Lead (Treasury)
UBS AG
10.2016 - 10.2018
Automation / BA Lead - Treasury
UBS AG
01.2014 - 01.2016
Consultant
National Commercial Bank - Capital
01.2012 - 01.2014
Developer (L3 support)
National Commercial Bank - Capital
01.2010 - 01.2012
Software Engineer
GoldManSachs
01.2007 - 01.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - EEE
Anna University
05.2003 - 05.2007
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