Hi, I’m
Balaji Srinivasan
Schaumburg,IL
Summary
Seasoned techno-functional leader with proven track record of data management, governance & analysis, architecting, delivering complex business outcomes by building and retaining high performance teams and motivating them to work towards common shared goals.
https://linkedin.com/in/balaji-srinivasan-5827161
Overview
30
years of professional experience
1
Certificate
Work History
UBS Asset Management
Chief Data Officer
03.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Created Vision and Data Strategy for Asset Management, & simplify system architecture to achieve data consolidation, & de-fragmentation.
- Standardize data consumption from single source of truth using Data virtualization (Denodo) and efficient (Kafka &API) access mechanisms to derive insights to enable business and STP.
- Ensure business ownership of data domains, data governance of more than 1000s of KDEs, 65 KDOs, MAS in Collibra.
- Comprehensive focus on Data Quality measurements throughout data lineage, incident management and remediation.
- Achieved significant turnaround of a multi-million dollar project to in-source securities master from external vendor
- Building tools for Portfolio Management like strategic asset allocation, portfolio proposals to significantly enhance time to market & data decision making,
- Responsible for global operations of securities master and benchmarks focusing on continuous improvements and providing 15% YOY efficiency OKR.
- Managing high performing global teams, inspiring them to higher standards, & retention of top talent.
HSBC
Head of Transformation
03.2020 - 03.2022
Job overview
- Lead automated unified client and regulatory report generation system across global markets based on Data Mesh methodologies, using Juniper, Data Works, Collibra, Quick BI and Python.
- Initiated microservices based re-architecture initiative using cloud native technologies to make applications interoperable thereby significantly improving operational efficiencies as part of GCP cloud migration across Global Markets.
HSBC
Head of Global Banking & Markets
05.2016 - 03.2020
Job overview
- Increased release cadence by more than 300% and reduced incidents by more than 25% by adoption of Agile, DevSecOps methodologies.
- Delivered microservices based reconciliation engine using supervised learning ML bot to materially improve STP of high volume (80 million) post trade reconciliations using CatBoost and LGBM classification algorithms in Python.
- As innovation champion hosted several theme-based hackathons on bleeding edge technologies like blockchain, ML.
- Initiated several highly acclaimed programs as Inclusion & Diversity champion like Take 2, leadership development program (IIM-B), Unicorns (building architectural capabilities).
Bank Of America
Senior Vice President
05.2011 - 04.2016
Job overview
- Significant contribution to developing low latency (sub 100 micro), high throughput cash equities trading platform using FPGA and flash storage technologies.
- Capability build-out of high-end development and SME knowledge led to moving more than 100 FTEs from high cost location to offshore leading to multimillion dollar savings annually.
- Leading equities, derivatives, prime brokerage and capital markets development teams.
UBS
Executive Director
11.2002 - 04.2011
Job overview
- Developed fully automated algorithmic engine in C++ on Unix to trade DSA agency and prop portfolios for US equities markets. This resulted in 25x increase in daily traded volumes. Strategies supported were VWAP, Implementation Shortfall, Price and Volume inline.
- Algorithmic engine dynamically allocated shares to internal crossing engine (dark pool) to reduce transaction costs.
- Developed highly profitable long short and momentum-based prop strategies.
- Built high performing offshore development team working on front office cash equities and derivatives applications, middle office (soft dollar) and regulatory reporting (OATS).
- Leading APAC Investment Bank IT development and production support across equities, risk and data IT.
Tibco, OSI
Senior Developer
08.1993 - 11.2002
Job overview
- Held senior developer positions at Tibco, Objective Systems Integrators – California delivering middleware, networking and end to end exchange products like Order Management System, Matching Engine, Market Data distribution.
Education
M S Ramaiah Institute of TechnologyBangalore
Bachelor Of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
University of Missouri - Kansas CityKansas City, MO
Master of Science from Computer Science
Skills
- Languages: Python, C
- Operating Systems: Linux
- Working knowledge of: Kubernetes, Docker, GCP
- Tools: GitHub, Collibra
- Methodologies: Agile, DevSecOps
Certification
Machine Learning - Stanford Online
Timeline
Chief Data Officer
UBS Asset Management
03.2022 - Current
Head of Transformation
HSBC
03.2020 - 03.2022
Head of Global Banking & Markets
HSBC
05.2016 - 03.2020
Senior Vice President
Bank Of America
05.2011 - 04.2016
Executive Director
UBS
11.2002 - 04.2011
Senior Developer
Tibco, OSI
08.1993 - 11.2002
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bachelor Of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Master of Science from Computer Science
Additional Information
U.S Citizen
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