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Saravana kumar.s
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Delivery Project Lead
- Spearheaded a multi‑year digital transformation strategy and product roadmap to modernize legacy, mainframe‑based credit card processing systems into high‑throughput, secure microservices architectures. Clearly articulated the product vision, modernization strategy, and business value to cross‑functional teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and regulatory controls.
- Built, led, and coached a high‑performing, empowered product team, fostering strong collaboration across engineering, architecture, operations, compliance, and UX. Established a robust operating cadence, set performance standards, designed career progression paths, and nurtured a culture of continuous learning and data‑driven decision‑making.
- Operationalized comprehensive program governance frameworks across multiple complex card‑product workstreams. Led cross‑functional intake, dependency management, and proactive risk mitigation across upstream and downstream systems using Agile‑at‑scale practices to maximize throughput and team empowerment.
- Directed solution discovery workshops with engineering, data, UX, and business architects, translating strategic objectives into actionable product backlog items. Leveraged industry-standard frameworks (BIAN and REA) to design scalable target‑state business architecture, logical data models, and modernized processing workflows for high‑volume monetary and non‑monetary transactions.
- Demonstrated strong technical competence by effectively communicating with architects, UX designers, and development teams. Partnered with data and AI specialists to explore AI/ML‑driven opportunities such as intelligent dispute classification, anomaly detection in transaction flows, and predictive operational dashboards.
- Defined comprehensive KPI and OKR frameworks to measure modernization velocity, clearing/settlement stability, and business value. Built executive‑level dashboards and translated complex technical delivery metrics into clear narratives.
Product Management, Java and +10 skills
Senior Consultant
- Product Manager for Global Transformation Team for non-ISO back offices to ISO native for (CBPR+/HKCHATS/FEDWIRE/SEPA/CHAPS).
- Led requirement gathering and stakeholder meetings across multiple regions (Asia Pacific, UK, American), documented and baselined requirements for ISO 15022 MT to ISO 20022 MX Migration migration.
- Designed current operating models and target operating models, managed the MT to MX data integration and mappings.
- Spearheaded process transformation initiatives, including the migration of payment messages from MT to MX messaging standards.
- Coordinated and reported on Programme Working Group (PWG) and Steering Committee (Steerco) meetings, ensuring alignment and progress with stakeholders.
- Maintained and prioritized product backlog; managed backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and system demos.
- Extensively involved in the migration of the existing Backoffice to the ISO native to adopt ISO20022 standard (PEGA migration).
- Coordinated delivery timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations across business, technology, and vendor teams spanning multiple regions.
PEGA, Product Management and +8 skills
Senior Lead Analyst – Business Analysis
- Product Owner for Chexsystem.com, automating consumer disclosure, credit score, dispute, ID theft, and security freeze workflows – Digital and Process Transformation (IPP Tool).
- Led requirement gathering, stakeholder engagement, and process automation initiatives.
- Maintained and prioritized product backlog; managed backlog refinement, PI planning, sprint planning, iteration demos, retrospectives, and system demos.
- Oversaw change management and release management activities; coordinated user training and managed process design for dispute handling.
JAVA, Infinity Process Platform and +10 skills
Software Developer
- Product Owner for enterprise SC remit application development and implementation where the bank consumer can login into the mobile banking application to transfer money to oversees client by registering the payee account using SWIFT/BIC code.
- Led requirement gathering, stakeholder meetings, and managed user expectations for process improvement projects.
- Designed as-is and to-be process workflows, conducted gap analysis, and provided solutions to improve existing processes.
- Maintained and prioritized product backlog; managed backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
SWIFT, Product Owner and +4 skills
Associate - Projects
- Business Analyst for payment gateway and settlement applications, leading requirements gathering and integration of payment systems.
- Designed and managed requirement traceability matrices, test planning, and ensured comprehensive coverage of business requirements.
- Led migration of payment tokens to new systems, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
Business Analysis, Stakeholder Management and +12 skills
Senior Software Engineer
- Led a team to develop legal contract web applications for GE Legal, managing client meetings, project timelines, and application implementation.
- Developed direct factoring modules for GE Commercial Finance, tracking invoices and migrating modules to Java-based web applications.
Java, Springs and +9 skills
Education
Singapore Management University
MBA, Financial Services
Grade: 3.65/4.1
Anna University
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering
Grade: 8.1 / 10
Indian Institute of Science
Diploma, Deep Learning
Grade: 9.5/10
Licenses & certifications
Microsoft AZ-900
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Cloud
SAFe 6 POPM
SCALED AGILE
SAFe Product Management
SAFE 6 Practitioner
SCALED AGILE
SAFe Agile Framework
Professional Scrum Master
SCRUM.org
Agile Scrum
Languages
English
Tamil
Skills 88
Java Script
Mphasis
CAPCO Technologies
FIS Global Solutions
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
iGATE Global Solutoins
Java
Mphasis
FIS Global Solutions
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
iGATE Global Solutoins
Oracle
FIS Global Solutions
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
iGATE Global Solutoins
Springs
FIS Global Solutions
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
iGATE Global Solutoins
UAT
Mphasis
CAPCO Technologies
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Angular JS
CAPCO Technologies
FIS Global Solutions
Change Management
Mphasis
CAPCO Technologies
JSF
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
iGATE Global Solutoins
Product Management
Mphasis
CAPCO Technologies
Restful Web Services
FIS Global Solutions
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Spring Web Services
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
iGATE Global Solutoins
Stakeholder Management
CAPCO Technologies
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Agentic AI
Mphasis
Agile Scrum
Professional Scrum Master
Angular
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
APACHE
FIS Global Solutions
Business Analysis
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
CBPR+/HKCHATS/FEDWIRE/SEPA/CHAPS
CAPCO Technologies
Charge Off
Mphasis
CICD
CAPCO Technologies
Consumer Disclosure Reports
FIS Global Solutions
Credit Cards Processing
Mphasis
CSS
iGATE Global Solutoins
Disputes
Mphasis
Disputes and Investigation workflow
FIS Global Solutions
Estimation
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
FCRA
FIS Global Solutions
Gen AI
Mphasis
Infinity Process Platform
FIS Global Solutions
ISO 20022 Migration
CAPCO Technologies
J2EE
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
JSON
FIS Global Solutions
JSP
iGATE Global Solutoins
Microsoft Azure Cloud
Microsoft AZ-900
MongoDB
Mphasis
PEGA
CAPCO Technologies
PL SQL
iGATE Global Solutoins
Product Owner
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
SAFe Agile Framework
SAFE 6 Practitioner
SAFe Product Management
SAFe 6 POPM
Servlets
iGATE Global Solutoins
Spring Batch
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Spring MVC
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Spring Web Flow
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
Sprint Boot
Mphasis
Sprint Security
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
SQL Server
Cognizant Technology Solutoins
SWIFT
Robert Walters (Standard Chartered Bank)
Teradata
iGATE Global Solutoins
Agile-Scrum
APEX
ARIC
AVALOQ
Bizagi
COBOL
Confluence
CVS
Delivery Leadership
Development
End User Training
Execution Management
GenAI
GitHub
HP Quality Centre
HTML
IPP
Java/J2EE
JavaScript
JIRA
JQuery
LUCID
Microsoft Office Suite (Visio & others)
Microsoft Visio
MS SQL Server
Oracle 11G
PL/SQL
Process Improvement
Project Management
Prompt Engineering
Requirement Gathering
Resource Management
SAFe
Stakeholder
Strategic Planning & Execution
Tortoise SVN
Waterfall
Web Services
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