Aravind Kumar K

As a Technical Lead at BetaNXT, I leverage my 19 years of IT experience and passion for data to deliver creative and impactful solutions for the financial services industry. I have a proven track record of leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing 24x7 production support, and optimizing data quality and performance.

My core competencies include Mainframe Batch support, data modeling, Power BI, VBA Excel, SQL, Java, and Python. I enjoy applying these skills to design, develop, and implement data-driven applications and systems that enhance business value and user satisfaction. My goal is to continually learn and innovate in the field of data and technology, and to influence positive change in the organizations and communities I serve.

Work Experience 

Technical Lead (March 2011 - Present) Wealth Management, Processing Support. BetaNXT 

• Supported Trade lifecycle Mainframe Batch workflow for North American market brokerage clients of BETA Host – a back-office brokerage processing platform. • Collaborated with Product Engineering, Business Analysts and Product Management, effectively triaging product development releases using Agile framework across 11 Production, 20+ UAT and Dev regions each running over 8K-12K batch jobs. • Building and refreshing TEST regions for client UAT purposes. • Automated Batch integrity checks – built intelligent scanning tools that runs against current day and forecasted day schedule to capture errors before it transforms into an incident. Helping us to maintain quality over 99% (Number of incidents : Number of changes in %) consistently. • Worked with Information services group to bring in data from multiple sources, designed data models; done analyses to reduce emergency change requests by 22% MoM, thus delivering quality in the work. • Handled Regulatory and Industry mandate compliance related change activities. Involved in ‘T+2’ and ‘T+1’ Shortened trade cycle, CAT reporting, National Day of Mourning schedule change etc.., are few “Industry” mandated activities. • Incident/Problem Management: Weekday/Weekend On call duty to be available and respond to the incidents quickly and work towards resolution. • Trained new talents, built knowledge base enabling seamless knowledge transfer. 

TechOps Technician (January 2010 – March 2011) Retail Banking, Mainframe Infrastructure Operations Center. JP Morgan Chase 

• Oversaw 8+ application regions using 3 different workload management tools. • Handled weekend system maintenance activities for boosting optimum performance. • Experienced Liaison with in-house and contract firm’s Dev teams for fixing Product application issues with ZERO SLA miss for response.

 Senior Systems Engineer (August 2006 – December 2009) Retail Banking, Mainframe Operations. Bank of America (Infosys Technologies LTD)

• Led 11-member team, prepared resource plan for 24/7 support coverage. • Secured ISO 20K quality audit certification by maintaining clean process records and consistent high-performance quality metrics. • Automated Performance and workload reports using VBA reducing the manual effort to just 3%. • Ensured all knowledge is documented, reviewed, and curated in SharePoint. 

Above and beyond 

• Collaboration Ambassador for Office 365 roll out across the organization. • Member of STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center) community to keep in touch with the recent developments in FinTech Space. • Evangelized RPA within the organization, designed PoC’s for actual business use cases and showcased to the executive committee. • Presented creative and lighthearted session on “Quantum Computing” in an Annual Technology Conference at Refinitiv. 

Professional Certificates
Product Management Certificate Product School, Online Education 

Bachelors in computer technology (2003 – 2006) FIRST CLASS Coimbatore Institute of Technology