Prabhakar Venugopal

Certified professional with 20+ years of expertise in driving Medium to Large scale Programs/Projects in Application Development, Data Engineering, Service Delivery, Enterprise capabilities by leading IT vision, Strategy, and Large-scale Project Initiatives. Excel at transforming enterprise applications, infrastructure, service management, data engineering and analytical systems.  Good experience in handling cloud transformation programs (AWS, Azure).  Manage change effectively, influence business buy-in, and align technology initiatives with organization’s strategic objectives.

Handling Application Development, Data Engineering Projects in Transaction Banking – Global Cash Management across India, Paris, EMEA, APAC regions for consists of 25+ employees & contractors.

Handled Projects in Wholesale Banking - Structured Finance - Loans Tribe (LoanIQ) across India, Paris, Romania including AMER & ASIA regions for consists of 65+ employees & contractors.

Orchestrated all aspects of technology planning, enterprise architecture, service, support management, Agile technology program management, cloud migration, security and risk management, digital transformation and data engineering. 

• Handling Data Engineering projects in Global Cash Management area, responsible for designing, constructing, installing, and maintaining large-scale processing systems and other infrastructure.
• Building and maintaining robust data architectures, Designing efficient data pipelines
• Ensuring data quality and integrity, Collaborating with data science and analytics teams
• Scaling data solutions, Overseeing data security and compliance
• Continuous learning and implementation of latest technologies, Managing and training the data engineering team
• Budgeting and resource allocation, Coordinating with IT and other departments
• Crisis management and problem-solving, Contributing to strategy and vision setting
• Documentation and record-keeping
• Establishing Reports for SoD and EoD to enable smooth 24x7 business operation
• Developed self-service portals to establish the “Left Shift” approach
• Automated the monitoring checks and Strengthened the SOP process to help to improve support team productivity
• Conducting Change Advisory Board (CAB) for ~10-15 change requests per week
• Have Strong Operation Management mind set with structural approach for problems. Formulated many SOPs for business improvement and stabilization
• Aligned technology planning and priorities with business objectives, designed and deployed strategic 1 to 3-year roadmap to guide teams towards organizational goals. 
• Coordinated with vision and transition management team, CDO, CIO CISO and COO on technology program priorities.
• Inspiring business organizations into IT projects for prioritization on value and resources, aligned 100% of IT initiatives with various business objectives of Paris, India and ROW. 
• Determine strategic direction and spearhead technological integration for multiple areas within the perimeter applications and services provided.
• Propelled performance and reliability of core enterprise clinical applications for end users. Partnered with DevOps team to deliver a new infrastructure environment, deploying new servers and network.

• MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (1998 – 2001)
• BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (1995 – 1998)