Abhishek Shrivastava
Ashburn,VA
Summary
Seasoned IT professional with over 23 years of experience in spearheading end-to-end IT transformation programs, specializing in innovative solutions in AI, blockchain, and observability. Proven track record in managing strategic initiatives within investment management and capital markets, consistently driving operational efficiency and enhancing user experiences. Expertise in leading teams of up to 30 resources and managing budgets of up to $5 million while successfully navigating complex RFPs, RFIs, and proactive business proposals for clients in the US and Europe. Recent roles as Program Manager and Solution Head further solidified the ability to deliver impactful results through diverse delivery models, ensuring alignment with client objectives and fostering account growth.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solutions Principal – Capital Markets
HCL America
03.2021 - Current
- Designed and delivered customized solutions for global capital markets clients, addressing challenges in trading, post-trade, compliance, ESG, and digital assets.
- Led end-to-end RFP/RFI responses, facilitated solution workshops, and developed business cases aligned with client transformation goals.
- Built and converted a strategic pipeline of opportunities across IT services, consulting, and operations, driving revenue growth and client impact.
- Cultivated C-suite relationships with CIOs, Heads of Trading, Risk, and Operations to align solutions with evolving business priorities.
- Acted as voice-of-the-customer to influence product roadmaps and ensure seamless implementation across delivery and product teams.
- Demonstrated success in selling digital transformation services to buy-side and sell-side firms, leveraging deep domain expertise and regulatory insight.
- Maintained strong relationships with client executives and regulators, supporting strategic initiatives in investment and wealth management.
- Applied thought leadership across capital markets trends including ESG, tokenization, market data modernization, and AI/ML in trading.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
Capital Markets IT & Domain Solutions Head
HCL America
04.2017 - 02.2021
- Murex Implementation by replacing SUMMIT FT for WB Treasury Back office; investment accounting and Valuation and to create robust automated Liquidity Management system
- AI Drive initiative to bring Operational efficiencies
- Blockchain PoC for Bond Trading
- Responsible for all RFP/RFI response as lead solution Architect
- Create new business opportunity for HCL by understanding BMO functional eco system and proposing client with best practice from Industry.
- Perform in depth impact analysis on all the applications involved in WB IMD ecosystem; namely; SUMMIT FT , Murex, OneView Valuation, MarkIT, Bloomberg AIM, to determine changes and effort involved in implementing business requirements.
- Gap analysis between business requirement and out of box capability of Murex
- Requirement gathering, analysis, agile document management and Risk management
Global Practice Head
HCL Technologies
04.2017 - 08.2017
- Manages Solutions team deliverables and department budgets.
- Provide leadership and oversight to domain resources across Capital Markets –Capital Market solutions team all consultants/analyst deployed on projects.
- Plan and direct the professional development of staff by means of assignment, training and mentoring with the objective to create high performance culture in order to achieve the Department’s strategic objectives
- Responsible for hiring new team members, conducting performance appraisal, making decisions about employment continuance or promotion based on team member’s performance
- Responsibility of Solutions team profit and loss (P&L), revenue forecasting, budgeting and profitability
- Provide Domain consulting solution to existing and new clients in US and European regions.
- Lead RFPs (Response for proposal), RFIs, Proactive business proposal deals in Capital Markets for US and European clients.
- Tie up with Industry Analysts and do the Capital Markets Industry Trends and facilitate the workshop with key clients.
Engagement Manager
HCL America
07.2016 - 03.2017
- Creating and developing solutions for programs run under Investment Management sub
- Lead the Response to RFPs, RFIs, proactive proposals for projects in Financial services domain and negotiate the contract with the client
- Tie up with Industry Analysts and do the Capital Markets Industry Trends and facilitate the workshop with key clients.
- Client Management and creating new business opportunity.
- Program and Risk Management
- Participate in development of Partner centric ecosystem to fuel growth and contribute towards customer delight.
- Identification of new customers, in line with business objectives. This involves working through a due diligence process to arrive at SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities & Threats) analysis.
- Responsible for growing and managing incremental revenue associated within the existing customer base.
Solution head
HCL America
09.2013 - 06.2016
- Implementing HCL’s proprietary TradeEx-XekDataTM Foundation Data platform’s data model and customizing it to support client’s requirement.
- Interaction with Client and Business users to validate and clarify requirements for designing the overall solution
- Analysing the existing Data model and do the gap analysis from expected outcome.
- Building conceptual Data model, Data mapping, writing Business Rules for data enrichment.
- Conducting solution workshop for relevant stakeholders to get early buy-in.
- Assisting development team in understanding the requirements and providing training
- Gap analysis to see the enhancement scope and solution
- Analysis of monthly production issues log and to the trend analysis for and prioritize the fixes and get the business signoff.
Program and solution Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2010 - 01.2013
- Assist team and perform Gap analysis of User requirement & Existing HCL proprietary XekData Foundation data platforms Data model.
- Enhancing the conceptual/Logical Data Model with additional requirement to meet client requirement.
- Reviews & Controls, Address Escalations and Team Management.
- Program and Risk Management
- Stakeholder and Communications Management
- End to end responsibility of Response for proposals (RFP) and negotiating the contract price with the client.
- Client Management and creating new business opportunity.
- Providing domain Consulting for design & solution approach
Lead Business Analyst
HCL Technologies
02.2008 - 10.2010
- Users (Trade support team) issue resolution related to securities data, mismatch between Charles River and Back office product PAM.
- Report development on separate reporting tool DART which are not able to generate through Charles River.
- Business requirement gathering for report and unit testing.
- Supporting Central Compliance team to formulize and create different compliance rule to meet Regulatory requirement and to match the Portfolio philosophy.
- Making sure Project KPI are met and exceed
- Provide Domain consultation to the team for understanding of the requirement and solution approach
- Support in Response for proposal (RFP) for existing and new client business in Capital Market domain
Senior Consultant
HCL Technologies
05.2007 - 01.2008
- Requirement analysis and gathering to ascertain user requirements.
- Creation of Business Requirement Document and Functional Specifications.
- Gap analysis of User requirement & Existing HCL proprietary XekDataTM Foundation data platforms Data model.
- Enhancing the conceptual Data Model with additional requirement to meet client requirement.
- Supporting Testing team understanding the business requirement and data points which needs to be tested.
- Development of Global pricing system using HCL’s proprietary XekDataTM Foundation Data Platform model to cater the Intraday and EOD securities prices to be consumed by the Asset management firm across front/Middle/Back office for valuation and reporting.
- Global pricing system extracts securities pricing data along with reference data from various market vendors, transform and enrich, mapped to data model and load and generates golden copy.
Team leader
Thomson Reuters
04.2005 - 04.2007
- Company Overview: Thomson Financials (Now Thomson Reuters) is a leading global Provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers. Headquarters in Stamford, CT USA, with operations in ~60 countries.
- Responsible for European market data feeds for Equity and Fixed Income securities and making sure all Intra-day and End-of-day data files have been processed successfully and all data exceptions has been addressed within defined timeframe.
- Defining and executing data validation rules based on markets for data quality checks.
- Analyzing all variance in data sets based on error thrown up through automated checks.
- Interacting with clients to understand their needs. Translating the same to Local Technology team who is responsible to make changes in our products and finding out if it is feasible or possible to make changes in the product as client request.
- Interacting with the Thomson direct clients (mainly all leading Investment banks, Asset management companies) for addressing their queries.
- Interfacing between Clients and Internal Data Acquisition team. Interacting with clients to understand the requirements of data points required by them and doing the feasibility analysis in terms cost implication and if feasible submitting the request to Global data acquisition team to purchase the information from best available third part vendors/stock exchange
- Handling the complete life cycle of an employee.
Process Developer
GE Capital International Services
08.2001 - 03.2005
- Review of all financial and credit details of the borrower and recommend Underwriter for approval/disapproval of the mortgaged loan.
- Reviewing and maintain all insurance information of the borrower.
- Advising on non-compliance on Insurance requirement to borrower and providing Insurance carrier for best deal.
- Maintaining Escrow account of the borrower and making monthly collection plan from borrower for payment of Insurance premium.( Escrow analysis)
Education
MBA - Finance
University Institute of Management
01.2001
ICWAI -
Institute of Cost And Work Accountants
01.1999
Skills
- Domain: Investment Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Securities Master data management, Trade processing, Fund Operations
- Third party Product Experience: Charles River IMS, SUMMIT FT, Murex MS Dynamics, XekData (HCL product), BloombergAIM, OBOL-HCL Blockchain framework
- Tools& Technology: Sybase-Power Designer Data Modeler, Rational Rose , MS-VISIO, HP Quality Centre, In-Rule Data Mapping , Oracle DB, SQL queries, Canonical Data Model
Certification
- HCL’s Global leadership program (8 months of rigor on- the- job leadership skill development program )
- AWS Certified cloud Practitioner
- Generative AI Learning for Decision Makers
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Solutions Principal – Capital Markets
HCL America
03.2021 - Current
Capital Markets IT & Domain Solutions Head
HCL America
04.2017 - 02.2021
Global Practice Head
HCL Technologies
04.2017 - 08.2017
Engagement Manager
HCL America
07.2016 - 03.2017
Solution head
HCL America
09.2013 - 06.2016
Program and solution Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2010 - 01.2013
Lead Business Analyst
HCL Technologies
02.2008 - 10.2010
Senior Consultant
HCL Technologies
05.2007 - 01.2008
Team leader
Thomson Reuters
04.2005 - 04.2007
Process Developer
GE Capital International Services
08.2001 - 03.2005
MBA - Finance
University Institute of Management
ICWAI -
Institute of Cost And Work Accountants
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