SHILPI ROY
Experienced Senior Technical Project Manager
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SUMMARY
A result-driven Senior Manager with overall 16 years of in-depth experience in SDLC, solutions design, and delivery of enterprise level solutions and in managing and building high-performance teams and software applications. Strong technical skills with skills like recruiting and training new talent, managing a team, and organization, as well as specific skills in schedule planning, using project management software, Gantt charts, and Kanban boards, and implementing different methodologies. Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills to guide cross-functional teams.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Manager
Scotiabank
2021 Nov – Oct 2023
Toronto, Canada
Manage development and delivery of various Scotia Wealth Management applications. Guided cross-functional teams, collaborated with product owners and teams across different geographies to build new and enhanced product capabilities, optimized infrastructure cost, and drove technical best practices.
Develop detailed work plans for project tasks, deliverables, project schedules, estimates and resource plans to ensure successful execution and alignment with audit compliance requirements
Manage project budget and other artifacts through the project life cycle while ensuring compliance for both internal and external audit.
Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Service Now and project oversight, change management, financial reconciliation.
Preparing project plans, acquiring approvals, and coordinating activities of large and complex projects to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frames and within budget.
Defining all activities with corresponding resources, work effort, duration, target dates and actual dates.
Providing clear, consistent, and timely messaging, both verbal and written, within the team and to technology and business leadership, and facilitating effective and appropriate meetings.
Leading multiple strategic projects and working with product analysts to ensure enhancements and minor updates are tracked to completion.
Delegating project tasks to cross functional team members and ensuring they are completed within committed schedule.
Collaborated with teams across Wealth managements, Scotia Online world, Digital Factory to build enhanced product capabilities that improved user engagement.
Maintained technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology and identified new technologies that improved product quality and performance.
Ensure project completion within timelines, prioritize business requirements and technical requirements to establish a complete backlog.
Manage the delivery budget, ensuring cost- effectiveness and resource allocation. Ensure optimal resource pool.
Expertise in project budgeting and forecast and be able to report project financials monthly.
Managed applications using Java, REST API, Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies (Azure), Open API, DevOps, Microservices, in built Scotia Chassis framework. Proficient in solution architect document understanding and implementing.
Experience in MDM (Master Data Management) and Data Conversion projects.
Strong functional knowledge in various domains like Client, Brokerage Accounts, Portfolio, Fees and Regulatory, Householding, Party and Performance.
Implemented agile methodologies, which resulted in a 50% reduction in product release time.
Technology Lead
Scotiabank
2017 March – 2021 Nov(Joined Scotiabank in March 2017 as a Programmer Analyst Advisory and became a Tech Lead in 2019)
Toronto, Canada
Developed and maintained enterprise-level software products using Java and Spring Framework. Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products within tight deadlines.
Developed and implemented several new features in various wealth client and account onboarding and servicing applications leading to increase in user engagement, developed virtual card creation for single sign on authentication on Scotia Online systems.
Developed Client and Account onboarding and servicing KYC application using REST Webservices, SOAP complaint, Java, Sybase DB, Spring JDBC
Introduced new coding standard and best practices, reducing code complexity by 30%.
Collaborated with the various wealth applications team to improve the product's usability, leading to increase in user satisfaction.
Mentored and trained junior developers, improving their coding skills and product knowledge.
Created and built a Fee Billing Household application managing fee structures for all Scotia Wealth accounts and having a real time integration with Pure Fees application.
Intermediate Java Developer
Micropact
2012 May- 2017 March
Toronto, Canada
Worked in Versa Regulation, Versa Online (Regulatory Enforcement and Licensing software) – An enterprise-class workhorse. VERSA Regulation, Versa Online currently manages over ten million active licenses, supports thousands of users, hundreds of thousands of licensees, and powers more than 30 regulatory agencies across the North America.
My experience with Micro pact has afforded me the opportunity to build end to end enterprise solutions using with different Java / J2EE technologies and frameworks.
SOAP Webservices, EJB Stateless session, Spring framework, Salesforce
Constant interaction with client for business requirements and maintenance helped me understand their business well.
Backend Server-side Coding - For the core Versa Regulation application, added middle-tier
Java coding done at business objects as per the project requirement using EJB 3.0 Stateless
Session Beans and Spring framework.
Created new DAO, DAO implementation classes at Persistence layer. Added new Oracle queries and functions.
Web service Layer Coding-Modified and added into existing Soap wsdl and Soap web
services as per new business methods for interaction between Regulation and Inspection
System applications.
Frond End coding - Added new JavaScript functions to Adobe forms using Adobe Lifecycle
Designer tools -Existing Java API modified to work in integration with Adobe forms.
Sr. Software Developer
JP Morgan Chase
2010 Nov- 2012 Feb
Mumbai, India
Worked in building the International Private Banking website.
Middle-tier business logic coding with RESTful & Jersey Services integrated with Spring Framework.
Front End Coding -Full-fledged development of website GUI & functionality with Extjs 3.3, Ajax,CSS and JavaScript.
Worked in the Know Your Client KYC application integrating J2EE coding with Sybase db layer along with IBM WebSphere7.1
Java Developer
CMC LTD (TATA ENTERPRISE)
2006 Aug- 2010 Oct
Mumbai, India
Worked in BOLT (Bombay Stock Exchange )project using multi-threading, Core Java, Servlets, JSP, TANDEX,UNIX
Worked in Integrated MIS for State Electricity Corp working in Loan, Accounting and Finance modules using JAVA, EJB 2.0, Oracle 9i as DB, OC4J App server
STRENGTHS
Leadership
Led several teams with 40 plus members to deliver critical project on time in alignment with business stakeholders’ strategy and roadmap
Problem Solving and Technical Solutioning
Identifying and analysing a problem, taking effective actions within a short period to mitigate the problem and taking steps proactively to avoid the problem in future.
Collaboration
Worked with cross-functional teams to design and deliver a new product feature, transferring knowledge and having the mindset to succeed as a team.
SKILLS
Software Development Management
Agile Methodologies
Microsoft Azure Cloud Hosting and Microservices
Java/REST API/SQL
Project Management and Team Management
ACHIEVEMENTS
Leading a High-Performance Team
Developed and led a team of developers and business analysist, QAs to consistently exceed project goals and deliver high-quality products. Wealth One Fee Billing project delivery with the whole backend Microservices app developed by my team is a recent win.
AWARDS
Best of the Best
Recognized by receiving Scotiabank Best of the Best Awards in 2021