Suriya Shanmugam

Phone Number +91-776*******

Email Id adkzdm@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/suriya-shanmugam

About me

Adept analyst, significant liaison, versatile developer, tester who is investing time to understand the financial market & products in place and thrives alongside the organization by portraying inclusiveness and involvement. My 6 years of career roots in Financial services. Presently, I am part of the Wealth Management team which performs extensive analysis on BETA: industry’s leading stock brokerage platform. Now I am seeking to pursue a role to utilize my analytical, leadership and liaison skills in financial firms (BFSI/Investment Banking) who harness the fin-tech solutions to drift the market to the next level.

Educational Credentials

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Information Technology

Aug 2010 – Apr 2014

Anna University, Tamil Nadu

Professional Credentials & Trainings

Financial Analyst training

Agile methodology training

RPA Business Analyst Diploma

RPA Developer Certification – Full Package

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer in London Stock Exchange Group (Thomson Reuters F&R)

Aug 2017 – Present

Software Developer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (DXC)

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017

Language Competence

English Tamil Kannada Telugu

IELTS CEFR C1 Native Language Mother Tongue Basic

Work Experience

Senior Analyst in London Stock Exchange Group (Aug 2017 - present)

Wealth Management

Possessing end-to-end business knowledge on stock brokerage platform.

Hands-on experience with –

Compliance & Regulatory reporting (CAT, TRACE, MSRB, OATS)

Trading and order entry (supported FO-MO-BO)

Customer & General Ledger

US Tax operations

Corporate Actions (merger/split)

Security Processing (worked in swift message)

ACATS

Mutual FUND, AIP, Fixed Income.

Customer Statements

Significantly performed in-depth analysis of the various entities of the brokerage product and delivered solutions to the financial firms’ functional queries. Furthermore, helped firms to bridge the gap in understanding the business process of the mission-critical application with the expertise gained.

Project Management

Possess rich experience in understanding, practicing the business application development & software methodologies like waterfall and agile (Scrum & Kanban).

Orchestrated projects; mentored a team of engineers and performed code review.

Translate requirements into tangible deliverables like functional & technical specifications, SOW (statement of work), workflow diagrams.

Provide input for key decision making and strategic planning in the project development & drafting functional test plan.

Presented business feature enhancements to the clients, other development teams and Quality Assurance teams. With collaboration & participation, projects are delivered smoothly even in hardships.

Collaboration with Cross-Functional teams

Work closely with the Financial firms, client service representatives & regulatory bodies (DTCC, FUND) in resolving the high impact business problems.

Teamed up with Managers, Agile Coaches & team members to boost efficiency & modernize the business processes.

Partnering with Business Analysts & Architects - on regulatory projects and other firm-specific requests like Trade Blotter - to get the complete picture and delivering key inputs in drafting the functional test plan.

Aiding QA team in resolving malfunctions with the brokerage application through troubleshooting and rendered support to complete the FT flawlessly.

Software Developer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Aug 2014 – Jul 2017)

Analyzed & developed the projects for the Telstra’s mainframe unit (AXIS). Drafted project deliverables - Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Test plans.

Presented interactive and comprehensive demo of the projects to the clients to make them aware and connected to the enhancement done.

Volunteered to be part of the SIT team which helped me to secure knowledge on end to end business in Telecommunication domain.

Above & Beyond

My Pitches

Created immersive KT handbook. It acted as a knowledge base for newly boarded members. Resulted in saving 160 hours (avg) of the resources involved in delivering KT.

Spotted space for improvising business processes using work data & PowerBi. The re-designed process resulted in improving lead & cycle time (16 hours avg) & increased the through put by 30%.

Spearheaded, designed and published a SharePoint site for the team. It acted as one-stop to know about the team, the products we enhance and support, newly created forums & channels to get connect.

Certified RPA developer designed & presented POCs to the leadership team. I am part of the RPA evangelist team inspiring the various division's leads to adopt RPA.

Represented my team & experienced the cross-cultural workspace in the headquarters of TELSTRA situated in Melbourne, Australia.

Thrive in diverse environments

I am an official event blogger of London Stock Exchange Group and covered various events ranging from Leadership to technology conferences.

Part of the content and design team- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - delivered innovative display templates to present the achievements to the audience.

Participated, along with my colleague, in the in-house Technology conference and was lauded for innovative and interactive presentation done on ‘Quantum Computing’.

Participated in the ‘Global STAC Live 2020’ – included technical discussions in areas ranging from AI and quant research to high speed trade flow and FPGA development.

Volunteer Experience

Member of technology council, sustainable action team and talent network council. Actively volunteered in organizing the events and post event blogging.

Created awareness about the traffic rules among the elementary school students in collaboration with “Youth For Seva” team.

Volunteered in one of the biggest plantation drive of planting 10K trees in just two days with an attempt to grow a Miyawaki forest in collaboration with Indian Army and Say Trees organization.

Technical Expertise

Mainframe Aid Tools IBM RDZ, File Aid, MQ, Smart TS, ABEND Aid, ZEKE

Programming Languages COBOL, JCL, C, C++, SQL

Databases IBM DB2

RPA Tools UiPath studio & orchestrator

SCM GitHub, Change Man, Endeavor

ITSM Tools BMC Remedy, Jira, HP ALM, Confluence

ERP Tool Workday

Microsoft’s Products Office 365, MS flow, Power Bi, Share Point, MS Teams.

Referees

Mr. Aravind Kumar

Technical Lead, London Stock Exchange Group (Thomson Reuters F&R)

Bangalore, India

Contact Number +91-973*******

Mr. Rajinikanth V

QA Lead, London Stock Exchange Group (Thomson Reuters F&R)

Bangalore, India

Contact Number +91-988*******

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