Nidhi Luthra
Indooroopilly, Queensland,Australia
Summary
Experienced and highly determined Product Manager passionate about developing innovative methods to build products, lead teams and drive growth. Being a Vice President in Engineering in the past, specialize in leading software teams including developers, Tech Leads, Business Analysts, Testers and UX designers. Comfortable working in fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
Aurion People & Payroll Solutions Australia
Brisbane, Australia
08.2021 - Current
- Product Manager for a zero-to-one Payroll product within Aurion. Responsible for developing a next-gen Payroll product for the Australia/NZ
- Reporting to the Director of Cloud and Software Engineering
- Leading a delivery team of multiple developers, testers, business analysts, and Tech Leads, executing and manage product initiatives
- Liaising with Tech Architect and UX to keep the product aligned with the Tech strategy
- Developing innovating user focused designs and soliciting feedback from the key stakeholders in weekly feedback sessions
- Implementing Agile methodologies and practices for development of the product
- Conducting workshops for Feature Breakdown, Epics Breakdown, Stories Identification, Stories Elaboration and defining in detail the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘when’ of the product that the development team can build
- Presenting the progress and live demonstrating the product monthly to the executive and leadership teams. Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
- Tools & Technologies Used – Miro for collaboration, Figma for UX design, JIRA/Confluence for collaboration, AWS technology suite, ReactJS, Typescript for product development
- Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
- Achievements: Successfully led the team to complete and deliver the first version of the product to the pilot customers
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Co
Melbourne, Australia
11.2018 - 08.2021
- Reporting to the Managing Director and leading a team to execute/manage Project/Product initiatives for Compliance, Regulatory and Risk Management
- Deftly coordinating between the technical & non-technical teams, as a bridge, for seamless execution of projects
- Oversee conceptualization, prioritization and management of multiple projects while navigating a complex/unstructured cross-functional environment across multiple locations
- Enable Tokyo Compliance business to follow market rules & regulations, by the development and enhancement of surveillance software products as well as mitigated risks, to prevent non-compliance
- Provide ongoing support for regulatory inquiries across Hong Kong, Japan and Australian markets
- Enabled Australia Compliance business to provide regulatory data to ASIC, submit regulatory reports to APRA, maintain breaches register
- Single-handily supported the Australian Compliance business involving the driving of strategy, vendor management, project management and clients focus
- Working on the decommissioning of legacy Compliance applications and replacing them with strategic applications
- Achievement: Represented Goldman Sachs (one of the two members) as part of the ASX CHESS Replacement projec
- Represented Australia/New Zealand Compliance software team at a global level
- Successfully on boarded 100+ surveillance products to the standardized SDLC Framework of the organization
- Delivered presentations on different projects at GS Town Halls.
- Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
Senior Software Developer
D.E. Shaw & Co.
Hyderabad, India
01.2009 - 03.2013
- Initiated career in Technology with the global investment and technology development organization, as Intern and progressed to Senior Software Developer in 3 years
- Engaged in management of Investor fund and capital of the organization across funds, by back-end development of an in-house financial accounting suite
- Enabled financial reporting clients to produce balanced reports, maintain accounts/funds, allocate P&Ls, calculate management fees & generate returns of performance fees to work out other fund management, research and reporting related tasks
- Streamlined/optimized information exchange by integration of the system with other web-based applications like General Ledger and Compliance
- Directed felicitating/study/analysis of requirements, interacting with business users, while conducted feasibility studies to create the project plan
- Coordinated with the business users for regular reviews, project demonstrations, user acceptance and production support
- Further drove back-end development of an in-house platform for position & trades reconciliation as well as automation of producing reconciliation reports for business users and 3rd party auditors
- Replied to inquiries from business users, provided requests and was on-call for any issues with the reports generated in the system
- Drove the team in solution implementation, production release and subsequent maintenance of the reports.
- Delivered high-quality code on time by effectively managing project timelines and prioritizing tasks accordingly.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate software components seamlessly into existing systems.
- Contributed to the architecture design of complex software systems, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Trained new developers and programmers on company standards for design and review.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) -
Thapar University
01.2009
Bachelor of Science (Physics) - Physics
MJP Rohilkhand University
01.2006
Advance Diploma (IT-Software Engineering) -
NIIT
01.2006
Skills
Project Management
Product Development
Agile Software Development
Cross Functional Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Design thinking
Product Vision and Strategy
Effective Communication
Team Leadership
Accreditation
- Agile Product Ownership Foundations
- Trained in Digital Asset Manipulation Language (DAML) – Distributed Ledger Technology
- SUN Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
- Pursuing AWS Cloud Computing certification
Technology Skills
Software Development - Java, Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, Maven, Git
Development Methodologies - Agile, Waterfall
Product Management - JIRA, Confluence, MIRO, Figma
Timeline
Product Manager
Aurion People & Payroll Solutions Australia
08.2021 - Current
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Co
11.2018 - 08.2021
Senior Software Developer
D.E. Shaw & Co.
01.2009 - 03.2013
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) -
Thapar University
Bachelor of Science (Physics) - Physics
MJP Rohilkhand University
Advance Diploma (IT-Software Engineering) -
NIIT