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Satheesh Kumar Rajan

Satheesh Kumar Rajan

Carlingford,NSW

Summary

Experienced Domain Architect with over 20 years of expertise in Capital Markets, Clearing & Settlement, Regulatory & Compliance, and Depository Functions. Specializing in Securities Lending, Cross Border Settlement, Pledge, Repos, Issuance, Off Market, and Post-trade Processing. Proven track record in financial messaging transformation, requirements documentation, and client engagement. Skilled in Agile environments, defining business and technical requirements, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver compliant, scalable, and efficient messaging solutions.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Domain Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
04.2024 - Current
  • Client Overview - ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) is an integrated exchange offering listings, trading, clearing, settlement, technical and information services, technology, data and other post-trade services. It acts as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. ASX operates markets for a wide range of asset classes including equities, fixed income, commodities and energy. As an integrated exchange, ASX’s activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows; trading and price discovery; central counterparty risk transfer; and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets.
  • Responsible for implementing TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure system that ensures ASX Clear and ASX Settlement can meet the obligations under their clearing and settlement facility licenses, the Corporations Act, and the Financial Stability Standards (FSS) determined by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
  • Engagement with Market Participants and Registries in defining the Product roadmap.
  • Conducted detailed business and financial analysis to identify improvements in Clearing Netting process and proposed changes for Clearing Market Participants.
  • Translated business and technical requirements into architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
  • Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
  • Developed architecture artifacts for standards, patterns and architectural roadmaps.
  • Business Analysis and Process Improvement: Analyze existing business processes, identify inefficiencies, and recommend improvements to optimize workflows and outcomes.
  • Requirements Gathering and Definition: Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, define business requirements, and translate them into functional specifications.
  • Solution Design and Implementation: Design and implement solutions that address client needs, often leveraging technology and industry best practices.
  • Client Interaction: Build strong relationships with clients, act as a point of contact, and provide expert guidance and support.
  • Knowledge Sharing and Training: Share expertise with other team members and clients, conducting workshops and training sessions to enhance understanding.


Presales & Solutioning Head

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2023 - 03.2024
  • Headed the Presales and Solutioning for TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure solution.
  • Lead the presales function, managing a team to develop and present solutions to potential clients, ensuring they understand the value of the company's offerings.
  • Involved in strategic planning, technical expertise, and collaboration with sales, product, and customer success teams to drive deal closure.
  • Team Leadership and Management - Leading and mentoring a team of Solution Engineers, Technical Consultants, and other presales professionals.
  • Strategic Planning and Execution - Developing and implementing pre-sales strategies to align with overall sales goals and business objectives.
  • Technical Expertise and Solution Development - Providing technical expertise and guidance to the sales team and potential customers.
  • Developing and delivering custom presentations, demonstrations, and proposals to showcase the value of the company's solutions.
  • Ensuring that proposed solutions are technically feasible and align with customer requirement.
  • Collaboration and Communication - Working closely with sales, product, and customer success teams to ensure a seamless customer experience.
  • Communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, partners, and vendors.
  • Proactive Problem Solving - Analyzing sales data and identifying areas for improvement in pre-sales strategies and processes.
  • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
  • Versatile professional with strong problem-solving skills and history of adapting to diverse challenges. Applies innovative solutions and technical expertise to deliver exceptional results. Committed to streamlining processes and advancing organizational objectives.
  • Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.

Delivery Manager

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
06.2017 - 12.2022
  • Client Overview: TMX Group operates equities, fixed income, derivatives, and energy markets exchanges. The company provides services encompassing Listings, Trading, Clearing, Settlement and Depository facilities, information services as well as technology services for the international financial community. TMX owns the Depository, Clearing and Settlement business, Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) and Canadian Derivatives.
  • Responsible for handling the Design and Delivery of the TCS BaNCS Market Infrastructure solution for TMX.
  • Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
  • Project Management - Overseeing all aspects of a project, from planning and execution to monitoring progress and ensuring successful delivery.
  • Team Leadership - Motivating and guiding teams to achieve project objectives, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring team moral.
  • Resource Management - Allocating resources effectively, including personnel, budget, and tools, to optimize project efficiency.
  • Stakeholder Management - Maintaining clear and effective communication with all stakeholders, including clients, internal teams, and senior management, to manage expectations and address concerns.
  • Risk Management - Identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks that could impact project delivery.
  • Problem Solving - Identifying and resolving issues that arise during the project lifecycle, ensuring smooth progress and timely delivery.
  • Communication - Effectively communicating project status, updates, and any issues to stakeholders.
  • Quality Assurance - Ensuring that the final product or service meets the specified requirements and quality standards.

Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2012 - 05.2017
  • Client Overview: Euroclear Finland is the single entry point for Issuance, Deposit and holding of Finnish domestic securities. Euroclear Finland accomplished a complete STP system that leveraged ISO 15002 and ISO20022 messaging standards and was compliant with the SMPG and CAJWG standards. Euroclear Finland maintains shareholder registers and waiting lists information about companies incorporated into the Finnish book-entry system.
  • Solution Architect responsible for designing the overall architecture for implementation of TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure solution for Euroclear Finalnd.
  • Worked closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
  • Worked with customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
  • Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
  • Gathering and Documenting Requirements: Worked with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into clear, concise, and testable requirements.
  • Analyzing and Prioritizing Requirements: Analyzed requirements to identify potential conflicts, gaps, and overlaps, and then prioritize them based on their importance and impact.
  • Tracking and Managing Changes: Track changes to requirements, ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of the updates and that the project stays on track.
  • Verification and Validation: Ensure that the developed product meets the agreed-upon requirements through verification (testing the product against requirements) and validation (ensuring the right product is being built).
  • Communication and Collaboration: Acted as a bridge between stakeholders, development teams, and other project members, facilitating clear and consistent communication.
  • Ensuring compliance to Regulatory Standards - ISO 15022, ISO 20022, Compliance to G20, Giovannini, IOSCO, T2S, CAJWG, GDPR, FATCA.

Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2010 - 12.2011
  • Client Overview: LCH is a financial market infrastructure company headquartered in London that provides clearing services to major international exchanges and to a range of OTC markets. The London Metal Exchange is a futures and forwards exchange in London, United Kingdom with the world's largest market in standardised forward contracts, futures contracts and options on base metals. The exchange also offers contracts on ferrous metals and precious metals.
  • Solution Architect for the Implementation of TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure platform for London Clearing House (LCH.C) to clear trades for London Metal Exchange (LME).
  • Responsible for the implementation of the OTC Bullion contracts launch on the LME platform within a short span of time.
  • Support for UAT, Performance Testing and Market Participant Testing.
  • Ensure that the product goes live in the agreed project time line.
  • Ensure that three successful upgrades to the live platform are successful.

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2008 - 12.2009
  • Client Overview: LCH is a financial market infrastructure company headquartered in London that provides clearing services to major international exchanges and to a range of OTC markets. The London Metal Exchange is a futures and forwards exchange in London, United Kingdom with the world's largest market in standardised forward contracts, futures contracts and options on base metals. The exchange also offers contracts on ferrous metals and precious metals.
  • Responsible for business analysis and requirements management for software delivery of TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure platform for London Clearing House (LCH.C).
  • Defined and documented business and functional requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs, regulatory standards, and operational goals.
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Conducted impact assessments and gap analyses, identifying opportunities to optimize Clearing workflows, Risk Management, Settlement and Delivery Management.
  • Developed BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data models, ensuring alignment with business objectives, compliance standards, and industry best practices.
  • Gathered, analysed, and documented business and functional requirements for Clearing, Risk, Margining and Collateral Management.
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to gather and refine business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
  • Acted as a liaison between business and technology teams, translating complex business needs into actionable technical deliverables.

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
07.2004 - 12.2007
  • Client Overview: The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is a special economic zone in Dubai, established in 2004 as a financial hub for companies operating throughout the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) markets.
  • Served as a Developer for developing the TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure solution for Dubai International Financial Exchange.
  • Developed the Clearing, Risk and Securities Lending & Borrowing module of TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure.
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Part of the team for supporting the UAT and Integration testing phases prior to Go-Live.
  • Onsite Coordinator - Handled the requirements for the change requests raised during the project after Go Live.
  • Discussing the change requests requirements with customer.
  • Documenting the requirements and getting sign off from customer.
  • Estimating the changes based on the estimation model.
  • Discussing the requirements with the development and testing team.
  • Facilitating clarification calls between customer and development/testing teams.
  • Handled the SWIFT ISO 15022 message discussion and finalization with various User groups and Clearing bank messages MT 202,204,900,910,296.

Education

MCA -

Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Skills

  • Data management
  • Performance optimization
  • Technical leadership
  • Software development
  • Requirements gathering
  • Business analysis
  • Interface design and implementation
  • Product development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Software architecture

Accomplishments

  • Innovative, creative Product Owner with a proven capacity for driving the end-to-end product process, from initial research and conception through Product roadmap
  • Spearheaded the launch of Digital Frontend for the Clearing, Depository Participants and Issuers to manage their processing with Central Securities Depositories and Clearing House
  • Conducted end-to-end business analysis for technical and non-technical project components, ensuring successful implementation, go-live readiness, and benefit realization across multiple business streams and geographic locations.
  • Defined and documented business requirements, process flows, and functional specifications, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.
  • Built and maintained strong relationships with Directors, and cross-functional teams, improving stakeholder engagement by 30% and ensuring alignment on project goals.
  • Supported Agile coaching and change management initiatives, driving the adoption of consistent Agile methodologies across teams, achieving 100% readiness for delivery activities.
  • Utilized tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, and Visio to create streamlined workflows, track project progress, and reduce administrative overhead by 10%.
  • Worked with development teams and business stakeholders to refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint objectives, ensuring iterative value delivery.
  • Championed a culture of continuous improvement, leading to a 20% increase in customer satisfaction through process reengineering, automation, and enhanced delivery quality.

Certification

  • NSE Academy Certification in Financial Markets
  • Transcend Neo - Transformation Program Management Certificate
  • Leadership : Find Your Everest Certificate

Timeline

Domain Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
04.2024 - Current

Presales & Solutioning Head

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2023 - 03.2024

Delivery Manager

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
06.2017 - 12.2022

Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2012 - 05.2017

Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2010 - 12.2011

Senior Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2008 - 12.2009

Developer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
07.2004 - 12.2007

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

PSG College of Technology

MCA -

Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)

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