LALIT PATI

• Responsible for tactical implementation of the product roadmap for Trading systems and delivery for APAC Electronic-Algo trading and prima-facie for clients and vendor partners.

IT Services Project Management:

• Liaises with appropriate internal teams to ensure client inquiries and requests are satisfied in an accurate and timely fashion; assess client requirements and issues from a functional and technical perspective
• Lead the internal coordination projects of trading systems delivery and serve as a liaison between product groups to deliver tailored solutions to the client.

IT Services Strategy :

• Responsible for managing regional trading systems framework and plan for assigned products, to increase product reach in line with the strategy for Global Business. Implement and drive business as usual commercialization plan by collaborating with other regions and countries and adapt in line with market developments.
• Gather algo trading desk pain points and problems, turn them into user stories, and arrange them by priority into the product backlog and provide satisfactory delivery for Equity IT Algo Trading systems.
• Liaise with client or vendor management team for optimal services delivery, reduced risk change implementation across third-party or infrastructural ones.
• Interface SRE team to enhance monitoring and tooling for proactive support and systems stability.

• Work as BAPM and cross-systems project delivery manager for electronic trading systems; liaise with business stakeholders managing strategic initiatives for intelligent and self-healing trading systems.
• Support rationalization of EQ IT Trading product solutions to provide consistency and cost savings to the organization. Especially in terms of identifying opportunities to provide a consistent offering globally
• Responsible for driving client customization and algo parametrization with Quants team of trading algorithms e.g. schedule driven - iWAPs & Close; Opportunistic - HIDDEN/TAPNOW/SPREADCAP; Liquidity seeking - INLINE and DMA product roadmap.
• Responsible for maintaining technical and IT management product backlog for Equities Trading applications including algo engine, its reference data jobs, internal crossing engines and dark-pools across asset classes.

• Act as BAPM for Equities IT Trading applications including algo engine, internal crossing engines and dark-pools catering asset classes including Cash, Derivatives & Synthetics.
• Actively engage in development of next generation solution requirements by carrying out research on customer needs, emerging market trends, infrastructure development and the regulatory environment globally, leveraging on market insights and analysis, in collaboration with client facing colleagues and in-country teams
• Support management reporting, tracking of risk issues and ownership of benefit tracking. Business as usual management, analysis, and delivery of recommendations to directors
• Responsible and overseeing SPRINT cycle, maintain backlog and change management as per firm compliance and regulatory guidelines.
• Collaboratively work with Dev,QA,Quants,Compliance for CI/CD optimal release train pipelines and post implementation tests, perform deployment or upgrade of mission critical trading applications including config changes, patch release and full scale release to all APAC regions.

• Lead a team of 5 across APAC locations for Equities Trading IT Services Delivery including UAT for low latency trading platforms that includes OMS, EMS, Fix Engines, algorithm trading, smart order router (SOR) and Dark Pools.
• Proactive management of risk level of the assigned products constantly, by conducting end-to-end product reviews outlining all key dependencies, input sources, capabilities, and risks. For ensuring complete transparency, business improvement opportunities and recommend/implement risk mitigation steps as necessary .
• Responsible for writing BDD style Use Cases including normalization, Assumptions elaboration, Constraints and Entrance Criteria/Exit Criteria baseline., requirements writing for sprint cycles and maintain backlog for fast test-life-cycle and turnarounds
• Client onboarding management working with FIX connectivity team including Establish Acceptance Criteria.
• Extensive Change Management experience - Collaboratively work with Dev and QA for CI/CD optimal release train pipelines and conduct Post Implementation tests, perform deployment or upgrade of mission critical trading applications including config changes, patch release and full scale release to all APAC regions.
• Work closely with third party software vendors and development teams, quant team, architects and infrastructure teams to enhance existing platform. eg: resilience, system performance and low latency
• Manage IT applications upgrade and deployment. Maintain book-keeping records for HKMA/SFC and internal audit artifacts.
• Provide consultancy and product support internally and to interfacing teams liaising with third-party/client technical PMs on Algo product suite and flavors.
• Where appropriate deliver training via formal training courses and workshop sessions internally and to members.

• Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Build Integration Test and UAT test plans.
• Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.

• Performing project requirements elicitation, proposed solutions design document using Use-Case diagrams/UML.
• Performing joint-solutions-architecture design review with stakeholders, finalizing project delivery Work Breakdown Structures/WBS.
• Preparing Process Metrics, Control Points as per CMMI standards.
• Identification of Tester's Workbench manual. Test Stages and Phase exit criteria.
• Build Integration Test and UAT test plans.
• Establishing best practices for Configuration management using tool like Quality Center/SVN.
• Continual improvement for Validation Techniques (white box, black box, incremental, thread, regression)
• Establishing guidelines for Structural and Functional testing, Change control practices.

• L2 Support of FICC Electronic Trading applications
• Handle escalations from the local team as well as assist global peers, as appropriate
• Investigate / resolve issues escalated by users globally via Jira (local call logging app), e-mail, telephone, IM, etc
• Ensure monitoring alerts and critical system checks are handled adequately
• Drive Incident & assist in the Problem Management Functions
• Liaise with Application Services & Business Solutions on Application Handover and 3rd line issue escalation
• C++/PERL/Sed/Awk/Shell scripting on Linux for Applications Support.
• Database skills (ORACLE / Sybase SQL)