Aravindan Athinarayanan
Summary
- Enthusiastic BFSI product engineering design leader with 18+ years of experience in Retail and Corporate banking software product development and implementation.
- Proven success in gathering business requirements, Solution designing ,Implementation strategy, Data migration & Digital transformation.
- Builds consistent growth and profitability with time management and cost-reduction initiatives.
- Committed manager with exceptional leadership, organizational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams and projects.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President – Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
08.2025 - Current
- Detailed requirement analysis, solution & technical design and discussion with business take holders
- Effective functional and technical design.
- Explore the data source and understand the data availability
- High availability design approach
- Define and design data migration process and suctioning for unavailable or unsuitable data as per target system.
- Effectively generated the revenue with multiple CR deliveries and implementations.
- Additionally Played Subject Matter Expertise role effectively
- Effective planning and execution.
- Customer and Stake holder management.
- API design and development for digital transformation
Executive Project Manager – Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Abu Dhabi
08.2022 - Current
- Detailed requirement analysis, solution & technical design and discussion with business take holders
- Effective functional and technical design.
- Explore the data source and understand the data availability
- High availability design approach
- Define and design data migration process and suctioning for unavailable or unsuitable data as per target system.
- Effectively generated the revenue with multiple CR deliveries and implementations.
- Additionally Played Subject Matter Expertise role effectively
- Effective planning and execution.
- Customer and Stake holder management.
- API design and development for digital transformation
Sr. Project Manager - Lending Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Chennai
08.2019 - 12.2022
- Performed SPCO role - ensuring proper understanding on requirement, blue print preparation, preparing agile scrum-sprint back log plan using MVP approach, work assignment and delivery commitment.
- Day to day business/client interaction and given the effective solutions for complex requirements, Solution negotiation.
- Data architecture & migration strategy
- Testing team mgmt. (Test Driven Development)/SIT /UAT support and ensure quality and smooth sign off.
- Stake Holder management
Lead-Data Management Analyst-Commercial Banking
Wells Fargo
Bangalore
01.2022 - 09.2022
- OFFSA based model, design and conduct complex analysis to identify and remediate data quality and integrity issue include financial analysis like GL breaks and payments and ensure bank data governance which should flow Data Lake feed.
- Detail solution and analysis discussion with business owners, consumer and product vendors (LoqnIQ.Finstra,Rails,)
- Team management (training, validating the knowledge, Cross team support)
- Engaged cross functional groups to develop company wide data governance & external data governance.
- Managing 5+ System of Records and 8+ data consumers.
- Shared cost saving idea and process (which is saved 8000$)
Project Manager – Asset base Finance/Lending Product Eng.
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Chennai
04.2017 - 04.2019
- Performed SPCO role - ensuring proper understanding on requirement, Functional design, preparing agile scrum- sprint back log plan using MVP approach, work assignment and delivery commitment.
- Testing team mgmt. (Test case review /SIT /UAT support and ensure customer sign off.
- Effectively developed and re-engineered the asset recovery module, securitization solution to Citi India and same has awarded and moved to the product.
- Effectively created strategy for top up data migration, which is completely new and implemented in 2 days and migrated the all the loans without any issues. Big achievement in SBS product implementation.
Sr. Team Lead/Team Lead – Lending Product Eng.
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Chennai
04.2012 - 03.2017
- Brake down critical integration problem and established effective solution for ADCB recovery management system implementation.
- Effective Business requirement gathering & Technical and functional design.
- Loans TDS schedule developed for Mahindra finance and same awarded and moved to product.
- Effectively gathered the requirement for UAEDDS, developed and implemented to ADCB
- Production support management for ADCB / FAB
- Effectively handled NBAD Egypt CR and Lending Data migration and achieved zero issues.
- Effectively analyzed the trial balance for migrated data and fix the finding.
- Team management
Associate Consultant /Consultant
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Chennai
08.2010 - 03.2012
- Integrated EOD program with flex cube system and ensure performance using multiple threads.
- Developed 70 reports (manual and automated)
- Re-engineered the Pro
- C base date migration tool and performed the migration (from Iflex cube to Intellect lending).
- SI/SP Payment module development and same has been integrated with flex cube.
- Effectively handled production support and enhancement for 2 clients
- Murex implementation support and implemented cost saving idea (8 hrs. saving)
Murex Consultant
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
08.2009 - 07.2010
- Monitoring and evaluating the murex treasury
- Monitoring Reuters and Bloomberg integration.
- Murex business, integration and EOD support.
- Murex binary release validation and system change management.
- Murex vendor management.
System Engineer
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Chennai
04.2008 - 07.2009
- Citi Bank NR system - Reports Development using SQL, JSP, Pro
- C, Java and technical upgrade
Software Engineer Deputed
Kumran System
Chennai
08.2006 - 03.2008
- Performed Oracle Forms and report technical upgrade version 4 to 9i.
- Performed business scenario testing in upgraded version.
- Implemented some new feature in upgraded flows.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Analytics & Data Science
Manipal University
Jaipur01.2024
Master of Computer Applications -
Madras University
Chennai01.2009
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Pondicherry University
Pondicherry01.2006
Skills
- Retail and Corporate loan system
- Credit line system process
- Collateral Management system
- Loan origination
- Collection
- AML
- Trade finance LG/BG process
- Project planning in Agile
- Financial data analysis
- Data management
- Re/ Reverse engineering
- Problem solving
- Oracle SQL
- PL-SQL
- Pro
- C
- Postgresql
- Oracle Forms
- Reports
- Jasper Reports
- Java
- Cost effective Functional design
- Cost effective Technical design
- Team management
- Stakeholder management
- Lending
- Islamic Retail Banking
Custom Section
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, UAE
- Swaziland Society Bank, South Africa
- Citi Bank India
- RBS, India
- National Bank of Abu Dhabi - Egypt/UAE
- Prudential Finance, Vietnam
- Tamweel, Egypt
- Kotak Prime Limited
- Janta Bank Ltd, UAE
- SBER Bank - POC, Sweden
- Silver Bank Limited, Mauritius
- Mahindra Finance, India
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravindan-athinarayanan-b526b960
Disclaimer
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Timeline
Assistant Vice President – Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
08.2025 - Current
Executive Project Manager – Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
08.2022 - Current
Lead-Data Management Analyst-Commercial Banking
Wells Fargo
01.2022 - 09.2022
Sr. Project Manager - Lending Product Engineering
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
08.2019 - 12.2022
Project Manager – Asset base Finance/Lending Product Eng.
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
04.2017 - 04.2019
Sr. Team Lead/Team Lead – Lending Product Eng.
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
04.2012 - 03.2017
Associate Consultant /Consultant
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
08.2010 - 03.2012
Murex Consultant
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
08.2009 - 07.2010
System Engineer
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
04.2008 - 07.2009
Software Engineer Deputed
Kumran System
08.2006 - 03.2008
Master of Business Administration - Analytics & Data Science
Manipal University
Master of Computer Applications -
Madras University
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Pondicherry University