Lloyds Banking GroupGlobal CIO | Markets & Treasury Technology
Sep. 2014 - Feb. 2020London, United Kingdom▶️ LEADERSHIP: As CIO for Lloyds' Financial & Capital Markets & Treasury Trading functions, a c.$2 billion business, I was responsible for the agile & engineering transformation of the teams & technology involved, accountable at its peak for a ~$150m budget, ~800 FTEs, 200+ systems running on 4000 servers in 5 data centres. ▶️ FOCUS AREAS: Radical improvements to the way in which the technology & business teams worked together, harnessing Scrum at scale; driving the digitisation of the FX, Rates & Money Market/Repo customer journeys; and delivering an extensive stability & simplification strategy for the Markets systems estate. ▶️ KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: ✅ Stabilisation & simplification of a complex, fragile & aged platform & major upgrades of core platforms including Murex & Summit.
✅ Implementation of an inhouse-developed & cloud-enabled market risk, VaR & PnL platform including a GPU-powered xVA calculation capability.
✅ Design & implementation of microservices / big data-powered & cloud-ready solutions for MIFID, MAD/MAR, EMIR/Dodd Frank & FRTB regulatory compliance.
✅ Delivered the ring fencing of the new Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets legal entity across the underpinning systems.
✅ Established a strategic offshoring partnership with Virtusa, a 500 FTE engagement, reducing cost & doubling overall team capacity as well as improving engineering capability.