Balaji Rajagopalan
CTO / CIO / COO / BFSI expert / IT Transformation / Advisory
About
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SBI IT Strategy Board Committee member of SBI Securities IT veteran with global experience in Banking & Financial services. Distinguished thought leader with proven strong Techno Functional experience. Unique experience in Leading IT companies (developer to Leadership role ) as well as in Bank Technology Group with Board level engagement. Worked in leading Banks in US,UK, Singapore, Japan ,Gulf. Development Centre Head @ Infosys Expertise : Expert in IT Strategy, BFSI domain, Business Alignment, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Transformation, Next Gen Core Banking , Digital Transformation, AI Adoption, Risk Management, Governance, Partner Management & Financial Management with Board level engagement
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
State Bank of India · Full-time
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SBI IT Strategy Board Committee member of SBI Securities
Bank Technology Group Head
ICICI Bank · Full-time
Head of Bank Technology Group (Domestic & International) for Retail & Corporate Banking, Financial Inclusion, Digital Business, Commercial Banking, Government Banking, Treasury, Capital Markets, Corporate Centre … & Intelligent Automation for the Bank. Complete Assets & Liabilities, Trade Finance, Payments from onboarding to various customer services. Align with all Business & Operations Head for strategy and vision, provide end to end IT solution to achieve the same. Key Achievements: Core Banking Migration for India with seamless cut over and smooth Go Live interfacing with all sub-systems of the Bank. Received Asian Banker Technology Award for large CBS migration. Core Banking Migration for all International geographies Digitization of complete Liabilities & Assets Transforming the Core Banking system for Digital capabilities (24x7) Decongestion of Back-office operations & Branches API Banking Co-creation of New Trade Finance System Digital Trade Finance Enterprise Payments Pure RPA to Intelligent Automation Intelligent Automation - Intelligent RPA , Document Intelligence, Conversation AI , End to End scrutiny automation Murex Migration , Treasury services digitization SAP upgrade , Financial Reporting
Senior Vice President, Global Consumer Banking
Core Banking Engineering Head
Product Line Manager / Delivery Head
Leadership role in BFSI Technology - Product Engineering & Global Delivery - BFSI, Global banks CXO level engagement Handled Large Product Engineering releases As part of Leadership role, responsible for implementation in one Bank for every major releases Leading Direct Banking Institution in US Leading Bank in Singapore – Core Banking transformation multi-country implementation Leading Bank in UK – Core Banking Transformation Unit Location Head for Infosys Chennai Development Centre (~15000 employees)
Product Development Manager
Leadership role in Product Engineering & Global Delivery - BFSI Handled Large Product Engineering releases Leading Banks in Gulf (Presales support / Consulting support for Core systems)
Project Manager
• Leading Bank in Japan: Led the development and implementation at onsite . • US Market study for Core Banking. • Managed the Retail and Corporate Core banking application development team, responsible for Solution design, build and implementation. • Successfully managed multiple accounts.