Manoj Bansal

<p>Led Solutions & Engineering for BlackRock’s cloud-native Enterprise Data Management Platform supporting Aladdin™ and institutional clients globally — owning architecture, engineering, scalability, release management, production resilience and platform evolution.<br>
Conceptualized and led teams to build an integrated enterprise capability spanning data acquisition and ingestion, transformation, registration, metadata management, intelligent cataloging, automated data-quality controls, lineage, fine-grained ABAC entitlement, governed distribution and observability — cutting data onboarding time by 90% and lifting quality across 200+ data assets, enabling faster analytics and operational decision-making enterprise-wide.<br>
Built a scalable, self-service and extensible data quality framework on Great Expectations, covering technical and business data quality checks and letting teams author and operate their own controls to assure trusted data.<br>
Ran the platform as the firm’s central data backbone — onboarding, certifying and distributing data to analytics, operations, risk and client-reporting consumers, with governed premium data products monetized externally.<br>
Delivered a unified self-service experience for pipeline onboarding, asset registration/governance and entitlements; drove evolution toward Data Platform-as-a-Service (DPaaS) and governed premium data products, increasing adoption by 50% within 12 months while improving scalability, reuse and commercial value, including support for the firm’s flagship Green Package™ (risk and analytics) reports.<br>
Led distributed engineering teams across six locations, establishing delivery governance, Agile/DevOps practices, engineering KPIs and production ownership — improving on-time delivery by 20% — while shaping workforce strategy, campus/lateral hiring, succession and leadership development, including adoption of AI-assisted engineering that lifted developer productivity ~20% and reduced code defects ~10%.<br>
Extended leadership beyond direct delivery through mentoring, recurring technical/functional learning forums and firm-wide hackathons — judging 50+ hackathon submissions and directly developing 10+ engineers — strengthening innovation, collaboration and next-generation leadership capability.<br>
Established a strategic engineering/vendor partnership from the ground up — defining the operating model, onboarding and integrating partner engineers, and scaling the relationship into a broader platform delivery capability while maintaining engineering standards and accountability.<br>
Conceived, architected and led delivery of a single-pane-of-glass observability platform for anomaly detection, root-cause analysis and accelerated remediation; scaled to 200+ active global users and extended Data Operations through an MCP-based natural-language interface letting operators diagnose root cause, trigger remediation and curate their own metrics and dashboards in natural language.<br>
Combined platform modernization, governance, engineering and intelligent automation to elevate data into a trusted strategic enterprise asset powering decision-making, operational efficiency and innovation across BlackRock globally.</p>

<p>Defined and executed the firm-wide Digital & Data Strategy, shaping enterprise platform roadmaps, a cloud-based data marketplace and analytics capabilities serving BI, Risk, Capital Charge and Data Science globally.<br>
Led a 250+ technology organization and $30M+ portfolio; as a member of the India Leadership Executive Committee, contributed to site strategy, talent, capability development, innovation and cross-functional organizational priorities; engaged directly with Tokyo-based stakeholders and counterparts across the firm’s Japanese parent organization.<br>
Directed Market, Credit and Operational Risk technology and FRTB/IMA deliveries; re-architected FRTB Regulatory Back Testing from on-premise to AWS, delivering 80% infrastructure cost reduction while improving compute throughput.<br>
Conceptualized and built an in-house self-service Data Quality platform with ML-based outlier detection and gap-fill capabilities, reducing remediation effort by 20%+ and establishing reusable enterprise data controls.<br>
Led the technology due-diligence track of Nomura’s Voyager program, engaging multiple FinTech start-ups to identify and evaluate solutions against specific business/technology problems and connect external innovation with practical enterprise adoption.<br>
Sponsored and led cross-functional programs including InCuBe and Re-Charge, bringing business, engineering and FinTech communities together through experimentation, hackathons and knowledge-sharing.</p>

<p>Co-founded technology-led consumer propositions from identified pain points — developing a mobile self-checkout solution to reduce retail checkout friction and data/ML-driven recommendation engines for retail and matchmaking — taking ideas from problem discovery and algorithm design through working solutions while navigating commercial, data, risk and operating constraints.</p>

<p>Established new BFSI and Retail analytics businesses while shaping propositions across Next Best Action, churn prediction, customer propensity, micro-segmentation, cross/up-sell and customer lifetime value — translating business problems into practical ML/analytics use cases and guiding solution teams on customer growth and retention.<br>
Established a $5M strategic partnership with a leading private bank, combining analytics, technology and business consulting to deliver full-spectrum customer lifecycle value.<br>
Advised on Pan-India ATM transaction-cost optimization with INR 100+ crore (~$15M) annual saving potential and published an industry whitepaper on the advanced-analytics approach.</p>

<p>Architected and scaled an ultra-low-latency cross-asset tick-data analytics platform (~120TB; 5+ billion ticks/day) supporting real-time visualization, pre/post-trade analytics and quant back-testing, contributing to 25% growth of the electronic-trading franchise.<br>
Rationalized bank-wide Bloomberg instrument-static-data sourcing, delivering $2M recurring annual savings while improving reference-data consistency across trading, risk and settlement systems.<br>
Automated LIBOR submission with full calculation traceability and led working groups implementing Centralized Clearing, Swap Execution Facility and Global Trade Reporting requirements — including the capability to report every executed trade to the DTCC within a 20-minute regulatory window.<br>
Built a 40+ professional Counterparty Exposure Management capability in India covering CVA, DVA, WWR, FVA, RWA and EPE, transitioning ownership and delivering 40% cost reduction; also established a 24×5.5 global FX rates service from India.</p>

<p>Ran a $40M annual BFSI portfolio with 400+ associates across geographies, effectively operating a business unit with responsibility for growth, delivery, profitability, client relationships and workforce; partnered with MNC vendors on major banking wins and earned STAR rating every quarter for exceeding profit targets.</p>

<p>Conceptualized Auto-Analyzer, delivering 50%+ engineering productivity improvement and adoption across BEA divisions globally.<br>
Led WebLogic ownership transition from the USA to India.<br>
Recognized among BEA’s global top 5% of employees for three consecutive years.</p>

<p>Contributed to the end-to-end development of a $25M Java/J2EE Offender Management System for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, translating complex offender-management and criminal-justice processes into a mission-critical enterprise platform.<br>
Subsequently served on a 10-member SWAT team working directly with the client to stabilize the solution.</p>