Vivek Kumar

Lead delivery of technology certification programmes across Post-Trade, Derivatives, and Securities platforms, aligning with business objectives, regulatory standards, and SLA commitments.

• Managing Iris-ST — SGX's next-generation high-performance trading engine — overseeing end-to-end delivery schedules, team utilisation, risk mitigation, and conformance testing readiness for ~85 market participants across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Designed and implemented weekly executive dashboards providing programme metrics and governance reports to C-suite — enabling proactive risk tracking and reducing escalation response time across all 85 member firms.
• Managed end-to-end project execution for CBPR+ ISO 20022 (MX Migration) — planning, development, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support for 20 clearing members within a hard 4-month window, achieving full MAS regulatory compliance with zero production incidents.
• Mandated and executed pre-production penny testing across all CBPR+ participant go-lives, achieving 100% incident-free migrations.
• Oversee FIX 4.2 / 4.4 / 5.0 SP2, OUCH, ITCH, SFTP, and SFG connectivity validation across all member onboarding workstreams; coordinate FIX session configuration, message flow design, and troubleshooting with members and vendors.
• Coordinate across Business, Technology, Operations, Infrastructure, and Release Management via weekly governance calls with a blended team of direct Singapore staff and offshore HCL Technologies resources in Noida.

Led end-to-end FIX and SWIFT connectivity onboarding for institutional clients across Equities, Fixed Income, and Funds — from requirements and session configuration through UAT, go-live, and post-production handover.

• Handled multi-client onboarding simultaneously across APAC, EMEA, and US markets, maintaining delivery schedules and SLA commitments across concurrent onboarding pipelines.
• Led the technical onboarding and migration of the full Credit Suisse APAC institutional client book onto UBS trading infrastructure following the UBS–Credit Suisse acquisition — the largest APAC institutional client migration programme.
• Coordinated FIX and SWIFT connectivity validation for 100+ institutional clients across 10+ APAC and EMEA markets, managing 6+ cross-functional workstreams (technology, operations, trading, relationship management, compliance, vendors) with zero trading disruption.
• Delivered HK Investor ID regulatory migration ahead of schedule — managing scope changes, client expectations, FIX session updates, and cross-border stakeholder coordination across APAC.
• Conducted pre-production testing including FIX log analysis, message sequence validation, session gap analysis, and connectivity diagnostics on Linux/Unix; used Verifix and Suffix for FIX message certification.
• Acted as the senior escalation contact for latency, connectivity, and production trade issues under tight SLAs; performed root-cause analysis and performance tuning across broker and exchange connectivity.

Specialised in FIX protocol testing and client connectivity onboarding for MarketAxess's global multi-asset bond trading platform — covering C2C, C2D, D2C, and D2D FIX message flows.

• Managed FIX session configuration, message flow validation, and connectivity certification for institutional buy-side and sell-side clients onboarding onto the MarketAxess platform across Equities, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.
• Managed FIX-based integration and message flow testing with the BlackRock Aladdin Trading Network (ATN) — validating order routing, execution confirmation, and regulatory reporting flows for global asset managers.
• Delivered MiFID II compliance and Brexit regulatory transformation programmes across APAC and EMEA within fixed regulatory deadlines.
• Defined test strategies, led SIT and UAT cycles, managed defect tracking in HP ALM, and provided quality gate sign-off for each regulatory release; built automated regression frameworks using QTP to reduce cycle times.
• Led and mentored an offshore QA and delivery engineering team of 18 — managing performance appraisals, resource planning, and budget allocation to match programme commitments.
• Acted as the primary client-facing delivery contact — resolving production escalations, providing structured delivery updates, and improving client onboarding processes.

Led exchange connectivity testing across SGX, HKEX, VTX, and SWX — validating FIX order lifecycle flows from broker OMS to exchange matching engine across equities and structured products.

• Built automation frameworks for regression and smoke testing; validated trade lifecycle message flows using SQL-based data validation across broker systems.
• Supported global releases and structured product testing initiatives; coordinated cross-functional team delivery across global time zones.