Abhinav Bhardwaj

Bengaluru

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About

Program and delivery professional with 16+ years of experience across development, application support, and large-scale data platforms, including over 8 years in investment banking and financial services. Experienced in building, scaling, and sustaining business-critical systems in high-availability, regulatory-driven environments. My core strength lies in data platforms and reporting systems, with deep expertise in MS SQL Server, data warehousing, and performance optimization. I have worked extensively on portfolio management, regulatory reporting, and compliance-driven systems, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and reliability for decision-making and client-facing use cases. Over time, I have evolved into leading offshore delivery, managing teams, and owning end-to-end delivery including resource planning, stakeholder coordination, and operational stability. I work closely with portfolio managers and business stakeholders to ensure seamless execution, SLA adherence, and alignment with business and regulatory requirements. I bring strong experience in production support and operational excellence, including incident management, root cause analysis, and proactive risk and dependency management across cross-functional systems. My approach is grounded in Lean principles and ITIL practices to improve efficiency, reduce incidents, and drive consistent delivery outcomes. In addition to legacy systems, I have gained hands-on exposure to modern data platforms such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Snowflake, supporting ongoing data platform modernization and enterprise reporting initiatives. More recently, I have been actively exploring applied AI in engineering and delivery workflows, building small-scale applications and automation pipelines to improve productivity and accelerate development cycles. This includes working with multi-model AI systems to support solution design, automation, and data-driven decision-making. I am particularly interested in roles that combine program delivery, data platform transformation, and AI-enabled innovation to drive scalable and efficient business solutions.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Technical Lead at ThoughtFocus, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Senior Technical Lead | Data Engineering | Investment Banking Experienced and dedicated Senior Technical Lead with a strong foundation in Database Analysis, ETL development, and reporting solutions. Proficient in working with MS SQL Server, multiple ETL tools, and BI/reporting platforms, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality data solutions in fast-paced financial environments. Currently leading initiatives in an Investment Banking project, with a focus on: * Daily collaboration with Portfolio Managers to resolve queries and align with business objectives * Managing and guiding the team through critical processes during offshore hours, ensuring seamless client support and delivery * Continuously mentoring peers and fostering a culture of excellence and ownership Alongside my technical responsibilities, I am focused on developing strong leadership qualities, driving team performance, and aligning solutions with strategic goals. Core Competencies: * MS SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Performance Tuning * ETL Tools (SSIS, ADF, etc.) * Reporting & BI Tools (SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, etc.) * Data Warehousing & Financial Data Analysis * Client Communication & Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Technical Lead at ThoughtFocus, Apr 2022 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Equipped with a wide range of skills in Database Analysis and working over MS SQL Server, various ETLS tools and Reporting tools. Current project is into Investment Banking with major focus on daily interaction with Portfolio Managers to look after their queries and business deliverables. Also guiding the team through daily processes during clients offshore hours. Working as dedicated Technical Lead and continuously learning on leadership qualities.

Senior Software Engineer at Scalability Engineers Pvt Ltd, Jun 2021 - Apr 2022 · 11 mos, Remote, Have been involved in Pre-Sales activities like preparing business models for new prospective clients by working parallelly over POC's. Also looking after dedicated project for there daily operations and smooth transitioning for the daily activities. Building new robust framework/design to help the client to run their daily operations with a flexible approach. Enhanced skills over Azure environment with tools like Data Factory. Later got consumed by ThoughtFocus as FTE.

Lead Consultant at Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets, Apr 2017 - Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Noida Area, India, Worked in total 3 different projects and two of them being Investment Banking and one from Manufacturing Domain. By working here got real time learning on the opportunities like onboarding/offboarding of projects where I evolved by learning project requirement from client starting with day 1 till last day. Learnt about various phases and factors which comes into play to get business growing.

Senior Software Developer at Amdocs, Jun 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Gurgaon, India, Here I got to work over various Vendors like Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia how they process the data from Telecom towers to their daily reports. Responsible for product development to deployment for different clients. Involved in requirement gathering, understanding and development of new modules till delivery of the product.

Software Engineer at Virtual Employee Pvt. Ltd., Apr 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Noida Area, India, Migration of application from legacy platform to new framework and technologies. Building small patches of application either as web page, desktop application or report to support end client requirement to maintain their ERP application.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma, Information Security and Application Development, C - DAC, NOIDA

Post Graduate Diploma; B.Tech, Information; Computer Science Engineering, Haryana College of Technology