Harish Tailor

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ABOUT HARISH TAILOR

I’m a seasoned Project Manager, Product Owner & Business Analyst with 20+ years of driving complex IT initiatives across the Investment Banking landscape. I thrive at the intersection of Market Data, Market Risk and Trading Technology, delivering regulatory change, cost-optimisation and agile transformations for global teams.At Commerzbank, I led cross functional squads as Cell Lead & Product Owner for Market Data, defining strategic roadmaps for FX and Fixed Income e trading, executing quarterly OKRs and migrating key applications to a hybrid cloud architecture – achieving a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs. As Risk IT Integration Lead, I oversaw a €10 million programme to decommission 75 legacy applications, streamlining systems post merger and delivering a regulatory reporting solution that unlocked €4 million in third party synergies.Currently consulting on real time connectivity solutions for Fixed Income Software, I bridge business needs with technical design – documenting architectures, updating legacy platforms and championing low latency data feeds.My core strengths include Agile & Waterfall delivery, stakeholder governance, budgeting, OKRs, vendor management, and hands on development with kdb+/q. I’m passionate about aligning IT strategy with business goals, building high performing remote teams and translating regulatory requirements into robust, future proof systems.Let’s connect to discuss how I can help you transform your data driven initiatives.