Hyginous Neto Selvadhason

About Hyginous Neto Selvadhason

Passionate Leader | Technologist | Innovator | Architect | EngineerDistinguished Engineer at Citizens Bank | Former Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Former Director & Staff Engineer American ExpressWith over 20+ years of experience in the Banking and Financial Services sector, I have a proven ability to lead and execute highly scalable and impactful solutions across a wide array of complex, mission-critical programs. Specializing in Technology leadership, I have extensive experience in transforming business challenges into actionable solutions with a focus on scalable, cost-efficient results.Key Strengths & Achievements:Executive Leadership: Defined and executed strategic visions by breaking them into actionable missions and OKRs, resulting in highly efficient and timely delivery of critical initiatives.Program & Project Execution: Led the successful delivery of large-scale, high-budget programs including cloud and microservices migrations, observability platforms, and authorization upgrades across multiple business units.Enterprise Problem Solving: Successfully solved complex, enterprise-level challenges in mission-critical systems, enhancing business operations and technology capabilities.Budgeting & Cost Modeling: Expertise in defining and managing the financial aspects of high-impact programs, ensuring alignment with business goals while adhering to cost constraints.Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional at influencing stakeholders and aligning diverse teams on program goals, design, and delivery plans.Architectural Leadership: Envisioned, architected, and delivered business-driven, scalable, and high-performance systems and platforms.Methodologies Expertise: Proficient in Agile (SCRUM, Kanban), Lean, Waterfall, and other SDLC methodologies, ensuring timely and efficient project delivery.Vendor Management: Led vendor partnerships to ensure successful program execution while balancing internal resources and external vendor efforts.Team Leadership & Culture: Focused on fostering teamwork, customer-first mentality, structured processes, active listening, decision-making, and continuous learning.Industries:Banking & Financial Services (Goldman Sachs, American Express, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Nomura, Credit Suisse)Technology & Startups Experience

Experience

1. Distinguished Architect

   Citizens

   Dec 2024 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Key Achievements:Platform Engineering:Envisioned, defined, and established the Platform Engineering function to build core enterprise platforms in various subdomains.Focused on developing Enterprise & Solution Architecture practices with an emphasis on engineering and operational excellence, which unlocked faster business value, reduced costs, and enhanced customer experiences.Fraud Platform Modernization:Led the transformation of legacy fraud services to a modernized, feature-based, data-driven, event-driven, and configurable platform.Achieved a 20-25% reduction in fraud losses through this transformation.Banking Core Modernization:Defined architecture for a modern core using FIS MBP, ThoughtMachine Vault, and a converged core platform layer abstracting multiple cores in back and multiple channels in front. Implemented an anti-corruption layer to manage legacy transformation code.Operational Data Layer Development:Developed a horizontally scalable operational data layer for customer, accounts, and transaction data to support deposit products.Reduced mainframe costs (MIPS) and enabled an omnichannel experience, improving overall customer experience.Lending Account Origination:Developed headless architecture for lending account origination, resulting in a seamless and frictionless onboarding experience for customers.LeapFrog Mobile Experience:Envisioned and developed architecture for LeapFrog initiatives to enhance mobile experiences for customers.Enterprise Framework:Developed reusable enterprise frameworks for various patterns, including Orchestrator, Choreography, Rule Engine, Event-driven Microservices, document storage, and document generation.Transaction Processing Platform Transformation:Defined a transformation strategy for modernizing the Transaction Processing platform, focusing on returns, exceptions, and case management using an event-driven framework and rule engine.

Education

• Don Bosco Institute of technology, Mumbai University

  B.E

  2002 — 2006

• Don Bosco Institute of technology

  BE

  2002 — 2006