Solomon Thangaraj

About Solomon Thangaraj

A seasoned technology leader with a focus on Technology Strategy, Product Life Cycle Management, Software Development and Delivery in the Financial Services, Product development, and Software as a Service (SaaS) space. With sound educational background (MS in Computers & MBA in Finance) and professional experience in dynamic work environments, well capable of directing, leading, mentoring, coaching, and managing a technology group that will deliver quality products and platforms efficiently using Agile best practices.Passionate about technology and solving complex business problems using technology that results in operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. Combine the power of innovative solutions, simplified architecture, and execution excellence to deliver high-quality products that exceed client expectations consistently. Recent experience includes greenfield tech platform buildout, tech modernization using microservices, cloud-native development, public cloud adoption (AWS), platform migration, and adoption of product operating model using agile PDLC. Collaborated with third-party vendors to build multiple global scrum teams from the ground that are well-integrated into the organization to deliver large-scale products and platforms.Areas of Expertise: Risk analytics, Wealth Management, Managed Accounts, Fixed Income, Credit Risk, Credit Ratings, Structured Finance, Capital market, Indices, Global team building, Budgeting and Estimation, Cost savings and efficiency, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile project management.Technology Focus:Cloud-native development, Microservices, API, Containers, Web development (Java, SpringBoot, C#.NET, Javascript, HTML/CSS), SaaS, Mobile development, Search, AWS, Kubernetes.Database development (Relational-Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL-SOLR, Elasticsearch, GraphDB-Neo4j), Data Science, Data modeling, ETL (Informatica, Data pipeline), BigData, Data Lake, Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, System Design,BI/Reporting (Tableau, QlikView, QlikSense, Alteryx, Power BI). Datawarehouse.

Experience

1. Head of Regulatory Reporting & Data Governance Engineering, Enterprise Risk Technology

   Citi

   Nov 2025 — Present · Rutherford, NJ, US

   Leverage GenAI and modern, home‑grown engineering to rapidly build high‑performance data staging, querying, reporting, and visualization capabilities. Use GenAI‑powered governance solutions to automate cataloging, lineage, quality validation, and reconciliation across the data ecosystem

Education

• Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  1992 — 1994

• Madurai Kamaraj University (Sadakathullah Appa College)

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  1989 — 1992

• Regis University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance & Accounting

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Program Management
• Css
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Team Leadership
• Market Data
• Software Development
• Fixed Income
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Agile Project Management
• Mobile Applications
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Analysis
• Product Development
• Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Soa
• Sql
• Visio
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)