Hari Pandranki

Head of Technology - US Enterprise Onboarding Engineering @ TD

About

Technology leader with over 25 years of experience driving large scale engineering, platform modernization, and digital transformation across the banking and financial services industry. I have led global engineering organizations, owned enterprise technology platforms, and delivered complex multi-year programs that enable innovation, scalability, and business growth. My experience spans retail card services, consumer banking, small business banking, investment banking, wealth management, commercial banking, and government banking, working within large and complex matrix organizations. Throughout my career, I have focused on building modern, scalable platforms that improve customer experience while enabling operational efficiency. I specialize in enterprise platform architecture, microservices and micro-frontends, and cloud transformation, helping organizations migrate legacy systems to highly scalable digital platforms. I have successfully led infrastructure transformations from internally hosted environments to public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, leveraging cloud-native capabilities to improve performance, reliability, and speed to market. As a technology leader, I am passionate about introducing emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to improve engineering productivity, accelerate development and testing lifecycles, and reduce overall delivery costs. I have managed technology budgets exceeding $40M and led global teams of 100+ engineers and delivery professionals, ensuring strong execution across architecture, engineering, and program delivery. My leadership approach emphasizes building high performing teams, mentoring talent, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability. In addition to technology leadership, I bring strong experience in governance, regulatory compliance, security, and audit frameworks, ensuring platforms meet the highest standards required in regulated financial environments.

Country

United States

City

Monroe

Industry

Banking

Skill

JavaScript, Capacity Planning, agile, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Private Clouds, Digital Transformation, People Management, Digital Strategy, Application Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Project Management, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, SOA, Agile Methodologies, Global Delivery, Vendor Management, IT Strategy, Data Warehousing

Experience

Head of Technology - US Enterprise Onboarding Engineering

2024-6 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

New Jersey, United States

Senior Development Manager - US Enterprise Onboarding Engineering

2016-6 - 2024-6 · 8 yrs 1 mo

New Jersey

Senior Development Manager and head of US digital Sales onboarding Technology development team, 6th largest US bank with recent acquisition of First Horizon bank, responsible for developing digital sales onboarding platform of Personal Banking, small business banking, Wealth & Investement, Commercial and Government banking products using responsive web, Microsoft technologies and Java technologies on public Azure cloud in a globally distributed team with team of full time employees and contractors working in multiple agile PODs. Implementing enterprise level initiative across all three channels self-serve digital online, branches and phone to bring all channels to strategic digital enterprise sales onboarding framework in OMNI journey to offer consistent customer experience and multi product offerings, this involves working with stake holders and agile teams across different technology and product teams to plan and align the delivery. In first phase of this program objective is migrating legacy TD branch sales onboarding platform transformation to new strategic enterprise digital onboarding framework to bring rich experience to employees and solving major irritants and bottlenecks branch employees have been facing in the legacy platforms, this program consists of multiple MVPs and releases over the next three years covering personal, small business, commercial and government banking products. Implementation experience of moving physical servers in windows and linux platforms hosted in vendor datacenter to TD cloud open stack, putting a strategy and planning to move to Microsoft public azure cloud from existing TD private cloud. Direction of full time employees and Contractors located both in Onshore and Offshore. Employees career development plan, mentoring, coaching, performance appraisal and compensation.

Development Manager

2014-4 - 2016-6 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, United States

Technical Program Manager

Morgan Stanley

2010-10 - 2013-7 · 2 yrs 10 mos

New York City Metropolitan Area

Managed technology implementation of Citi Bank Smith Barney platform merger to Morgan Stanley client-serve platform, this is one of the largest merger in the Wall Street history in a multiyear and multi-vendors engagement model

Senior Architect

Credit Suisse

2009-3 - 2010-10 · 1 yr 8 mos

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Architected and developed Global personal account platform as part of multiyear and multi million project on fixed price model. Responsible for architecture and development

Senior Technical Lead

Verizon

2007-1 - 2009-3 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Warren, New Jersey, United States

Senior Technical Lead\Architect lead a team of Client resources and contractors to convert existing Automated Customer Support System from legacy VC++ to Microsoft .NET platform