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Srini Vankeepuram

Architecture, Engineering & Data Leader

25 years turning complex financial-services estates into investment cases, target architectures and executable roadmaps. Most recently Head of Technology for Partner Experience and Payments at Discover Financial Services, leading a 30-person architecture and engineering organisation — and the data strategy — for platforms processing 200M transactions a day.

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Years experience
25
Years experience
Payments a day
200M
Payments a day
Pre-sales wins
$50M
Pre-sales wins
01

Experience

In-house Consulting
  1. Discover2023–2026 · 3 yrs 4 mos
  2. Ricoh2020–2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos
  3. Pitney Bowes2018–2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos
  4. Allianz2014–2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos
  5. InterGlobe2011–2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos
  6. TCS2001–2011 · 10 yrs

  1. May 2023 — Aug 2026 · 3 yrs 4 mosIn-house

    Head of Technology, Partner Experience & Payments

    Discover Financial Services (a Capital One company)

    • Owned the target architecture and transition roadmap for partner-enablement and payment platforms processing 200M transactions a day at 10K+ TPS.
    • Led and coached a 30-person architecture and engineering organisation through Architecture and Engineering Managers.
    • Led data strategy and governance: metadata curation, data at rest, OLTP/OLAP integration and data lake ingestion, built on domain-driven data models.
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  2. Sep 2020 — May 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mosIn-house

    Lead Solution Architect

    Ricoh Europe

    • Drove the Oracle Cloud technology evaluation and owned cloud migration and integration for a multiyear $500M transformation.
    • Lead Architect for an Amelia AI chatbot on customer portals, integrated via APIs with customers' orders and their status — cutting support-desk emails and calls by 27%.
    • Lead Architect for HR modernisation across iPeople, SAP SuccessFactors, Axon Ivy, TalentLink and ServiceNow.
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  3. Jan 2018 — Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mosConsulting

    Senior Architect, Client Advisory & Pre-Sales

    Pitney Bowes

    • Led the EY partnership for a KYC solution on Pitney Bowes Spectrum — from RFI/RFP and an on-site proof of concept through implementation and training EY professionals.
    • Led a five-person team delivering GDPR compliance for McDonald's: data standardisation, iterative data cleansing and an analytical single view of employees.
    • Led RFI/RFP responses, estimation and go/no-go decisions, and ran data governance due-diligence workshops for clients.
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  4. Nov 2014 — Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mosIn-house

    Senior Digital Architect & Product Manager

    Allianz Insurance

    • Built Allianz UK's customer data and MDM capability — a household view of the customer, integrated with the Adobe marketing suite, the data lakehouse and the data warehouse.
    • Improved MDM matching rates by 21% through probabilistic matching tuning on IBM MDM Server, data cleansing, clearer survivorship rules and reference data management.
    • Defined the vision, strategy and target operating model for the shared digital platform — adopted by six projects; recognised by the steering committee as a key reason for the programme's success.
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  5. Mar 2011 — Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mosConsulting

    Head of Enterprise Architecture, Europe

    InterGlobe Technologies

    • Built a 15-member Architecture & Design function from the ground up, delivering £1.5M+ in annual revenue.
    • Grew IGT's SITA business from passenger systems into SITA's Government Service Line — recognised with IGT's Game Changer Award (2014).
    • Lead Architect for SITA iBorders border management, purchased by Oman and Saudi Arabia; Architect for the modernisation of SITA's Voyager passenger service system on Oracle SOA Suite.
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  6. Mar 2001 — Feb 2011 · 10 yrsConsulting

    Architect Lead / Manager

    Tata Consultancy Services

    • Lead Solution Architect for Saudi Arabian Airlines: an ESB platform on the IBM integration suite, integrating 112 systems including Amadeus and Sabre, in a $25M programme.
    • Architect for British Airways' Travel Programme (TTP) messaging architecture on Progress, and for SOA governance on WSO2.
    • Led the TCS airline innovation lab; its demonstrations were used by British Airways, KLM and SITA.
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Selected Work

01 · Discover Financial Services

£40M · 144 platforms

Post-merger platform convergence

Built the evidence base that secured Investment Council funding for enterprise capacity after the Capital One merger, then directed convergence across 144 platforms and applications.

  • Architecture strategy
  • Investment cases
  • Rationalisation
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02 · Discover & Diners Club

200M txns/day · 10K+ TPS

High-throughput payment platforms

Target architecture for partner-experience and payment platforms integrated with settlement, fraud and disputes, run against 99.999% availability expectations.

  • AWS multi-region
  • Microservices
  • PCI DSS 4.0
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03 · Ricoh Europe

$500M programme

Oracle Cloud transformation

Migration and integration strategy, target architecture and implementation roadmap across SaaS, workflow, HR and shared business platforms.

  • Oracle Cloud
  • SAP SuccessFactors
  • ServiceNow
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04 · Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines)

$25M · 112 systems

Airline systems integration

Managed and delivered an integration programme spanning SaaS applications and the Amadeus and Sabre travel platforms.

  • IBM integration suite
  • Amadeus
  • Sabre
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05 · HSBC · MUFG · Broadridge

GDPR · KYC

Regulatory data solutions

Advised on and architected finance-screening solutions built on data governance and master data management, from POC through to solution sizing.

  • Data governance
  • MDM
  • Pre-sales
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06 · Discover Financial Services

Security & audit

Governed Agentic AI

Applied governed Agentic AI to vulnerability identification and audit monitoring within a regulated payments environment.

  • Agentic AI
  • Security
  • Compliance
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03

Expertise

Consulting & Growth

  • Trusted-adviser relationships
  • Business development & pre-sales
  • RFP/RFI & solution sizing
  • Proof-of-concept leadership
  • Account growth
  • Coaching & mentoring

Architecture & Engineering

  • Enterprise & solution architecture
  • Target-state design
  • Microservices & cloud-native
  • APIs & integration
  • CI/CD & resilience
  • Agentic AI adoption

Data

  • Data strategy & governance
  • Metadata management
  • Master data management
  • Data lakes & ingestion
  • OLTP / OLAP integration
  • Domain-driven data models

Sectors & Regulation

  • Payments & banking
  • Capital markets
  • Insurance
  • Travel & aviation
  • Retail & telecoms
  • PCI DSS 4.0 · GDPR · KYC

Platforms & Frameworks

  • AWS
  • Oracle Cloud
  • Salesforce · ServiceNow
  • MongoDB · IBM
  • SAP SuccessFactors
  • TOGAF · Leading SAFe

Education & Certifications

  • B.Eng., Electronics & Communication — Madras University
  • TOGAF Certified Professional
  • BCS Data Management Certificate
  • Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile)

Contact

Let's talk.

I'm based in London, UK. Whether it's a leadership role, an advisory engagement or a transformation that needs shaping — my inbox is open.

srini.vankee@gmail.com
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