PPrajakta P.
Senior Product Manager · Senior Product Owner

Prajakta P.

Bank of AmericaJPMorgan ChaseBroadridgeCummins / TCS

Enterprise Product Leader — ~12 years across Cloud, FinOps, AI, and Cybersecurity in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), Real-estate and regulated technology.

CSPO and SAFe POPM certified. I direct multi-cloud platform portfolios across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OpenShift — turning enterprise complexity into scalable product strategy and measurable business value.

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Executive Snapshot

Operating where enterprise complexity is highest.

~12 years across 8+ industries — banking, financial services technology, insurance, payroll, accounting, corporate engineering IT, and cybersecurity. Today I lead enterprise cloud platform products at Bank of America, aligning 100+ quarterly initiatives across globally distributed engineering, architecture, security, and vendor teams within SAFe.
Multi-Cloud (Azure · AWS · GCP · OCP)FinOpsGenAI EnablementSRE & Platform OperationsSAFe POPM · CSPO
Featured Impact

Outcomes the business actually felt.

Selected metrics from enterprise initiatives across cloud, FinOps, and AI enablement.

~12
yrs
Product leadership across 8+ industries
$900M
FY25
Projected cloud cost savings supported
700+
hrs/wk
Labor-hour efficiency gains per ops team
100+
per qtr
Initiatives aligned across SAFe teams
What I Build

Four disciplines where I deliver disproportionate value.

01

Enterprise Product Strategy

Translate executive intent into platform roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and outcomes leadership can defend.

02

Multi-Cloud Platform Enablement

Productize self-service capabilities across Azure, AWS, and OpenShift — adoption that scales with governance built-in.

03

GenAI & OpenAI Operations

Operating model, controls, and platform integration required to run enterprise AI at a regulated standard.

04

FinOps Automation & Cost Optimization

Data, automation, and reporting that turn cloud spend into a managed portfolio with executive accountability.

Case Studies

Strategic product work, told end to end.

Context, strategy, and the outcome the business felt — the way product leadership actually evaluates work.

Context

Application teams needed a consistent path to private and public cloud, but container tooling, environment reliability, and deployment practices were fragmented across the estate.

Strategy

Owned roadmap and delivery across container product development, environment reliability, tools integration, and automated deployments — partnering with engineering, architecture, SRE, security, and vendors inside SAFe.

Outcome

A governed containerization strategy with automated deployments and reliability practices that made applications cloud-ready without bespoke effort per team.

Kubernetes · OpenShiftAutomated deploymentsSRE reliability
Context

Private and public cloud consumption outpaced financial visibility. Billing, rates, demand-price modeling, and chargeback lacked a single governed platform.

Strategy

Led 20+ automation initiatives across FinOps and cloud operations, using Azure Cost Manager, Apptio Cloudability, Grafana, and Prometheus to build cost monitoring, optimization workflows, and executive reporting.

Outcome

Contributed to ~$900M projected FY25 cloud cost savings and established financial governance and accountability across Azure resources.

~$900M FY25 savings20+ automationsChargeback & rate modeling
Context

Production go-live required satisfying Global Information Security and operational control expectations across a large body of compliance and security evidence.

Strategy

Directed governance and remediation initiatives with GIS leadership, controls teams, engineering, and vendors — sequencing evidence resolution alongside platform delivery milestones.

Outcome

Resolved 700+ compliance and security evidences, enabling production go-live and strengthening controls enablement and operational maturity.

700+ evidences resolvedGIS partnershipProduction go-live
Context

Cloud application logs and threat signals sat outside the on-prem SIEM, limiting the Attack Analysis team's visibility into cloud-borne fraud and threat activity.

Strategy

Owned discovery and delivery with GCP, AWS, and Pega vendors plus engineering leads and the Executive Director of Cybersecurity & Fraud Detection — defining custom-built alerts and backlog priorities across Scrum and Kanban teams.

Outcome

Reduced Mean Time To Detect for cloud threats and modernized adjacent CyberOps audit and workflow applications for operations end users.

Splunk ES · SOARGCP · AWS GuardDutyLower MTTD
Leadership Approach

An operating philosophy built for ambiguity and scale.

Five principles I hold consistent across regulated, multi-stakeholder enterprise environments.

  1. 01
    Create clarity from ambiguity.
    Reduce a tangle of stakeholders and unknowns to a small set of decisions the team can move on.
  2. 02
    Align business goals with technology execution.
    Hold the line between executive intent and engineering reality so neither one bends the other out of shape.
  3. 03
    Lead through influence across complex groups.
    Operate without positional authority across risk, compliance, architecture, operations, and vendors.
  4. 04
    Balance speed, risk, governance, and value.
    Optimize for the trade-off curve — not any single dimension. Regulated platforms live on all four.
  5. 05
    Build products that scale beyond one use case.
    Design for the second and third adopter, where platform economics actually compound.
Skills & Technology Stack

A toolkit shaped by regulated, large-scale delivery.

Product & Agile Leadership

Product Vision & StrategyRoadmappingPortfolio PrioritizationBacklog RefinementSAFe · Scrum · KanbanPI PlanningStory MappingStakeholder ManagementExecutive CommunicationKPIs & OKRs

Cloud & Platform

Microsoft AzureAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformRed Hat OpenShiftKubernetesHashiCorp Terraform (IaC)Site Reliability EngineeringIncident ManagementREST APIs · Microservices

FinOps, Security & Governance

Apptio CloudabilityAzure Cost ManagerChargeback & Rate ModelingCost OptimizationCompliance & ControlsSplunk Enterprise SIEM · SOARAWS GuardDutyRisk Management

Delivery, Data & Tools

Jira · ConfluenceServiceNow · RemedyGrafana · Prometheus · DynatraceTableau · Qlik SenseSQL · SSMS · OracleFigma · Balsamiq · MuralMS Visio · Office 365Business Analysis · UAT · RTM
Career Timeline

~12 years across fintech, enterprise IT, and cybersecurity.

  1. 2023 — Present
    Bank of America
    Product Manager / Product Owner · Financial Services (via Akkodis)
    Enterprise cloud platform portfolio across Azure, AWS, GCP and OpenShift — containers, SRE operations, FinOps, and GenAI enablement within SAFe.
  2. 2022 — 2023
    JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst · Cybersecurity (via Pinnacle Group)
    Cloud threat detection into Splunk ES, cybersecurity audit workflows, and CyberOps application modernization for fraud & threat detection teams.
  3. 2021 — 2022
    Cummins Inc. / TCS
    Product Owner / Business Analyst · Corporate Engineering IT (via Veracity)
    Azure and VDI client-server platform upgrades across 3+ workstreams and 5+ offshore teams, with SAFe ceremonies and full SIT/UAT sign-off.
  4. 2020
    Broadridge Financial Solutions
    Product Owner / Java Developer · Capital Markets
    SaaS order and execution platform enhancements — release management, code reviews, and backlog grooming across 15+ system design discussions.
  5. 2019
    Robert McRae CPA
    Product Manager / Product Owner · Accounting
    In-house payroll, tax and disbursement platform; SWOT-driven build decision saved $10K+ annually per department across 10+ departments.
  6. 2014 — 2018
    Insurance · Asset Management · Real Estate
    Product Owner / Business Analyst · EK Insurance, Roanoke Asset Management, Aegis Global
    Claims re-engineering, portfolio and trade lifecycle systems, and mutual fund NAV reporting — 40+ epics and 100+ user stories delivered.
Education
Pace University
M.S. Computer Software Engineering (STEM)
Seidenberg School of Computer Science · New York, NY · GPA 3.83 · 2018
Certifications
SAFe 6.0 Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) — 2024FinOps Product Owner Training — 2024Salesforce Certified Administrator Cert Prep — 2023Bloomberg Markets Concepts (BMC) — 2022Google Project Management Certification — 2022Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) — 2021Investment Banking & Financial Analyst Courses — 2020Business Analysis Fundamentals — 2020Tableau Boot Camp for Data Visualization — 2020NISM Series-5-A: Mutual Fund Distributors — 2014
Let's Talk

Looking for a product leader who can scale complex enterprise technology into measurable business value?

Open to senior product leadership roles across fintech, enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, AI enablement, and digital transformation.

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