About Malik Hassan
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Academic Level Degree Bachelor
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Age Above 57 Years
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Salary 0
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Gender Male
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Industry Finance
About me
Technology delivery leader and application owner with 17+ years in global banking, the last 12 years managing cross-regional teams, regulatory technology platforms, and end-to-end delivery across Credit Suisse and UBS. Throughout my career, I have taken full accountability for SDLC governance, release management, incident response, and operational resilience — working across APAC, EMEA, and the United States with engineering teams, risk, compliance, and senior stakeholders to deliver stable, audit-ready regulatory reporting solutions.
- Led and managed cross-regional engineering teams of 40+ including direct and offshore resources across APAC, EMEA, and the United States.
- Reduced regulatory reporting turnaround time by over 70% through end-to-end automation of reporting workflows.
- Sustained 99.9% uptime on a globally critical market risk reporting platform while resolving incidents in under 2 hours.
- Cut regulatory audit findings by 80% through proactive governance, compliance practices, and disciplined delivery.
- Ensured technology platforms met regulatory reporting requirements across Basel III, MAS, PRA, and FINMA frameworks — translating compliance mandates into stable, audit-ready IT delivery across APAC, EMEA, and the US.
- Mentored and developed team members — several progressing to senior roles within the organisation.
- Hands-on in Power BI, SQL, and Excel VBA for regulatory reporting, automation, and data quality.
- Actively upskilling in data analysis and AI — completing PSM I, Microsoft PL-300, and Python fundamentals.
- ITIL v4 Foundation certified — active PMI and IIBA member since 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Experience
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2024 - 2025
UBS AG
DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Joined UBS Group Compliance technology following the Credit Suisse merger, leading a team of 6–10 engineers before transitioning into a senior delivery and governance specialist capacity — coordinating across Risk, Compliance, IT, and vendor teams to drive regulatory reporting, automation, and data quality initiatives across the full software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
• Led and managed a team of 6–10 engineers during the initial phase, overseeing delivery planning, sprint coordination, risk and dependency management, quality gate governance, and stakeholder reporting.
• Drove delivery and execution of workflow automation, regulatory reporting and compliance technology enhancements, and data quality initiatives within Group Compliance technology.
• Coordinated across Risk, Compliance, IT, and vendor teams to govern release readiness, testing cycles, and delivery milestones.
• Designed and modelled regulatory compliance workflows using Flowable (BPMN, CMMN, DMN) to strengthen governance and process transparency.
• Supported Agile adoption alongside the delivery team — contributing to backlog refinement and iterative delivery practices aligned to compliance objectives.
• Governed software delivery lifecycle across requirements, design, testing, and release readiness within Group Compliance.
Key Contributions & Achievements:
• Designed and deployed Power BI dashboards, reducing manual regulatory reporting effort by 30% and accelerating issue identification for senior stakeholders.
• Built and standardised regulatory compliance workflow models in Flowable, reducing audit clarification cycles by 15% and significantly improving compliance process visibility.
• Strengthened data quality and KPI accuracy by 25–30% through SQL-based validation and reconciliation checks across ETL outputs and reporting datasets, reducing recurring data quality issues by 10–15%.
• Eliminated manual intervention across key compliance processes through end-to-end workflow automation, reducing operational risk and improving audit traceability.
• Supported Agile backlog refinement and sprint discipline practices, contributing to improved sprint planning accuracy by 10–15% across the delivery team. -
2017 - 2024
CREDIT SUISSE AG
VICE PRESIDENT (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Held full end-to-end accountability for a globally critical market risk regulatory reporting platform across APAC, EMEA, and the US — leading cross-regional teams of 40+, including direct and offshore resources, managing full project lifecycle, including scope, quality, budget, and stakeholder management, while governing platform stability, production support, and high-severity incident response.
Responsibilities:
• Partnered with senior Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex regulatory mandates and compliance requirements into scalable, production-grade technology solutions, ensuring audit-ready delivery across all jurisdictions.
• Directed ITIL-aligned governance across incident, problem, change, and release management — enforcing controlled production processes and strengthening platform risk management.
• Owned full SDLC governance across requirements, design, SIT/UAT, release readiness, regulatory change management, and deployment planning to maintain production quality and operational stability.
• Spearheaded regulatory-driven platform modernisation initiatives, including legacy technology upgrades, ASP.NET application migrations, and architectural improvements — managing delivery through engineering teams.
• Coordinated upstream and downstream data flow changes across risk systems, ensuring timely ETL delivery and preventing data integrity breaks across regulatory reporting pipelines.
• Mentored and developed cross-regional team members, establishing a strong leadership pipeline within the global technology function.
Key Contributions & Achievements:
• Reduced regulatory reporting turnaround time by over 70% — from 3 days to under 1 day — through end-to-end automation of regulatory reporting workflows.
• Sustained 99.9% market risk reporting platform uptime while reducing average incident resolution time to under 2 hours.
• Reduced regulatory audit findings by over 80% through proactive compliance checks, governance frameworks, and disciplined delivery practices.
• Delivered 400+ market risk regulatory reporting template updates within 4 weeks, preventing compliance breaches and avoiding potential regulatory penalties.
• Improved operational efficiency by 35–40% through redesign of regulatory data pipelines and reporting workflows, significantly reducing manual processing overhead.
• Eliminated recurring production issues through permanent root-cause fixes, cutting repeat incidents by 30%+
• Delivered monthly business restructure projects within 2 weeks end-to-end — an 85% reduction compared to the previous 2-month process.
• Directed ASP.NET application and SQL Server database migrations, boosting platform scalability by 35%, cutting support overhead by 25%, and reducing legacy maintenance costs by 30%.
• Increased team productivity by 20% and reduced production defects by 25% through process optimisation and disciplined delivery practices.
• Standardised SDLC practices using JIRA and Confluence, reducing release cycle time by 30% and cutting requirement gaps by 20–25%.
• Earned two promotions — ENO to AVP to VP — in recognition of sustained performance and leadership impact
• Mentored two direct reports who were subsequently promoted to Assistant Vice President level within the global technology function. -
2013 - 2016
CREDIT SUISSE AG
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Progressed into a people management role overseeing a small team of 2–5 engineers, supporting the delivery and operations of the global Market Risk regulatory reporting platform. Took on increasing responsibility for SDLC coordination, stakeholder engagement, and platform governance while continuing to contribute to delivery and operational support across APAC.
Key Contributions & Achievements:
• Managed and coordinated a team of 2–5 engineers, overseeing task allocation, delivery planning, and day-to-day operations.
• Migrated market risk reporting infrastructure from Excel 2003 to Excel 2010, introducing VBA automation, PivotTables, and UDFs that reduced manual reporting effort by 50%
• Supported SDLC governance across requirements, testing, and release cycles for regulatory reporting platform changes.
• Contributed to platform stability and incident management, supporting production operations across the APAC region
• Promoted to Vice President in recognition of sustained delivery performance and growing leadership contribution - 2008 - 2012