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Kamal Feroze

colchester,Essex

Summary

Committed manager with exceptional leadership, organisational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams. Leads projects, company operations and business growth.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
24
24
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Product development manager

Mastercard
London
2020.03 - Current

· Manage Product Development: Identify market needs, conduct research, collaborate with regional teams, and engage stakeholders.

· Lead Market Research: Formulate hypotheses, organize workshops, gather feedback, and discuss.

· Drive New Product Development: Engage in strategy, sales enablement, consumer experience partnerships, operations, and performance.

· Partner with CX Designers and Engineers: Establish business and technical requirements, enhance customer experiences, and collaborate on product strategy.

· Contribute to Developing Product Concepts and Prototypes: Take part in developing product concepts and prototypes, independently owning, and delivering key tasks associated with them.

· Translate Business Objectives: Transform business objectives into actionable business requirements for product development.

· Prioritize Features: Utilize models such as Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to prioritize features based on business value.

· Communicate Prioritization: Clearly communicate prioritized features and product delivery timelines to market-facing teams.

· Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Work closely with engineering teams throughout the product development process.

· Conduct Cross-functional Workshops: Facilitate collaborative sessions for idea generation and problem-solving across teams, ensuring compliance with Legal and Data Privacy standards during delivery.

ZAPP – Engineering Lead & Platform Operations

Mastercard
London
2018.11 - 2020.03
  • Led three scrum teams (30+ members) across Development, Business Ops, Testing, and Network Ops to deliver real-time fintech payment solutions.
  • Single point of contact for three vendors, overseeing resource management, vendor operations, and strategic execution.
  • Managed end-to-end platform operations for PBBA, Bill Pay, and PBA, ensuring smooth deployments, new enhancements, and live issue resolution.
  • Developed DOMO Reports dashboards to track feature progress, deployments, and live issue monitoring.
  • Drove cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Regional Teams for program execution.

Business Acceptance Lead & Engineering Lead

Worldpay
London
2015.05 - 2018.11
  • Led the engineering & onboarding strategy for Worldpay’s new acquiring platform, defining end-to-end migration workflows for merchant onboarding.
  • Managed Siebel CRM onboarding platform, ensuring seamless integration and efficient merchant registration.
  • Designed & executed the migration strategy, including rule mappings, workflow automation, and post-migration data validation.
  • Led vendor selection & management, overseeing teams for engineering, business analysis, and onboarding.
  • Developed post-migration workflows, ensuring data activation and flow across multiple applications.
  • Validated operational integrity by comparing migrated system data with live transaction outputs.

Core Banking Transformation & Card Management Lead

Nationwide Building Society
Swindon
2008.07 - 2015.05
  • Led the core banking transformation for SAP account opening & transaction processing, integrating new processes into existing BAU workflows.
  • Owned the Card Management System (CMS), managing the operational framework for new card issuance from SAP.
  • Designed reconciliation frameworks to process SAP transactions and align them with legacy banking workflows.
  • Provided business & technical expertise for SAP migration, ensuring seamless processing of financial transactions.

Project Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Banglore, India
2007.05 - 2008.06
  • Developed business logic & system workflows for E*Trade systems, supporting trade settlements.
  • Wrote UNIX & Shell scripts to automate trade settlement processes and conduct unit testing.

Software Developer

ANZ Banking Carporation
Bangalore, India
2006.04 - 2007.05

Software developer

IBM India
Bangalore, India
2002.06 - 2006.05

Education

Bachelors in Engineering - Engineering

J.N.T University
Hyderabad, India
1997.06 - 2021.05

Skills

Platform Operations & Engineering Leadership
Fintech Payments & Core Banking Systems
Real-Time Payments & Acquiring/Issuer Processing
Product Roadmaps & Strategy Execution

CRM & Workflow Automation (Salesforce, Siebel CRM)
Vendor Management & Cross-Functional Leadership
Operational Dashboards & DOMO Reports
Agile Product Development & Lean Process Optimization

Affiliations

  • Cricket , Running

Languages

English
Fluent

Timeline

Product development manager

Mastercard
2020.03 - Current

ZAPP – Engineering Lead & Platform Operations

Mastercard
2018.11 - 2020.03

Business Acceptance Lead & Engineering Lead

Worldpay
2015.05 - 2018.11

Core Banking Transformation & Card Management Lead

Nationwide Building Society
2008.07 - 2015.05

Project Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
2007.05 - 2008.06

Software Developer

ANZ Banking Carporation
2006.04 - 2007.05

Software developer

IBM India
2002.06 - 2006.05

Bachelors in Engineering - Engineering

J.N.T University
1997.06 - 2021.05
Kamal Feroze