Open to senior delivery leadership — enterprise programs, AI transformation, financial services and healthcare. Remote or SF Bay Area.

San Francisco Bay Area / Financial services & healthcare

Anitha Selvarajan

Same career, two readings.

Enterprise delivery

I turn enterprise complexity into delivered outcomes.

Twenty-five years leading technology delivery across financial services and healthcare — $50M annual portfolios, manager-of-managers teams onshore and offshore, and AI-led transformation that lands in the P&L rather than the roadmap deck.

See the delivery record
$65M
Cost eliminated
SVB / FCB platform consolidation
$50M
Annual portfolio
Four Agile delivery teams
31
Person org built
StageCoach, Wells Fargo
25+
Years leading delivery
Banking · Healthcare · Security
About

What I actually do

I translate complex business challenges into technology roadmaps and deliver enterprise-scale change through AI-driven solutions, cloud-native architecture, and data platform modernization.

I work directly with C-suite executives on Agile transformation, agentic AI, robotic automation, and enterprise architecture. I define product strategy, decide what matters, and run cross-functional teams — including manager-of-managers organizations across onshore and offshore locations.

I own delivery lifecycles end to end, with real accountability for financial planning, risk, and process. And I care about mentoring strong teams and improving how the work gets done.

Based
San Francisco Bay Area · Open to remote
Domains
Financial services · Healthcare payer · Enterprise IT
Currently
Principal Technical Product Manager & VP, FirstCitizens Bank
Working on
Agentic AI delivery, RAG platforms, data modernization
Career

Twenty-five years, in order

Ordered because the sequence matters: the scale of what I run today was built one delivery organization at a time.
  1. Aug 2021 — Present$50M annual delivery portfolio · 4 Agile teams

    FirstCitizens Bank

    Principal Technical Product Manager & Application Owner, VP

    • Led the AI initiative converting customer chatbot queries into vector embeddings — retrieving account, balance, and transaction data via cosine-similarity scoring — and built the reranking and retrieval health-check rules that made it reliable in production.
    • Drove adoption of generative AI and agentic tooling: Copilot Skills and scheduled agents that automate incident analysis and executive dashboards, cutting reporting turnaround by 90%.
    • Led the end-to-end migration of the enterprise data warehouse from Snowflake to Databricks — redesigned ETL/ELT with dbt and Airflow, set governance and metadata standards, put DataOps and CI/CD behind pipeline deployment.
    • Led the SVB vs. First Citizens commercial banking platform analysis that shaped executive migration strategy, accelerating consolidation by 6 months and eliminating an estimated $65M over two years.
    • Modernized payments on AWS S3, Kafka, and APIGEE in-house, removing vendor dependency for $6.22M in annual savings.
    • Coordinated a $20M cryptocurrency asset portfolio — Coinbase custodian relationship, blockchain infrastructure through Enterprise Architecture review to Permit to Develop and Operate.
    • Agentic AI
    • RAG
    • Databricks
    • Kafka
    • APIGEE
    • AWS
  2. Apr 2015 — Aug 202131-member org · Credit Card, Home Equity, Auto

    Wells Fargo

    Delivery Lead · Product Owner · Agile Transformation Leader, VP

    • Built and ran the 31-member StageCoach team, standardizing testing procedures, review checkpoints, and quality benchmarks.
    • Set Agile governance, SDLC process, Definition of Done, and portfolio metrics; coached cross-functional teams in the US and India through enterprise Agile transformation.
    • Delivered zero-defect releases across multiple .NET products and built the executive dashboards, roadmaps, and status reporting leadership ran on.
    • SAFe
    • Agile transformation
    • Portfolio metrics
    • .NET
  3. EarlierProduct architecture & enterprise software

    McAfee · State Bar of California · iSOFT · Ramco · Thesys

    Principal Product Owner · IT Program Lead · Lead Solutions Architect · Tech Manager

    • Progressive leadership roles across security, public sector, healthcare IT, and enterprise ERP — leading product architecture and enterprise software initiatives at each.
    • Product architecture
    • Healthcare IT
    • ERP
Selected work

Enterprise programs

Programs I owned end to end, with the number they moved.
6 programs
FirstCitizens Bank

Conversational banking on vector retrieval

Customer chatbot queries embedded and matched against account, balance, and transaction data with cosine-similarity scoring, plus the reranking and retrieval health checks that keep answers trustworthy in production.

  • RAG in production
  • Reranking + health checks
  • Embeddings
  • Vector search
  • LLM
  • Java
  • OpenShift
FirstCitizens Bank

Snowflake → Databricks warehouse migration

Full replatform of the enterprise data warehouse: ETL/ELT redesigned on dbt and Airflow, governance and metadata standards written, DataOps and CI/CD put behind every pipeline deployment.

  • Governed metadata layer
  • CI/CD on every pipeline
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Airflow
  • AWS Glue
FirstCitizens Bank

SVB / FCB platform consolidation strategy

Comparative analysis of both commercial banking systems that set the executive migration path — folding Hogan into the Signature platforms.

  • $65M eliminated over 2 yrs
  • 6 months faster
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Executive strategy
FirstCitizens Bank

eConnect → GO digital modernization

A $15.5M/year, four-year phased migration moving roughly 10,000 users across market segments onto the modern digital platform without breaking their day.

  • ~10,000 users migrated
  • $15.5M/yr program
  • Microservices
  • REST
  • Program delivery
FirstCitizens Bank

In-house payments modernization

Replaced vendor payment rails with in-house services on AWS S3, Kafka, and APIGEE, and decomposed the Admin domain into Client, User, and Product microservices.

  • $6.22M annual savings
  • Vendor dependency removed
  • AWS S3
  • Kafka
  • APIGEE
  • Microservices
FirstCitizens Bank

Audit-event capture redesign

Rebuilt audit-event capture and reporting with Risk, Compliance, and Governance — the unglamorous work that decides how an examination goes.

  • 80% better audit readiness
  • 50% fewer event gaps
  • Governance
  • SOC2
  • Splunk
Toolkit

What I work with

AI & machine learning

  • Agentic AI solutioning
  • Copilot Skills
  • Claude Agents
  • n8n
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • Llama
  • MCP
  • Vector search & reranking

Data platform

  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Airflow
  • AWS Glue
  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • SSIS / SSRS
  • ElasticSearch

Cloud & architecture

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OpenShift
  • Kafka
  • APIGEE
  • Microservices
  • REST / SOAP
  • Java
  • C# / ASP.NET
  • Git
  • CI/CD

Leadership & delivery

  • Product strategy
  • Portfolio leadership
  • Roadmap & PI planning
  • SAFe · Scrum · Kanban
  • Manager of managers
  • P&L & ROI tracking
  • Risk & audit compliance
  • Vendor management
  • Executive communication

Certifications

  • Six Sigma Lean Black Belt
  • Six Sigma Champion
  • Certified Project Management
  • Change Management Specialist
  • Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology, Information TechnologyUniversity of Madras