Polytechnic Alumni Association - International Board of Directors
(Term ending August 31, 2028)
Pankaj Aggarwal is a senior data and technology leader with over 17 years of experience in capital markets, delivering enterprise solutions that fuse business acumen with advanced data architecture and modern cloud technologies. At Ernst & Young, Pankaj has been instrumental in shaping the firm’s Capital Markets technology, driving multi-year growth through transformative, high-impact programs.
His leadership spans several large-scale, strategic initiatives:
- Market Data Platform Modernization: Led the creation of a real-time analytics solution on Snowflake, addressing trading desk pain points and optimizing time series data usage across business units.
- Client Reference Data Platform: Architected a low-touch client onboarding and reference data solution, automating 25+ processes and modeling 750+ AML data points to meet compliance for 9,500+ KYC rules.
- Risk Modeling Platform: Designed a user-centric platform that dramatically reduced model deployment time from 9 months to 30 days, while meeting stringent regulatory and audit requirements.
- Securities Transaction Modernization: Conducted gap analysis of legacy systems across front, middle, and back office functions, identified modernization strategies, and led vendor selection to implement an integrated solution roadmap.
- Trade Venue Inventory & Surveillance: Addressed a critical regulatory MRA by overhauling trade surveillance capabilities, ensuring complete data coverage and robust controls across all global trading venues.
Earlier in his career at Capco and Tata Consultancy Services, Pankaj contributed to the implementation of front-to-back trading systems, regulatory reporting frameworks (OATS, MSRB), and a credit decision engine that reduced turnaround time from two days to under 20 seconds.
Pankaj holds a Master’s in Financial Engineering from NYU Poly and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from India. He is a certified SnowPro Core professional, with expertise spanning Python, SQL, graph and relational databases, and data cloud platforms like Snowflake.
He remains an active member of the NYU alumni community and is committed to mentoring the next generation of engineering and fintech professionals.