Omar Bashir

Converting Technology Vision to Business Value | Accelerating Change | Technical Director

Singapore

About

I work with executive leadership to transform strategic technology vision into measurable business outcomes. My focus is on creating alignment within cross-functional executive teams, building confidence in digital initiatives, and guiding organisations through complex transformations to lead and compete in disruptive and dynamic environments. I help create sustainable organisational capability - not just delivering technology solutions, but ensuring executive teams have the confidence and alignment needed to continue driving successful outcomes long after engagements conclude. ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ: โ–ช๏ธŽ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐Ž๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: I facilitate strategic conversations between C-suite executives, bridging the gap between business aspirations and technology capabilities. By creating shared understanding across diverse executive perspectives, I help leadership teams build cohesive and actionable technology strategies. These are aimed at elevating technology discussions from just cost consolidation to include value creation and driving measurable business results. โ–ช๏ธŽ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ž๐ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: I work alongside executive teams to develop their capability in successfully overseeing technology transformations. Through structured guidance and mentoring, I help leaders navigate the complexities of digital transformation, cloud adoption, and legacy modernisation. This collaborative approach ensures executives can confidently champion technology initiatives and make informed decisions throughout the transformation journey. โ–ช๏ธŽ ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ: Leveraging my diverse background across finance, telecommunications, logistics, and defence, I bring together different organisational functions toward common technology goals. I have consistently delivered results by fostering collaboration between business, technology, and operations teams, ensuring that complex technology programs maintain momentum and deliver incremental value at scale.

Experience

  • Thoughtworks (6 yrs 7 mos)
    • Director - Enterprise Modernisation
      Aug 2025 - Present ยท 1 yr

      Thoughtworks is a global software consultancy that enables business success through excellence in strategy, technology and execution with a strong focus on delivering business outcomes. Joined Thoughtworks' Enterprise Modernisation, Platforms and Cloud (EMPC) service line in APAC focusing on enabling our clients build and maintain business aligned evergreen technology which is foundational to compete and lead in dynamic and disruptive business environments. The EMPC service line defines patterns, practices, principles and accelerators that maximise the opportunities for successful legacy modernisation and cloud adoption at scale. I work closely with executive stakeholders to align their technology initiatives with their business strategies and, with the application of EMPC offerings and services, help achieve the desired outcomes. This also involves guiding and coaching teams to successfully deliver on these initiatives.

    • Technical Director - Financial Services - APAC
      Oct 2023 - Aug 2025 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

      Joined Thoughtworks APAC Financial Services Portfolio team to lead technology solutions development for BFSI (Banking and Financial Services Industry). I work closely with executive stakeholders to align their technology initiatives with their business strategies and help achieve the desired outcomes. This also involves guiding and coaching teams to successfully deliver on these initiatives.

    • Technical Director - Financial Services - South East Asia
      Jul 2023 - Oct 2023 ยท 4 mos

      Transferred to South East Asia's Financial Services Portfolio team to lead technology solutions development for BFSI (Banking and Financial Services Industry). I helped executive stakeholders align their technology initiatives with their business strategies to achieve the desired outcomes. This also involved guiding and coaching teams to successfully deliver on these initiatives.

  • Associate Director, Software Engineering at IHS Markit
    Jun 2016 - Jan 2020 ยท 3 yrs 8 mos

    IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. Headhunted to lead software development teams in a global technology transformation and unification programme and provide architecture, design and implementation guidance to achieve effective and efficient software development and delivery. Achievements: Restructured a failing Scrum process to achieve over 90% increase in productivity and 30% reduction in defect rates on TradeServ, a cloud (AWS) based microservices platform. Built and organised global cross functional teams in London, Kiev, Gurgaon and New York into a high performance technology organisation of over 90 developers. Partnered with operations and infrastructure on successful client engagements to provide diverse integration options specific to their needs and constraints. Created synergy between development, QA and product management to streamline the pipeline of deliverables resulting in efficiency and economy of development effort. Organised teamโ€™s DevOps process to enable promotion of builds from development at pace leading to accelerated deliveries and continuous improvement. Optimised budget allocations by analysing spending alternatives to economically achieve the desired capability in technology and talent. Led the assessment of impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) on all platforms in the Processing Division and advised platform owners and product management on compliance.

  • Morgan Stanley ()
    • Development Lead, Equities Pre-Trade Technology
      Jul 2015 - Jun 2016 ยท 1 yr

      Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) is a leading global investment firm specializing in wealth management, investment banking and sales and trading services. Internally transferred to lead a global technology team to renovate equities pre-trade services and to support operation of existing technology. Project initiatives: With a strong focus on optimal resource utilisation globally, organised sprints to incrementally deliver the new system and maintain existing services to support BAU (Business As Usual) activities. Developed architectural guidelines and prescribed practices to optimize development efficiency and economy while maintaining a strong attention on quality. Mentored and coached team members and conducted weekly global cross platform training sessions to improve technical skills of developers in London, New York and Mumbai.

    • Associate, Credit Trading Technology
      Aug 2013 - Jun 2015 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

      Internally transferred to develop and commission an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives. Key deliverables: Designed and implemented front end and server side frameworks and libraries to transparently integrate trading applications to the electronic trading infrastructure for credit derivatives. Developed the architecture of a real-time position keeping service. This architecture was flexible enough to accommodate evolving business requirements through out the development cycle. Delivered an extensible utility to control communication to external venues in case of emergencies. This includes visual monitors to display alerts and system state to minimise risks to the business.ย  Developed processes and tools to reduce testing effort, improve quality assurance and lower risk of defects thus accelerating releases. Mentored and coached staff to use these systems effectively.

    • Associate, Commodities Trading Technology
      Nov 2010 - Aug 2013 ยท 2 yrs 10 mos

      Recruited to develop and extend applications on Morgan Stanley's power and gas trading platform. Role highlights: Automated a number of power, gas and emissions trading business operations to simplify associated business processes, provide greater visibility and reduce overheads by 70%. Developed a system to calculate trade volumes for expiring future trades and book corresponding takedown trades automatically thus reducing the corresponding operational overhead on business. Enhanced the STP (Straight Through Processing) infrastructure for EMEA power, gas, emissions and freight trading by extending trade and market data feeds and trade capture applications.

  • Software Developer at EDF Trading
    Jan 2007 - Nov 2010 ยท 3 yrs 11 mos

    EDF Trading is a leader in the international wholesale energy markets. It manages a large portfolio of assets which give it the ability to source, supply, transport, store, blend and convert physical commodities around the world. Hired to extend and maintain Company's ETRM (Energy Trading and Risk Management) technology ecosystem focusing on trade capture, systems integration and post-trade confirmations. Notable contributions: Developed FIX (Financial Information Exchange) adapters to interface ICE (Inter-continental Exchange) to the Firm's STP (Straight Through Processing) infrastructure reducing risk of errors in trade capture. Designed and implemented a distributed middleware and a multi-technology framework to integrate pricing models to the ETRM system enhancing its resilience, extensibility and scalability.

  • Senior Specialist (Messaging COE) at Merrill Lynch
    Oct 2006 - Jan 2007 ยท 4 mos

    Merrill Lynch was a global investment firm which was acquired by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in January 2009. Head hunted to design and implement components for messaging systems used to integrate diverse financial information systems. Key deliverable: Developed a ETL (Extract Transform Load) framework to aggregate configuration of interfaces and gateways of the messaging infrastructure from diverse repositories into a cohesive SQL database.