Aug 2016 – Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Navi mumbai

• Global Deputy Chief Technology Officer with over 22 years plus of experience in Strategy formation, Short and Long term goals planning, Application development, Implementation, Stakeholder Management, product development and Business management
• Leader in transforming digital banking, innovations introducer for customer centric journeys .
• Excellent leader with exposure in conceptualizing and architecting very complex and big strategic transformation technical projects and influencing stakeholder views on acceptable investment.
• Extensive experience in developing strategy and implementation plans, SOP for overall management, supervision and management of programs across domains and verticals
• Extensive consulting experience with stakeholders, demonstrative effective relationship with them.
• Shared focus with cross functional teams – business, horizontals, partners
• Adept at handling day to day administrative activities in coordination with external and internal departments.
• Strong communicator with ability to ensure execution of time bound deliverables.
• Major Accomplishments
• Successful roll out and management of Demonetization of Currency on 08 Nov 2016
• Successful Merger of 6 Associate Banks 31 March 2017
• GST roll out on 01July 2017
• Highest contributor to Digital Transactions in India through UPI ecosystem.
• Digital Bank launched – YONO 24 Nov 2017
• Foreign Inward Remittance through UPI –Launched from Singapore by Shri Narendra Modi May 31 2018
• Government E Market place (GeM) ver 3.0 launched
• Government Electoral Bonds Issuance through SBI -31 march 2018
• Fintech Engagement – Google Tez launched on 24 Feb 2018, and has become largest shareholder of VPA handles on google Tez.
• Fintech Engagement – Started a startup engagement program and use services of startups, launched ChatBot on internet banking.
• Best Bank Award 2017 –IBA awards
• Special Recognition Award 2017 UPI – NPCI

Aug 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

• Lead, supervise deliveries for Manufacturing vertical, Manage portfolio of 30 Mn USD and a team of 200 plus resources Accountable for existing customer accounts growth and new customer logo win.
• 1. Plan response for RFP for existing and new customers along with presales team and provide inputs to solution and global proposal teams.
• 2. Identify and suggest new work scope for existing customers. Develop POC ( Proof of Concepts) for customers for all such work.
• 3. Validate RFP from technical perspective and customer budget, Identify scope and solution tradeoffs to keep solution cost and estimate within customer budget.
• 4. Provide Solution alternatives to teams – providing them inputs to understand customer perspective in development of new offerings. Identify key offerings from solution and highlight them to customer and benefit associated.
• 5. Define new work scope for existing work and interact with customers in converting new work scope in SOW. define and write SOW for customers.
• 6. Imbibe thought leadership within solution team – enquiring about viable gap within solutions wrt to integration of various systems as part of solution.
• 7. Interact with customer stake holders , IT managers – understanding their focus areas for next few quarters and apprising them of new available service offerings, updating customers about new related work being done by us for different customers and presenting a walkthrough of same.
• 8. Assist customers in implementing new solutions, interact with customer at regular intervals apprising them status of work, and collate inputs from customers. Implement RFC with tradeoff in solution without significant change to original proposal.
• 9. Communicate new industry trends to customer and help them scale up their IT systems according to new trends.
• 10. Proactively identify work scope which can be executed under Agile methodology and show case it to customer by doing work shop for sprint zero step using Scrum Methodology

Feb 2006 – Aug 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · pune

• Delivery Manager
• Lead, govern delivery of development and application maintenance programs for Telecom, manufacturing, defense, BFSI , TLI verticals
• Major accomplishments:
• Administer onsite and offshore teams working from multiple locations.
• Analyze program proposals and program objectives, perform business contract negotiations with clients.
• Authors, design technical proposals, commercially acceptable to customers.
• Identify new service offerings for customers, influence and lead teams to understand customer requirements and prepare service offerings accordingly.
• Work with sales team as two in a box and provide inputs on customer business strategy, prepare business growth plan with sales.
• Prepare architecture for new business growth and show case it to customer IT Directors and stake holders.
• Communicate new emerging technologies to customer IT directors and their impact on customer existing business, showcase work being done by us on emerging technologies
• Interact with customer IT managers and stake holders and solutions teams, understand risks involved in implementing solutions and mitigate risks
• Define and initiate projects, and assign Project Managers for managing, schedule, and performance of component projects.
• Define, develop and document test strategies for acceptance criteria of software developed in conjunction with customer IT manager Directors.
• Define, tradeoff for RFC implementations without major impact on original business proposal.
• Develop, monitor and control program plan, budget, schedule and scope.
• Lead, Collaborate with financial, and IT teams to support business program execution.
• Ensure program deliverables meet quality standards and project requirements, develop best practices to improve program performance, develop
• , maintain program documentations,
• Providing guidance and mentoring the individuals in the team for improved performance, capturing and discussing lessons learned with the team

Aug 2003 – Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Product Team Size: 500 plus
• Technical R&D Manager for Product Mercury, worked in Server Architecture group of the product and was responsible for Enterprise Architecture of product, Features feasibility, Business component interaction with Server framework.
• Additionally Responsible for performance of product, ensuring architecture is scalable and perform well within response time as needed for n tier product, and server framework is being developed in accordance with performance need.
• Designed and Developed Enterprise Server framework, Server framework API development for business components to interact with server and business components
• Mercury is a Quark Enterprise Commerce Solution for Catalogue Management. It’s a multi tier multithreaded enterprise application, includes Server framework, Client framework and data tier, it also have the DTS capabilities for transforming the data from existing data schema to Mercury Schema.
• Developed and wrote server architecture and product features and process flow for features.
• Product was developed using C# for server framework and Asp.Net for business components on Dot Net Framework 2.0 using SQL Server Database.
• Provided technical guidance, mentoring, training, support, direction, understanding and listening skills, ensuring team members were fully engaged and energized to assist in building the product.
• Applied comprehensive project management tools and processes resulting in cost, schedule and quality expectations being met or exceeded
• Defined and operated under the umbrella of a comprehensive set of goals and objectives at a functional level.

Jul 2001 – Jul 2003 · 2 yrs

• Project Leader ( 2001 - 2003)
• NCR Account–BFSI
• Team Size : 200 plus
• Image mark POD - a banking software development project for NCR executed at offshore development centre at HCL Technologies. This is a porting as well as rewrite of the existing Image mark POD project which runs on MP-RAS Unix
• The present system has several components running as daemons which are being ported as services on windows 2000 using NUTCRACKER and the existing X – Motif screens are being re written using Microsoft VC++.
• Developed/ported multiple modules of Imagemark POD also coordinated and managed all software development aspects of a large software development product spanning multiple modules utilizing continuous emphasis on process definition.
• Developed, championed and applied CMMI template tools and processes that streamlined and standardized document development, reducing review cycle time from 4 weeks to 5 days
• Coordinated, monitored and administered employees and teams of various disciplines, and experience levels to accomplish top level organizational objectives
• Modeled technical championship initiated the project from customer site and have build a team at offshore.
• As a project leader for the project, lead a team involved in rewriting existing applications, work covered all aspects of SDLC where in a design document is produced on the basis of existing functionality in application, estimation authorization/approvals. Project planning, work allocation, progress monitoring - Specification preparation, Coding and reviews -Testing - unit testing, system testing & integration testing; aid user testing