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Nilesh Nagarkar

Director of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India28 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in delivering transformation programs.
  • Expertise in leading global teams across business and technology.
  • Strong partnerships with C-Suite stakeholders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership and transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Engineering teamsReal-time decisioningFinancial servicesGlobal financial regulationsCRMLeadershipResource ManagementSDLCRequirements AnalysisTelecommunicationsAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementProject ManagementBusiness RequirementsBusiness Process Management

About

Nilesh Is VP - Engineering and Delivery – Financial Crime Screening. He has been successfully delivered several transformation programs. With over 2 decades of experience in IT, Nilesh has a proven track record of working on several different roles and responsibilities. While delivering IT solutions and executing transformation programs, Nilesh have played various customer facing, delivery and governance roles involving large global teams covering both business and technology disciplines. His Delivery-focused transformational leadership, developing effective partnerships with business stakeholders at up to C-Suite level, empowering staff to take full ownership and achieve company objectives delivered tangible results by implementing a culture of Engineering Excellence. His ability to work at all levels - right from envisioning and creating a strategy, to translating it into manageable small programs and subsequent execution and delivery with cross functional teams yielded many near and long terms benefits. Nilesh holds Bachelors in Computers. AWS Certified Solution Architect -Associate. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Sun Certified JAVA programmer. PMP® certified. Skills Delivery & Operational Efficiencies through ways of working. Lead Transformation & large consolidation. Stakeholder and Customer collaboration. Global Programme Management. Business Domain Banking - Regulatory IT – Sanctions, Legal Compliance, KYC-AML, Screening, Loan originations, payments and collections for lending solutions. Telecom - Wholesale lending, Onboarding. Experience in Platform Engineering. Technology strategy and technology modernisation like micro services, API, cloud ready architecture

Experience

28 yrs
Total Experience
6 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Western union

Director Software Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • As Director of Software Engineering at Western Union, I lead engineering teams that build and evolve platforms enabling real-time and offline decisioning—critical to helping our customers:
  • Prosper through secure and compliant financial services to Prevent fraud and malicious activity and
  • Navigate through global financial regulations with confidence.
  • My role focuses on delivering technology that empowers individuals and businesses across borders.
  • I will be driving innovation in secure, scalable, and compliant systems by empowering teams to deliver technology with integrity. Collaborating across product, data, and compliance to ensure customer-centric outcomes as well as building platforms that support inclusive economic mobility.
Engineering teamsReal-time decisioningFinancial servicesGlobal financial regulationsProgram ManagementStakeholder Management

Barclays

2 roles

VP - Engineering and Delivery

Promoted

Feb 2014Aug 2025 · 11 yrs 6 mos

AVP - Technical Delivery Manager

Mar 2010Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Infosys technologies ltd

Technical Manager

May 2004Mar 2010 · 5 yrs 10 mos

Indus software technologies pvt. ltd.

Development Team Lead

Jan 1999Jan 2004 · 5 yrs

Kanix infotech

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 1998Jan 1999 · 1 yr

Education

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Diploma in Advanced Computing — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 1997Jan 1998

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computers

Jan 1993Jan 1997

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