Ankur Jain

CTO

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia22 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in digital enablement across sectors.
Expert in leading technology transformations and integrations.
Strong commercial acumen with a focus on cost optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technology Executive specializing in digital transformation and IT strategy.

Contact

jn.ankur.jain@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Executive LeadershipIt Enabled Business TransformationIt Cost OptimizationIt Security OperationsMergers & Acquisitions (m&a)Program ManagementTechnical Project DeliveryMigration ProjectsTechnology Integration

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAkamaiApplication Lifecycle ManagementArcher GRCArchitectural DesignAzure DevOpsBudgetingBurp SuiteC#Change ManagementCommercial AcumenDev opsEnterprise ArchitectureIT AuditIT Security Best Practices

About

Vision is good. A credible plan for implementing the vision is even better, and the ability to communicate that plan is the icing on the cake. As a CTO and IT leader, I understand how important it is to be able to articulate issues and opportunities and get buy-in for my vision. As a business-first tech leader, I’m skilled in taking organisations (both start-ups and more mature corporates) on a journey of digital enablement – from strategy development to negotiating the vendor partnerships/commercials that are critical to delivery. I also offer strong commercial acumen with high levels of accountability for output, leveraging a deep engineering foundation and a laser focus on the customer experience to optimise technology execution. Combined with many years working in dynamic business environments and a strong risk management lens, I am confident in leading seamless delivery and transition to new tech environments. I’ve proven this across multiple sectors, where I have operated as an internal consultant, advisor and thought leader on root-cause problem-solving with an eye to product innovation and data monetisation. Please feel free to connect.

Experience

22 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Duncan solutions - australia

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

Appointed to improve and streamline technology while delivering operating cost reductions, I
oversee the IT infrastructure, strategic planning and delivery of IT projects and product roadmap.
I serve as a board member with responsibility for contributing to continued growth and ensuring
strategies are correctly implemented across the business. Key outputs have been diverting a
replatforming project into a development of existing capability to reduce risk and maximise
CAPEX and driving a 20% reduction in operating expenses through significant rationalisation of
hardware and software projects. I have also worked on increasing enterprise value supporting
sale of the company by improving product quality, securing ISO 270001 and PCI DSS
accreditation, implementing GDPR compliance, attracting new customers and reducing OPEX by
driving multiple cost improvement strategies.

Executive LeadershipIT Enabled Business TransformationRevenue & Profit GrowthCommercial Acumen

Endeavour group

Engineering Group Manager

Jan 2015 – Jul 2022 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

Supporting strategy development for technology in a dynamic business environment, my
objectives included defining a technology roadmap, building an online presence for products and
improving online marketing capabilities by providing an online platform to entice customers. Key
to this was augmenting the pace of delivery through consolidation of vendors, creation of an
onshore and offshore resourcing model, uplifting quality, product delivery and Voice of Customer
while controlling cost, impact and risk.
Other key projects include contributing to the successful acquisition and integration of new
businesses by merging technologies, including integration with delivery partners such as Uber to
scale and improve customer experience and successfully managing the technology elements of
Endeavour’s demerger from Woolworths and merger with ALH. I generated significant OPEX
savings by adopting Azure Cloud across the product line and provided consistent and effective
leadership during periods of intense change, including the demerger from Woolworths, merger
with ALH and demand spike associated with the Covid pandemic.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)LeadershipStakeholder ManagementIT Enabled Business Transformation

Ing direct australia

Program Manager

Jan 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site

Tasked to bring a new credit card to market by coordinating various teams, including software
development, card management, payment stream, customer management, data management,
marketing and others. Key outcomes include delivering the program below targeted cost by
leveraging by testing foundation to bringing the testing process internally.

Program ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureVendor ManagementTechnical Project DeliveryPeople Management

Suncorp group

2 roles

Software Engineering Lead

Nov 2013 – May 2014 · 6 mos

Engineering Lead

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

Engaged to support a complex and time-sensitive transformation program to manage resources
and tools. I trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and
processes. I delivered the project below budget with no outages or downtime reported,
successfully integrating and migrating >2TB of data across systems in a short time with no impact
on business continuity. I also generated long term cost savings in migration processes by
implementing a new strategy of partnering with cloud providers and negotiating deals to utilise
their teams and services.

Migration ProjectsTechnology IntegrationIT Cost OptimizationProgram Management

Grapecity

2 roles

Lead Automation Strategies

Mar 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

o Writing and review of Selenium test scripts for UI Automation using Java
o Development of different test frameworks
o Release Engineering management using Jenkins for all projects running in organization
o Client Expectation management
o Root Cause Analysis and Reporting to stake holders

Sr. Quality Engineer (Automation)

Dec 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

Working on HealthCare Domain Project for client in US
Overall responsibilities included planning, analyzing and testing different modules, good understanding of agile methodology, collaborating with the development team. Writing, reviewing and executing test cases. Defect Logging & Tracking, improving QA processes, mentoring new test engineers and providing training to team members.
Responsibility to Automate priority 0,1 ,2 3 test cases in Selenium webdriver and Jenkins

Compro technologies

Sr. Quality Engineer

Jun 2004 – Dec 2010 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Uday Park Delhi

My first company to work with as a professional. It gave a kick start to my career by hiring me in the Quality Control Department as an Associate Quality Engineer and making me learn manual Testing, Automation Testing and Performance Testing.