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Mumbai, Mh, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Leading Product Engineering for Mobile & Internet Banking. Driving Strategy & Road map while fostering agile execution and DevOps collaboration to deliver successful digital banking products

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Business & Technology Integration specialist. Use technical, industry and functional expertise to shape and co-create technology solutions to achieve business objectives. Analyze current state and redefine business processes and solutions leveraging established methods, tools, and assets. Advise on technical requirements and interventions that prepare the organization for change.IT Operating Model – Life Sciences Client, UKAnalyzed the current IT operating model, organizational structure and governance model leveraging the modern engineering & DevOps assessment framework. Validated the strategic levers and identified the target state building blocks accordingly. Recommended the target state IT organization structure, operating model, capabilities and tool strategy. Recommended a prioritized set of strategic initiatives based on the capabilities assessment and industry leading practices, which would help the client achieve its vision for IT function.Application Portfolio & IT cost Optimization - Retail Client, AsiaLed a team responsible for executing an IT cost reduction project for the IT organization and refining the operating model. Completed discovery and value targeting phases, resulting in opportunities to reduce IT spend from Automation, Application portfolio rationalization, license spend optimization. Capability mapping exercise to identify the functional redundancy and candidates for decommissioning. Aligning the portfolio with the business strategy, fostering enterprise agility, pinpointing investment opportunities, and delivering novel and distinctive capabilities. IT Strategy & Operating Model (Global Pharma Client - Europe & Asia)• Utilized tools such as the DevOps Health Radar, Current State assessment, and Transformation Canvas to evaluate the organization's current state and identify areas for improvement, guiding the transformation journey. (Double Diamond framework, SAFe DevOps Framework, DORA Framework )

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Digital Banking & Transformation.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Key Responsibilities: Programme Delivery, Governance & Risk Management Drive end to end delivery of the assigned programmes and portfolio of Mobile Banking projects through a robust project planning and reporting process.Coordinate a number of projects and their interdependencies in pursuit of the desired goals by providing leadership, influencing and directing the transition for Digital Banking Channels.Liaise and engage with various Stakeholders to secure their respective support in the implementation of transformation strategies and also ensuring capacity exists to implement the change. Review and report transformation performance and trends to the respective stakeholders.Achieve the programme objectives within the given cost and schedule constraints and with the allocated resources.Ensure that all programmes and initiatives undertaken by the area conform to the Group's change methodology.Prepare the programme update & review reports for Mobile Channel initiatives and write the executive summaries for those programmes based on the key risks, issues and milestones. Present the reports to the programme steering committees.Ensure that all risks and issues are properly logged, classified and escalated as required.Identify and take accountability for the assigned principal risks relevant to the area in terms of the Operating Model and ensure that adequate controls are in place.Achievements:--> Mobile App transformation from native android & iOS apps to Xamarin Based Apps for ARO 10 countries.--> Launch of Business Banking on Mobile Apps for 9 countries.--> Successful delivery of Brand & Name change programme from Barclays to Absa SA for Mobile Banking Channel.--> Achieved the 2020 Mobile Banking programme objectives within the given cost and schedule constraints and with the allocated resources and ensured smooth transition of the programme to Business As Usual with a focus on continued quality delivery.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Project Manager for Mobile Banking Absa Rest fo Africa - 10 countries.Successful execution of Mobile Channel Delivery for Absa Brand and Name change programe for Rest of Africa 10 countries.Successful migration of our digital assets from UK to South Africa. Assets supporting 9 countries, 10 African businesses. From London to Johannesburg, touching, Kenya, UGANDA, Tanzania, reaching, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, extending to Mauritius and Seychelles and Ghana. Valpre Lift and Shift from Barclays to Absa SA.

Pune Area, India

Digital Banking | Business Analyst | Barclays - Rest of Africa

Pune Area, India

BARCLAYS MOBILE BANKING – SUB SAHARAN AFRICARole BUSINESS ANALYST / TEAM LEADThis project involves developing Barclays Mobile & Tablet application for android & iOS ecosystem for SSA-12 countries. The Objective of the Eight member team is to provide personalized, simplified & Omni channel banking to customers.Responsibilities & Accomplishments• My role involves Requirement gathering, Modeling and collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade offs between usability and performance needs.• Ensuring the requirements maps to the real business needs, are approved by all relevant stakeholders, and meet essential quality standards.• Developing Use Case Document, High Level Designs and coordination with development team, quality assurance testing teams and Clients for sign offs.• Analysis of the market developments and come up with innovative solutions.• Mobile app submissions on Google play store & Apple store.• Developed & released new features like Payee Management: View, Delete or Add Payees from mobile app to Pay utility bills, Carry out Fund transfer, Purchase airtime and Load MPESA.• Barclay card Offers on mobile app for Kenya & Mauritius customers.• iOS apple watch features like checking account balance, Transfer balance to registered payees.

Pune Area, India

7+ years of experience in Design, Delivery, Implementation and Support of Core Banking Solution Finacle. Functional expertise in Retail Asset (Lending) & Transactional Accounting. ResponsibilitiesRequirement Gap Analysis & Functional Solutioning.Develop deep understanding of customers’ business operations and model the solution by customizing the product.RA Discussions and Impact Analysis.Proof Of Concepts for Feasibility.High Level Design and Technical Approach Documents.Development & Unit Testing.Mentoring Freshers and Leading small team(8-10 System Engineer)Code & Design Review

Pune Area, India

Brief:The Customer Support team was created to cater to the techno-functional UAT support and Implementation support to the Beta Customers along with Support provided to Internal testing teams across tracks. The 10 member sub-team led by me, operating out of Chandigarh location, performed par excellence and set new standards in support, redefining the expectations & resetting the methodologies. The Project was duly rewarded with 2 Back to Back Quarterly GEM Awards in the "Best Team" category.Client:T-Bank, Istanbul, TurkeyHBTF, Amman, JordanRCBC, PhilippinesResponsibilities:Leading onsite and offshore support team.24*7 Production Support for Asset Lending ModuleDevelop deep understanding of customers’ business operations and model the solution by customizing the product.Troubleshoot customer problem, relate it to the customer business and provide a workaround to prevent adverse situation and avoid escalations.Interacts with QA and Engineering for Defect, Bug fixes and Change Request.Delivery schedule & tracking of solution patches to Adhere to SLA

Pune Area, India

I was involved in Application Development and Application Support. I have exposure to various phases of Testing involved in SDLC and Stabilization/Support projects to fix the bugs introduced during development.Responsibilities:Troubleshoot for multiple product lines.Defect and Bug fixing.Adhering to SLAInteracts with QA and Functional Anchors to provide optimized solutions.Weekend Support for Integration & Regression Testing.

Post Graduate Diploma In Management - Banking, Insurance & Investment

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.)

Higher Secondary School

Senior Secondary Education