Amit is a seasoned C-level technology executive with an extensive 20+ years of experience across diverse sectors, including Banking, Insurance, Corporate Travel, and Telcos and Consulting.He has built and led teams to deliver successful programmes of work, transformed and managed change portfolios. In a recent role where Amit was reporting into the CEO, he has expedited and successfully implemented digital transformation at ROCK Insurance, built and lead global teams of Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers to deliver business value after each sprint and with proper quarterly planning and value stream mapping. He thrives in fast paced, exciting and dynamic environments where he can make a difference, turn ambiguity into clarity, and deliver.Certified in Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) and with a hand-on implementation approach, larger projects include multi-million dollar global Fintech product implementations / integrations across a range of business units / areas, leading teams of up to 55+.Amit has experience in setting up and leading teams within complex medium to large scale projects from initiation through execution. This has included project definition, planning, coordinating and supervising multiple work-streams of delivery of software development, implementation, and integration and the associated changes to business processes / business change management. Amit enjoys a challenge; rescuing projects in distress, working in complex stakeholder environments, and a chance to use his solid understanding of service delivery processes, tools and methodologies (waterfall and agile hybrids) to consistently anticipate and mitigate issues allowing me to deliver programmes on time and within budget successfully, most importantly reaping the expected strategic benefits. His core skillset is leading cross functional internal (onshore and offshore) teams as well as managing critical relationships with external partners / vendors, my capacity for planning to the extreme, yet gracefully pivoting when evolving goals and priorities inspire change, and bringing structure and governance to programmes and teams in a technology agnostic manner with a proven toolkit.#DigitalTransformation, #Leadership, #Management, #StakeholderManagement, #StrategicPlanning #Innovation, #Governance, #Risk #Control, #FinancialManagement, #Tech, #Banking, #Data, #Analytics, #Coaching #Development, #ChangeManagement, #ITIL, #ProjectManagement, #CustomerExperience, #CRM, #AgencyManagement, #ContractManagement, #Negotiation #CX, #UX, #UI
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Head Of DeliveryFintechio Sep 2024 - PresentLondon Area, United KingdomHead of DeliveryI am responsible for establishing the organisational project and programme delivery approach including managing the processes to establish business cases, plan resources and successful delivery of the portfolio.As a senior leader, I manage and collaborate with colleagues to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of professional services ensuring we deliver on our vision of delivering value to our clients.I lead and deliver large-scale (IT) transformation programmes within the Wealth and Asset Management sectors and well as Lloyds Markets Insurance companies and Investment Banks -
Strategic Business Partner / Principle ConsultantFintechio Jan 2024 - Sep 2024London Area, United KingdomStrategic development of Customer Experience Roadmap and Target Operating Model for a B2B/B2C Sliding Door manufacturing plant in Italy. End-to-End owner of Digital Transformation and Customer Experience Programme while implementing Salesforce CRM. -
Co-FounderBlip-Pay Oct 2024 - PresentLondon Area, United KingdomBlip-Pay is a revolutionary Payments and Data platform that provides an alternative solution to payments using secure, Open Banking technology. It can save you up to 95% on traditional merchant fees and allows Account2Account transfers giving access to your money within minutes. The solution is powered by FintechIO
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Product Engagement Manager - Digital Customer Solutions (Dcs)Brambles Mar 2024 - Jun 2024London Area, United KingdomAs part of the Digital Customer Solutions (DCS) team, I was involved in setting up governance and processes within the new team, which were crucial to the delivery of digital assets to Brambles/CHEP clients. With a global portfolio, I focused on Latin America, ensuring that the newly created engagement process was followed.Our regular meetings produced reports that fed into the portfolio, which were then presented to the DCS Leadership Team to highlight any risks or issues.Since it was a new team and process, we made continuous improvements and conducted retrospectives to inspect and adapt what was initially a waterfall-driven process. We introduced Lean and Agile methodologies to help drive projects forward.I also led the deployment of the IoT Quarter Pallet Asset product, which had been in the pipeline for 18 months. I took a small, focused team that was crucial in moving the project along. We held regular sessions to ensure the project stayed on track. It progressed within four weeks, which greatly surprised and impressed the team and senior leadership team, as it reached the second round of quality assurance. -
Digital Programme DirectorRock Insurance Group May 2023 - Jan 2024Crawley, England, United KingdomDriving forward the Digital Transformation ProgrammeAs a member of the senior leadership team, I lead the charge to refine the ways of working and help implement a more scaled agile delivery process across ROCK. Having recently merged with Staysure, I aligned governance, reporting and PMO functions to be more aligned. The stand-in Head of Engineering for 50+ people offshore development teams, across India, Sri Lanka and the UK to ensure a clear Strategy and Roadmap is defined and delivered.With a UK team, within 6 months, I have created a fully functioning framework that covered Current State Operating Model, Future State Operating Model via PI planning workshops, documented and setup Jira workflows as per new Squads and Tribes model, while providing remote and F2F Agile workshops to all team members, shift-left testing and introduced AI to assist with release process. I have transformed a waterfall-driven organisation, built high-performing teams and improved the Ways of Working. I have implemented Scrum of Scrums and Delivery Working Groups for more visibility to senior stakeholders to track progress and put together a working group to plan and move from the monolithic code base to a more micro-architecture solution and plan to migrate legacy CRM solution to Salesforce.Key Responsibilities:• Created a strategic roadmap for managing Organizational Change and aligning with newly formed OKRs and KPIs• Contribute to strategic initiatives including migration roadmap to Salesforce and code-to-cloud - AWS (non-monolithic)• Address and manage the cultural aspects of change and align it with the organisationAchievements:• Implemented squads and tribes according to PI planning output and prioritisation and coached squads with off-shore team after 2 trips to India over 6 weeks• Scoped and implemented a new demand management process to funnel and prioritise work items• Delivered migration of the entire Windows 2016 estate including Azure DevOps pipelines -
Head Of DeliveryEliga Services Sep 2021 - May 2023Guildford, England, United KingdomIn this start-up boutique consultancy, I was in the senior management team, I led the charge in defining and executing our technological vision and strategy. I leverage my deep understanding of both the technical and business aspects of product-first development to ensure that our products are cutting-edge, high-quality, and meet our customers' needs. I foster a culture of collaboration and creativity, empowering our team members to bring their best ideas and solutions to the table. With my strategic mindset, technical expertise, and strong leadership skills, I played a critical role in steering our company towards unparalleled success and driving innovation to new heights. Main duties included:• Overseeing portfolios of delivery, acting as an escalation point to resolve blockers• Ensuring all delivery standards, processes, governance and reporting are implemented effectively across the portfolio – driving consistency of approach as much as possible• Resolving blockers to keep the delivery moving forward at pace• Acting as an expert across the estate to drive continuous improvement in our delivery methods and improve the visibility of our work• Updating a wide range of senior stakeholders on progress and blockers, bringing together the most appropriate team to resolve issues• Development and coaching of 5 direct reports, including driving High-Performance Behaviours with a development squad of 55 engineers• Built from the ground up a community of practice where regular sessions of knowledge-sharing have been fostered I have also added to my successful track record, the delivery of several time-critical projects that have had to be delivered to external clients in the financial services space. -
Head Of ProductEliga Services Jan 2021 - Sep 2021Guildford, England, United KingdomWorking with Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework (DOS) and Government Digital Service (GDS) platform for new product delivery -
Scrum Master / Agile Coach (Contract)Fidelity International Aug 2019 - Jan 2021Kingswood, Surrey, United KingdomWorking within the Global WI team, I am Scrum Master for a co-located team (10 members) from offices in India and the UK, that is responsible for the tactical solution to refresh PlanViewer. This is a client-facing web/app platform for managing Workplace pensions.I blend my skills in Project Management, Client Management and Team Leadership to embody Agile principles that encourage and supports iterative development. My activities include helping to organise and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Demo and Retro’s (with cake) in order to make the team self-sufficient whilst creating a culture of Continuous Improvement within the team.Being part of a wider program of work, there is also a journey that is moving toward Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). This is helping to shape the process and transform the organisations delivery methodology with regular Scrum of Scrums sessions and working towards the Program Increment.Technology included a front end Web/Mobile pensions app using HTML/CSS, React/ReactJS, AWS DevOps CI/CD with Blue/Green Stacks -
Scrum Master / Agile Coach (Contract)Tian Analytics Jan 2019 - Jul 2019London, United KingdomI am assisting a tech start-up on a mobile iOS application that puts buyers and sellers of services together. This involved API, Integration, Database, QA and Production release cycles.I follow The Agile Manifesto and Principles of Agile and help facilitate best working practices for the Scrum team in the optimal delivery of software. Liaising with the tech lead and a remote team based in India, I am responsible for facilitating Scrum activities by helping remove any impediments and ensure that the team is fully functional and productive. Working alongside the Product Owner in prioritising Backlog items, overseeing Sprint Planning Meeting and ensure the Sprint Backlog is kept updated and visible to the team, along with Burndown charts. I also facilitate Sprint Review Meeting and Retrospectives.
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Reg, Risk And Finance It Project ManagerIcbc Standard Bank Plc Aug 2014 - Dec 2018London, United KingdomResponsible for RTB Regulatory, Risk and Finance IT Applications, supporting users covering EMEA and APAC. Delivered multiple projects using IBM Cognos BI/TM1, SAP BOBJ and SSRS (AGILE)Key Responsibilities:• Day to day responsibility for the management of the TM1/BOBJ projects within the wider data transformation portfolio, ensuring alignment of deliverables to the overall business strategy• Liaising with the relevant stakeholders (including Business and IT sponsors) to create the business case (project charter) and subsequent artefacts for each stage of the project, outlining the business benefits, budget, resources, and timelines• Creating and maintaining iterative project plans and schedules highlighting key milestones, dependencies and critical path activities• Monitoring the project spend, highlighting any potential variances based on forecasts and actual spendRTB (Run the Bank) Management• Committee member of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team to facilitate data migration/transformation project with the remediation and transformation of data issues• SME for the SAP/R3 GL, Cognos TM1 (Rules, Feeders, TI Process, Security), BACS, Client Revenue Tracking and Replicon HR / SalesforceRecent Achievements:• Delivered end-to-end Middle Office Physical Commodity Risk Assurance Framework (LOD2) reporting solution (PCRA) which automated existing manual solution from 2 weeks to overnight. Daily reports delivered at 02:00 to support teams in EMEA/APAC• Managed a successful upgrade from IBM Cognos TM1 9.5.2 (Windows Server 2003) to TM1 10.2.2 (Windows Server 2008) to deliver better, faster results• Pivotal in the Merger and Acquisition of Standard Bank and ICBC, which covered Policy, Governance and Tech Risk / IAM and GDPR / Decommissioning of legacy systems• Introduced Agile / Scrum Wow• Provided 3rd line support to Fidessa Equities Trading platform as various platforms within Commodities Precious and Base metals including LME Prism system -
Cognos Bi Tech Lead / Project Manager - Big Data And AnalyticsClarity Business Travel Apr 2013 - Aug 2014Chertsey, Surrey6-month rolling contract - Working for a global Travel Management Company, I lead the Portman360 project and was responsible for the corporate Cognos BI strategy – A 24/7 reporting portal for over 350 clients and 800+ users. (https://vimeo.com/105656053)This involved planning and executing a 2-tier phased roll-out by providing a standard suite of reports, data extracts and dashboards. The cost-saving plan was to reduce the number of ad-hoc and bespoke reports (Impromptu) that the MI / BI departments were delivering weekly / monthly, and migrating them to this self-serving, 24/7 solution.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Installation, Design and development of solution using full Cognos suite, including Cognos Connection, Cognos Admin, Framework Manager, Query Studio, Report Studio• Line management of 4 developers• Primary contact for end clients and managing site personalisation requirements (SaaS - Reporting)• Developing programme scope and objectives, managing ongoing change• Conducted weekly prioritisation meetings with the business product owners to create product backlogs in line with business requirements, helping to ensure all parties agreed with the current scope and roadmap of projects• Line management of resources, assigning tasks to developers, managing slippages and conflicts• Managing UAT Testing / Release planning and training management• Liaising with External Customers developing and delivering reporting with Weekly / Monthly Schedules• WebEx training internal Stakeholders and National Account Managers• Develop and test KPI reports using Cognos Mobile Go (iPad) – C.E.O. Executive Dashboards• Liaising with 3rd Party suppliers and relaying technical information to management• Assist in mentoring junior team members in best working practises • Plan and execute system downtime for implementation of system upgrades and hot-fixes including 10.2.1 on Windows Server 2012 (Cloud) with SQL Server 2012 – SSAS / SSIS / ETL for better graphical reporting. -
Cognos Bi Tech Lead / Project Manager - Data And AnalyticsCity Foods Dec 2002 - Apr 2013London, United KingdomCognos BI Tech Lead / PM responsible for implementing a fully automated MI/BI solution using Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Successfully managed Agile teams in the delivery of Cognos BI (Business Intelligence) ETL (Data Warehouse) Big Data and Analytics centric projectsKey Responsibilities:• Partnering with stakeholders to deliver business requirements and implement Supply Chain Solutions• Assisting with the delivery of requirements and defining milestones for projects • Operating as the Scrum Master and organising sprint plans, prioritisations, product elaborations and sprint demos• Holding Retrospective Meetings to supporting the Development team in identifying and implementing new ways to improve the current process• Removing obstacles that were preventing the team from achieving sprint goals• Nurturing colleagues to embrace changes to their way of working and improving continuous deliveryOther functions included:• Negotiating with 3rd party vendors • Provided system training to users
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Cognos Bi Consultant- Data And AnalyticsCapital Consultancy (Uk) Ltd Jun 1998 - Nov 2002Croydon, United KingdomWorking for this Microsoft Certified Partner consultancy, I was a Cognos BI Consultant who used full suite of products and helped deliver end-to-end solutions and provided support to a number of high-profile companies ranging from POC to fully implemented solutions. Clients include:• ICL Fujitsu / BBC• CSC / Pfizer• Cable & Wireless (NTL) / Virgin• BUPA• London Fire Brigade• Taylor Woodrow (Taylor Wimpey)• Fexco / Global Refund / Western Union• Transnational Financial Services Providing development support and business Intelligence using Cognos BI, SQL Server and OracleRESPONSIBILITIES• Producing high-quality MI across the business whilst supporting a growing number of users• Single point of contact for Corporate Cognos BI reporting • Responsible for Cognos Planning Application Design, Development, Deployment, Testing, Data Integrity and Support• The utilisation of analysis skills to assist the BI team in providing high-quality reports, alerts and business information• These reports were utilized by Finance, Marketing, HR departments to assist them to make important business decisions• Recognising trends of KPI’s to inform insight and marketing departments • Mentored staff to help gain experience and confidence
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Systems Analyst / Cognos AnalystAtos 1996 - 1998London, United KingdomAn international IT services company that serves a global client base. Delivers high-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed services. I worked on high-profile portfolios, including:• Philips Medical Systems• General Re-insurance• AstraZenecaResponsibilities• Providing Service desk, desktop and 2nd Line Support, in line with SLA’s• Single point of contact for escalations • Meeting deadlines in delivering analysing systems and delivering reports to middle-management
Amit Gokani Education Details
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Management Information Systems, General
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