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Program Delivery Lead of of application development projects involving Data for a leading bank in Australia and leading multiple Agile squads consisting of Solution designers, Data Engineers, Business Analysts and Testers

• Program management of application development and compliance projects in Open Banking program for a major bank in Australia and leading multiple Agile squads consisting of Solution designers, Data Engineers, Business Analysts and Testers• Program Delivery Lead and managed projects involving development of New Analytical Dashboards for Sales & Marketing Department for a Global Pharma company in Europe. Migration of all layers Raw & Enriched, Analytics to Dashboard of Data & Analytics application (SAP HANA to Snowflake platform)• Scrum Master and management of projects in Telecommunication domain involving enrichment of data set with new fields, propagate them to downstream User Interface applications used for analytical reporting, dashboards

• Managed the migration of Entire Life and Pension application landscape from On Premise to Multi cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Analytics, Oracle Cloud) environment involving legacy and Customer facing applications.• Previously lead the Continuous Integration, Release & Change Management function in Velliv organization holding the responsibilities of handling the end-to-end release management of all applications and deliveries targeting Velliv’s inhouse and customer facing business portfolios

Manage the technical software release process and ensure all phases are planned and completed, through collaboration with technical architects & leads, product owners, infrastructure support, QA, and outside teams. Streamlined release process and procedures which enhanced planning and minimized outages. Work with multiple IT teams to create and manage a detailed release implementation plan. Report release health directly to Executive Committee through bi-weekly status meetings. Publish release status through weekly Release Management Dashboard. Assure milestone adherence and approve mitigation plans when necessary. Gather release feedback from stakeholders for continuous improvement through retrospective meetings. Responsible for transforming business plans and objectives into tangible goals for projects. Lead and manage teams from multiple locations in onsite/offshore model. Working with Stakeholders in different levels to manage expectations and for acceptance of the deliverable. Overall responsibility of project team deliveries and quality. Communication including status report, risk management, escalation matrix, weekly & monthly reporting to client & Management. Estimation, work and resource allocation, mentoring different teams in Offshore as well as Onsite. Providing strategic direction during implementation stages of Projects. Conducting knowledge session with the offshore team and ensure that all learning / knowledge captured and implemented for quick turnaround time for future deliverable.

Project Manager & Single Point of contact from Nordea Life & Pensions, DK for Vizier Program primarily focused to ensure, Business Continuity Management, IAM solutions like Privileged Access Control, Segregation of Duties, Authentication and Authorization control, Role Based Access Control are followed and implemented.

Lead and manage Software development project from inception through deployment for Application development of customer facing applications in Nordea Life & Pensions, Denmark involving cross functional teams.

Gathering requirements from the Business team who drive the overall product enhancement. Effort estimation of different functional and technical changes. Analyse the business requirements/specifications to determine the nature of change and prepare the Design document and Technical specification. Suggest best practices to increase the efficiency and standard of the work. Performed SOX Compliance testing for the application and presented the details during Compliance audits. Code review within the team to ensure quality assurance. Assisted business during User Acceptance Testing and implementation of functionalities to production.

Actively participated in the formation of a Production services team which handles the Production support activities of different business process and multiple technologies. Lead the Production support team for Mainframe applications. Analyse the application end to end to study the business flow and suggest process fixes to arrest the frequently occurring errors. Coordinating with the on-site and off-shore team for functional enhancements and application maintenance. Defect Prevention coordinator of the team. Preparation of detailed unit-level build specifications, development of Online and Batch modules using Natural / ADABAS, JCL.

Computerize the procedure for Revenue records Development of database, coding and bug fixing. Include functionalities to add file notes, file forwarding, preparing reports etc.