Ajit Gupta

About Ajit Gupta

Accomplished Leader and Seasoned Information Technology Professional with 25 years of Industry experience having an outstanding track record in delivering large scale programs and managing multiple global platforms involving a broad range of technologies through high performing teams spread across continents for multiple domains including Banking (Retail and Corporate), Insurance, Payroll, B2B publishing and Identity & Access Management.Professional Qualifications- MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)- July 2017 - PMP (Project Management Professional) – June 2007 to June 2011 - Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management – 19••••98 - Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Communication) – 19••••96Expertise- Risk and Change Management - Delivery and Programme Management - Offshoring and Global Delivery Models - Building High Performing Teams - Managing Third Party Relationships and Deliveries - Platform Management - Portfolio Management - Business Analysis and Consultancy - Pre-Sales and Account Management - Mentoring Future Leaders

Experience

1. VP Technology and Member Domain Delivery Capability in Core Banking

   NatWest Group

   Aug 2007 — Present · New Delhi, IN

   Currently Managing a Regulatory Global Change Programme- Previously headed the Global Change Risk Function for Core Solutions- Headed the India development team for Technology & Change function of Data & Analytics. Responsibilities included- Standing up India teams for key programs/platforms including Business Intelligence (BI) Tools, Big Data, Customer Decisioning (Pega migration), Reference Data and Legacy De-commissioning streams to support the Enterprise Data Warehousing Strategy- Delivering change projects and supporting KBoR activities for Legacy Platforms like Chordiant Decisioning, Cards Business Intelligence System (BIS) and Retail MI applications- Managing deliveries through multiple teams which include a mix of permanent and third party resources with varying skill-sets including SAS Visual Analytics, Cloudera-Hadoop, Teradata, Pega, Java, Informatica, Mainframe, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server etc- Previously headed the Global Divisional Data Platforms (dDP) team in Data Services- Previously led and delivered high profile and mandatory programs including AML and FATCA involving Data Warehousing and Reporting solutions using Informatica, Teradata and Boxi- Led the ‘Data Sourcing’ stream of the high profile Finance and Risk Transformation (FiRST) programme involving sourcing the data from 40+ source systems through a team of permanent and third party resources- Significant involvement in ‘workload transition to suppliers’ and ‘resource re-allocation’ as part of the separation/divestment exercise for RBS Insurance- Head of Shaping leading the work reception team in India for the entire portfolio of Insurance work- Successfully managed and delivered a portfolio of Insurance projects with an IT budget of approximately 7 million GBP in 2009 through a large team of 19 Project Managers- End to end Project Management and delivery of multiple Insurance projects for Motor and Home portfolio

Education

• Bipin Chandra Tripathi Kumaon Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication

  1992 — 1996

• Singhania Institute of Management & Research

  PGDBM, Management

  1996 — 1998

• La Martiniere College, Lucknow

  ISC (10+2)

  1989 — 1991

• ST. Paul's School, Gorakhpur

  ICSE (X)

  1984 — 1989

Skills

• Management
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Delivery
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Test Management
• Pmo
• Project Portfolio Management
• Program Management
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Resource Management
• IT Service Management
• Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Offshoring
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Requirements Analysis
• Risk Management
• Prince2
• Business Transformation
• Project Governance
• Project Planning
• Project Management
• Sdlc
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• IT Strategy
• Outsourcing