Sandeep Arora

About Sandeep Arora

A highly dynamic Product Owner with excellent communication skills, people management skills, PO skills, strong understanding of the Commercial Banking Payments domain, Healthcare domain, Business Analysis processes and looking for similar learning and growth opportunities.Payments SME (Subject Matter Expert) and worked on SWIFT MT messages & new, highly structured and data-rich ISO 20022 MX/pacs standard used in financial services.Proficient in Requirements Analysis and Management with complete ownership of major flagship projects in payments domain.Primarily responsible for Requirements gathering, User Story creation and grooming, defining Business Acceptance criteria, Sprint Planning/Backlog prioritization.Worked on various regulatory, guideline and interface requirements of channels product including Priority Payment, ACH, Real Time Processing (RTP), Cross Border Payment.Worked on several SWIFT file formats like MT103, MT940 and other file formats like XML, PAYMUL, and IFILE etc.Key Roles and Responsibilities –1. Defining the vision - Responsible for communicating with stakeholders across the board, including customers, business managers, and the development team to make sure the goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives.2. Managing the product backlog - Responsible to create the list of backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives. Also responsible to map out project dependencies to inform the necessary sequence of development.3. Prioritizing needs - Responsible to juggle the triangle of scope, budget, and time, weighing priorities according to the needs and objectives of stakeholders.4. Overseeing development stages - With the vision, strategy, and product priorities set, I spent a significant amount of time overseeing the actual development of the product throughout all events, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint.5. Anticipating client needs - Responsible to understand and anticipate the client’s needs to more effectively manage the development process.6. Acting as primary liaison - Working as a primary communicator and link between stakeholders and teams. Expert communicators, making sure there’s buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and clear instructions and deliverables for the developers.7. Evaluating product progress at each iteration - Accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product. Play a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress through each iteration.

Experience

1. AVP - Product Owner - Payments

   Citi

   Jan 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Vision 2000 IIT JEE Classes, Kota, Rajasthan

  IIT JEE Aspirant, Science Mathematics

• Model Higher Secondary School Jaora Madhya Pradesh

  Higher Secondary, Science Mathematics

• Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Technology

  2004 — 2008