Sandeep Sao

About Sandeep Sao

Experience: • Senior Technology Executive with significant experience in Global Financial Services over 25 years of rich experience in Digital Transformation and IT Modernization; A Technology Leader with a proven track record of success and Global Management expertise as both an IT Infrastructure and Business Software Specialist. A creative, strategic thinker, with broad technical, operational and commercial, experience, and a practical, delivery focused approach. • Futuristic & forward-focused Leader with an analytical bent of mind & track record of striving in uncertainty, curiosity & challenges. Champion in conceptualizing & implementing effective ideas & strategies which add value to the organization through inspiring leadership, rich experience & innovation excellence. • Visionary leader reckoned for his unique approach to combining deep rooted legacy capabilities found in large fin-tech organisations with new technology and ways of working to deliver quantum leaps in customer experiences. • Business Strategist and Growth Facilitator with proven success in implementing strategic technology solutions partnering closely with business leaders and stakeholders; perceived as reliable focal point for business and systems issues, and \"Voice of the Customer” within the Company. • Proven record of managing complex programme like Payment Data Localisation (over $120 million), Company merger (Over $110 million), Data Center Migration, Cloud Migration and Digital Transformation programs entailing successful migration of large-scale mission-critical production system. • Expert in Delivery Management, Consulting, and client engagement, requirement elicitation, developing business case for cloud services, preparing cloud adoption and digital transformation roadmap. • Result-driven technology leader with excellent creative, innovative, & customer-facing skills and repeated success in guiding sizeable, cross-functional, multi-cultural & multi-geographical teams (800+ staff across India, Brazil, China, Poland, UK, US, HK and Mexico). Core Competencies: • Strategic Planning: Digital Transformation, Blueprint, Strategy & Roadmap, Technology Advisor. • Cloud: Cloud Assessment, Enablement, Migration, Deployment (AWS, Azure & GCP), Cloud Data Warehouses. • IT Infrastructure Management - Production Support, Projects Support, Service Management, Process Improvement, setting up support practices and teams. • Digital transformations: Designing, planning, scoping, solution framing sessions and Implemented design principles to strengthen Cyber Security.

Experience

1. Global Transformation Lead

   汇丰

   Mar 2019 — Present · IN

   Lead digital transformation initiatives to leverage emerging technologies and drive innovation across the organisation.\\\\n• Expert in leading digital / engineering transformation of infrastructure through automation (Infrastructure as Code), empowering developers with efficient and scalable solutions.\\\\n• Drive IT modernisation efforts to update legacy systems, enhance performance, and improve user experiences.\\\\n• Develop and execute cloud migration strategies to transition applications and workloads to cloud-based platforms.\\\\n• Facilitate infrastructure integration during merger and acquisition activities, ensuring seamless operations and data consolidation.\\\\n• Oversee engineering transformation projects to optimize development processes, tools, and methodologies.\\\\n• Implement robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard critical infrastructure and data from potential threats and attacks.\\\\n• Establish data management strategies, including data governance, data protection, and compliance with data regulations.\\\\n• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure and digital initiatives with broader organizational objectives.\\\\n• Monitor and assess the impact of infrastructure changes on performance, cost-effectiveness, and user satisfaction.\\\\n• Communicate progress, challenges, and outcomes of infrastructure transformation initiatives to stakeholders and senior leadership.\\\\n• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of the global infrastructure.\\\\n• Establish and enforce infrastructure best practices and standards.\\\\n• Manage budgets and resources for infrastructure projects.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University

  B.Com, Commerce

  1994 — 1997