Sandeep Walunj

About Sandeep Walunj

Technical Project Manager/ Senior Business Analyst with 14+ years of expertise in functional as well as technical skills. • Educational background in finance domain: Ph.D. in Financial Management and MBA in Finance.• Over 10 years of experience in various domains of Finance Sector (Brokerage, Private Wealth, Risk, Compliance, Credit Card Disputes). • Worked with industry leading brokerage platforms like Fidelity NFS (National Financial Services LLC), Thomson One/Thomson BETA (Thomson Reuters) and Pershing (BNY)• Experience in implementation of CCD (client due diligence) and FINCEN SAR filing (Suspicious Activity reporting) for various applications at financial institutions.• Over 11+ years of experience with Pega platform. Worked as a Pega developer, Pega business architect and Pega project manager for various implementation, upgrade and support projects for major US financial institutes. • Certified Pega professional in various disciplines.(CSA, CSSA,CPBA, CDCO,PCDC,PCMC,PCDS,PCRSA )• Hands on experience in design and development of Pega Class structure, Activities, Flow Rules, Flow Actions, Decision rules, Declarative Rules, Access Group, Section Rules, Reports, Agents etc. • Good knowledge of Pega Smart Dispute framework.• Managed and Lead multidiscipline teams for software development projects.(Pega, Dot Net, SQL etc.)• Successfully played the role of Pega business analyst and Technical manager. Responsible for working with various business (Brokerage, Risk, Compliance etc.) and technical teams (Middleware, Infrastructure, Database, 3rd party integration) associated with the software application.• Knowledge of Cloud technologies. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303, AZ-304)• Developed L0 (Application Context) and L1 (Logical Integration) diagrams in IBM System Architect tool. Worked with enterprise architect team to create security blueprints for applications • Implementation of security initiatives by enterprise security team. Like asset hardening, vulnerability scanning, configuring monitoring agents, log collection agents, data masking etc.• Strong experience in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) in waterfall, Agile-Scrum and hybrid (waterfall +agile) methodologies • Hands on experience of writing and prioritizing User Stories.• Expertise in Data Analysis using SQL and good knowledge of database concepts.

Experience

1. Software Engineering Director at Truist

   Truist

   Jul 2025 — Present · Richmond, VA, US

Education

• PVP College,Loni ,Dist-Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

  HSC, Science

  1999 — 2001

• Institute of Management, Nirma University

  MBA, Finance,Marketing

  2008 — 2010

• PVVPV Loni,Dist-Ahmednagar,Maharashtra

  SSC, Science

  1993 — 1999

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Financial Management

  2012 — 2019

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  BE, Electronices and Telecommunication

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Gap Analysis
• Business Process Design
• Business Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Management
• Java
• Testing
• Soa
• Business Process Management
• Ibm Db2
• Process Consulting
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Websphere
• Web Services
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Db2
• Requirements Gathering
• Ibm Bpm
• Pegasystems Prpc
• Pre-Sales
• Lombardi
• Process Improvement
• Data Warehousing
• Business Development
• IT Strategy
• Business Intelligence