Soumen Sarkar

Director, Software Development at Visa Bengaluru | Engineering Leader| Generative AI, Cloud, Digital Transformation | Ex-Cisco | Ex-Oracle

Role
Director at Visa
Location
Bengaluru, KA, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Soumen Sarkar

Visionary Engineering leader with 25+ years of experience driving digital transformation, operational excellence, and large-scale technology initiatives across Financial Services, HR Technology and other IT domains.* Passionate about People Management, having led global teams of 50+ members, including managers, architects, engineers, project managers, and product managers.* Possesses deep technical expertise across a wide array of technology domains, including Java, Microsoft Technology, Cloud Technology, Data Analytics, Generative AI, Robotic Process Automation.* Known for strategic vision, innovation, and a relentless drive to achieve excellence.

Experience

  1. Director

    Visa

    Jul 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

    Serving as the Head of People Technology at Visa Bengaluru, leading the provision of innovative IT solutions to meet corporate requirements.* Built a high-performing team of Engineering Managers, Software Developers, Data Engineers, Scrum Masters, System Analysts from the ground up, driving outstanding business outcomes.* End-to-end ownership of enterprise programs like Data Analytics, Generative AI, Automation, Quality Assurance, Operations and custom solution development.* Actively driving innovation and defining engineering best practices, championing the adoption of Generative AI technologies across the organization.* Spearheaded the improvement of employee onboarding data accuracy from 60% to100%, a strategic move that eliminated hours of manual work annually ($500K savings).* Architected and deployed Generative AI and NLP-based enterprise chatbots to automate onboarding, employee referrals, and HR query resolutions, reducing manual workload by hours annually ($1M savings).* Oversaw L2/L3 support for 200+ applications, establishing best-in-class operational excellence and SLA performance.* Served as Site Lead for People Technology, Bengaluru, leading initiatives in hiring, employee engagement, hackathons, onboarding, and CSR activities.

Education

  • SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

    Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, MBA

    2010 — 2012

  • Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

    Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Skills

  • Dev Ops
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
  • Management
  • Program Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Project Management
  • Cloud Applications
  • Oracle
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Sdlc
  • Solution Architecture
  • Service Delivery
  • Business Analysis
  • Global Delivery
  • IT Service Management
  • Pmp
  • Digital Strategy
  • Sql
  • Microsoft Sql Server
  • Project Governance
  • Unix
  • Software Development

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