Managed a cross-functional team of 12 involving business analysts, developers and QA engineers spanning India, Poland and
Singapore, overseeing the decommissioning of a 30-year-old legacy access request platform, and simultaneously leading the
redesign and modernisation of a separate legacy platform as a part of the Bank's transformation initiatives and regulatory
programme.
Oversaw the outsourcing of the database migration project to Azure cloud from legacy on-prem servers and held the third
party accountable to meet their targeted completion dates.
Created project documentation required for change management and approval and to mitigate any potential risk to the bank's
operations during any application release.
Led daily stand-up meetings overseeing an engineering project team, ensuring alignment on project goals, addressing any
blockers, and promoting collaboration and accountability among team members while tracking adherence to the SDLC
processes resulting in a 20% improvement in workflow efficiency.
Demonstrated excellent communication skills through regular status updates, progress reports, and meetings, promoting
transparency and ensuring all stakeholders and program managers are well-informed.
Liaised with pod leads across the business area to maintain track of inter-pod dependencies (RAIDs) existing between our
applications in order to meet our key deliverables resulting in the number of releases being delayed by 50%.
Managed the seamless migration process of Jira stories and epics to GitLab as part of the wider bank's initiative to utilise
GitLab, ensuring minimal disruption to project timelines and workflows.
Introduced GitLab's issue tracking and kanban boards to optimise task management, improving agility and enhancing
visibility into project progress, enabling the team is able to prioritise tasks effectively.