Ritesh Sharma

+91 9833 70 7489 | riteshvsharma@gmail.com
Distinguished Professional with over 18 years’ experience in implementation, development, and design of technology products & services in Banking & Financial Services domain
Experience in IT program & project management and software delivery in both offshore/onshore models
In-depth understanding of analyzing the existing business processes, conceiving, and delivering elegant and cost-effective solutions
Strong interpersonal communication and relation skills, ability to interact effectively at all organization levels
Ability to set and reset priorities based on knowledge of business, technology roadmaps and key strategies
Dexterity in leading and mentoring cross-functional and technology teams in a multi-facility environment to maximize the productivity
Domain expertise entails the verticals like corporate, business, retail and wholesale banking

Career Highlights

  • Led digital transformation of Retail and Wholesale Banking businesses for banks across geographies
  • Designed and launched best in class 100% digital corporate onboarding solution in Middle east
  • Developed and fostered execution of product roadmaps for digital banks
  • Experience in creating, leading, and mentoring organic and self-sustaining technology teams
  • Proven experience in managing IT portfolios worth USD 20 M and above
  • Pivotal in performance tuning and improving operational efficiency of IT systems by more than 70%
  • Devised a delivery review framework for kick-starting programs with the right basics and lead to in-time delivery, reduced or no rework for sustainable and stable production environments

Key Result Areas

  • Working with technology teams on solution design
  • Preparing logical and physical solution architecture
  • Assisting customers with IT infrastructure design and recommend appropriate technology solutions
  • Program delivery and project management including budgeting, resourcing and onsite executions
  • Conducting product demonstrations, functional, technical training and workshops
  • Working with sales teams throughout sales cycle including solution review, sizing and contract negotiations
  • Guiding and mentoring technology teams for enhancing their skills and serving the organizational purpose

Experience

Vice President

AU Small Finance Bank Limited
India
  • Lead Digital Transformation of Corporate, Business & Wholesale Banking
  • Product & Technology Roadmap Design and Implementation
  • Monitor overall solution lifecycle from concept to production rollout
  • Develop and Groom Organic teams for the technology projects
Sep 2021

Senior Delivery Manager

i-exceed Technology Solutions
United Arab Emirates
  • IT infrastructure design and solutioning for customers
  • Design and device organizational technology roadmap
  • Solution and technology profiling and recommendation based on customer requirements
  • Monitor overall solution lifecycle from concept to production rollout and post-live support thereafter
Jun 2020

Head of Technology

FASYL Technology Group
South Africa
  • IT infrastructure design and solutioning for customers
  • Lead and mentor team of consultants for various projects
  • Conduct comparative analysis of various solutions and products for customer requirements
  • Work with leadership to access and deploy organisational technology raodmap
  • Lead in house software development projects
Mar 2019

Co-Founder

threesixnine technologies Private Limited
India
  • Design and implement product roadmaps for the orgnaisation
  • Create Physical and logical architecture for the product
  • Work with technical team for design and development
  • Monitor and maintain the production environments running on AWS
  • Conduct product demonstrations and workshops with customers
  • 😁 And other petty jobs to keep the office running
Oct 2017

Senior Principal Consultant

Oracle Financial Services Software Limited
India, Taiwan, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Egypt
  • Leading key digital transformation projects
  • Manage key account relationships for the customers in Southern Africa region
  • Conduct product walkthroughs and workshops for Customers
  • Monitor overall solution lifecycle from concept to production rollout and post-live support thereafter
  • Manage onsite and offshore teams
Sep 2007

Configuration Incharge

Mastek Limited
India
Jul 2007

Associate Projects

Covansys (India) Private Limited
India
Oct 2006

Associate Consultant

i-flex Solutions Limited
India
Aug 2004

FM Engineer

Wipro Limited
India
Nov 2003

Education

University of Texas, Austin

PGP -AIML, Post Graduation Program
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
2022

NIIT - National Institure of Information Technology

GNIIT - Diploma in Systems Management
Software Development
2004

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Commerce
Accounting & Book Keeping and Economics
2002


Proficiency

  • Banking technology
  • Digital consulting
  • Software delivery management
  • Customer engagement
  • Infrastructure design
  • Enterprise solutions design
  • Oracle Banking Digital Experience
  • Oracle FLEXCUBE
  • Program & project delivery
  • Cross-platform technology integrations
  • Product management
  • Technical presales