Sandesh Govalkar

Vice President | Head of Enterprise Technology

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India·Angel One
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About

• Business-outcome-focused information technology leader with experience in conceptualising, developing and implementing innovative business technology solutions. • Expert in grasping the big picture with areas of business technology expertise including managing Infrastructure, Operations, End-user computing, Security, Compliance, and Disaster Recovery in line with current technology trends. • Interact easily with people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and professional levels. • Demonstrate capabilities to quickly understand/align IT requirements with business objectives. • Implement solutions and strategies to ensure that technology deliverables support business decisions and contribute to cost minimisation/performance metrics. • Initiatives include the design and implementation of Change Management and Problem Management processes. • Provide a technology vision and leadership and drive re-engineering of existing processes. • Create business value from technology. • Successful track record of leading and managing large technology operations, innovations, operational excellence initiatives, technology and organisational transformations in a multi-cultural/multinational environment.

Experience

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Personal goal pursuit

Career Break

Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos
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Vice President & Head - Enterprise IT

Angel One · Full-time

Oct 2020 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Strategised Technology roadmap for CRM, office automation, compliance, Asset lifecycle, Cloud telephony, Data Centre, Cloud, EDR, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Zero Trust Architecture.

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Vice President

Edelweiss Financial Services Limited · Full-time

Aug 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Achieved lower TAT for employee on boarding from 2 days to zero day. • Reduced operational expense by 32% by migrating all on premises servers to cloud which in turned saved future capital expenses and gained other cloud benefits. • Migrated 200+ conventional branches to mobile branches which benefited in quick branch opening/shifting/closure, no upfront commitment and 28% savings on operational costs.

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Assistant Vice President & Head IT

Mirae Asset Capital Markets (India) Pvt. Ltd. · Full-time

Nov 2017 - Jul 2018 · 9 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Greenfield project to start Institutional Broking and Investment Banking business in India. • Strategized Technology roadmap for the Broking and Merchant Banking business.

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Vice President & Head – Technology

ING Investment Management (India) · Full-time

Feb 2012 - Jan 2015 · 3 yrs·Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Improved IT operational service efficiency with 30% reduced headcount in the first year. • Reduced operational costs by 35% through appropriate vendor management, process management, and implementation of different models in build-out projects and through substantial reduction in additional expenses. • Steered the rationalization and consolidation of 4 applications belonging to compliance and HR that helped the organization to achieve 100% compliance and ease in the audits (IT Strategy & Implementation). • Re-engineered IT DR policy & processes with new technology roll-out that resulted in substantial savings in the time, effort and cost. Achieved less than 1 hr RPO then previously 24 hrs.

Education

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University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Commerce, Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General

1998

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APTECH Computer Education

Higher Diploma in Software Engineering (HDSE)

1997 - 1999