Sayali Dalke

Result-driven delivery leader with 9 years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) domain across USA and Canada. Proven expertise in end-to-end product delivery, people leadership, and stakeholder management — leading cross-functional squads, mentoring engineers, owning performance reviews including hands-on onsite leadership in Canada. Adept at bridging business and technology by coordinating partners with solution architects, product managers, project managers, BA's, SME and senior stakeholders.

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Agile delivery discipline with strong product thinking to convert business needs into scalable technical outcomes.

Specialist – Product Owner & Delivery Lead at LTIMINDTREE (2023-01 – Present)

Enterprise Federated SSO Platform (FSTI) — Canadian Banking

• Product Vision: Defined the roadmap for an enterprise Federated SSO platform, aligning security, scalability, and business goals.
• Client Onboarding: Onboarded 6–7 Canadian banking clients onto the FSSO environment, expanding enterprise adoption. Reduced client onboarding time 30% by building reusable FSSO delivery playbooks and go-live readiness frameworks.
• Delivery Governance: Managed risk registers, CRQ change approvals, and dependency tracking across 6 technical domains, with full escalation management — delivering zero critical production incidents across all client onboardings.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Served as primary liaison across product, IT, solution architects, infrastructure, middleware, and Active Directory teams.
• International Assignment: Hand-picked for a competitive 2-year onsite assignment in Canada to own FSSO delivery for Tier-1 banking clients. Recognised as Outstanding Performer FY25.

Project Lead – Scrum Master at LTIMINDTREE (2022-01 – 2023-12)

Intact Insurance — Enterprise Angular Platform

• Delivery Leadership: Built and stabilised a 12-member hybrid team (9 FTEs + 3 contractors) within 30 days; owned WBS, planning poker, and effort estimation — delivered full Angular enterprise application 2 weeks ahead of schedule with zero scope creep.
• Agile Adoption & Solution Design: Coaching teams on Agile transformation, process improvement, strengthening project management practices, prepared project artifacts including project charter etc, implemented structured PMO governance (RAID, RACI), architected an enterprise Angular application with principal architects.
• Client Satisfaction: Achieved 9.7/10 CSAT by owning end-to-end Agile sprint execution, quality gates, and escalation management across all client interactions.

Engineering Lead at PERSISTENT SYSTEMS (2017-01 – 2022-12)

Angular 2.0 Platform (WPI / RSG)

• Career Progression: Advanced from Software Engineer to Engineering Lead in 5 years; scaled a 10-member team with zero attrition on a critical long-term client account.
• Delivery Improvement: Accelerated delivery timelines 30% via revamped sprint planning, automated regression testing, and elimination of manual handoffs across delivery stages.
• System Performance: Improved frontend system performance 33% through a structured code optimisation and dependency management programme.
• Requirements & Traceability: Translated executive pain points into 50+ actionable user stories across 3 major releases, ensuring 100% feature traceability from business requirement to production sign-off.

MBA (Executive) in Business Administration – Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Symbiosis International University (2022-01 – 2022-12)

B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering – Savitribai Phule Pune University (2017-01 – 2017-12)