Rujuta Xavier

Leading IT process and control improvement initiatives across infrastructure services, including public/private cloud, middleware, databases, and classic datacenter environments. Spearheading compliance alignment with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), ensuring regulatory readiness across IT operations and process frameworks. Driving the Immutable Backup project, enhancing infrastructure resilience and data integrity through robust backup and recovery design. Strengthening control monitoring and reporting mechanisms to support operational excellence and risk mitigation. Managing projects and backlogs related to patch management, vulnerability management, and batch operations. Collaborating with global stakeholders including Product Owners, Security, Risk, and Application teams across NL, UK, India, and the US. Supporting DevOps and Agile practices while ensuring technical dependencies are well-communicated and prioritized across domains.

Led cross-functional teams to deliver projects according to plan, ensuring balance of skills and expertise. Managed communication and reporting, fostering teamwork and cooperation within the project. Provided leadership direction to achieve project goals, including HSSE and Quality standards. Owned project execution strategy and plan, optimizing costs and managing change and risks.

• Managed and delivered high-profile projects, including multi-country eCommerce products for DHL. • Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives, managing multiple projects across all development phases. • Collaborated with offshore teams to ensure project milestones were met and delivered within budget and timeline constraints. • Implemented Agile methodologies, including coordinating daily scrum meetings and driving decision-making across projects. • Developed status reports, cost estimates, and resource plans, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.

• Led projects focused on the digital transformation of insurance purchasing in Saudi Arabia, managing client relationships and expectations. • Conducted risk assessment and mitigation planning, adjusting project timelines as needed to ensure successful delivery. • Coordinated with development teams to plan project sprints and implement development best practices. • Developed and maintained project documentation, including software requirement specifications and technical documents.

Manage resource and capacity planning for projects. Supported development and software quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability for end users. Handled proper and timely documentation for each stage of the project development life cycle. Trained team members on development processes. Coordinated with client to gather requirements and manage expectations. Maintained a high-level of customer satisfaction from the start of the project to the final delivery. Set and adjusted project milestones.

Implemented a slick and quick architecture for the web application. Project R&D and acquiring domain knowledge. Team Management and identify and allocate tasks as per each developer’s strengths and efficiency. Grooming junior developers technically as well as in soft skills. Client liaison and documenting key project documents such as Software Requirement Specifications and other technical and functional documents. Develop technical solutions that definitively improve scalability, performance and profits. Discern key business requirements and objectives by interfacing with stakeholders. Plan, develop and implement successful large-scale projects from conception to completion. Expert in development and object-oriented analysis. Superior analytical, time management, collaboration and problem-solving skills.

New developments and maintenance of existing systems in travel domain. Manage change requirements for legacy code.

Design new web-based solutions from the scratch to assist the organization in day to day activities Develop, host and maintain these applications. Restructuring existing applications according to the changing needs of the organization. Executing all the stages of development from requirement gathering to design, development and testing. Designing and maintaining complex database architectures. Figuring out the pain areas of the company and providing quick and efficient solutions for the same.