Aman Sihota

Experience

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  OCR

  Oct 2004 - Feb 2006

  Project Co-ordinator
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  NHS

  Feb 2006 - Sept 2007

  Project Consultant
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  Barclays

  Sept 2007 - Apr 2011

  Project Manager
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  HSBC

  Apr 2011 - Jul 2013

  Project Manager
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  EY

  Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

  Senior Project Manager
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  Credit Suisse

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2016

  Senior Project Manager
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  HSBC

  Jul 2016 - Mar 2019

  - Managed the Service Sustainability investment Portfolio for Enterprise Services covering 37 Technology Projects and Programmes across Data Platforms, Storage, Cloud, End User Computing and Mainframe to sustain and improve the IT service provided to the business and the services they run- Accountable for overall Portfolio budget of $150M and $49M P&L value, allocating budget to initiatives, based on priority, urgency or regulatory commitments and negotiating recharge with the business where appropriate- Responsible for preparing and presenting materials on progress to Global Head of IT, Functions and Business on monthly Governance Day’s showcasing key successes, challenges and current financial position against the forecast Show less - Managed a highly regulated Technology Portfolio for Financial Crime Risk covering 24 Projects and Programmes directly managing a team of 10 resources delivering initiatives to upgrade and implement technology change for business services to meet the controls and actions from the Deferred Prosecution Agreement agreed with the banking regulators, working closely with the Monitor Liaison Office- Accountable for overall Portfolio budget of $75M and $27M P&L value, allocating budget to initiatives which I centrally tracked and managed to ensure I remained on track to deliver to stakeholder commitments and keep forecast and actuals inline and re-distribute accordingly within the Portfolio under Change control. I was responsible for calculating the overall Capital and Operational budget paying particular attention to ensuring delivery remained within target and variance was minimal through detailed milestone tracking and financial reporting- Led the successful implementation of DevOps practices, rewiring engineering resources to dedicated service lines to support the business ahead of the successful adoption of Agile methodology moving away from waterfall, achieving a highly dynamic delivery approach within the organisation Show less

  • Global Head of IT Project & Portfolio Management ITID for Enterprise Services at HSBC

    Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

  • Head of IT Project and Portfolio Management ITID for Global Standards

    Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
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  TSB Bank

  May 2019 - Jan 2021

  Senior Programme Manager

  - Servicenow implementation - led the Banks flagship implementation of Servicenow, replacing legacy HPSM Change Management system. Managing 3rd party integrations with BT, IBM, RackSpace and Computer Center- Strategic Test Environments: managing end to end a £3.4M Programme to deliver Cloud and On-Premise test environments to provide enhanced routes to live and improve stability and testing ahead of major Digital releasesIT Change Capability: a £5.1M Programme leading a team of Project Managers and Business Analysts to deliver new, improved and enhanced Testing processes and procedures. Aligning the Technology release model to the bank strategic goals, paying particular attention to the Digital channel. Meeting Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulatory Authority commitments – addressing 12 key Audit management actions relating to stability and resilience- IT Resilience and Optimisation: £7M - Leading a highly regulated Programme to improve IT stability and resilience for the bank. Planning, scheduling and management of 2 major Disaster Recovery events to prove failover capability between Data centre locations. Continuous engagement across the business to communicate scheduled outages and facilitation of testing to support exercise achieving the banks first successful DR tests since separation from Lloyds Banking Group- IT Remediation: Led multiple work streams to stabilise the banks infrastructure to support critical services following separation from Lloyds Bank post the Main Migration event (MME) in 2018. Branch network and application stabilisation reduced outages to > 10%, Digital Desktop Adoption – VDI deployment to partners across the organisation to modernise End User applications and migrate critical services from legacy environments both physical to virtual and virtual to virtual Show less

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  M&G plc

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Principal Consultant

  Technology Lead for onboarding IFDL Wealth platform in to M&G, liaising directly with Business stakeholders ahead of migration- Identity and Access Management Review and re-certification- Migration and set up of test environments to support the business- User access provisioning and migration from Ascentric to M&G- Plan and execute Business testing for applications ahead of Day 1 cutover

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  AIG

  Mar 2022 - Sept 2022

  Business Change Consultant
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  Redbird Digital

  Jan 2023 - now

  Independent Principal Consultant

  Freelance Independent Consultant, specialising in Technology Transformation Programmes in Reinsurance, Insurance, Asset Management and Public Sector