Sasmit Sahu
Melbourne
Summary
Delivery & Design of mission critical Risk, Treasury, Finance Applications and Data Platforms. Experience with leading multiple engineering squads to execute north star strategies. Built an award winning & high achieving team that consistently set examples of engineering and delivery excellence.
Self-driven, internally motivated and reliable leader demonstrating extreme ownership, with over 14 years of experience in delivering large scale technology modernization and cloud transformation programs.
Proficient in translating whiteboard designs into live cloud-based solutions. Successful in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect/Designer
Judo Bank
07.2023 - Current
As a Solution Architect & Designer, I imagine and design technology solutions that helps Judo achieve fast and safe growth as a challenger bank, in the space of event driven core banking (Thought Machine), data lakehouse (Databricks) and finance modernization (Oracle Fusion SaaS).
Engineering Manager
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
09.2018 - Current
- Led the delivery of multiple platforms on AWS cloud that run many critical Treasury and Finance Apps processing over 95% of bank's balance sheet worth ~$900bn+ with robust audit, control, lineage and reconciliation capability with PowerBi reporting, RestAPI Integration with frontline systems and microservice apps for bankers.
- Led the BS11 program with multiple squads that delivered a new risk & treasury platform on AWS Cloud for Bank of New Zealand (BS11)
- Delivered UBank 86400 and CitiBank (AU) Risk and Treasury Integration - on time and under Budget
- Worked with Product Management team of a leading vendor for release of APRA standards for RCF (Credit Risk)
Technology Stack (Asset Owner)
- Oracle Financial Services Analytics Application (OFSAA v8.1) on AWS
- OFSAA Funds Transfer Pricing
- OFSAA Profitability Management
- OFSAA GL Reconciliation
- Oracle e-Business Suite (eBS 12.2 on AWS)
- Oracle Financial Accounting Hub
- Oracle General Ledger
- Microsoft PowerBI SaaS - Treasury Reporting
- Informatica Power Centre on AWS
- Product Pricing-Microservice and MiniAPP (AWS)
- Customer Break Fee-Microservice and MiniAPP (AWS)
- Economic Cost Real-Time Rest API for Mortgages
Senior Solution Designer
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
11.2016 - 08.2018
- Responsible for Technical & Functional solution design for projects in the Finance, Risk & Treasury space including data model design
- Delivered solution for Credit Risk RWA calculation for bank's securitized portfolio (APS 120)
- Delivered solution for Credit Risk Large Exposure and SA-CCR APRA standards and APRA Regulatory Reporting
- Delivered solution to calculate and recover Major Bank Levy to meet ATO obligation with transparency and traceability to external auditors
Principal Consultant
Oracle Financial Services
11.2009 - 11.2016
- I had the opportunity to play a Delivery Lead/Principal Consultant Role on the largest Finance, Treasury & Risk Transformation program and have contributed immensely to the success of the program that continues to enable the bank to meet numerous APRA, RBA & ATO regulatory compliance
- I worked as a senior business analyst to roll out Basel II Credit Risk Accord (RBI) for HDFC Bank, which is the second largest private bank in India
FINANCIAL UNDERWRITER
Reliance Life Insurance
05.2006 - 06.2007
- I was responsible for Financial Underwriting & Risk Assessment and Pricing of Life Insurance Products.
Education
MBA - FINANCE
Christ University
IndiaPOST GRADUATE: RISK MANAGEMENT -
Osmania University
IndiaBachelor: Finance & Accounting -
Berhampur University
IndiaSkills
- Data & Analytics – Architecture, Strategy & Execution
- Data Engineering - Databricks & Snowflake
- Reporting – Regulatory, MI and Operational (Powerbi)
- SQL/RDBMS/Lakehouse Data Modelling/Microservice Design
- DBT Labs & Fivetran (Intermediate)
- Leading large team with multiple engineering squads
- Credit Risk/Capital Adequacy/IFRS9/Securitization
- Regulatory Reporting (AXIOM/OFSAA/PowerBI)
- Bank Risk, Treasury & Finance Technology expertise (FTP/ALM/Liquidity Risk/IRRBB/BSM/ Treasury Finance/Deposit Analytics)
- OFSAA Credit Risk and Profitability Apps
- eBusinessSuite/Fusion Cloud (FAH/GL) - Finance Apps
- Financial/Management Accounting
- SparkSQL, Scala & Python (Basics)
- Figma UX/UI Design
- Cloud Warehouse/Lakehouse - Design & Delivery
- Microservices - Design & Delivery
Additional Information
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasmit-sahu-7912b614/
Certification
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer - Professional
- Databricks Certified Gen AI - Fundamentals
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer - Associate
- Certification in Banking Risk & regulation from GARP
- NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE Certification on Derivatives Market, Capital market, Mutual Funds, Debt & Commodity Markets
- Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA) Treasury Analytics
- Post Graduate Certification from ICFAI on Equity Valuation
Timeline
Solution Architect/Designer
Judo Bank
07.2023 - Current
Engineering Manager
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
09.2018 - Current
Senior Solution Designer
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
11.2016 - 08.2018
Principal Consultant
Oracle Financial Services
11.2009 - 11.2016
FINANCIAL UNDERWRITER
Reliance Life Insurance
05.2006 - 06.2007
MBA - FINANCE
Christ University
POST GRADUATE: RISK MANAGEMENT -
Osmania University
Bachelor: Finance & Accounting -
Berhampur University