About Aleksandr
Strategic Program / Transformation Manager with 15+ years of experience across FinTech, banking, enterprise IT consulting, data transformation, and IT governance.
I help organizations bring structure, transparency, and delivery control to complex technology programs — especially when multiple teams, senior stakeholders, vendors, architecture decisions, and business priorities need to be aligned.
My background includes:
- building program roadmaps, delivery structures, reporting routines, and governance processes for complex enterprise initiatives;
- managing risks, dependencies, scope changes, priorities, budgets, and delivery trade-offs across distributed teams;
- leading transformation programs involving data platforms, regulatory reporting, infrastructure migration, enterprise CRM/ACRM, and performance-sensitive financial systems;
- coordinating cross-functional teams of 40+ people across product, engineering, data, integration, QA, and business functions;
- designing pragmatic hybrid Agile / SAFe-based delivery models adapted to enterprise environments. I am certified as a Scrum Product Owner and AI-Empowered SAFe Agilist.
I am available for Program Management, Technical Program Management, Transformation Management, PMO / Portfolio Governance, IT Governance, and enterprise delivery leadership roles.
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Basic
Russian
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- DevExpertsProject Manager/ Program LeadMarch 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)Porto, Portugal
- Overseeing the end-to-end launch of a unified Trading Workstation (TWS) for the nuam exchange across Peru, Chile, and Colombia, coordinating product, engineering, integration, and customer stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
- Drove the stabilization phase of a performance-sensitive trading platform, helping the team reach production readiness and achieve a successful Go-Live in Colombia.
- Managing delivery plans, scope, dependencies, risks, and technical expectations across distributed teams in 4+ time zones, maintaining alignment and transparency with C-level sponsors and customer stakeholders.
- Navigated major scope expansions by introducing a more flexible delivery framework, securing additional funding, and protecting project financial stability while keeping delivery momentum.
- SberBankHead of DWH at Methodology and regulatory risk-reporting divisionJanuary 2021 - December 2023 (2 years and 11 months)
- Transformed the RWA calculation process from manual operations to a DWH-based platform, reducing calculation time from 14 to 3 business days and improving transparency, scalability, and regulatory reporting control.
- Coordinated a major infrastructure migration from Teradata to Greenplum, aligning architecture, delivery planning, risk management, and stakeholder expectations while contributing to significant infrastructure cost reduction.
- Managed a cross-functional program roadmap and budget across 40+ people in 4 teams, aligning strategic priorities, delivery governance, resource planning, and architecture decisions with senior stakeholders.
- Drove the conceptual architecture transition for a regulated data platform, ensuring structured execution across business, data, engineering, and governance teams while keeping delivery aligned with target-state architecture and strategic goals.
- GlowByte ConsultingProject managerJanuary 2015 - January 2020 (5 years)
- Managed end-to-end delivery of a project portfolio for a major enterprise client, covering ACRM, DWH, and customer data initiatives from tender preparation to implementation. Oversaw a $1M budget, coordinated resource planning, optimized delivery workflows in Jira Cloud, and contributed to a 250% increase in annual budget and 21% profitability.
- Delivered the department’s first Greenplum-based Data Warehouse project, turning an initially investment-driven initiative into a profitable reference case for future enterprise data platform deployments and building a skilled team for subsequent Greenplum initiatives.
- Implemented enterprise CRM decisioning and customer data automation capabilities using SAS Marketing Optimization, SAS Real-Time Decision Manager, and SAS Marketing Automation, reducing product campaign planning costs and improving targeting, decision quality, and campaign profitability.
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Education
- Master’s degree in Computer Science & EngineeringMIREA Russian Technical University2012Master’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering
Certifications
- Certified AI-Empowered SAFe AgilistSAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc.2026
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)Scrum Alliance D-A-CH e.V.2019