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Chetan Bhansali

Chetan Bhansali

Lead Solution Analyst
Pune

Summary

Professional Summary

  • 18+ years of experience across Banking, Insurance, and Finance domains, with expertise in Solution Design, Business & Strategy Analysis, and Testing.
  • Currently contributing to Barclays Technology India as a CBAP-certified Business Analyst (IIBA), sponsored by TCS.
  • Proficient in Agile-DevOps frameworks including Scrum, DAD, and Scaled Agile methodologies.
  • Proven experience in stakeholder management, resource optimization, process mapping, compliance documentation, and quality planning.
  • Delivered value for clients across North America, Brazil, and the UK through effective requirement analysis and business process transformation.
  • Skilled in implementing Lean Six Sigma and Value Stream Mapping (VSM) initiatives for continuous improvement.
  • Strong communicator and problem-solver with demonstrated leadership in cross-functional and high-pressure environments.
  • Adept Solution Architect with a history of designing scalable, innovative solutions to address complex technical and business challenges.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Lead Solution Designer

Barclays Technology Centre India (BTC)
07.2018 - Current

Project: UK Digital Banking – Multi-Channel Application (MCA), based on Microservices Architecture

  • Currently leading business analysis and solution design activities for Barclays' UK Digital Banking platform under the MCA (Multi-Channel Application) program.
  • Collaborating directly with business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document requirements; translating them into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Managing and mentoring a team of 8 Business/System Analysts in the Customer Care and Account Servicing Pods, ensuring consistency in delivery and professional development.
  • Conducting gap analysis, impact assessments, and leading end-to-end solution discussions, including defining user journeys and providing high- and low-level cost estimates.
  • Supporting architecture decisions and defining future-state designs aligned with enterprise standards and digital strategy.
  • Facilitating solution walkthroughs and elaboration sessions with development teams, enabling sprint readiness and ongoing delivery across agile ceremonies.
  • Creating and maintaining key project artifacts including PWRs, Jira/Rally boards, Confluence pages, process maps, and design documentation.
  • Engaging with Control Tribe teams (LCT) for architecture and risk reviews, ensuring timely approvals and compliance alignment.
  • Managing RAID logs, identifying project risks and mitigation actions, and supporting leadership decision-making with proactive recommendations.
  • Supporting test teams with scenario definition, smoke testing, and business demos; ensuring production readiness and defect resolution post-go-live.
  • Handling warranty support and issue tracking post-deployment, coordinating with development teams to drive timely resolution.

Senior Business Analyst

HSBC Technology India (HTI)
12.2016 - 06.2018
  • Project Managed: UK Retail Banking & Wealth Management (RBWM)
  • Role: Worked as Solution Architect in LifePen (Life Insurance Manufacturing System) POD, within RBWM Insurance Department. We were supporting to Backend system changes and were involved in designing System API which will interact with DB2.

Business Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 12.2016
  • Project Managed: Swiss Re Brazil, Migration of legacy system
  • Role: Worked as Business/System analyst for various project including Banking and Insurance clients. Worked extensively on System Migration projects from Legacy software solutions for Policy Administration System (PAS) to Web Based application.

Subject Matter Expert

Steria India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 02.2012
  • Project Managed: Life Insurance
  • Role: Worked as a Single Point of Contact in the team, for handling queries & escalations from onshore and offshore as holding strong domain knowledge, Claim Processing review and quality check (Operations).

Underwriter

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
07.2007 - 04.2010
  • Project Managed: Life Insurance
  • Role: Worked on underwriting of life and health insurance cases using the Global Underwriting Manual (GUM)

Education

MBA - Finance

PUMBA
Pune University
06-2007

Skills

Proficient in MS Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Certification

AINS Certified from ‘The Institute’, USA

Accomplishments

Led end-to-end business analysis for a £10M UK Digital Banking transformation program at Barclays, resulting in successful rollout across mobile, web, and contact center channels using Microservices architecture.

Managed and mentored a team of 8+ BAs/SAs across Customer Care and Account Servicing pods, improving requirement quality and delivery velocity by 30% through structured documentation and agile ceremonies.

Designed target-state solution architecture for a payment servicing module, reducing API integration issues by 40% and enhancing user experience across self-service platforms.

Implemented Lean Six Sigma-based process optimization, cutting manual operations by 50% and accelerating onboarding cycle time by 35% for a North American insurance client.

Successfully managed stakeholder engagement across UK, Brazil, and North America, leading to 100% on-time sign-offs for project artifacts and reducing scope creep by 25%.

Developed reusable process maps and user journey templates which standardized requirement documentation and cut BA onboarding time by 60%.

Initiated and led business capability maturity assessment, aligning over 5 departments under a unified transformation roadmap and helping secure executive sponsorship for future-state implementations.

Played a pivotal role in Agile transformation, training cross-functional teams on Agile-Scrum practices and improving sprint planning efficiency by 20%.

Designed and facilitated over 50+ workshops and JAD sessions, helping business teams articulate complex requirements and gain consensus on solution scope.

Managed regulatory compliance analysis for GDPR and PSD2-related changes, ensuring adherence with zero audit findings during external reviews.

Core Competency

  • Analytical thinking and problem Solving capability
  • Effective Communication Skills
  • Negotiations and Conflict Management Skills
  • Expertise in Training and Development
  • People Management & Leadership
  • Vendor & Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic & Domain-Level skills in Banking and Insurance

Timeline

IC Agile Product Owner

11-2024

Lead Solution Designer

Barclays Technology Centre India (BTC)
07.2018 - Current
Agile and DevOps Certified Internally from HSBC
07-2017

Senior Business Analyst

HSBC Technology India (HTI)
12.2016 - 06.2018
FLMI – I Certified from LOMA Institute, Canada
06-2016
CBAP Certified from IIBA Institute, USA
09-2015
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified from TCS
05-2014
AINS Certified from ‘The Institute’, USA
04-2014

Business Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 12.2016

Subject Matter Expert

Steria India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 02.2012

Underwriter

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
07.2007 - 04.2010

MBA - Finance

PUMBA
Chetan BhansaliLead Solution Analyst