Haripriya Sikha

STANBIC BANK KENYA | FLAGSHIP PROGRAM

Temenos R17 → R23 Core Banking Upgrade | USD 699K | 30-member team | 8-month delivery

• Directed planning and delivery governance for an accelerated 8-month Core Banking upgrade, coordinating 30 resources across 20 offshore and 10 onsite.

• Established integrated plans, milestone tracking, resource allocation and executive reporting across upgrade, integrations, code conversion, deployment and readiness.

• Coordinated 90+ system integrations and 6,000+ local code conversions, aligning business, functional, technical and client stakeholders around critical-path dependencies.

• Led RAID and escalation governance; assessed business impact, drove mitigation/recovery actions and escalated decision points through governance forums.

• Coordinated cutover readiness, runbooks, deployment dependencies, Go/No-Go discussions and Hypercare.

• Completed delivery within eight months; team received the Orion All Star Award and the client relationship generated a follow-on DLM engagement.

VISTA BANK MOZAMBIQUE | FLAGSHIP PROGRAM

Temenos R14 → R24 Re-Implementation | TDH & TPH | USD 650K | 20-member team

• Led delivery governance for a USD 650K Core Banking re-implementation, coordinating a 20-member cross-functional team across application, reporting, infrastructure, testing and vendor activities.

• Built project plans, prioritized milestones, dependency tracking and executive reporting across parallel workstreams.

• Governed schedule, resource needs and delivery risks; applied mitigation and prioritization strategies to protect critical milestones.

• Managed executive escalations through issue assessment, stakeholder alignment and recovery planning, linking ETAs to prerequisites, client dependencies and environment readiness.

• Led defect prioritization by business impact and coordinated production readiness, Go-Live, stabilization and Hypercare.

BUSINESS CONNEXION (BCX) | TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM

Temenos Transact R23 Financial Inclusion Suite | Cloud & Data Migration

• Led delivery governance for Transact implementation and legacy-to-T24 migration, coordinating development, unit-test readiness, defect management and environment dependencies.

• Aligned cross-functional teams on development deliverables, unit-test outcomes, migration activities and downstream client validation dependencies.

• Governed migration readiness and reconciliation, achieving zero GL mismatches/account-balance discrepancies.

• Managed evolving scope and delivery dependencies, leading additional historical-data migration of 9,000+ customer records within two months.

• Delivered live/historical migration with zero reported issues, contributing to a follow-on engagement.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TRUSTED NOVUS BANK | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM

Temenos Transact R13 → R23 | 20+ member team

• Managed a 20+ member team delivering FSD development and 90 Formpipe regulatory/statutory reports.

• Coordinated Business Analysis, Development and Partner Testing teams from requirements mapping through delivery and issue resolution.

• Maintained resource timesheets and delivery tracking across the reporting workstream.

NCBA BANK KENYA | POST-GO-LIVE SUPPORT

Temenos T24 R18 | 5-member core support team

• Led L2/L3 post-Go-Live support, incident prioritization and bug-fix coordination; managed vendor relationships and SLA accountability.

• Planned resource allocation and applied risk/issue mitigation to maintain support continuity and delivery commitments.

• Partnered with HR, RMG and Technical Leads to interview, select and onboard remote resources, building a geographically diverse support team.

• Managed consultant travel, visa extensions and onsite logistics for African-region resources.

• Led cross-functional teams to develop and implement product strategies that enhanced user experience.
• Analyzed market trends to inform product roadmaps and drive innovation initiatives.
• Collaborated with engineering teams to ensure alignment between product vision and technical feasibility.
• Conducted stakeholder meetings to gather requirements and prioritize features for upcoming releases.