Shalini Sawner
Tech Business Analyst
Pune
Summary
Business Analyst with 9.5 years of experience in data privacy, business operations, and IT consulting across BFSI and consulting domains. Proven expertise in requirement gathering, backlog management, data protection compliance (GDPR, CCPA), stakeholder management, and dashboard implementation. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and client-facing skills with hands-on experience in JIRA, Confluence, OneTrust, BigID, Symantec, SecuPi, Gen AI and data automation tools.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Tech Business Analyst
UBS and Credit Suisse
07.2022 - Current
- Led end-to-end Agile SDLC delivery by defining sprint goals, creating epics, and developing detailed user stories while managing and prioritizing the product backlog aligned with product roadmap, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
- Collaborated with Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, and QA teams to drive feature prioritization, dependency management, and on-time delivery across multiple releases.
- Delivered multiple initiatives in the Data Confidentiality and Data Protection domain, including implementation and enhancements of Data at Rest (Symantec), SecuPi, BigID, Collibra and Exact Data Matching (EDM) solutions to strengthen sensitive data discovery, classification, monitoring, and access control.
- Acted as a key functional liaison between Business, Compliance, Risk, and Technology teams to translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications while ensuring adherence to data privacy regulations and security standards.
- Prepared and presented project status reports, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and performance updates to senior stakeholders through governance forums, sprint reviews, and release meetings.
- Led design and implementation of analytical dashboards to enhance data scanning analytics, improve visibility into sensitive data discovery trends, and track remediation progress across enterprise applications and data sources.
- Authored detailed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), process workflows, and success metrics to support solution design, UAT execution, and production deployment.
Business Operations Associate
ZS Associates
04.2020 - 07.2022
- As a Team Lead, I was actively involved in the following phases of the project under the client Bristol Myers Squibb:
- Performing and validating the regular data privacy operations per the applicable regulations/jurisdictions.
- Preparing and maintaining ROPA under Article 30 of GDPR.
- Identifying new capabilities/applications/processes from the CMDB of ServiceNow for further privacy assessment.
- Handling multiple new regulations - GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, PDPA, PIPL.
- Connecting with the stakeholders/Legal team in developing data protection and privacy strategies & roadmaps.
- Risk assessments and mitigation, evaluation of PII, and recommendation of the remediation plans.
- Creating the data inventories/summaries/ and dashboards for data visualization.
- Created and maintained automated Excel-based utilities for the validation and QC checks of large datasets.
- Customization of the Data mapping and Assessment automation module of OneTrust per project requirements.
- Third-party/vendor/supplier risk assessment.
- Led a 10+ member team managing global privacy and data protection compliance for Bristol Myers Squibb.
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies
11.2016 - 04.2020
- As a Data Analyst, I was actively involved in the following phases of the project:
- Performed data analytics and process automation using Python libraries for operational efficiency.
- Initiated the data privacy operations for California residents and worked on the data subject rights, incidents, and breach management.
- Designed and implemented data lakes and frameworks for privacy operations.
- Design, develop, implement, and manage the global data privacy compliance programs based on the privacy acts.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering
Indore, M.P. 04.2001 -
High School - Science Stream
Tirathbai Kalachand School
Indore, M.P.03-2012
Skills
Business Analysis & Requirement Gathering
Agile Backlog & Sprint Management (JIRA, Confluence)
Data Privacy & Compliance (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, PDPA, PIPL)
Stakeholder & Client Management
Risk Assessment & Remediation
Process Automation
Dashboarding & Data Visualization
Tools: JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, Advanced Excel, Python, SecuPi, Symantec, OneTrust, BigID, PowerBI, Collibra, Tableau, SQL, Gen AI
Domains: Data Privacy, Compliance, Risk Assessment, Data Visualization, Process Automation, Core Banking exposure
Certification
Microsoft Business Analysis Fundamentals
Timeline
Microsoft Business Analysis Fundamentals
03-2026
Tech Business Analyst
UBS and Credit Suisse
07.2022 - Current
Business Operations Associate
ZS Associates
04.2020 - 07.2022
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies
11.2016 - 04.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering
04.2001 -
High School - Science Stream
Tirathbai Kalachand School
PERSONAL DETAILS
- Date of Birth: November 02, 1994
- Languages: English, Hindi
- Passport Number: C3552601