Senior Manager It
alchemy Techsol India Pvt Ltd
Total years of experience :23 years, 5 Months
• Provide information systems compliance audit services in alignment with IS audit standards, safeguarding the company's deployment of information systems.
• Lead efforts to minimize risks and enhance productivity through business impact analysis, internal control evaluation, and solution recommendations.
• Prioritize information security, governance, risk, and compliance to ensure successful execution of large security projects.
• Perform legal and regulatory analysis to test the data and application management IT risk and control framework.
• Integrate cybersecurity capabilities with corporate objectives, defining cybersecurity plans and roadmaps to elevate maturity levels. Oversee teams and daily operations to consistently surpass SLAs and drive change management.
• Collaborate with project managers to identify and develop control sets and procedures tailored to organizational needs.
• Examine the SAHLD for errors and interface-related issues across various sources.
• Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIA) and propose corrective actions. As a member of the Data Privacy Council Team, review projects for privacy considerations.
• Ensured strict adherence to project budgets, timelines, and scope by providing professional oversight to assigned IT projects.
• Developed, maintained, and revised project proposals, encompassing objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing.
• Established and diligently monitored project milestones, proactively addressing unforeseen delays, and realigning schedules and expectations as needed.
• Crafted and executed comprehensive project communication plans, compiling, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends to prepare and distribute project status reports to stakeholders and team members.
• Executed various related activities, including LAN/WAN management, security audits, change/incident/problem management, root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), SLA management, helpdesk support, interface audits, bill of materials (BOM) and asset management, application security, encryption and key management, contractual reviews, regulatory compliance (e.g., privacy), and capacity management.
• Internal Control Oversight: Reviewed and examined internal control issues and deviations from operational guidelines and standards. Recommended measures to minimize risks and enhance efficiency.
• Digital Forensics and Fraud Investigations: Conducted digital forensic and fraud investigations within the organization. Developed and reviewed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), provided risk advice, and crafted information security guidelines based on ISO 27001.
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Collaborated with business units to assess information security strategies for business continuity planning and IT disaster recovery. Implemented industry best practices and organizational information security policies.
• IT Equipment Management: Managed the usage, maintenance, and technical inspection of IT equipment and tools. Conducted background checks on external service providers and evaluated the IT risk and control framework for data and application management.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked closely with cross-functional stakeholders within the Indian Air Force to address administrative, operational, and technical aspects of cybersecurity, aiming to elevate maturity levels.
• Cybersecurity Planning: Developed cybersecurity plans and roadmaps, aligning them with business goals and objectives.
• Training and Governance: Identified training needs, designed employee training programs, and conducted internal and external training validations and ITGC (IT General Controls) reviews.
• Comprehensive IT Administration: Governed all aspects of IT administration, including hardware (server, storage, and network) management, software version control, backup management and contingency planning, IT asset management, and IT infrastructure support.
Business Management & Administration