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Sahil Goel

Sahil Goel

Engineering Lead
London

Summary

Sahil is a seasoned professional with a strong background in driving large-scale digital transformations in Financial service industry. As a leader in digital transformation space, Sahil believes in building trusted partner relationships with clients and collaborates closely to enable client define and implement tech strategy than enables clients to compete, reduce cost of customer acquisition and servicing and launch new products and offerings at speed.

Sahil in last four year since moving to the UK region, has led teams size up to 100+ with revenue of $20m+. In his last two engagements Sahil led the launch of a cloud-native, digital-only Neobank in the UAE, transformed a UK savings bank, from legacy on-premises application to a modern banking platform.

At Publicis Sapient – Financial services, Sahil is a dynamic leader who leads the Core Modernisation practice, with a key focus on growing capabilities across core banking systems, building enablers and accelerators to enable business growth and delivery.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Engineering Lead

Publicis Sapient
2 2021 - Current

ENGAGEMENT: Core Modernisation One Savings Bank, UK – Sep 2022 – Ongoing

As the Lending Engineering Lead, I shaped the new lending proposition for the brokers that enables 100% digital onboarding of brokers with "Agreement in Principal" and "Full Mortgage Application" in less than 15 minutes.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading a large cross-functional team in building 100% digital onboarding, payment, servicing, colleague dashboards, customer 360-degree, and colleague portal to migrate from the existing legacy system to a cloud-native modern banking application.
  • Defining the MMP scope and rollout approach, including testing approach to launch the mortgage journey.
  • Advising client to make enterprise wide critical system selection such as CRM, FinCrime, Valuations, Decisioning, Conveyancing and Insurability leveraging my deep industry knowledge and thought leadership.
  • Delivered broker portal to reduce mortgage journey time by 50%, while managing and cultivating couple of talented engineering teams across 3 countries.
  • Fully automated decisioning and valuation journey that reduced underwriting time from months to 1 week.
  • Broker onboarding time reduced from 3 days to 5 minutes with Broker-360 view for colleagues
  • Setup Technical Design Authority (TDA) and facilitate all technology decisions including selection of 20+ Fintech system
  • Enabled cross functional team to have single page view for all engineering metrics leveraging Azure DevOps Dashboards
  • Product owner for a company-wide inner source product to reduce build time of any customer journey by ~30%. This product is used company-wide during client demos.
  • Ramped up the team on nCino and Mambu


ENGAGEMENT: Cloud Native Digital Bank, WIO, UAE – Apr 2021 – Aug 2022

As Engineering lead Onboarding, Customer and Account Maintenance domains, I delivered a NeoBank for SME in less than 9 months for CB UAE approval and ready for public launch in 18 months

Responsibilities:

  • Key stakeholder management and connect with the CTO daily to discuss key design decisions, rollout plans, challenges and action plan.
  • Designed Seamless 100% digital on-boarding experience for bank to onboard SMEs faster that has allowed bank to capture large share of SMEs in 1st year of launch.
  • Working closely with Product and OPS team designed a system with high level of straight through processing for colleagues to focus on exceptions reducing the cost of running and productivity.
  • Driven RFPs with 15+ third-party vendors to automate customer onboarding journey.


Engineering Lead

Publicis Sapient
01.2019 - 02.2021

ENGAGEMENT: Digital Property Assessment, SAN MATEO County – Jan 2019 – Mar 2021

  • As an offshore Engineering lead, led the delivery of entire Salesforce based solution for US government client, while building ODC team of 50+ people from scratch.

Responsibilities:

  • Delivered National award winner serverless AI/ML solution which has reduced costs with ~2M USD per year and reduced building plans approval process time by ~60%.
  • Led cleanup and migration of 40 years old data from 20 different sources to this Salesforce and AWS based solution
  • Built and Inner-sourced data quality portal to act as a migration portal for any project. Being currently used in 2 different projects.
  • Technologies: Spark, Scala, Salesforce, Java, Spring Boot, Talend, AWS (S3, Lambda, Textract).

Senior Technical Architect

Publicis Sapient
06.2008 - 12.2018

ENGAGEMENT: UBS – June 2008 to Dec 2018

Technical Architect

Global Logic India Ltd
01.2007 - 04.2008

ENGAGEMENT: Missed Call Alert Application, Kirusa Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd
06.2003 - 01.2007

ENGAGEMENT: RoyalMail UK, Lifetouch US

Education

MCA -

Kurukshetra University
India
04.2000 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Dyal Singh College
India
04.1997 - 04.2000

Skills

- Tech and Data strategy, Enterprise Architecture

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Certification

- AWS Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

Engineering Lead

Publicis Sapient
01.2019 - 02.2021

Senior Technical Architect

Publicis Sapient
06.2008 - 12.2018

Technical Architect

Global Logic India Ltd
01.2007 - 04.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd
06.2003 - 01.2007

MCA -

Kurukshetra University
04.2000 - 05.2003

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Dyal Singh College
04.1997 - 04.2000

Engineering Lead

Publicis Sapient
2 2021 - Current
Sahil GoelEngineering Lead