Sanjay Agara

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About Sanjay Agara

As the CTO for the Retail, Consumer Goods and Logistics Business Unit at Infosys, responsible for shaping Technology Strategy for the Unit, conceptualise new service offerings and grow people competency. Provide Advisory service to our clients to shape their IT Strategy and drive adoption of the latest technologies specially AI and how to infuse that into every IT function spanning Engineering, Operations, Tech Mod and Cloud Migration while also leveraging AI to enhance user experience, process automation and insights for Business functions. Advise clients on their journey to transform themselves into a Digitally-led, Data-Driven & Agile Enterprise. Empathetic leader for a 350 member team of Architects distributed globally across client sites and Infosys development centers, while also leading a team of Cloud specialists on Azure, AWS and GCP, along with mentoring the Gen AI & Agentic AI CoE. SPECIALITIES: AI Strategy: AI for every type of IT and Business functions Digital Strategy: Going beyond eCommerce to help the other LoB functions to embrace Digital Data Platforms: Cut data siloes and establish Data lakehouses, to create a holistic view of data across the enterprise Cognitive Automation: Mimic human behavior and enable automation of business and IT functions Cloud Platforms: Migration of On-Prem Workloads/Apps to Cloud, ensure effective governance, leverage for Innovation Enterprise Architecture: Modernising IT landscapes of enterprises to be agile, reduce tech-debt, future-aligned and keeps costs under control Innovation: Constantly exploring the horizon for new and emerging tech, evaluate potential and relevance for the industries that we serve Retail, Consumer Goods and Logistics Domains: Understand value chains and associated challenges Building High Performance Teams: Hire, Motivate and Enable team to excel IT Support and Operations / AIOps: AI based Automation across the entire ITSM value chain, marching towards no-ops