Nastassja Pillay

I'm an Agile Delivery Lead and Senior Project Manager with 10+ years of experience leading complex, multi-squad delivery programmes across financial services, insurance, retail, and digital platforms. Most recently, I led delivery across four cross-functional squads at Sanlam (via TCS), enabling a large-scale AWS cloud migration and delivering 40+ reusable APIs. I improved sprint throughput and delivery predictability by 25% through structured backlog management, dependency tracking, and Agile coaching — all in a distributed, hybrid environment. My background spans the full delivery lifecycle: governance, RAID management, release planning, stakeholder reporting, and executive alignment. I've operated across Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and hybrid models, with domain depth in banking, insurance, eCommerce (SAP Hybris), and supply chain systems. I hold a Certified ScrumMaster® credential and have consistently been embedded in client-facing, consulting-style engagements — comfortable owning delivery outcomes across business and technical teams without needing heavy oversight. I'm based in Cape Town and open to fully remote or async-first global roles. I thrive in environments with real delivery complexity, strong engineering culture, and distributed teams.