About

Santosh Bijur is a seasoned business technology executive with over 25 years of experience in the telecom technology space. As the VP and India Managing Director at Lumen Technologies, he is responsible for managing the India Operations, including IT, Managed Services & Technology Consulting teams. He is accountable for global integration and transformation to a high-value technology center. Santosh has a passion and deep experience as country head and site leader, transforming global technology centers into high-performance teams. Santosh is an effective leader in harnessing the power of technology and people to deliver outstanding business value and outcomes. He engages C-suite leaders and engineers alike to tackle aggressive business mandates with innovative strategies and disciplined execution. His specialties include Business Technology Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Tech Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Design, Design Thinking, Business Architecture, Digital Tech, Telecom Tech, Cloud, Microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, General Mgmt, Org Change & Mgmt. Santosh has a proven track record of success in his previous roles. As the Senior Managing Director of India Operations at Lumen Technologies, he was responsible for leading the company's global integration and transformation to a high-value technology center. He also held the position of SVP, Head of Development and Delivery at Jio, where he established an e2e digital business architecture and launched the B2B services business, covering 85% of market needs, with a vastly differentiated customer experience and business model through a 9-month Agile program. Santosh holds an Executive MBA from ISB, a Master's degree in Computer Science from The University of Kansas, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, CI/CD, Microservices, Integration, SDET, test, Mobile, and Web.