Chandra Mani
Pune
Summary
Accomplished Senior Scrum Master experienced in leading Agile teams within SAFe Agile Release Trains, specializing in Banking, Financial Services, and various sectors. Achieved significant improvements in team performance and delivery through effective facilitation of Agile ceremonies, coaching on Lean-Agile practices, and collaboration with Product Owners to enhance product backlog management. Focused on driving continuous improvement, optimizing workflow, and fostering high-performing, self-organizing teams while leveraging cloud technology for operational efficiency.
Overview
1
1
Certification
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Accenture
Pune
02.2026 - Current
- Managed product backlog to prioritize tasks and streamline workflow.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies to enhance team collaboration and communication.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure project alignment and progress.
Scrum Master
StandardBank SA
Pune
11.2021 - 02.2026
- Wrote technical specification, functional specification, and system design documents.
- Designing best and effective coding solutions for the system.
- Designing best and effective coding solutions for system.
- Performed DB2 DBA activities and tuned database performance.
- Maintained system uptime in a production support environment.
- Led enterprise integration and process improvement projects, ensuring successful completion of application availability initiatives.
- Drove all phases of enterprise integration and process improvement projects to successful completion including application availability initiatives.
- Completed successfully several migration projects.
- Led modernization of ATM and payment systems to enhance user experience. Bank is moving towards new digital platforms like AWS, APIs and Mainframe modernization. Moving existing ATM and card payment functionalities to digital platforms.
- Led Scrum ceremonies to improve team collaboration and communication.
Project Lead
Magneti Marelli Italy
03.2020 - 10.2021
- Underwent trainings to develop a good understanding of SCM (supply chain management) system since the scope of GPICS involves end to end the SCM process.
- Received functional Knowledge transfer from customer current vendor and implemented all the aspects from technical and functional side into the live project.
- Facilitated knowledge transfer from current vendor and integrated all technical and functional aspects into live project.
- Automated application manuals for production operations, enhancing documentation efficiency.
- Magneti Marelli is an international company committed to the design and production of hi-tech systems and components for the automotive sector for clients like Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai etc.
Test environment Support Lead
Wal-Mart Store Inc
Bentonville
01.2016 - 02.2020
- Excellent experience in UAT support (TEMS), knowledge on end to end process flow of Connexus application and troubleshooting.
- Handled incidents and service requests based on project priorities.
- Coordinated with business stakeholders, project team, and offshore teams to ensure timely environment deliveries.
- Set up new stores in the Connexus environment.
- Set up and maintained printers, SigPad, scanner, and mobile devices for Arkestone, including functionalities like filling and bagging.
- Reviewed and approved changes as a participant in the change advisory board.
- Implementation of CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) through right tools and expertise using Jenkins (looper, concord), Maven/ANT and GIT Hub.
- Created inventory in Ansible for automating the continuous deployment and wrote playbooks using YAML scripting.
- Created CD pipeline for certificate renewal for DataPower (public, private, and 3rd party) and deployed to 4500+ store and 450 clubs.
- Executed change council meeting every day and roll out changes to non-prod and prod.
Developer and Team Lead
ATCO Energy Solutions
Edmonton
01.2014 - 12.2016
- Developed code for new and enhanced functionality of MEMS project, contributing to project advancement.
- Utilized various technical skills including DB2 LUW, DellEnterprise Cobol 3.4, Shell Scripting, and Dollar Universe for Job Scheduling. DB2 LUW, Dell Enterprise Cobol 3.4, Shell Scripting, Dollar Universe for Job Scheduler, Batch & Online debugging through IDE.
- ATCO Ltd, is a publicly traded Canadian engineering, logistics and energy holding company based in Calgary, Alberta.
Developer and Team Lead
ABSA bank
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Led a small team of analysts, developers, and testers to deliver small modules within the project.
- I serve as entry-level specialist with expertise in mainframe technology and finance domain products.
- I have used expertise knowledge of Websphere Message Broker, Object Oriented Cobol Programming, VC4U and Easyretrieve tools in this project.
- I am also responsible for functional/technical track of the project which involves analysis of the issues, providing the resolutions, reviewing the code changes, supporting the SIT/UAT functional and conversion batches, providing the on-time solutions and permanent fixes for the abended Jobs and errors, coordinate the promotions activities and resolving the technical and functional issues of the team.
- Absa Bank offers a range of retail, business, wealth management, corporate and investment solutions to customers and clients across South Africa.
Developer and Team Lead
Citi Bank
01.2012 - 12.2013
- Developed and enhanced features for IDC-Phase 2, 3, and 4 of SDB project.
- Successfully completed the SIT/UAT Functional and Conversion batch supports and provided the on-time solutions and permanent fixes for the abended Jobs and errors.
- Participated in defect fixes for DIT and SIT.
- I was the escalation point for the SIT/DIT/UAT and stress testing of the batch and responsible for monitoring the job flow to represent the team for defect sessions, providing resolution to job fixes, streamlining of the batch jobs, coordinate the promotions activities and resolving the technical and functional issues of the team.
DEVELOPER-L3
ONCOR ELECTRIC
01.2010 - 12.2011
- Developed and enhanced code for LCIS (Legacy Customer Information System), essential application supporting ONCOR's business operations.
- Contributed to Oncor's mission of reliable electricity delivery through development of robust asset management systems.
- Developed software solutions to enhance operational efficiency in utility management.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement system upgrades and improvements.
- Analyzed user requirements to create functional specifications for applications.
DEVELOPER
RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
01.2006 - 12.2010
- Resolved real time issues, developed change requests, conducted unit testing, and performed performance tuning activities of the RTGS system.
- Developed secure software applications for banking operations and financial transactions.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance and user experience.
- Maintained database integrity by implementing effective data management practices.
Education
Bachelors - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Birla Institute of Technologies Mesra
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Incident management
- Change management
- Release management
- Jenkins CI/CD tools
- Devops practice
- Ansible
- Docker
- EKS
- ArgoCD
- Grafana
- Maven
- Gitea
- Jfrog Artifactory
- Sonarqube
- Shell scripting
- Basic python
- GitHub
- Microsoft VS code
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- AWS cloud
- S390
- IMS
- Oracle
- DB2
- CICS
- JCL
- MQ
- Rexx
- ChangeMan
- TWS
- DB2I
- File-AID
- BMS for CICS
- SPUFI
- QMF
- Xpeditor
- CICS debugger
- IBM Explorer
- SQL developer
- Eclipse
- Remedy (RMT)
- Jira
- Confluence management
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Looper
- Concord
- Oneops(Cloud)
- Dell enterprise Cobol
- Jira
- Confluence management
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
Certification
- TOGAF 9 Certified, 02/06/19, 133086
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 01/29/22, 9PBPFGYBG1R1QN50
- Certified SAFe 4 Agilist, 09/18/19, 99061070-1485
Current Employer
Wipro Technologies
Areas Of Proficiency
Wipro Technologies
Intercontinental Experience
Wipro Technologies
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
Scrum Master
Accenture
02.2026 - Current
Scrum Master
StandardBank SA
11.2021 - 02.2026
Project Lead
Magneti Marelli Italy
03.2020 - 10.2021
Test environment Support Lead
Wal-Mart Store Inc
01.2016 - 02.2020
Developer and Team Lead
ATCO Energy Solutions
01.2014 - 12.2016
Developer and Team Lead
ABSA bank
01.2013 - 12.2014
Developer and Team Lead
Citi Bank
01.2012 - 12.2013
DEVELOPER-L3
ONCOR ELECTRIC
01.2010 - 12.2011
DEVELOPER
RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
01.2006 - 12.2010
Bachelors - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Birla Institute of Technologies Mesra