Strategic Engineering Manager adept at navigating modern technology, solving complex problems, and driving efficiency. Skilled in translating technical requirements to business solutions, building stakeholder relationships, and motivating high-performing teams through strategic planning and support.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Engineering Manager
I&O Databases Group, John Deere India
Pune
03.2022 - Current
Providing technical leadership to I&O MF-DB modernization group in executing the Organization objective of Mainframe and DB2 Obsolescence.
Pivotal role in changing the product offering from "Legacy" to "Modernized Solutions" there by improving ROI
Establishing vision and leading efforts to create an automated pipeline for DB2 to Cloud migration, enhancing cost efficiency and speed.
Creation of automation modules in Portfolio and Run section driving efficiency (Legacy and modern workstream)
Creating technical roadmap, making key technology decisions, evaluating tools, and driving innovation and experimentation for the product.
Driving the Digital mastery, Tech stack transformation and Work Culture for the product team
Identifying the right talent with appropriate skills, diverse background and ensuring right degree of inclusion.
Up-skilling the team from Legacy technologies to modern no-regret skills like AWS, Git/Github/GHA, PostgreS, Docker/Containers, OpenSearch, Prometheus and Grafana etc and there by transforming the tech-stack of the product.
Creating a high-performing team culture and maximizing employee satisfaction to the highest level.
Working closely with PM/GPM/GEM/BCAC/SM
In establishing vision, Yearly product goals, establishing quarterly OKRs
Establishing internal/external scorecard for the product.
Prioritizing technical stories focused on improvement of quality, security, efficiency and reduction of tech debt
Implementing industry best practices in technology, product delivery, and Agile methodology, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Effectively managing budgets for the product
Ensuring labor allocation and non-labor allocations are appropriate for the product
Ownership of the India cost center budget. Leading the yearly budget forecast and ensuring quarterly revisions are factored in to ensure efficient use of the budget
Ownership of software licensing (negotiation and maintenance) of vendor products like Fed and Connect
Scrum Master
Dealer Systems And Services – Dealer Solutions - John Deere India
Pune
01.2020 - 02.2022
Scrum Master for R2 Order Fulfilment team in Dealer Systems and Services area
Primary Responsibilities are: Coaching the team and other key roles on Agile mindset and Scrum
Ensuring all the scrum events are efficient and able to achieve the intended outcome
Ensure impediment are removed as fast as possible and if required raise up to action team
Working with PO to ensure team has a Deep backlog and team can get regular feedback from the end customer
Ensuring goals, progress and impediments are transparent and highly visible
Working with EM to ensure team is cross-functional and having T-Shaped skills
Servant Leader for the team to ensure team is shielded away from any outside noise
Tracking and monitoring Metrics for the team focused on improving team performance
Ensuring the team consistently follows technical, quality, and security practices, along with incident and change management processes, daily.
Keeping the team engaged, working as ambassador for the teams.
Associate Project Manager - Delivery Lead
JDF IT – John Deere Technology Center India
Pune
01.2018 - 01.2020
Delivery Ownership of Customer Management and Revolving Credit teams comprising of 16 members
Accountability of Project/Programs starting from Planning, execution, deployment and Support
As an Application owner responsible for maintaining application lifecycle, quality parameters, potential enhancements, customer feedback and modernization
Responsible for doing performance review, talent development, sharing timely feedback, building and maintaining high performance work culture, Keeping the team engaged, working as ambassador for the teams
Responsible for the Quality, Change Management, Operational efficiency, Delivery, budgeting, work force planning in domain.
Tech Lead and Scrum Master
JDF IT – John Deere Technology Center India
Pune
03.2015 - 12.2017
Technical leader of a 7-member Wholesale IT team, led high-priority projects, and provided technical leadership to team members.
Led OM project from L043 team and had the responsibility of migrating data from Legacy to SAP platform
Implemented Agile framework, established development and change management processes, KPIs, and Scrum events, continuously identifying areas for improvement.
Presented team capabilities, achievements, and milestones in various forums to senior leaders, including Domain Director, VP Global IT, CFO, and IT Division Leaders.
Reduced system downtime with proactive monitoring, timely troubleshooting, and efficient issue resolution.
Evaluated a managed source model for legacy work, and actively negotiated with vendors. Created and implemented a proposal after negotiation and evaluation.
System Analyst - Database Administrator
GHNS Group – John Deere Technology Center India
Pune
09.2012 - 02.2015
Working as a senior developer is several crucial projects across the DBA tools
Involved in developing and testing several functionalities for the internal tools
Was responsible for maintaining and supporting the corporate legacy databases
Mentored other team members in many project related works
I was part of EES Focus group for the domain where I lead several initiatives
I was part of metrics team, communication team and shared updates across the teams.
System Engineer - Developer
American Express – IBM India Pvt Ltd
Pune
08.2010 - 08.2012
Worked as a senior developer is several crucial projects which was focused on American Express Risk division
Involved in developing and testing several functionalities involving Cobol, IMS DB, JCl, VSAM, Sort, IMS DC
Mentored other team members in many project related works.
Assistant System Engineer - Developer
Avis – Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Mumbai
06.2008 - 07.2010
Worked as a module lead is several application projects for Avis Budget Group (Car Rental Company)
Involved in developing and testing several functionalities involving Cobol, IMS DB, JCL, IMS DC, DB2, Sort
Mentored other team members in many project related works
Education
B.Tech - Civil Engineering
KIIT University
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
04.2004 - 05.2008
High Secondary Education -
JKBK Junior College
Cuttack, Odisha
04.2001 - 05.2003
Secondary Education -
Secondary Board High School
Cuttack, Odisha
06.2000 - 05.2001
Skills
Cobol, JCL, Batch, Mainframes
IMS DB/DC
DB2
Core Java
AWS
CI/CD
DevOps Practices
High Level Understanding of - SOA, Microservices, NoSQL Databases
Agile/Scrum, Scrum at Scale
Coach
Servant Leadership
Software development life cycle
Infrastructure development
Git/Github/GHA
PostgreS (RDS/Aurora)
Terraform
Behavioral Skills
Analyzing Rigorously
Open and Transparent communication and execution
Executing Consistently
Driving for Sustainable results
Customer Focus
Creating Inclusive environment
Planning and Organizing
Developing self and Others
Timeline
Engineering Manager
I&O Databases Group, John Deere India
03.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
Dealer Systems And Services – Dealer Solutions - John Deere India
01.2020 - 02.2022
Associate Project Manager - Delivery Lead
JDF IT – John Deere Technology Center India
01.2018 - 01.2020
Tech Lead and Scrum Master
JDF IT – John Deere Technology Center India
03.2015 - 12.2017
System Analyst - Database Administrator
GHNS Group – John Deere Technology Center India
09.2012 - 02.2015
System Engineer - Developer
American Express – IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 08.2012
Assistant System Engineer - Developer
Avis – Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
06.2008 - 07.2010
B.Tech - Civil Engineering
KIIT University
04.2004 - 05.2008
High Secondary Education -
JKBK Junior College
04.2001 - 05.2003
Secondary Education -
Secondary Board High School
06.2000 - 05.2001
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