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Sarbajit Mohanty

Sarbajit Mohanty

Engineering Manager
Pune

Summary

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
Sarbajit MohantyEngineering Manager