Amitabh Mohanty
Summary
Over 22 years of professional IT experience in program and people management, IT design and development, system integration architecture, enterprise architecture, application architecture and development, data frameworks, project management and cloud architecture. Currently working as a Senior Manager in Citizens bank leading the commercial lending platform (asset based and bilateral loans) and managing the digital strategy for the commercial banking portfolio. Experience in managing large diverse team across the globe. 10+ years’ experience in lead architect role including public cloud and 3-tier applications. 5+ years of real time experience in working with big organization doing large scale cloud migrations. 8+ experience as people manager managing team of managers, architects, scrum master, application developers and DevSecops engineers. AWS and Azure cloud certifications. Experience in Vendor negotiations and talking to senior C-level executives. 6+ years of real time experience working in public, private and Hybrid cloud. 8+ years of experience in IT consulting including 3 years’ experience working with presales. Good Business Knowledge in HealthCare, Insurance, Financial and Banking Domain. Leading and managing large programs (2M+ budget). Experience working with project managers, finance team and scrum master’s for estimates, resource planning, budget forecasting and planning. 10+ years’ experience in software development including Java and .net Stack. 8+ years’ experience working in Agile and Scrum model. Strong technical background in development and architecture. 1+ year of experience in machine learning and generative AI technologies.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager
Citizens Bank
10.2021 - Current
- Lead the Commercial lending platform for asset based and bilateral loans
- Lead the digital strategy for the commercial business unit involving multiple stakeholders like salesforce, UI, APIs, data and cloud teams
- Manage a team of project managers, senior developer, architects, and scrum master
- Responsible for delivering large programs with 2M+ budgets
- People management and Performance review
- Negotiated and secured a $1M annual contract with a leading software vendor for the bank, improving operational scalability and workforce productivity
- Collaborated with executive leadership to design and execute IT strategy aligned with business goals
- Driving discussion with multiple stakeholders and senior leadership to achieve project goals
- Budget and resource planning for the team working with finance and senior leadership teams
- Manage a diverse team of 30+ people across the globe
- Provide technology guidance to my team in various subjects like automation, architecture cloud strategy etc
- Drive innovation through Machine learning and Generative AI
- The program started in early 2024 which is in progress and currently in pilot mode
- As part of the digital strategy, lead a program for building a collective collateral monitoring across various loan systems in the bank to increase project efficiency by 30%
Vice President – Senior Architect and Manager
Barclays International
10.2019 - 10.2021
- Lead the cloud migration program for pre-trade and post-trade teams for 140+ applications
- Manage a team of engineers and developers
- Leading a team to deliver cloud migration design patterns, reference architecture and development
- Organize various meetings among senior management, cross domain teams and application portfolio teams to demonstrate pattern and reference architecture to common issues and problems across the bank and get it approved for general use
- People management and Scrum planning
- Distributed system lead for messaging system implementation in cloud including kafka, mq, jms, sns implementation
- Develop usage patterns in Cloud for API’s, containers, and event streaming services
- Lead the java and Python based framework to support Cloud native architecture
- Budget and resource planning for the team
Lead Solution Architect
American International Group (AIG)
New York City Metro Area
11.2013 - 10.2019
- Developed estimation and planning models for various projects in the organization
- Leading Architecture initiatives for projects which involve more than 50 people span across multiple countries
- Interacting with different stakeholders like business and application teams to gather requirements and decompose those requirements into well define architecture strategy which aligns to company IT vision and cost
- End to End Architecture solutions for applications
- Leading Cloud migration effort for multiple projects
- Building a cloud migration template for legacy applications
- Perform cost benefit analysis and TCO model in cloud
- Experience is using mainframe as service and migrating mainframe and Solaris based applications to cloud
- Building an API and micro services strategy using AWS cognito, API tools like MuleSoft, AWS single Sign on and no-sql databases
- Responsible for writing detail technical document for the project team
- Interacting with multiple Vendors, third parties for evaluating their software products to be used in the organization
- Hands on experience with Java and database development
- Leading and managing a team of Architects and developers
- Working on delivering project using scaled Agile framework (SAFE)
Senior IT Engineering Lead
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Insurance
Western New York Area
10.2010 - 10.2013
- Company Overview: (Health Insurance)
- Worked as a team lead for IT platforms including APIs, ESB orchestration and Java development
- Involved in IT Roadmap planning in alignment with the Business Strategy
- Involved in architecting the Solutions with Middleware / SOA / Web Technologies as part of Enterprise Architecture team
- Design Documentation using UML
- Requirement gathering and putting the requirement to a business model
- Guiding others to perform assessments
- Perform evaluation of business requirements, processes, technologies, applications, and information systems
- Implemented best practices and improved the quality and methodology of integration
- Java and J2EE Framework design
- Improved and enhanced software engineering processes by using Agile methodologies, continuous integration, and test-driven development
- Built and nurtured customer relationships, focusing on local institutions
- Helped in Estimation, Risk Analysis for the PMO office
- Extensively used ESB and BPM technology like Message broker, process server and rules engine
- Service governance and strategy
- (Health Insurance)
Lead Technical Consultant/Solution Architect
Perficient Inc
08.2007 - 10.2010
- Company Overview: (IT Consulting)
- Lead teams up to size 10
- Project delivery within budget and time
- Worked with sales team to translate complex customer requirements into recommendations for appropriate solution architectures and products
- Design, Deploy and Implement process using WebSphere message broker, WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Process Server
- Design java Components using J2EE technologies
- Building Customs Interface and design
- Consulted with clients on potential process re-engineering approaches
- Leading the team to provide service-oriented Architecture Design Solutions
- Customize and implement various components using JAVA
- Worked on Object oriented Design and patterns
- (IT Consulting)
Senior Consultant/Architect
Tech Mahindra
12.2006 - 07.2007
- Company Overview: (IT Consulting)
- Lead SOA design methodology realization (agile practice)
- Developed internal guidelines for SOA projects
- Performed feature analysis of SOA platform from IBM, BEA, Oracle, and Microsoft
- Worked in Java based framework
- (IT Consulting)
Senior Associate/ Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2005 - 11.2006
- Company Overview: (IT Consulting)
- Developed and Reviewed Code Analysis pattern
- Designed and implemented the standard API interface using EJBs on BEA WebLogic platform for connecting with various external systems
- Used EJB design patterns
- Presented to C-Level executives and IT staff at customers of various code analysis tools
- Involved in POC’s for code coverage tool like Emma and IntelliJ IDEA
- Design and develop various custom interface using Java and .Net
- (IT Consulting)
Senior Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
09.2003 - 10.2005
- Company Overview: (IT Consulting)
- Responsible for planning, scheduling, analysis, and design
- Responsible for requirement gathering, design, server-side coding using Struts, Servlets, EJB, JMS and JSP
- Maintaining source code, script files, design documents in VSS
- Getting report requirements and preparing design documents
- Develop Apache POI reports and integrate them with Java applications
- Requirement analysis
- Development and enhancements for Audit tool
- Written Unix scripts to upload files and load/unload data in database tables
- Written PL/SQL procedures and done database tuning
- Designing new modules (Enhancements) using J2EE architecture
- (IT Consulting)
Software Engineer
IGATE Solutions
06.2000 - 09.2003
- Company Overview: (IT Consulting)
- Worked on JSP, Java Servlets, struts Framework and J2EE technologies
- Discuss, code, implement business rules and handle all issues related to Data Entry module
- Prepared Technical Design documents and Test Cases
- (IT Consulting)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Master’s degree - Financial study, Project/Program management, statistical models, Negotiations
Penn State University
Skills
- Java
- PL/SQL
- J2EE
- SOA
- Restful APIs
- Cloud Native platforms
- Python
- net
- Oracle
- SQL server
- DevOps using Jenkins
- Public cloud (AWS and Azure)
- Jira
- Scrum
- MS projects
- Budget estimation
- Resource planning and forecasting
- Negotiations
- Word
- Excel
- Power point
- MS Office
Professionaloverview
Over 22 years of professional IT experience in program and people management, IT design and development, system integration architecture, enterprise architecture, application architecture and development, data frameworks, project management and cloud architecture. Currently working as a Senior Manager in Citizens bank leading the commercial lending platform (asset based and bilateral loans) and managing the digital strategy for the commercial banking portfolio. Experience in managing large diverse team across the globe. 10+ years’ experience in lead architect role including public cloud and 3-tier applications. 5+ years of real time experience in working with big organization doing large scale cloud migrations. 8+ experience as people manager managing team of managers, architects, scrum master, application developers and DevSecops engineers. AWS and Azure cloud certifications. Experience in Vendor negotiations and talking to senior C-level executives. 6+ years of real time experience working in public, private and Hybrid cloud. 8+ years of experience in IT consulting including 3 years’ experience working with presales. Good Business Knowledge in HealthCare, Insurance, Financial and Banking Domain. Leading and managing large programs (2M+ budget). Experience working with project managers, finance team and scrum master’s for estimates, resource planning, budget forecasting and planning. 10+ years’ experience in software development including Java and .net Stack. 8+ years’ experience working in Agile and Scrum model. Strong technical background in development and architecture. 1+ year of experience in machine learning and generative AI technologies.
Timeline
Senior Manager
Citizens Bank
10.2021 - Current
Vice President – Senior Architect and Manager
Barclays International
10.2019 - 10.2021
Lead Solution Architect
American International Group (AIG)
11.2013 - 10.2019
Senior IT Engineering Lead
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Insurance
10.2010 - 10.2013
Lead Technical Consultant/Solution Architect
Perficient Inc
08.2007 - 10.2010
Senior Consultant/Architect
Tech Mahindra
12.2006 - 07.2007
Senior Associate/ Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2005 - 11.2006
Senior Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
09.2003 - 10.2005
Software Engineer
IGATE Solutions
06.2000 - 09.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Master’s degree - Financial study, Project/Program management, statistical models, Negotiations
Penn State University