Abhinav Mathur

Professional Profile:

A motivated, pragmatic, decisive and proactive Agile Coach and Scrum master with extensive experience in Agile Digital transformations in Financial services and Banking.

Key Successess 

 Demonstrated success in implementing Agile Practices  large programmes of work within Agile transformations.

Implemented Best in class Devops and Engineering practices to reduce technical debt and proactively sustain Quality.

Technical knowledge – Digital transformation, Java technologies, JIRA, ALM, DevOps, RESTful web services, BDD, TDD, continuous build/integration/delivery, Subversion, Atlassian toolset, MS project, Plainview project planning tool & Quality centre.

Qualifications & Training:

•  PMI Agile Certified Practitioner – in progress.
•  Certified Prince 2.
• CSPO - Scrum Alliance
• Leading SAFe 
• Certified SCRUM master – Scrumalliance
•  AGILE project Management, Learning tree.
• Software Project Management, Learning tree.
• Foundations of Management, VocaLink.
• Recruitment & performance management Accreditation, VocaLink.
• RUP methodology, Servista UK.
• Java Programming Language, SUN Microsystems.

Professional Experience:

Discover Financial Services - Agile team coach and Senior Scrum master - Servant leadership of highly technical teams in an scaled Agile framework.

 

Managed UAT with Business stakeholders, production deployment/cutover for project releases and mobilization of business analysts, build and operation support resources for post go-live support.

Collaborated with the Product Owner in shaping/defining the Product Backlog, MVP and set up Sprint Teams for Agile delivery of solution through time boxed [2 weeks] iterations.

Championed Agile and continuous process improvement.

 

Lloyds Banking Group. Sept. 2015 - Senior Scrum master - Digital Transformation Banking (Account On boarding) FCA – Savings Market Review July 2016 – till date A regulatory and compliance programme initiated in response to FCA recommendations on transparency of the saving products. The compliant changes on savings products customer journeys encompassed all LBG brands ( BoS, Halifax, Lloyds & TSB) and Channels ( branch, internet banking , tablets and mobile).

Key responsibilities  Responsible for hands on End-2-End Agile Digital delivery.

Manage senior business stakeholders across multiple product lines and build relationships with sponsors to facilitate a partnership approach.  Attended weekly steering committee meetings with senior stakeholders [Program /Product / Delivery Directors] to provide programme status.

 Matrixed management of Agile feature teams including BA’s, Solution Architects, UX, content specialists, Technical leads, Junior PM’s, test leads & Scrum masters / delivery leads.

 Close liaison with the business community for requirements gathering and UAT, technical groups & operations within Bank and with external vendors.

 Plan and manage the roll out of changes to LBG lines of business and channels

.Track and report project financial budget forecasts, ensuring that variances are proactively managed and resolved in a timely manner.

 Managed UAT with Business stakeholders, production deployment/cutover for project releases and mobilization of business analysts, build and operation support resources for post go-live support.

Collaborated with the Product Owner in shaping/defining the Product Backlog, MVP and set up Sprint Teams for Agile delivery of solution through time boxed [2 weeks] iterations.

Championed Agile and continuous process improvement.

 

Programme Delivery Manager 2013 - Sept. 2015 Key responsibilities

   Responsible for IT change, such that the solution is Scoped, defined, designed, developed, tested and deployed in accordance with the agreed cost, quality, schedule and governance.

Manage multiple development teams in both waterfall and Agile methodology, which included architects, development managers / SCRUM masters, business analysts, testers and developers.

 Managing the operating cost / budget of the programme / projects.

 Regularly attend / conduct Programme Board, Go-No-Go meetings, priority call meetings, escalations within the programme, resource constraints discussions, initiate/attend planning sessions to represent the delivery teams.

 Maintaining and commissioning technology and product delivery roadmaps within effective change control.

 Influencing continuous improvement culture applying agile practices and principals through requirement gathering, slicing the stories, backlog maintenance, prioritization, planning and helping teams to focus on delivery and removing their impediments.

Internal consulting skills to business and programmes with respect to solution design, feasibility, overall IT costings and delivery plan.

Development Manager /Scrum Master [ VocaLink -various programmes / business units ] 2008 – 2013

Key responsibilities

 Responsible for development delivery for Vocalink's payment and government services like Aservices (BACS), LINK ATM Card Services, FPS, HMRC and DWP using geographically distributed teams.

 Line management of highly skilled technical team following Agile and waterfall methodology.

 Release planning including the production of detailed release tasks, dry run and back out plans as well as impact analysis of releases on other projects.

 Actively involved in introducing and organising quality assurance activities such as performance testing, system integration testing, security testing, operational readiness and include them to delivery life cycle.

Facilitated the generation of the agile story map to help identify external dependencies, key stakeholders and potential project risks

 Engage with business analysts to understand requirements and present solutions (including prototyping and overall technical feasibility).

Manage the overall technical and project delivery risk and governance through quality gates, architectural reviews, metrics collection and analysis.