Amit Vij Email & Phone Number

London, Greater London, GB

London, London, GB

• Leading Engineering excellence for Portfolio of 4 strategic product groups – Personalisation, Mobile App, Loyalty and Banking – Total of 25 Squads (65 Perms, 100+ Partners), £39M budget.
• Scaling Omni channel Personalisation using In-house and partner platforms with 50% interactions personalised and £265M annualised revenue generation.
• Designing In-house loyalty platform (Sparks for M&S) to scale users from 7M to 16M in 2 years, with £1.5M annual Opex savings.
• Leading and Architecting Data event platform enabling omni-channel Personalisation -increasing Real time availability of data and reducing latency for in-session personalisation by 75%, £1.2M annual savings and 2800.
• Increasing Engineering productivity by over 20% and NPS by +18 adopting XP practices.
• Championing Engineering Excellence and Devops maturity by reaching Elite DORA on 80% applications at M&S.

London, England, GB

• Managing SDLC and Tech Strategy across 8 strategic products- Eurostar.com(B2C & B2B), Mobile App, Personalization, E-commerce platform, Checkout, Hotels, Manage your Booking & Snap -60 people (12 perm and 48.
• Leading Digital Transformation and Cloud migration of Eurostar.com(B2C & B2B) ecosystem to Responsive Digital platform and AWS. Migrated from Drupal monolith to 7 microsites, native mobile app & 75 microservices within.
• Designing and Architecting a innovative greenfield digital channel named Snap for new customer segment with a contributing revenue of 3% in 2 years.
• Building Inhouse Development team from scratch with over 135 people with £2.3 Opex savings.
• Championing Engineering and operational excellence, reaching Elite DORA on 100% products.
• Migration from legacy JS framework to React for all web applications, reaching Green core web vitals and AA accessibility standards.

• Leading Technical and Agile Delivery of 4 Squads (Ecommerce, API Management, Microsoft CRM Dynamics & SRE) -28 members (Line Manager for 11).
• Championing the Agile transformation of whole IT organisation from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum, coaching over 250 people.
• Introduction of XP practices improving developer productivity by 25% in 6 months.
• Leading development of central Ecommerce platform consisting of Description, Basket, Checkout - saving £450k per application and 6 months of development time.
• Creating Development team across 3 Geographies driving savings of £750K annually.
• Leading Agile Community of Practice across 30 Squads.

• Scrum Master for 4 teams(.Net & Java based teams) for a total of 19 members spread in 4 geographies.
• Managing the core suite of 4 products with a proven track record of delivering 4 releases before delivery date and multiple releases on time.
• Achieving Company Excellence (ACE) Award, Pitney Bowes in recognition for commitment to Agile Development and Scrum Methodology resulting in continuous delivery of releases
• Responsible for Designing and implementing release strategy – with Infrastructural requirements, build platform changes, regression tests integration, test automation and software deployment requirements.
• Managing Localisation of Product to 9 foreign languages with 3rd party vendor.

• 7 years extensive experience of Full Stack Development (C#, C++, C, SQL) on Client–Server applications, covering whole product development lifecycle. (Design to Deployment)
• Building the DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and Observability for whole software estate in 9 Host platforms.

• System & Technical support to over 40 Blue Chip clients – for UNIX, SQL & VMS base system.
• Specialist in end to end Warehouse Management Solutions.
• Bug fixing of software related issues using C++.
• Daily health checks on client servers based on various platforms.

• Website Development including ASP Coding, Microsoft IIS web server setup, graphic designing and image manipulation.
• Liaising with customers to get design requirements and provide documentation.
• Devising plans and implementation of company wide information systems.

Executive Mba, Operations, Finance, International Business, Marketing

Beng(Hons), Computer Software, Computer Hardware, Networking, Communications, Telematics.