Open to engineering & technology leadership opportunities

Technical Engineering Leader

AI & Digital Transformation

I lead complex technology and engineering initiatives at the intersection of enterprise technology, AI and digital transformation — connecting strategy, engineering execution and business outcomes. 18+ years across enterprise platforms, cloud and integration, Agile engineering delivery and large-scale transformation programmes.

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Enterprise Experience

Employers

IBM
Persistent Systems
HCLTech
Tech Mahindra

Enterprise Clients

British Telecom
Indiana University
Vodafone Idea
National Grid UK
Selected Certifications
PMPPMP®Project Management Professional
DASSMPMI-DASSM™Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master
AZMicrosoft CertifiedAzure AI Transformation Leader
P2PRINCE2®Project Management Certification

IBM AI Everywhere Winner

Recognized for building innovative AI solutions that solve real business challenges.

Avg. Stakeholder NPS · 9/10
25+
Client Appreciations
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Leadership Capabilities

What I lead

Five leadership dimensions that combine engineering depth with enterprise technology, AI and transformation — the way I turn business problems into technology outcomes.

Engineering Leadership

Leading engineering and cross-functional teams through technical decision-making, delivery execution and engineering governance.

Engineering team leadershipTechnical deliveryEngineering executionCross-functional leadershipTechnical decision-makingEngineering governance

Enterprise Technology

Enterprise platforms, integration ecosystems and cloud modernisation across complex, regulated environments.

Enterprise platformsSystem integrationCloud transformationMicroservicesAPI & integration ecosystemsDevSecOpsTechnology modernisation

AI & GenAI

Framing where AI creates value, then leading responsible adoption, enablement and enterprise experimentation.

AI strategyGenAI adoptionAI use-case identificationAI-enabled solutionsResponsible AIAI governanceAI experimentation

Digital Transformation

Transformation strategy and operating-model evolution that turns modernisation effort into realised value.

Transformation strategyOperating model evolutionProcess modernisationPlatform transformationEnterprise changeValue realisation

Agile & Delivery Leadership

Agile engineering practices and release-train leadership that keep large, distributed delivery predictable.

Agile transformationScrumSAFeRelease Train leadershipProgram deliveryPortfolio coordinationContinuous value delivery
How I create value
  1. 1Business problem
  2. 2Strategy
  3. 3Engineering
  4. 4Technology & AI
  5. 5Execution
  6. 6Outcome

Program and delivery leadership remains a core capability within this broader engineering and technology leadership portfolio.

Business Impact

What I have delivered

Engineering, platform and transformation outcomes across enterprise environments — framed as challenge → leadership → outcome.

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Stakeholder Satisfaction

Led Platform Agile Release Train of 70+ engineers

Challenge
Fragmented delivery across multiple squads with unclear cadence and mounting dependencies.
Leadership
Established a SAFe Platform ART, aligned PI planning, and coached tech leads on outcome-based delivery.
Outcome
Predictable release cadence, dependency risk reduced quarter-on-quarter, engineering velocity restored.
SAFe 6PI PlanningDevOps

Managed $3M+ strategic technology portfolio

Challenge
Competing enterprise priorities with limited capacity and executive scrutiny on ROI.
Leadership
Ran quarterly portfolio reviews, ruthless prioritisation and executive stakeholder alignment.
Outcome
Portfolio delivered on budget with clear line-of-sight from spend to business KPIs.
Portfolio MgmtExecutive ReportingOKRs

Delivered National Grid UK data platform transformation

Challenge
Legacy data estate blocking analytics, AI adoption and regulatory reporting.
Leadership
Owned end-to-end programme from architecture to rollout, partnering across engineering, data and business.
Outcome
Modernised data platform enabling AI use cases, faster reporting and enterprise-wide data trust.
Data PlatformCloudAI Enablement

Migrated 65+ enterprise APIs to a modern integration stack

Challenge
Ageing integration layer creating outages, cost overhead and slow partner onboarding.
Leadership
Orchestrated migration across IIB, DataPower and ELK — sequencing risk, capacity and cutover.
Outcome
APIs modernised with improved observability, reliability and partner time-to-integrate.
IIBDataPowerELK

Achieved 9/10 stakeholder satisfaction across programmes

Challenge
Executive stakeholders demanding transparency, velocity and predictable outcomes.
Leadership
Instituted crisp status narratives, risk-based reporting and proactive escalation loops.
Outcome
Sustained 9/10 satisfaction, repeat engagement, and expanded scope on strategic accounts.
Stakeholder MgmtReportingGovernance

Winner — IBM AI Everywhere Hackathon

Challenge
Rapidly prototype an enterprise-grade AI use case within a compressed hackathon window.
Leadership
Framed the problem, assembled the team, and led the build and executive pitch.
Outcome
Winning solution recognised for business relevance and technical execution.
Generative AIPrototypingStorytelling

AI Innovation & Transformation

Challenge
Delivery teams needed practical, governed ways to apply AI beyond experiments.
Leadership
Led enterprise AI Proof of Concept initiatives and promoted practical adoption of AI across delivery teams.
Outcome
Winner of the IBM AI Everywhere Challenge (Best Overall POC — 2026), with AI-assisted software engineering enabled using enterprise AI tools.
Enterprise AIGenAIAI-Assisted SDLC
Artificial Intelligence • Innovation • Business Solutions

Business Solutions

A growing portfolio of enterprise AI solutions developed to validate business opportunities, demonstrate innovation and accelerate digital transformation.

These solutions showcase how emerging AI technologies can be applied to solve practical enterprise challenges, improve decision-making and unlock measurable business value across industries.

Governance Assurance Dashboard

Proof of Concept
Automated Governance Artifacts Review System
Business Opportunity
Enterprise technology programmes generate large volumes of architecture, design, security, integration and delivery artifacts. Reviewing these consistently against governance expectations can be time-consuming and difficult to scale.
Solution
A governance assurance POC that provides a structured assessment experience for submitted enterprise artifacts, surfacing potential governance gaps through a consolidated dashboard view.
Business Value
Demonstrates how AI-assisted governance assurance could evolve from manual artifact reviews toward a more consistent, scalable and transparent assessment model.
AI GovernanceArtifact AssessmentEnterprise AssuranceDigital Transformation
ReactTypeScriptAIGovernanceEnterprise

Enterprise Flood Risk Intelligence Platform

Proof of Concept
National Grid UK
Business Opportunity
Utility organisations need proactive visibility of flood risk to critical infrastructure for operational planning, resilience and asset protection.
Solution
An AI-powered geospatial intelligence platform combining environmental, weather and mapping datasets into an interactive decision-support experience.
Business Value
Turns publicly available data into actionable operational intelligence, enabling faster planning and improved situational awareness.
UtilitiesEnergyCritical InfrastructureGovernment
ReactTypeScriptLeafletChart.jsAIGIS
AI & Innovation

Leading AI, not just using it

Strategy → Adoption → Delivery → Innovation: how I lead the adoption and application of AI to solve enterprise problems, with proofs of concept clearly distinguished from production systems.

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AI Strategy

Helping organisations identify where AI can create measurable business value, align AI initiatives to enterprise priorities, and establish practical transformation roadmaps.

Enterprise AI StrategyAI TransformationBusiness ValueAI GovernanceResponsible AIAI Opportunity Identification
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AI Adoption

Driving enterprise AI adoption through structured enablement, practical use cases and leadership engagement — helping teams move from AI experimentation to sustainable business outcomes.

Enterprise AI AdoptionGenAI AdoptionAI Agent EnablementChange & AdoptionAI Skills EnablementResponsible AI
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AI-Assisted Delivery

Modernising software delivery through AI-assisted engineering, GenAI and enterprise AI platforms — leveraging GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, IBM BOB and enterprise AI platforms to modernise delivery practices and improve engineering efficiency.

AI-Assisted SDLCGitHub CopilotMicrosoft CopilotIBM BOBGenAIAI AgentsEngineering Productivity
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AI Innovation

Turning AI opportunities into practical enterprise proofs of concept and solutions that demonstrate innovation, technical execution and measurable business value. Winner of the IBM AI Everywhere Challenge (2026) for delivering the Best Overall AI Proof of Concept.

AI Proofs of ConceptGenAI SolutionsAI AgentsRapid PrototypingEnterprise AI Use CasesBusiness Value
Explore Business Solutions
AI Toolkit
AI Platforms & Tools
Microsoft CopilotGitHub CopilotClaudeIBM BOBAzure AI
AI Delivery & Transformation
GenAIAI AgentsAI-Assisted SDLCEnterprise AI AdoptionAI Agent EnablementEnterprise AI Strategy

Interested in Enterprise AI Transformation?

Open to engineering and technology leadership roles spanning AI transformation, enterprise platforms, digital modernisation and large-scale engineering delivery.

Experience

Technology to engineering leadership

18+ years across four global employers — a progression from hands-on engineering through technical delivery and transformation into engineering and technology leadership.

Mar 2024 — PresentPromotion

Technical Program Manager

IBM · India

Lead strategic technical programmes across AI, Data and Cloud initiatives for global enterprise clients — translating executive vision into shipped outcomes.

AIProgram ManagementStrategy
Jun 2023 — Mar 2024Promotion

Release Train Engineer

IBM · India

Orchestrated a SAFe Agile Release Train — PI planning, cross-team dependencies and delivery cadence across a platform of 70+ engineers.

SAFeARTAgile
Jan 2017 — Sep 2023Promotion

Techno Manager

IBM · Pune, India

Led self-organising Scrum teams delivering a telecom integration platform on IIB, DataPower and ELK. Advisory reviewer on strategic IBM accounts including Sunlife Birla and Bank of Baroda.

IIBDataPowerELKTelecom
Aug 2014 — Dec 2016

Tech Lead

IBM · Pune, India

Delivered Java, Spring and Hibernate solutions with modern DevOps tooling — cultivating high-performing teams focused on business outcomes.

JavaSpringDevOps
May 2012 — Aug 2014

Consultant

HCL Technologies

Advised enterprise clients on application delivery, embedding engineering rigour and agile practice into complex environments.

ConsultingEnterprise
Sep 2010 — Mar 2012

Module Lead

Persistent Systems

Led module-level delivery — design, build and quality — for product-engineering engagements.

Product Engineering
Aug 2007 — Aug 2010

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra

Built and shipped enterprise applications — laying the engineering foundation for a career of programme leadership.

JavaFoundations
Recognition & Leadership Endorsements

Recognised for outcomes, endorsed by leaders

Your ability to see the bigger picture, identify dependencies and potential issues, and ensure smooth operations across the ART has been fantastic. Your clear and concise communication style has helped us all understand the new ways of working, giving us the assurance we needed to carry out our tasks with confidence. I also appreciate your willingness to coach and support me, as well as our bosses and peers. Your facilitation skills are excellent, and you have led our meetings, workshops, and other events with professionalism and productivity.

NPS 10/10
David Basusi
Integration Platform Manager
National Grid UK

Thanks for all your continued help and support, you have been great to work alongside.

NPS 10/10
Mark Bustin
Platform Director
National Grid UK

I think you've been able to guide us through the adoption of the SAFe Agile ways of working admirably. This approach has been new for all of us and has been frustrating at times, but you've managed to calmly and concisely explain the principles and coach us through the process.

NPS 9/10
Mark Simmons
IoT Platform Manager
National Grid UK

You've never criticised, instead you fully embrace the 'continual improvement' philosophy. You are very collaborative, like to get people involved and encourage others, and therefore you are a pleasure to work with!

NPS 9/10
Russ Fowler
Senior Architect – IoT Platform
National Grid UK

Excerpts from written stakeholder appreciation emails and Net Promoter Score (NPS) feedback received during programme delivery.

Contact

Let's build engineering and AI-led transformation together

Open to engineering leadership, technology transformation and technical program leadership roles across enterprise technology, AI/GenAI, cloud and digital modernisation.

mohit.profession@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/mohitmakhija2+91 98504 41443
Pune, India
Available · Open to engineering & technology leadership opportunities
Preferred Leadership Roles
Technical Program ManagerEnterprise AI Transformation LeaderData Platform Delivery LeaderCloud & Digital Modernisation LeadAgile Release Train Engineer
DomainsAI · Data · Cloud · Digital
EngagementFull-time · Client-facing