Amitava Samadder
@user.2514463
Technical Program Manager | SAFe SPC | PMP | ITIL Expert | 20+ Years in IT Delivery
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Amitava Samadder is an IT Technical Program Manager with over 20 years of experience delivering product solutions across Banking, Healthcare Insurance, Retail, and Logistics domains for global clients including American Express, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Capital District Physicians Health Plan. He holds certifications including PMP, RMP, ACP, SAFe SPC, CSPO, CSM, PRINCE2, and ITIL Expert, and brings deep expertise in Agile/SAFe delivery, digital modernisation, mainframe to Java migration, and E2E test management.
Experience
Technical Program Manager
Capital District Physicians Health Plan (CDPHP)
Leading Service Now support (Problem/Incident/Change Management) for Application Operations and Core Platforms. Monitoring daily batch operations, establishing EOPs, and communicating status to stakeholders. Technologies: AWS, Azure, .NET, MySQL, Oracle DB, ServiceNow, Tableau, Power BI.
Technical Program/Project Manager (PMO)
Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH)
Led health plan IT projects across Medicare Migration, Commercial Enrollment, Health Plan Claims and Benefit Enrollment. Facilitated scrum ceremonies, managed Kanban boards in Azure DevOps, and coordinated cloud strategy for AXIOM migration.
Technical Program Manager
FedEx Corporation
Managed cross-functional Agile development teams (Mainframe and Open Source) to deliver strategic projects. Prioritised Agile team capabilities to meet SLAs and KPIs; managed vendor partners and produced project status reports.
Digital Modernisation Architect / Delivery Manager
State of Ohio / Georgia Technology Authority / Ingram Micro
Drove Mainframe to Java modernisation; analysed source code, removed dead code, converted CICS screens to Angular JS/React JS using Exit Legacy tooling. Developed software requirements documents and workflow diagrams.
Technical Project Manager
American Express
Managed Agile Loyalty Portfolio and large Value Streams. Coordinated Pre-PI and PI planning, features grooming, SIT and UAT environments, E2E test data management across multiple application teams using JIRA, Rally, and Selenium.
Technical Project Manager / Digital Modernisation Architect
Anthem Inc. / New York Life Insurance / American Express
Converted legacy Enterprise Pricing Engine (EPE) for Claims portfolio; managed Provider Enrollment, Billing and Payments journeys; defined project scope, staffing, and resource plans for multi-stakeholder agile teams.
Education
Jadavpur University
Bachelor of Production Engineering
Production Engineering
Computer Programming I - UNIX Architecture, Shell Scripting; Computer Programming II - C, C++ programming techniques; Object Oriented Programming - Core concepts of Java programming techniques; Computer Projects - Databases, their architecture, commands, and execution; Control System - Logic to build and develop to achieve desired functionality; Quality Control, Assurance & Reliability - Quality Control techniques, industry standards, Audits, Inspections etc.; Operation Research & Optimization - Techniques of optimized method conducting work to ensure desired results; Robotics Technology - Basics of AI at entry level; Product & System Graphics - Methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content; Financial Management & Cost Control - Gain Market responsiveness and drive through performance; Project Planning & Appraisal - Project planning and its evaluation.
Licenses & Certifications
PMP - Project Management Professional
PMI
RMP - Risk Management Professional
PMI
ACP - Agile Certified Practitioner
PMI
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
Scaled Agile
SAFe Agilist (SA)
Scaled Agile
SAFe Practitioner (SP)
Scaled Agile
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
PRINCE2 Practitioner
AXELOS
PRINCE2 Foundation
AXELOS
ITIL v3 Expert Certificate in IT Service Management
AXELOS