Arnab Bag

About Arnab Bag

PROFILE: MBA with 20+ years of IT leadership experience, driving business growth & delivering high-quality products. Expertise in identifying opportunities, developing teams & building customer relationships. Known for combining technical expertise with strategic vision to exceed objectives & customer expectations. IT Exp: 20 Yrs.(13 Yrs.@USA / 7 Yrs.@India)Organization: Northwestern MutualRole: Software Engineering Sr. ManagerPast Roles: Senior Team Lead | Technology Lead | Development Lead.RESPONSIBILITIES:• People Leadership: o Interview, hire & build new Scrum Teams. Mentor and guide team members. Lead the team with agility. o Proven track record of leading engineering teams & driving successful technology solutions. o Excellent collaboration skills, fostering strong partnerships between product, engineering & business teams.• Performance Development: o Lead people through goal setting, result extent, apt feedback & action-oriented review.• Delivery Leadership: o Provide leadership to meet milestones with quality results. Collaborate with stakeholders. o Provide technical guidance to the team via design, documentation, review & signoffs. o Lead ICAX Risk Servicing Core teams to meet Monitoring Best Practices & BDDA goals. o Represent ICAX Risk Servicing Core team as a single contact point for internal & external audits. o Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle & DevOps.• Strategic Planning & Execution: o Develop & execute long-term technology strategies aligned with business objectives. o Drive innovation, scalability & operational efficiency through initiatives aligned with organization goals. o Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define & implement roadmaps.PREVIOUS:• Senior Team Lead: Led multiple small Agile-Scrum teams as a senior lead person.• Development Lead: Led development and support of multiple small & large IT projects.• Deployment Lead: Led deployment of multiple small & large IT projects.• Business Demo Presenter: Presented & demonstrated sprint deliveries to business partners.• Tool Anchor: Anchored idea generation, automation & Tool creation programs across teams.• Onsite-offshore coordinator: Coordinated global delivery model & business liaison.TECH SKILLS:• Operating System: Windows, MVS• Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook• Language: PL/1, COBOL, JCL, SAS, CICS, PL/SQL• Database: DB2, Sybase, VSAM, SQL Server, Oracle, MQ• Tool: Changeman, CA7, Autosys, Control+M, Informatica, SSRS• Microsoft SharePoint, Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Cherwell, ServiceNow.

Experience

1. Manager Software Engineering

   Northwestern Mutual

   Jun 2020 — Present · Franklin, WI, US

   Manager Software Engineering, Risk Servicing, Insurance and Client Advocacy Experience• People Leadership: Interviewing, hiring and Building Team. Mentoring and guiding them. Leading the team with agility.• Performance Development: Leading people through goal setting, result extent, apt feedback and action oriented review.• Delivery Leadership: Providing leadership to meet milestones with quality results. Collaborating with stakeholders.

Education

• Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

  2001 — 2005

• University at Buffalo School of Management, The State University of New York

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management Information Systems, Data Analytics and LeaderCORE™

  2018 — 2020

Skills

• Batch Processing
• Production Implementation
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Sybase
• Development Lead
• Technology Lead
• Requirements Gathering
• Insurance
• Project Coordination
• Agile Application Development
• Change Management
• Data Warehousing
• Mvs
• Business Requirements
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Ca7
• Loma 290
• Job Scheduling
• Knowledge Transfer
• Sql
• Change Impact Analysis
• Informatica
• .net
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Power Exchange
• Team Mentoring
• Onsite-Offshore Delivery Model
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Tso
• Unit Testing
• Serena Changeman
• Powercenter
• Hpsm
• Loma 280
• Vsam
• Pl/1
• Release Management