Kiranmaye Cartier

Experienced and results-driven Senior Agile Leader with over 23 years of expertise in managing and scaling Agile teams, driving large scale transformations, delivering digital products, and driving organizational transformations. 

Proven expertise in agile methodologies, including SAFe, Scrum, and Lean, with a strong focus on delivering customer-centric solutions, fostering collaboration, and enabling continuous improvement across teams. 

Specializing in fostering high-performance teams, leading complex digital transformations, and managing high-impact projects. 

Adept at collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product design, and business leaders and senior stakeholders to ensure consistent delivery of exceptional digital experiences across platforms.

A leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, passionate about improving mindset, processes and driving operational efficiency and elevating the customer experience.

Expleo Group

Senior Program Project Manager | Business Agility Consultant
February 2024 – Present

• Operated as an Agile SME, leading the design and implementation of bespoke Agile operating models for large-scale organizational transformation.
• Led multiple complex digital transformation projects, utilizing both Agile and Waterfall approaches to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality digital products.
• Coached and mentored delivery teams, focusing on the adoption of Agile practices while ensuring smooth project execution from initiation to delivery.
• Drove continuous improvement in delivery processes, ensuring enhanced user and business outcomes.
• Contributed and collaborated in Agile Coach Communities of Practice (COPs), fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organization

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK)

Project Manager – Financial Services, Regulatory, Compliance
May 2024 – Present

• Led the end -end project delivery of compliance and regulatory projects from project initiation to delivery and BAU activities, ensuring that Agile mindset and methodologies were successfully applied across cross-functional teams 
• Led and developed cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and seamless product delivery.
• Utilized data-driven insights to monitor and improve delivery processes, leading to measurable business outcomes and effective risk & dependency management.
• Introduced data-driven dashboards to provide actionable insights on release performance and testing effectiveness.
• Led Testing and Release Management teams to ensure seamless compliance with CSRD timelines.

Kagool

Head of Agile | Senior Program Manager
April 2022 – February 2024

• Designed and facilitated the implementation of a customized Agile operating model to support the digital transformation of the organization.
• Mentored Agile leads, senior managers, and product managers in adopting Lean and scaled Agile principles, driving business value and efficiency.
• Led large scale digital transformation projects within the organization, focusing on delivering user-centered digital solutions using Agile excellence.
• Managed a growing team of Delivery Managers and Agile Coaches, ensuring alignment with business objectives and consistent digital product delivery.
• Contributed to the development of Agile performance metrics and key risk indicators, enhancing team performance and risk management across the enterprise.
• Led cross-functional teams in the adoption of Agile frameworks and conitnous improvement, ensuring alignment with user needs and business objectives.

Burendo

Senior Agile Project Manager/Senior Scrum Master
January 2022 – April 2022

• Working as a Servant Leader promoting self-organisation within teams and facilitate Scrum team events and ceremonies- - sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog grooming.
• Led agile teams to deliver digital products with a focus on user experience and business impact.
• Successfully managed SAFe transformations across client organisations.

ETAS

SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) | SAFe Scrum Master
February 2019 – January 2022

• Work as a servant leader for the Agile Release trains and organising effective PI Planning events, ensuring continuous improvement in productivity and predictability of features and capabilities, producing value within cross functional, globally located teams in the Train. 
• Ensure efficient communication, transparency, visibility and traceability with stakeholders at all levels in the train and the business, escalation of impediments, help in ROAMing of risks, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. 
• Manage risks and dependencies in value streams, ensuring alignment between strategy and execution.
• Manage and optimize the flow of value across the Release Trains and communicates the annual calendars, organize and facilitates PI Planning, encouraging the preparation of Vision, Program and Team Level Backlogs by Pre and Post PI Planning meetings and PO Sync/ART Sync. Hold Scrum of Scrum meetings and ensure all scrum masters are aligned across the trains.
• Coach Business Owners, leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters/Team Coaches in Agile Release Train Events and Syncs and Agile lean mindset and methodologies to continuously improve and provide business value using industry standard DEVOPs continuous integration, release cycles.
• Ensured that digital solutions were aligned with customer requirements while facilitating continuous feedback loops and agile practices across teams.
• Successfully managed SAFe transformations across organisation.

Petards

Senior Technical Project Manager/Senior Scrum Master

February 2017 – October 2018

Linx Printing Technologies

Senior Technical Project Manager/Senior Scrum Master

October 2015 – October 2016

Hitachi Data Systems

Senior Software Engineer/ Scrum Master

August 2014 – October 2015

Imagination Technologies

Senior Technical Embedded Project Manager/ Scrum Master

November 2001 – August 2014

Pearson BTEC Level 5 Award - Management and Leadership (2021-2022)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering (1996 – 2000)