Divya Mohan

Director of Engineering

Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia17 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in software solutions.
Expert in building high-performing teams.
Strong focus on operational excellence and innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with strong leadership and product management capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical DeliveryProduct ManagementBusiness AnalysisProduct Ownership

Other Skills

API ManagementAccountingAgile MethodologiesBackup SolutionsBookkeepingBusiness StrategyBusiness bankingCareer DevelopmentCoachingCommunicationConfluenceConsultingCritical ThinkingDigital TransformationEntrepreneurship

About

As an Engineering Manager at Coles, I oversee multiple squads, driving cloud-based solutions, operational excellence, and technology roadmaps. With 17 years of experience in software solutions, I bring a strong technical foundation and strategic insight to leadership. I take pride in building engaged, high-performing teams by leading recruitment efforts and focusing on professional development. I lead cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. By promoting the "you build it, you run it" philosophy, I empower teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and innovative solutions aligned with business goals. I ensure operational excellence by monitoring SLAs, addressing incidents quickly, and optimizing system performance. My strategic contributions include aligning technical delivery with business objectives and partnering with stakeholders and product managers to define roadmaps. With a focus on building high-performing teams and balancing innovation with risk management, I am well-equipped to navigate technical challenges and drive impactful outcomes. Outside work, I run my little side hustles like publishing children’s books and developing apps to help people enhance their social-emotional skills etc.

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Coles

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Hybrid

As an Engineering Manager, I lead multiple sqads responsible for critical organizational platforms: 1. the APIM (API Management) platform, which facilitates the seamless discovery, publication, consumption, and management of APIs, 2. the Eventing Platform, a central hub for organizational events, and 3. microservices development. My role encompasses technical delivery, team leadership, and strategic alignment to ensure these platforms enable scalability, reliability, and innovation across the organization.
I oversee recruitment, onboarding, and team development, setting clear goals to foster growth and maintain high performance. By refining processes and implementing best practices, I ensure operational efficiency and alignment with business objectives. I also play a key role in navigating organizational changes by conducting assessments of people and processes, identifying gaps, and driving improvements to meet strategic needs.
In partnership with stakeholders, I bridge business and technical perspectives to deliver high-quality, scalable APIs and a robust Eventing Platform. These efforts support seamless integration, and drive Coles’ digital transformation initiatives. My leadership focuses on empowering teams, promoting accountability, and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

CommunicationPeople ManagementInterpersonal SkillsLeadershipProject Management

Senior Business Analyst & Product Manager

Nov 2020 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

Gita way

Founder - Gita Way startup

Apr 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

As the founder of Gita Way, I led the product management and development of an app designed to enhance social-emotional skills through practical applications of timeless wisdom. My responsibilities included defining the product vision, overseeing UX design to create a seamless user experience, managing software development for high-quality delivery, and collaborating with partners to expand reach. I also spearheaded marketing and advertising strategies to promote the app, driving user acquisition and engagement, while managing finances to ensure sustainable growth. Leading a small team, I honed my people management skills and gained valuable expertise in product innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering impactful solutions in a competitive market.

EntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Myob

Business Analyst and Product Owner

May 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Melbourne, Australia

Delivering Transaction Processing capability for accountants and bookkeepers.
Requirements elicitation with the Product team and Designers to make informed decisions to solve customer problems with the right solutions.
Using the Scrum framework to breakdown features into epics and stories, prioritize them, estimate, plan, deliver, review, retrospect, and showcase to continuously deliver and improve our solutions to meet customer needs.
Making data-driven decisions using data analytics.

CommunicationPeople ManagementInterpersonal SkillsBusiness AnalysisProduct Ownership

Thoughtworks

Consultant Software Engineer and Business Analyst

Sep 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Melbourne, Australia

Transitioned to a Business Analyst/Iteration manager role with the passion towards delivering the best value to our customers incrementally.
Delivered a complex business banking feature for NAB bankers, successfully in my new role as a BA/IM with a team of 4-6 developers, 1 quality engineer and a tech lead. Faced several challenges like changing team members, additional scope and delay in external team engagements. Handled them gracefully by creating risk mitigation plans and through time-scope negotiations.
Conducted workshops to discover the proposed product and facilitated inception activities including user journey, user story map, estimations, planned velocity and release plan. Delivered features by breaking down features, writing user stories, prioritising, backlog grooming, defining acceptance criteria, planning sprints, resolving dependencies, retrospecting and showcasing.

CommunicationPeople ManagementInterpersonal SkillsBusiness AnalysisProduct Ownership

Hewlett-packard

Software Designer

Oct 2013 – May 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, India

Achievements:
Received funding from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to work on the idea that I pitched (Backup Strategy Planner) after several rounds of voting and evaluation. It was an opportunity to execute lean startup methodology, do customer validations and develop a minimum viable product (which was later completely productised by my team for our customers). Received awards from several executives in this journey. An article is posted on HP innovation site, on the story behind this idea.
Part of Hackathon team that won the first prize for best application. The project aimed at creating a new web-based GUI for Data Protector. The POC of application was further developed and presented to higher management who would like to incorporate it in Data Protector’s product roadmap.
One of the white papers that I wrote for Parasparam - a big technology event in HP India, received an honorary mention.

Samsung mobile

Lead Engineer

Jul 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Achievements:
Chosen to coordinate between development, testing and build teams in Head Quarters (South Korea) and Bangalore to successfully release applications for Tizen 2.0 commercialization. Accomplished the critical role for duration of around 4 months in Suwon, South Korea.
Worked on one of the most time constrained projects (Memo Application Development) and delivered quality code that gained appreciation from Head Quarters, while being completely new to Samsung and Tizen platform.
Drafted DOI for one of my given ideas (a context-based application) that was selected for patenting. Also, selected as one of the few members of the committee formed for brainstorming new application ideas for Samsung.

Nokia

Software Engineer

Jul 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

Achievements:
Attained Spot Award from the cluster head. This award is given when the employee has acted as a role model according to Nokia Values.
Played a vital role as a mentor for new team members to get familiarised with technical issues of team.
Appreciated by management for voluntary activities initiated: re-skilling program during transfer from Nokia to Accenture. Designed and conducted training program on “Basics of Windows Phone7 Application development”.