Enterprise Architect

Nikhil Mehta *********@*****.*** Page *

Nikhil Mehta

*********@*****.*** ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljmehta ● 732-***-**** Enterprise Architect

● Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of experience in IT industry ● Experienced in strategy development by assessing enterprise landscape – look at “Big Picture” - and designing tactical as well as strategic solutions ● Track record of attaining business value by solving complex business problems and delivering digital transformation projects ● Expert cultivator and mentor of global cross-functional teams capable of delivering solutions amid challenging circumstances ● Professional skilled at building and maintaining relationships with Business and Technical community as well as Executives alike ● Savvy at managing direct reports as well as influencing stakeholders within matrix organizations ● Veteran Communicator capable of making professional presentations to C-level executives as well as business stakeholders ● Experience in:

• Financial Services • Supply Chain Management • Prime Services

• Business Architecture • Technical Architecture • Integration Architecture

• Agile Methodology • Software Engineering Best Practices • Change Management

• Framework Design • Team Building and Mentoring • Relationship Management Selected Accomplishments

• Led the analysis of Build vs. Buy to enhance confirmation matching ability of the FX Confirmation & Settlement system. Syndicated the recommended option of “Buy” and integrated with existing systems, translating in better TCO and keeping team focused on core competencies.

• Designed and implemented Deployment Model for cash security back-office system. Kept Client- agnostic Product-aware components in a central location and Product-agnostic Client-aware components located regionally. This resulted in cost-effective, highly available, scalable and disaster recoverable infrastructure footprint while meeting regulatory requirements.

• Devised program-level best practices in line with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices for continuous integration, static code analysis, and design reviews. Designed environments strategy and testing methodology for unit testing, integration testing and load & performance testing. Professional Experience

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Little Falls, NJ Senior Solutions Architect 2019-2020 Contributed towards strategy development for Digital Transformation to move the society from legacy monolithic system to best-of-breed SaaS solutions. Delivered solution architecture for the society, while cultivating relationships with business and IT stakeholders.

• Charted business case for implementation of the Enterprise Application Integration Platform, articulating the need for it, value it can deliver and savings that can be realized by eliminating legacy platforms. Prepared request for proposal and solicited feedback from development and operations group, leading to buy-in for the strategy.

• Articulated Digital transformation strategy while working with an external vendor conducting ASME’s readiness for Identity Access Management onboarding and reviewed various artifacts, ensuring on- time achievement of the enterprise goals.

• Architected Membership Renewal process as part of ASME’s rollout of new membership program, resulting in streamlined on-demand renewal process moving away from batch process. KPMG Global, Woodcliff Lake, NJ Senior Solutions Architect 2018-2019 Delivered solution architecture for Audit group applications while fostering relationships with various stakeholders including Solution Delivery group, Information Protection group (IPG), Cloud Central group, and Platforms team. Many of the solutions are hosted in Microsoft Azure and utilize Azure services. Nikhil Mehta *********@*****.*** Page 2

• Recommended long term strategy for flagship Audit platform - utilized by 150+ member firms around the world – to align with overall KPMG cloud strategy, progressing from on-premise to IaaS in Azure to utilization of containers and finally moving to PaaS, achieving consistent stack for on- premise or cloud-based installation.

• Partnered with Information Protection Group to evaluate various IaaS and PaaS services from security perspective, developed specific design patterns to ensure secure access, resulting in higher adoption of PaaS.

• Collaborated with development team to design solution architecture compliant with security requirements, resulting in smoother delivery.

Westcon Group, Tarrytown, NY Solutions Architect 2016-2018 Lead solution architecture across multiple flagship initiatives – Docker strategy, On-premise to Cloud migration, Renewals, Order Management and Automated quotes. Partnered with Cloud development team and IT Infrastructure leads to implement a Queuing mechanism, enabling evolution from point to point integrations to asynchronous integration architecture. Each initiative required matrix management, and consensus development across multiple teams.

• Developed strategy for adoption of Docker, streamlining challenges with resource utilization as well as environment management. Defined evaluation criteria for POC involving Docker Swarm for scalability.

• Consulted on an on-premise to AWS migration, realizing fault-tolerance and scalability goals. Eased migration to AWS by implementing like-for-like EC2 instances with a strategy in place to use RDS; improve security with VPC; design backup strategy using Storage Gateway and S3/Glacier.

• Envisioned and championed long-term IT strategy for Annuity Management platform, a key Digital Transformation initiative. Spearheaded development of the business architecture and requirements for Renewals platform in close partnership with the senior director of Support and Renewals, resulting in significantly improved re-engineered business process and loosely coupled architecture. Credit Suisse, New York, NY Lead Technical Architect 2013-2016 Designed Technical Architecture, Integration Architecture and Deployment Model for the multi-year,

$100 Million+ Global Securities Infrastructure (GSI) program. Evaluated new platforms and technologies, and provided recommendations. This was designed using Oracle Weblogic, Oracle 11g, IBM JRules, oBPM, IBM MQ Series, IBM Websphere Message Broker and Informatica B2B DT. Frameworks used included Eclipselink JPA, Spring Data, Junit, Apache CXF and AngularJS.

• Formulated baseline architecture following firm standards offering “Platform as a Service” for Messaging, Application server, RDBMS, Rules engine and Business Process Management engine, providing considerable cost savings. Designed and documented the same.

• Fostered collaboration with Functional Architecture, Central Architecture, Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS), Production Support, Legal & Compliance and Delivery teams, resulting in scalable, fault-tolerant and regulation-compliant supportable solution built on firm standard platforms.

• Showcased designed options for Deployment Model in collaboration with TIS; built evaluation model taking into account quantitative as well as qualitative criteria, leading to easy syndication of the recommended option at the program leadership level.

• Envisioned need for “Subject Ordering” functionality, designed the solution and delivered in partnership with Central Messaging Architecture group, thereby significantly reducing application complexity, improving maintainability and increasing cost savings.

• Pioneered and implemented a generic component for use as “Parking Lot” for messages in message flow-processing components, resulting in improved developer productivity and promoting a flexible design paradigm that was extended beyond its original remit with minimal impact.

• Engaged Business Architecture, Central Architecture, Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS), Production Support, Legal & Compliance and Delivery teams proactively, resulting in scalable, fault- tolerant and regulation-compliant supportable solution built on firm standard platforms. Nikhil Mehta *********@*****.*** Page 3

• Formulated environments strategy, as well as stablished best practices for CI/CD using TeamCity, resulting in faster turnaround time from coding to deployment.

• Mentored employees as well as vendor resources globally, cultivating shared technical architecture vision and realizing it with help from delivery team members. Credit Suisse, New York, NY IT Program Manager/Product Owner 2005-2013 Managed FXOPS - the strategic system within Credit Suisse responsible for confirmation and settlement of foreign exchange, FX derivatives (simple & complex) and money market products (responsible for settlement of $1 trillion+ on a daily basis). Responsible for setting overall direction of the product, directing the global team and managing book of work. The platforms involved were Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Tuxedo, IBM Informix, Informatica B2B Transformation and Business Objects using Java and C++.

• Recruited, mentored, and kept team members engaged in Singapore and India as part of overall team expansion in low-cost centers from 8 to 35+, resulting in significant cost savings and geographically diverse team while achieving minimal attrition within the team. Team budget of $4.5m/year.

• Formulated strategy and reorganized the team to align with the strategy on horizontals – Production Support and Quality Assurance services, resulting in compliance with SOX standards requiring separation of duties.

• Fostered strong relationships with various stakeholders – Business users, Technology Services Infrastructure, vendors, and other IT groups, resulting in expeditious and efficient execution.

• Engineered and implemented the roadmap to upgrade the system from legacy to strategic platform in measurable and manageable steps, revitalizing the product and making it scalable while reducing the risk and improving team morale.

• Devised a strategy to create a secondary Disaster Recovery site at Hong Kong for FXOPS to meet FED Whitepaper requirements and executed it in coordination with other infrastructure groups. Orchestrated successful disaster recovery test and attained better Recovery Time Objective than originally planned, fulfilling regulatory requirements.

• Spearheaded a strategy to scale FXOPS system in a holistic manner, realizing better throughput and reduced IT support as well as user interventions. Implemented a multi-pronged approach to enhance the system by tuning database performance, introducing reference data caching and multiple swim- lanes in the trade processing, as well as horizontal and vertical scaling of the infrastructure. Trigyn Technologies, Edison, NJ Manager-Emerging Technologies 1994-2005 Provided leadership on various client-server, internet, data warehouse and distributed technologies for Financial Services and Manufacturing industries in various capacities such as Developer, Analyst, Sales Support, and Technical Project Manager.

Keyword Summary

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Agile. Scaled Agile Framework. Business Process Management. Rules Engine. Software Development Life Cycle. Design Patterns. Enterprise Architecture. Data Architecture. Data Warehouse. Business Architecture. Best Practices. Program Governance. Program Management. Pre- sales Support. Matrix Organization. Team Building. Team Coaching. Innovation. Decision Making. Problem Solving. Adaptable. Reliable. Collaborator. Committed. Cool under Pressure. Conflict Resolution. Leadership. Influence. Java. J2EE. EJB. JSP. Servlet. Oracle. SAP R/3 ERP. SAP BW/4HANA. SalesForce. RabbitMQ. Weblogic. MS SQL Server. Sybase. Informix. SQL. Oracle BPM. IBM JRules. Informatica B2B. Tuxedo. C++. SWIFT. Spring. Open Source Frameworks. TDD. XML. AWS. Azure. GCP. IaaS. Paas. Saas. Docker. Containers. Kubernetes. Swarm. Cloud Computing. Amazon Web Services. Google Cloud Platform.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology

& Science, Pilani, India.

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