Senior Architect Software Development

NIHAR PAUL

East Brunswick, NJ ***** ***********@*****.***

508-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/niharpaul

SENIOR ARCHITECT

Highly experienced Senior Architect (AWS Certified) and Tech leader with a proven track record in Information Technology, driving business growth through innovative and strategic architecture solutions, extensive experience in leading digital engineering and modernization programs. Proven expertise in leading the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from project planning and cost-benefit analysis to delivery and maintenance. Skilled in evaluating industry trends and proposing solutions to senior management, ensuring alignment with business goals. Adept in Agile development, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise architecture, with a strong focus on improving efficiency, user experience, and system security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX (HP, AIX) LINUX Windows

Software Languages: JAVA Spring Boot Shell Script Angular PL SQL Ant Script C Python

Middle Ware Integration: IIB 10, MQ Series TLS/SSL Encryption IIB/App Connect 11 MQ FTE

Cloud Tools: AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless Architecture Docker Kubernetes On-Prem Cloud App Engine

Project Management Tools: PPM

Architecture /Methodologies: Architecture Design Principles Solution Architecture Orbus Visio TOGAF Reference Architecture UML C4

Architecture Patterns: Bulkhead Circuit Breaker patter Domain-driven design (DDD)

Messaging Format: SWIFT messaging ISO/MX messages (MT54x/MT10x/MT20x Series /PACS/SESE)

Version Control Tool: GIT Gitlab CI/CD PVCS Jenkins Artifactory Ansible Tower

Database: Oracle RAC 19c/ 12g Data Warehousing Golden gate replication

Methodologies: Microservices DevOps Agile Scrum SOA REST API

Documentation Tools: Confluence SharePoint

Monitoring Tools: Splunk Tripwire AppDynamics Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch CloudTrail AppviewX for traffic distribution and network failover

Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - SAA-C03, earned Feb 2025

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of New York Mellon, New York, NY July 2012 – Present

Senior VP (Senior Architect)/ Technical Manager

Project: Development of Clearance and Messaging Platform.

Architected and delivered scalable solutions by preparing detailed architectural designs, presenting them to external stakeholders and enterprise architecture teams for mission critical application fully active-active configuration.

Defined project roadmaps, lead the full software development life cycle including project planning, requirements analysis, budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, delivery, and maintenance.

Continuously evaluated existing design architectures and proposed modernized solutions to enhance efficiency, user experience, and system performance.

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Developed cost estimation frameworks and assessed solution complexity for enterprise architecture initiatives and appraise CTO of current status.

Provided architectural leadership across application modernization, infrastructure, resilience, security, and data.

Led and mentored diverse, high-performing teams, fostering a culture of learning and adaptability.

Worked closely with business stakeholders to align technology strategies with business goals.

Provide continuous update on critical project and proposed project to CIO, CTO and COO.

Designed and deployed microservices using DDD, Circuit Breaker and bulkhead patterns.

Designed and developed distributed messaging systems for processing financial transactions across platforms like Linux, AIX, VMS, and Mainframe using IBM MQ, PUB/SUB, JAVA, ACE for message transformation and routing.

Design and deployed UI using Angular, HTML styling libraries, Typescript in a docker container.

Automated software deployment processes using Ansible Tower and YAML-based playbooks, streamlining system installation reducing manual efforts.

Implemented Agile methodologies with a focus on CI/CD pipeline using SonarQube (Code Quality), Veracode Vulnerability Management.

Engineered database table architecture to support reporting and analytics, optimizing entity relationships and enabling robust reporting capabilities.

Built our own AI model for predictive failure methodology to provide deeper insight for customer transactions.

Designed and built serverless architectures using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Deployed and managed applications using AWS services like EC2, S3, and Amazon RD, Lambda, CloudFront, KMS and other cloud services.

Built a testing tool with Java Spring Framework to validate message router flows, adhering to Agile development and SDLC methodologies.

Project: JPMC Clearance Business Exit: On-Boarding new customer to BNYM clearance platform

Senior EP Architect/Technical Manager

Directed JMPC clearance business exit, coordinated with client to devise strategy and details on-boarding plan with timeline.

Meet up with client to go over their new requirements and explain the different services we provide which they can avail.

Interfaced with Network Team, Application Dev team to establish new connectivity with those new clients and incorporate the new features to support on-boarding process.

Analyzing daily/weekly message volume increases and estimating database growth for seamless customer transitions and coordinated with DBAs to support the increased traffic.

Collaborated with Relationship Managers (RMs) and clients to ensure timely onboarding, providing status updates to COO.

Attend all internal and external audit calls and answered all Federal Internal External Audit queries.

Established secure external customer connectivity using firewalls, AVI/F5, MQIPT (DMZ), and TLS encryption for data security in transit.

Project: Infrastructure Modernization

Solution Architect/Technical Manager

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Led the effort to migrate the IBM AIX server to new Linux VM’s, defined the migration time line for each group, shared with TSG management and worked with them to get the servers in time.

Led a team of developer from each group to do compatibility analysis.

Followed the blue green deployed model to gradually shifting prod traffic to new systems.

Lead the effort of Oracle migration to RAC and Goldengate replication of DB’s across 3 Data center to support active-active DR model.

Project: New Data Center Setup for Resiliency

Solution Architect/Technical Manager

Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration with infrastructure, database, Unix, and network teams to establish a fully functional new data center.

Prepared architecture diagram interfacing with MQ, DB, Network, Firewall, DMZ for active-active 3 data center model for DR strategy.

Implemented health check across Application, Network, Database and MQ layer.

Designed lane-based architecture to meet stringent FED failover and recovery requirements.

Mitigated potential threats by planning and deploying an alternate application system (delta zone data center) to simulate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) scenarios, ensuring business continuity.

Designed and Implemented MQ loopback process to check heart beat across internal and external customer channels for resiliency.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Successfully automated deployment pipelines, reducing deployment times by 30% and increasing system uptime.

Designed and implemented a robust message replay architecture, enhancing middleware availability and reducing outages by 40%.

Infrastructure Modernization saved 40% on hardware and software licensing cost.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver 5+ major enterprise-level projects, achieving stakeholder approval on first submissions.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JRI-America-Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Jersey City NJ; New York City, NY

Sr. Developer and Architect

Lead Developer and Team lead, Hewlett Packard, Marlboro, MA

Lead Analyst and Developer, Team Lead, Nokia, Helsinki, Finland

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering

National Institute of Technology, India

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