Nilay Tiwari
Noida
Summary
Principal architect with over 21 years of IT experience, specializing in solution architecture and large-scale digital transformation. Expertise in leading multi-million-dollar RFP/RFI responses for applications processing over 1 crore transactions per hour and managing over 3 PB of data. Proven success in cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, alongside infrastructure modernization and DevSecOps practices enhanced by AI. TOGAF 10 certified, skilled in stakeholder management, commercial pricing models, ADM architecture governance, implementation, and delivering comprehensive turnkey programs.
Overview
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1
Certification
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Architect
LTIMindtree
11.2021 - Current
- Orchestrated the end-to-end architectural design, managed service delivery and Implementation for population-scale platforms (PAN 2.0, Insight, CBDT), governing complex digital transformations for systems handling 1Cr+ transactions/hour and 3PB+ of data.
- Presales & RFP Leadership: Orchestrated end-to-end technical solutions for large-scale RFP pursuits (CERSAI, PAN 2.0, ITBA, Insight, LIC), aligning technical roadmaps with business win-themes and commercial pricing models.
- Population-Scale Architecture: Designed and delivered the PAN 2.0 (CBDT) ecosystem, architecting a system capable of 1 crore transactions/peak hour and managing 3PB+ of data.
- Security & Compliance: Spearheaded STQC Sign-offs for Application Security and led international Data Audits (OECD), ensuring 100% compliance with global regulatory standards.
- Cost & Tech Governance: Optimized OEM product costs and cluster sizing, delivering 20%+ improvement in infrastructure cost-efficiency through capacity sizing and performance engineering.
- The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India is implementing a modern Data Lakehouse platform to unify legacy systems, enabling real-time, AI-ready analytics and a 360-degree view of customers, leads, and agents. This initiative aims to integrate diverse data sources while ensuring robust governance, security, and scalability for petabyte-scale, high-concurrency operations
Senior Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
04.2019 - 11.2021
- Strategic Transformation: Led the modernization of Cheque Clearing Platforms, integrating RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, and Elastic Search for high-availability banking operations.
- Technical Mentorship: Guided a cross-functional team of 30+ developers in adopting DevSecOps, secure coding practices, and automated logging/monitoring frameworks.
- Part of R&D Practices were involved in POC and solutioning of the identified business use cases.
Technical Architect
Ericsson Global India
Gurgaon
03.2018 - 04.2019
Technical Specialist
NIIT Technologies LTD
Greater Noida
09.2015 - 03.2018
Module Lead- Software Engineer
Impetus
Noida
09.2012 - 09.2015
Senior Software Developer
Knimbus Online Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
12.2010 - 08.2012
Software Programmer
Rakshasa TPA
Faridabad
04.2006 - 06.2010
Education
MBA - IT
SMU
2009
MSc - IT
MGCGV
2006
BSc - IT
MGCGV
2004
Skills
- Java, Spring Boot, Microservices
- Kafka, Rabbit MQ
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- OnPrem Private Cloud, Cloud architecture
- Postgres, Casandra, Teradata
- Openshift, VKS
- Gemfire, JDG, REDIS, VALKEY
- Solr, Elastic
- Integration Design
- DevSecOps, Sonar, GitLab CI, Nexus, Jenkins
- IDAM, KeyCloak, WSO2, Auth0, Okta
- Data Lake
- Population-scale architecture
- Security compliance
- Architecture Governance
- Cost optimization
- Technical mentoring
- Digital transformation
- System integration
- Data governance
- ETL processes
- Datawarehouse and Lakehouse
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
- Apache Cassandra 3 Administrator
- Apache Cassandra 3 Developer
- AZ-900 Azure Fundamental Certified
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator Certified
- AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect
- AWS Associate Solution Architect
- TOGAF 10 EA.
Timeline
Principal Architect
LTIMindtree
11.2021 - Current
Senior Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
04.2019 - 11.2021
Technical Architect
Ericsson Global India
03.2018 - 04.2019
Technical Specialist
NIIT Technologies LTD
09.2015 - 03.2018
Module Lead- Software Engineer
Impetus
09.2012 - 09.2015
Senior Software Developer
Knimbus Online Pvt Ltd
12.2010 - 08.2012
Software Programmer
Rakshasa TPA
04.2006 - 06.2010
MBA - IT
SMU
MSc - IT
MGCGV
BSc - IT
MGCGV