Dhananjay Singh

About Dhananjay Singh

Strategic Solutions Architect and Technology Director with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Recognized by leadership for establishing the departmental \"Gold Standard\" in architectural engagement and backlog governance. Rare dual-competency in deep technical architecture and high-impact people leadership, with a history of achieving elite manager effectiveness scores (NPS 67). Currently leading multiple modernization initiatives, defining secure, multi-tenant patterns and enterprise data strategies for high-volume trading and accounting platforms. Passionate advocate for standardizing API contracts and driving adoption of event-driven architectures.TECHNICAL SKILLS• Architectural Strategy: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Reactive Systems, Cloud-Native Design, Multi-Tenancy Patterns, Domain-Driven Design Cloud & Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge)• Data & Governance: Enterprise Data Strategy, API Governance, Data Security & Privacy (Information Barriers), Master Data Management.• Development Ecosystem: Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Kafka (Streaming), Akka, XML, JMS, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, SWIFT.• Leadership & Process: Architecture Review Board (ARB) Leadership, Agile/Scrum/Spotify model, Engineering Community of Practice (CoP) Leadership, Vendor Management, Team Mentorship.• Security & DevOps: OAuth, Ping, WAM, Akamai, Spring Security, HashiCorp Vault, SSL/Encryption, Jenkins, Maven, Git

Experience

1. Director Solutions Architecture

   Fidelity Investments

   Jun 2022 — Present · Westlake, TX, US

   Recruited to lead architectural strategy for the Corporate Actions modernization initiative, defining the target state for Fund Accounting, Corporate Actions, and Trade Operations platforms. Trusted advisor to leadership on cloud migration and event-driven integration patterns.* Strategic Initiative: Project CADET (2023 – Present)- Engagement Model: Established the departmental \"Gold Standard\" for architectural engagement and backlog tracking. Created a repeatable framework now adopted by peer teams to ensure architectural deliverables are tracked with the same rigor as engineering code- Security & Multi-Tenancy: Architected foundational security patterns for internal and external user access, specifically defining Identity & Access Management (IAM) strategies and information barriers for a complex multi-tenant environment- Roadmap Execution: Delivered \"top-notch\" prioritization of architectural runway, ensuring solution designs were delivered ahead of engineering needs to prevent blockers.* Enterprise Modernization & Governance (2022 – 2023)- Pricing Modernization: Successfully drove the end-to-end architecture for the Pricing Modernization program, navigating complex dependencies to deliver a live production platform on schedule- Kafka Strategy: Spearheaded the adoption of Kafka for the business unit. Went beyond design to deliver hands-on onboarding workshops, driving the standardization of event-driven patterns across development squads- Governance Leadership: Active voting member of the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Instrumental in reshaping the ARB process to improve decision velocity and reducing \"shadow IT\" by monitoring team adoption of recommended solutions- Data Strategy: Designed and enforced enterprise-wide API contracts and data governance patterns, ensuring seamless integration across the Corporate Actions subject area.

Education

• Tata Infotech Education Ltd.

  Advanced Diploma in Software Application

  1998 — 2002

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Master's degree

  2003 — 2005

• Delhi University

  Bachelor's degree

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Mutual Funds
• Maven
• Jira
• Groovy
• Test Driven Development
• Ant
• Websphere Application Server
• Pl/Sql
• Html
• Web Applications
• Clearcase
• Shell Scripting
• Tortoise Svn
• J2ee
• Eclipse
• Spring Framework
• Software Engineering
• Jsp
• Alexa
• Paas
• Mybatis
• Oop
• Sybase
• Junit
• Xml
• Core Java
• Apache
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Git
• Control-M
• Sonar
• Javascript
• Derivatives
• Java
• Tax
• Tomcat
• Technical Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Linux