Nafees Akhter

About Nafees Akhter

Over 21 years of experience for architecting, building, and supporting enterprise solutions across different technology stacks and cloud platforms.• Led the cloud transformation initiative as enterprise architect in a multi-year journey for legal, risk and compliance portfolios.• Helped re-engineer and automate business processes as per industry practice to leverage out of the box products on cloud platforms.• Built and led high-functioning and agile teams to achieve project and program objectives.• Served as a technology adviser for the business groups to help bridge gap between technology and business.

Experience

1. Director Enterprise Architecture - Legal, Risk & Compliance

   KPMG US

   Oct 2024 — Present

   Define and continuously evolve enterprise technology strategy, architecture roadmaps, and reference models to support business growth and innovation. • Lead modernization of legacy tools and platforms with cloud-native, microservices-based, and AI-enabled solutions. • Establish architecture governance and technical standards across application, data, and integration layers. • Partner with product, engineering, security, and business stakeholders to ensure architecture decisions accelerate time-to-value. • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, especially AI/ML, automation, low-code platforms, and intelligent data services to enhance experience, reduce technical debt, and improve operational efficiency. • Guide solution architects and engineering teams through architectural guardrails and technology principles. • Drive enterprise reuse, composability, and interoperability through well-designed architecture patterns and APIs. • Support executive decision-making with technology insights, quantitative business cases, and strategic modernization plans.

Education

• Karachi University

  BS, Computer Science

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Asp.net
• Sharepoint Server 2010
• Web Services
• Visual Studio
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Ria
• Sharepoint Search
• Wcf
• Software Development
• Jquery
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Sdlc
• Erp
• Sharepoint Server
• Wcf Services
• Requirements Gathering
• Javascript
• Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Silverlight
• Microsoft Sql Server