Nilotpal Das

About Nilotpal Das

From modernizing legacy systems to engineering air-gapped infrastructures that protect billion-dollar pharma operations, my work sits at the intersection of digital resilience, cloud innovation, and enterprise transformation.Over 25 years, I’ve led teams through seismic shifts—architecting scalable infrastructures, delivering regulated cloud migrations, and enabling enterprise agility across industries like financial services, pharma, and healthtech. At Novartis, I currently lead multi-million dollar programs, reshaping global technology landscapes with AI frameworks, AWS, CI/CD, and zero-trust architectures.I’m not just executing programs—I’m engineering long-term strategic clarity in high-stakes, complex environments. Whether enabling FDA-grade infrastructure or coaching architects to think in bets, my mission remains: build the systems that build trust.I regularly publish on Medium and host a YouTube Podcast called Enterprise Architecture Radio to unpack trends at the intersection of digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, and pharma innovation—sharing lessons from the trenches and frameworks for scale.Let’s connect if you\'re building something bold in pharma, healthtech, or digital infrastructure.#TechLeadership #DigitalTransformation #HealthTech #PharmaInnovation #CloudStrategy #GCC

Experience

1. Director - Solution Delivery

   Novartis

   May 2017 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Lead Technology Solution Design and Delivery for various business functions such as - Biomedical Research (Drug Discovery) and Global Drug Development (clinical trial systems, safety databases, evidence generation, and regulatory submission)- Global Functions (Finance, HR, Procurement, Accounts, Legal & Compliance and Communication)- Lean Digital Core program optimizing All enterprise applications such as SAP, Workday, etc- Architecture Platform and Digital supporting all AI, Datalake, Data Mesh and other digital transformation Programs- Information Security & Compliance supporting all PoC, tools and program requirementsA multi-million dollar, multi-year digital transformation program using AWS as the vehicle to transform the technology and infrastructure landscape across Novartis. This program runs across all business functions involving modernization (containers, DevOps CI/CD, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) and migration of applications. Another multi-million dollar multi-year program but aimed at managing the risk of ransomware attack. In the process of building an immutable air-gapped environment for all applications supporting business critical processes.Delivering sandbox environments across Novartis to enable innovation. There are many solutions that go from PoC to Project to Product because of this service. While there is a good amount of automation and we design and deliver sandbox environments within the day, the vision is to enable button click delivery of sandbox environments soon enough.

Education

• Vidhyakunj High School

  Higher Secondary, Commerce

  1989 — 1993

• Baroda High School Alkapuri, Vadodara, Gujarat

  Primary Education, Primary Education

  1983 — 1988

• Maharaja Sayajirao University

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance

  1993 — 1996

• CDAC

  Diploma in Advanced Computing, Advanced Computing

  2000 — 2000

Skills

• Business Architecture
• Public Speaking
• Technology Architecture
• Uml
• Agile Project Management
• Zachman
• Requirements Analysis
• Refactoring
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Sharepoint
• Oop
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Togaf
• Tfs
• Unit Testing
• Entity Framework
• Data Modeling
• Vendor Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Applications
• Design Patterns
• Extreme Programming
• Database Design
• Software Design
• Software Project Management
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Agile Testing
• Sdlc
• Web Services
• Technical Leadership
• Solution Architecture
• Data Architecture
• Leadership
• Engineering Excellence
• Integration
• Lean Management