Pranay J.
Director of Architecture @BMO
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Architecture @BMO
Responsible for Data driven cloud AI strategy, Leading AI/ML vision by designing, executing, and scaling enterprise AI initiatives, including GenAI and LLM-driven solutions.Partnered with AI risk and legal team to develop a responsible AI governance framework for the bank, ensuring solutions align with ethical standards, privacy regulations, and business objectives.Lead research and pilot initiatives to explore novel AI use cases (e.g, autonomous agents, AI copilots, GenAI-powered workflows).Driving the implementation of advanced AI/ML capabilities, including NLP/NLU, recommendation engines, predictive modelling, and AI-powered decision system.Lead the implementation of AI- Powered knowledge management based chatbot that dynamically accesses internal knowledge bases,financial databases and reporting tools. It automates quarterly reporting and answers complex queries.
EDUCATION
University of Rajasthan
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering
ABOUT PRANAY J.
Forward- thinking technology leader with reputation in architecting transformative solutions in cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence. My leadership is defined by a relentless focus on aligning technology with business strategy. I thrive on building high performing teams, fostering innovation and delivering measurable impact through transformative projects.Over 15 years of experience in leading and managing large technology teams, Key Capabilities and high Impact Projects:AI -Powered Cloud Optimization: Leveraged my deep knowledge in AWS and Azure to design an AI - driven automated solution to reduce cost by 35 % and enabling scalability for a global financial services firm. My technical groundwork laid the foundation for seamless integration to existing platforms and strategic oversight aligned the solution with enterprise goals.Data Migration and Data Lakehouse Design: Orchestrated and Spearheaded the design and implementation of a cloud native data Lakehouse architecture on both cloud platforms AWS and Azure which seamlessly migrated petabyte scale legacy data from on -premises system to a unified platform to enable real time analytics and AI - driven insights. This migration led to enablement of reusable pattern for data migration for the financial enterprise that reduced data processing and accelerated cloud adoption by 40 %.Merger and Acquisitions: Spearheaded the technology integration strategy for a US$16.3 billion(BOTW) acquisition consolidating disparate systems into a unified AWS platform reducing the operations cost for the bank by 45%. The technology strategy,design for data migrations, merging similar systems paved the way for a successful tech implementation at scale. Accelerated Cloud Adoption: Leading a team of more than 15 architects to develop common reusable and secure cloud application patterns that led to 40 % faster cloud adoption aligned with the company\'s strategic goals. Championed the technology migration of BMO Transportation Finance, one of the largest truck and trailer financing business in North America, from on-prem to AWS in 11 months. The migration involved complex ecosystem of 70 applications, 500+ terabytes of data and 300 + system integrations that were migrated to cloud bringing in 30% Operational savings to the bank.GenAI App development: Championed the creation of a cloud-native GenAI platform for application development on Azure and AWS, empowering developers to build AI-driven applications with speed and scale.
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