Tajdar Jawaid

Director | Enterprise Architect | Cybersecurity & Cloud Solutions Leader | AI Practitioner

Role
Lead Enterprise Architect at Thoughtworks
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Tajdar Jawaid

As a Senior Enterprise Architect specializing in Cybersecurity and Enterprise Architecture, I bring over 20 years of experience helping organizations transform strategy into secure, scalable, and sustainable technology ecosystems.I lead the development of enterprise-wide architecture strategies and frameworks that align business vision with technology execution, leveraging industry-recognized best practices across sectors such as Telecommunications, Banking, Healthcare, and Defense. My expertise spans cloud and digital architectures, integrated enterprise platforms, and complex distributed systems, enabling organizations to achieve strategic agility, operational resilience, and long-term value realization.Partnering with both executive and technical stakeholders, I focus on aligning enterprise technology strategies with business transformation goals, identifying capability gaps, and shaping modernization roadmaps that deliver measurable outcomes. My approach combines architectural governance, cybersecurity principles, and compliance alignment with standards such as NIST, PCI DSS, GDPR, and ISO 27001, ensuring solutions are robust, secure, and adaptable to regulatory demands.A strategic thinker and collaborative leader, I am passionate about advancing digital maturity, strengthening cyber resilience, and enabling innovation through architecture discipline. I foster teams that thrive on excellence, shared ownership, and continuous improvement—empowering organizations to evolve confidently in an increasingly connected and regulated world, where architecture and cybersecurity form the foundation of trust, performance, and growth.Publications:Author of multiple technical papers in internationally recognized cybersecurity journals, contributing to thought leadership in enterprise security and architecture.

Experience

  1. Lead Enterprise Architect

    Thoughtworks

    Jul 2025 — Present · London, GB

Education

  • The University of Dallas

    MS in Cyber Security

    2013 — 2016

  • Orasoft

    Diploma

    1999 — 1999

  • St. Patrick's College

    Higher Secondary School

    1993 — 1995

  • QA Training Ltd. London

    Architecting with AWS

    2017

  • Institute of Computer Technology

    Certificate Course

    1995 — 1996

  • St. Patrick's School

    Secondary School

    1993

  • Preston University

    Master of Science - MS

    2000 — 2002

  • University of Oxford

    Advance Project Management

  • QA Training Ltd. London

    TOGAF 9.1

    2017

  • Petroman Institute

    Diploma

    1997 — 1998

  • Oracle University

    Training

    2015 — 2015

  • NED University of Engineering and Technology

    Post Graduate Diploma

    2003 — 2003

Skills

  • Systems Analysis
  • Business Intelligence
  • Unix
  • Oracle
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Data Warehousing
  • Integration
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Software Project Management
  • Consulting
  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Solution Architecture
  • Telecommunications

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