Abdul Jabbar Abdul Salam
Charlotte,USA
Summary
Strategic Solution Architect and Technical Manager with 20 years of experience driving digital transformation and delivering scalable enterprise systems across Banking, Finance, Securities, and Insurance. Expert in modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-native, microservices-based architectures with strong proficiency in enterprise applications, BPM, ETL, and databases. Proven leader in managing global engineering teams, aligning technology with business goals, and accelerating innovation through Agile practices, automation, and emerging technologies. Demonstrated success in hands-on development with managing multiple software engineering teams, providing over 10 years of people management for technical direct reports, and excelling in fostering engagement, motivation. Expertise spans the full spectrum of project management, from conception through deployment, utilizing Agile methodologies to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery. Adept at identifying and resolving complex technical, operational, and organizational challenges by leveraging emerging technologies and automation.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Packaged App Development Sr Manager /Technical Architect
Accenture
Charlotte
02.2025 - Current
- Accomplished leader with a proven track record of successfully leading the design, development, and modernization of diverse Line of Business (LOB) applications.
- Provided strategic oversight and effective leadership with hands-on development to ensure seamless integration of Retirement Beneficiary Systems, Financial Products, and modernization of 250+ legacy retirement applications.
- Collaborative work with enterprise architect team and performed greater enterprise impact analysis for modernization efforts for around 250+ legacy retirement applications.
- Providing guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.
- Ensuring projects are completed on time and effective communication within the team and with other departments.
- Managing project risks and issues, and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities and design and solution development for the enterprise applications.
- Leading and managing a team of professionals.
Senior Technical Lead
TIAA
Charlotte
08.2022 - 02.2025
- Successfully led the end-to-end development with hands-on and solution design of multiple projects in the lifetime retirement solutions domain, providing strategic direction for the implementation of investment products such as Secure Income Applications and Record Keeping solutions.
- Delivered exceptional technical and solution architecture expertise, ensuring scalable, cloud-ready implementations that aligned with business strategy and enhanced long-term retirement product capabilities.
- Acted as a trusted technical leader and mentor, guiding senior and junior engineers across onsite and offshore teams, fostering collaboration, and driving high-quality delivery.
- Implemented Cloud Solution to generate Spark life income solution specification file for Nuveen Life Income and Spark processing framework, ledgering and rebalance calculation for Secure Income Accounts – SIA and Income Projections for the Record Keeper on-demand bulk and API processing.
- Hands-on development of Spark generation, Ingestion and Income Projections micro services.
- Lead and follow-up and schedule collaborative discussion with various sprint team for the dependencies system development, design solution and clarify business clarifications with business analyst and leadership team for the final solution design review.
- Beneficiary Systems Integration and application transformation to Cloud solution to provide participant plan, beneficiary and ERISA allocation capabilities and beneficiary changes through web and mobile interfaces.
AVP - Tech Lead
Wells Fargo
Charlotte
11.2019 - 08.2022
- Strategic collaboration with Directors and functional team to restructure functions, including Business Development and impactful Strategic Re-engineering of Corporate Payment Processing Systems using SWIFT and FED Formats.
- Led team of onshore and offshore team and implemented design and development solutions.
- Redesigned and modernized 23+ functional desk interfaces and wire processing modules using Mule ESB & Spring Boot, reducing processing time by 25% and improving system reliability.
- Delivered SHRP compliance initiatives (secure session enablement, login policies) impacting 1000+ daily users and ensuring regulatory adherence.
- Architected and deployed microservices & APIs for Payment Engine and Wire Creation, improving transaction throughput by 35% and enabling seamless integration.
- Lead cross-functional onshore/offshore teams (15+ resources) in Agile delivery, achieving 95% on-time releases with zero critical defects.
- Built and scaled high-performing teams, improving productivity by 25% through mentoring, hiring, and technical upskilling.
Application Architect
Bank Of America
Charlotte
04.2019 - 11.2019
- The Wholesale Credit Transformation (WCT) Credit Center Program leverages the nCino SaaS platform to streamline the end-to-end credit lifecycle, enhance data quality, and simplify processes.
- By integrating with core financial systems (GUS, GFS, GMS, Workplace), it reduces duplication, improves role clarity, and strengthens data integrity across Lines of Business.
- Architected the integration for Proactive Risk Detection application services by developing Mule services; transformed monolithic applications into a scalable Microservices Cloud architecture.
- Engineered batch processing from the cloud and managed the flow of account management information to nCino systems.
- Led and mentored a team of 7 developers for sprint deliverables, Mule API development, and integration with nCino systems interfaces.
- Scheduled and led collaborative discussions with various sprint teams to resolve dependencies, design solutions, and clarify business requirements with business analysts.
Technical Manager - Projects
Cognizant Tech Solutions
USA
07.2010 - 03.2019
- Led and developed multiple projects in different locations.
- List of Project of various clients worked during this tenure.
- TIAA, NC - Insurance Domain - Nov 2016 – Mar 2019
- METLIFE, NC – Insurance - Feb 2014 – Oct 2016
- JPMC, India ODC – Capital Markets – Investment Banking – Jul 2010 – Feb 2014.
- Led delivery of 6+ Plan-Focus applications, including reporting, security remediation, and 60+ Mule API service migrations.
- Transformed Legacy Admin UI into Angular (60+ screens) and integrated Mule Thread Metrics API with User Management apps.
- Directed EXPAG Workflow conversion for RIT, driving automation, process model design, and successful pilot implementation.
- Designed and developed enterprise business processes for Plan Sponsors and Participants with Activiti BPM, and custom rule engines.
- Lead cross-location teams (onsite & offshore), overseeing SDLC, releases, risk management, and client escalations.
- Acted as primary client liaison for requirements, delivery tracking, and stakeholder alignment.
- Mentored teams on technical solutions, performance tuning, and ensured quality delivery with zero production impact.
Technical / Project Lead
WIPRO Technologies
Pune
08.2006 - 07.2010
- As a Project Lead / Technical Architect – worked on across all phases of SDLC for the below client projects.
- List of Project includes.
- Credit Suisse, India ODC – Prime Brokerage Domain - Jul 2007 – Jun 2009.
- Life Insurance Corporation, Insurance Domain - Jun 2009 – Jul 2010.
- New City Mortgage – Tokyo, JAPAN (ONSITE) – Dec 2006 – Jul 2007.
- Morgan Stanley, India ODC – Sep 2006– Dec 2006.
- Led end-to-end architecture and development of Prime-view Portlets, ESB modules, Liferay portal customizations, and enterprise applications (Value-sure Work Coordination, Online Loan Application).
- Engineered complex ETL workflows in Informatica with advanced transformations to load and integrate data across Sybase and Oracle, optimizing performance and reliability.
- Delivered scalable modules independently, including CO module components, while driving unit testing, documentation, and review of test cases to ensure quality.
Education
B.E (Bachelor of Engineering) - ECE
University of Madras
01.2001
Honors Diploma of Education - Internet Programming
SSI LTD.
01.2001
Skills
- Java/J2EE
- Python
- BPM Technologies
- REST
- Webservice
- Web API
- Quick FIX
- Visual Studio Code
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Angular
- HTML 5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- DynamoDB
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- Gen-AI
- LLM Models
- Dockers Swarm
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Bitbucket
- GitHub
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- JIRA
- Project management
- Cross functional Team leadership and management
Personal Information
Title: Banking Technology Platform Leader | Capital Markets, Payment Systems and Insurance
Awards
- Desk Crystal Award, TIAA / Nuveen, 2024-07-01, For SIA Deliverables
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, 2028-03-01
- Best Team Lead and The Joint CEO Solitaire Award, Wipro, For Innovative Solution and large/complex project execution
- Generative AI Overview for Project Managers, PMP
Timeline
Packaged App Development Sr Manager /Technical Architect
Accenture
02.2025 - Current
Senior Technical Lead
TIAA
08.2022 - 02.2025
AVP - Tech Lead
Wells Fargo
11.2019 - 08.2022
Application Architect
Bank Of America
04.2019 - 11.2019
Technical Manager - Projects
Cognizant Tech Solutions
07.2010 - 03.2019
Technical / Project Lead
WIPRO Technologies
08.2006 - 07.2010
B.E (Bachelor of Engineering) - ECE
University of Madras
Honors Diploma of Education - Internet Programming
SSI LTD.