Rakesh Kumar Jha has been recognized with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for his exceptional contributions to enterprise architecture and information technology leadership. Over 21 years of distinguished service at DXC Technology, Jha has consistently delivered transformative solutions that have generated over $350,000 in annual cost savings while revolutionizing operational efficiency for Fortune 500 insurance clients. His expertise spans complex legacy-to-modernization journeys, policy administration systems, and compliance automation, establishing him as a world-class technology leader whose innovations have fundamentally transformed how enterprise data management and disposal are conducted across the insurance industry.

Jha’s recognition stems from his remarkable ability to architect enterprise-scale solutions that simultaneously address critical business challenges while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. His leadership of the Data Retention & Disposal (DRD) application project exemplifies this exceptional capability, where he successfully coordinated across over 15 application teams to ensure the secure and irreversible disposal of obsolete data across 26 legacy life and annuity policy administration systems. This achievement earned formal recognition from MetLife’s ILM Governance Board and commendation from DXC’s Internal Compliance Team for achieving a zero-error disposal audit.

Architectural Innovation and Strategic Vision

Jha’s architectural prowess is demonstrated through his masterful design and implementation of the centralized Data Retention & Disposal application using AngularJS and Java. This strategic enterprise-level compliance solution revolutionized MetLife’s information lifecycle governance by enabling automated identification, policy validation, scripted deletion, and comprehensive audit trail generation. His five-stage ILM disposal workflow represents a paradigm shift in large-scale data management approaches, providing operational efficiency and regulatory compliance in a single, integrated solution.

The technical sophistication of Jha’s architectural approach is evident in his integration of the DRD application with Zena for batch job scheduling across critical systems like wmA, cmA, and CRT. His forward-thinking design included permanent purge log repositories with granular policy metadata, ensuring traceability for future audits and regulatory inquiries. This comprehensive framework successfully managed the purge of approximately 400,000 records with rollback safeguards and health check validations, demonstrating his exceptional ability to balance technical complexity with operational reliability.

Process Innovation and Operational Excellence

Jha’s commitment to process innovation has consistently transformed manual, error-prone workflows into streamlined, automated solutions that deliver measurable business value. His development of Python utilities for importing retention policies and parsing purge results within the DRD framework reduced manual disposal coordination effort by 80 percent through automated policy pick list generation and scripting. This innovation fundamentally transformed enterprise data disposal management while ensuring adherence to strict 10-year and 11-year disposal mandates based on transaction and policy status.

The scale and precision of Jha’s process innovations extend beyond individual projects to create lasting organizational capabilities. His implementation of role-based access via custom LDAP user groups and policy-based disposal restricted to verified legal-hold exempt data demonstrates exceptional awareness of governance requirements. These innovations have enabled DXC Technology to maintain operational integrity while meeting complex compliance mandates, establishing new industry standards for secure data lifecycle management that have been adopted across multiple Fortune 500 clients.

Final Words

Rakesh Kumar Jha’s recognition with a 2025 Global Recognition Award reflects his extraordinary ability to combine technical excellence with strategic business acumen. His consistent delivery of world-class solutions that generate substantial cost savings while ensuring impeccable compliance standards has made him an invaluable leader in enterprise architecture and information technology. Through initiatives like the ILM PROD Disposal and Data Retention project, Jha has demonstrated how architectural innovation can solve core business challenges while creating lasting value for organizations and their stakeholders.

The multiple DXC Achievement Awards he received in 2022 and 2024, along with his professional certifications, including Certified Scrum Master and Associate Life Management Institute, highlight his commitment to continuous professional development and industry leadership. Jha’s exceptional contributions to DXC Technology and its Fortune 500 insurance clients represent the highest standards of technical leadership, making him deserving of this prestigious recognition for his transformative impact on enterprise technology.