— Enterprise Architecture Leadership
Head of Architecture | Architecture as Code · AI-Based Automation · Architecture Intelligence & Governance
Architecture leader with 25+ years in technology and a decade heading enterprise and global core architecture functions for tier-1 financial institutions. Currently Principal Architect in BNY Mellon's Global Core Architecture Group, leading architecture for a global line of business and chairing enterprise-wide API Governance.
— Executive profile
Specialises in shifting architecture from a document-and-review practice into an engineering capability. Has designed and shipped Architecture-as-Code assets — production-ready patterns, reference implementations, automated guardrails and decision records — and built agentic AI systems that automate architecture review, ADR capture and landscape intelligence. Architected BNY's MCP Gateway and MCP Server ecosystem, establishing governance for exposing enterprise APIs as AI-agent tooling with human-in-the-loop validation, traceability and secure handling of sensitive inputs and outputs.
Proven transformation leader in India-based delivery centres: has recruited, built and coached architecture and engineering teams at BNY and Zensar, run global governance forums across time zones, and influenced senior technology, risk and control stakeholders. Deep regulated-financial-services grounding across custody and asset servicing, payments, lending and treasury.
— Leadership & delivery
Recruited, line-managed and coached a team of senior architects at BNY Mellon India, and previously built two Centres of Excellence at Zensar — setting priorities, running delivery management, and raising capability across time zones.
Shifted practice from review-gate to engineering enablement: replaced document-first reviews with reusable patterns and codified standards, introducing AI-assisted review to cut cycle time.
Authored enterprise API standards, design principles and policies, encoded as guardrails and design templates; defined the PITR pattern enabling Zero RPO, adopted as a firm-wide reference.
Chairs BNY's enterprise API design authority — reviewing requests, running alignment sessions, conducting compliance assessments and securing ARB / EA community / Technology Risk approvals for flagship programmes at First Abu Dhabi Bank.
Maintains current-state, target-state and transition architectures with supporting artefacts; hands-on with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus iServer and Avolution Abacus for repository management and roadmap visualisation.
Advises CIO/CTO-level stakeholders on technology investment, buy-versus-build and adoption of emerging technology; presents architecture strategy to executive forums and has pitched practice offerings to Gartner analysts.
— Professional experience
Principal Architect — Global Core Architecture Group
BNY Mellon Technology India Pvt Ltd, Pune
Lead architecture for the Asset Servicing (ETF) line of business — current-state, target-state and transition architectures, cloud-native solution designs, HLDs and multi-year roadmaps. Chair the enterprise API Governance function; pioneered the firm's agentic AI architecture (MCP Gateway/Server ecosystem); defined the PITR pattern delivering Zero RPO for mission-critical applications.
Principal Enterprise Architect
First Abu Dhabi Bank, UAE (via FFIS)
Led end-to-end architecture for two flagship transformations — National Housing Loan Platform (legacy modernisation to Azure AKS) and Global Channel Next (channel unification on AWS EKS) — securing ARB, EA community and Technology Risk approvals.
Consulting Chief Technology Officer
Benchmark IT Solutions (via FFIS)
Owned solution architecture and delivery quality across client engagements; created solution accelerators, reusable frameworks and PoC assets as trusted advisor on product and technology roadmaps.
Chief Architect — CitiDirect NEXT
Citibank USA (via Altimetrik / FFIS)
Designed the cloud-native architecture for CitiDirect NEXT, an analytics platform for Citi's high-value treasury customers; owned design authority across the delivery lifecycle and established DevOps CI/CD on AWS and private cloud.
Enterprise Architecture Practice Head — EA & Digital Integration CoE
Zensar Technologies Ltd (via FFIS)
Founded and led two Centres of Excellence, delivering business-outcome-driven EA consulting recognised in the Gartner Market Guide; built the practice from zero to a multi-disciplinary team; created the "Digital Ecosystem Readiness Assessment" offering.
Enterprise Architect — Portfolio of Engagements
Future Focus IT Solutions (FFIS)
Enterprise architecture, cloud and transformation consulting for global banking and financial-services clients — AWS/Azure/GCP migrations, microservices re-architecture and multi-programme delivery across payments, lending and channel platforms.
— Technical skills
— Applied, hands-on
As Founder of StratifyIT.ai, designed and built end-to-end — an agentic intelligence platform for IT strategy, architecture and governance, deployed publicly to demonstrate the same practices applied at BNY.
— Education, certifications & thought leadership
Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing — Pune Institute of Adv. Technologies (Grade A) · Bachelor of Engineering, First Class — Shivaji University
Whitepaper: "How to Establish and Maintain Architecture Compliance within Enterprise IT" · 5-part blog series: "How to Ensure Business Continuity in IT Landscape" · Executive workshops on API Management and the Role of EA in Digital Transformation · Gartner EA Market Guide presentation.
Open to Head of Architecture and enterprise-architecture leadership roles.