Role profile
AI Solution Architect & AI Consultant
AI Solution Architect and AI Consultant with 5 years designing cloud-native, enterprise-grade AI and banking platforms across Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Architects event-driven, microservices and modern-monolith solutions, and turns business goals into governed production AI for First Abu Dhabi Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, RTA, TAQA and Fertiglobe.
Governed, cloud-native AI on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
- Architecture & AI delivery
- 5 years
- Production AI solutions
- 25+
- Revenue impact
- USD 50M+
- Azure, AWS and Google Cloud
- 3 clouds
- RAG latency cut, 15s to 4s
- 73%
- Hours saved a year
- 1000+
- Enterprise eval accuracy
- 95–98%
- Cross-department productivity
- 65%+
Capabilities
What I deliver.
- 01
Event-driven architecture
Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus, AWS MSK / EventBridge and GCP Pub/Sub. Topic and partition design, consumer groups, event sourcing, outbox and saga patterns for reliable, auditable banking transaction flows.
- 02
Microservices architecture
Domain-driven service boundaries, API gateways (Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway) and containerised services on AKS, EKS and GKE with Helm, autoscaling and zero-trust private networking.
- 03
Modern (modular) monolith
Well-bounded modules in a single deployable for transactional banking cores, keeping strong consistency and low operating cost, with a clear path to extract microservices as scale demands.
- 04
Multi-cloud AI platforms
Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock / SageMaker and Google Vertex AI / Gemini, with RAG, agentic workflows, MCP servers, evaluation and guardrails.
- 05
Consulting & governance
Discovery workshops, AI strategy and roadmaps, Architecture Decision Records, well-architected and cost reviews, and security by design with RBAC, Entra ID / IAM and Key Vault.
- 06
Banking & FinTech cloud
Core banking API integration, payments and cheque clearing, event streaming, regulatory compliance, audit trails, high availability and disaster recovery.
Skill set
The toolkit behind the work.
Solution architecture
11- Event-Driven Architecture
- Microservices
- Modular Monolith
- Domain-Driven Design
- CQRS
- Event Sourcing
- Saga & Outbox
- API-First Design
- Distributed Systems
- System Design
- Reference Architectures
Microsoft Azure
16- Azure AI Foundry
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure Machine Learning
- Copilot Studio
- AKS
- Container Apps
- Azure Functions
- Event Hubs
- Service Bus
- API Management
- Cosmos DB
- Azure AI Search
- VNet & Private Endpoints
- Managed Identity
- Key Vault
- Entra ID
Amazon Web Services
14- Amazon Bedrock
- SageMaker
- EKS
- ECS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- MSK (Kafka)
- EventBridge
- SQS / SNS
- S3
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- IAM
- VPC
Google Cloud
10- Vertex AI
- Gemini
- GKE
- Cloud Run
- Cloud Functions
- Pub/Sub
- BigQuery
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud SQL
- IAM
Consulting & delivery
9- Stakeholder Workshops
- Requirements Discovery
- AI Strategy & Roadmaps
- ADRs
- PoC to Production
- FinOps
- Well-Architected Reviews
- Pre-Sales & Solutioning
- Technical Leadership
DevOps, MLOps & IaC
11- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Docker
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- MLOps
- LLMOps
- MLflow
- Langfuse
Security & AI governance
8- Guardrails
- RBAC
- Responsible AI
- Data Governance
- Evaluation & Grounding
- Auditability
- Secrets Management
- Zero-Trust Networking
Selected work
Case studies for this role.
- FinTech20,000/daytarget throughput
Cheque Clearance Automation for First Abu Dhabi Bank
Event-driven cheque clearance on Kafka / Azure Event Hubs, covering preprocessing, YOLO detection, OCR and signature matching through microservice consumers.
Banking: First Abu Dhabi Bank (UAE)Read case study - FinTech
Plutus: Conversational Banking Agent for Dubai Islamic Bank
Conversational banking agent for balances, transfers and beneficiaries, with core banking APIs wrapped in a custom MCP server behind layered guardrails.
Islamic Banking: Dubai Islamic Bank (UAE)Read case study - Enterprise AIUSD 50M+revenue impact
Data2Decisions: Enterprise Data Intelligence Platform
Multi-agent text-to-insight platform built around a central orchestrator coordinating 10+ scoped sub-agents over 25+ structured connectors and a knowledge-graph layer.
Enterprise Data IntelligenceRead case study - Government Tech4sresponse time
RTA Mahboob: Multilingual RAG & Text-to-SQL Platform
Bilingual EN/AR RAG for 1000+ UAE government users with text-to-SQL over 500+ tables, cutting latency 73%, from 15s to 4s.
Government: Roads & Transport Authority (UAE)Read case study - Enterprise AI65%+productivity lift
NovaFloat: Enterprise AI Productivity Platform
AI platform unifying 1500+ prebuilt connectors, UI-attached custom MCP servers and a visual workflow builder, delivering a 65%+ productivity lift across departments.
Enterprise ProductivityRead case study - Financial Intelligence10digest tables
CFO Digest: Weekly Market Intelligence Pipeline
Automated multi-stage AI + data pipeline, scrape to email, running Serper into a Fabric warehouse, agent narratives, evaluation agent, weekly Power BI PDF.
Fertilizer & Clean Ammonia (Enterprise)Read case study
Results
Key achievements.
- 01Architected banking cloud solutions for First Abu Dhabi Bank and Dubai Islamic Bank, combining event-driven, microservices and modern-monolith patterns on Kafka / Event Hubs and AKS.
- 02Drove USD 50M+ revenue impact and saved 1000+ engineering hours annually through the Data2Decisions multi-agent platform.
- 03Achieved 95% extraction and 98.75% evaluation accuracy on the Fertiglobe Microsoft Fabric pipeline.
- 04Cut RTA Mahboob RAG latency by 73% (15s to 4s) for 1000+ users.
- 05Lead client-facing consultant for UAE/GCC banking, energy and government: discovery workshops, target-state architectures and ADRs, steering delivery from PoC to production.