Lead Solution Architect · AI & Agentic Systems

Tusshar
Kalra.

Twenty-six years architecting banking transformation. Now building production agentic AI systems with my own hands.

Based in
Stockholm, Sweden
Work rights
Swedish citizen · Full EU
Availability
Open to senior roles — Q2 2026
About

The rare profile banks are hiring for right now.

Lead Solution Architect with 26 years in banking technology across Europe and Asia. My domain is regulated finance: KYC/AML, customer due diligence, corporate and private lending, credit origination and risk, digital onboarding, client lifecycle management. My platforms are PEGA, where I founded Swedbank's Centre of Excellence, and Appian, where I currently architect Länsförsäkringar Bank's lending transformation.

What makes this profile uncommon in 2026: I have independently designed, deployed, and operate a production multi-agent AI system running 24/7 on self-managed infrastructure. Not an experiment. Not a weekend project. Working production code that I wrote, secured, and run every day. Banks and consultancies are hiring for AI transformation leadership and most senior architects can only talk about it. I build it.

KYC / AML
Lending Transformation
Credit Origination
PEGA
Appian
REST / OpenAPI
Azure DevOps
Agentic AI
Multi-Agent Systems
LLM Orchestration
Claude · Ollama · OpenClaw
ACP · MCP
SAFe POPM
Centre of Excellence Design
Live · In production

Nexus — a production multi-agent AI system.

Designed, built, and operated solo since March 2026. A 5-agent system running 24/7 on self-managed infrastructure, with hardened Telegram gateway and automatic LLM fallback. The architecture banks need for vendor-independent agentic AI adoption.

5
Production agents — orchestrator, research swarm, coding, trading intelligence, vision
18
Hardened security layers, independently verified across two audits
24/7
Uptime on a self-managed Hostinger KVM2 VPS with Nginx + TLS
8
Scheduled cron workflows with dual-delivery reporting (Notion + Telegram)
01
LLM routing across four foundation models — GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.5, and Gemma 4 — with automatic fallback, session isolation, and context-overflow handling. The same pattern banks need to avoid vendor lock-in.
02
Telegram gateway with layered security — allowlist-based DM policy, group-proxy sandboxing, per-channel session isolation, prompt-injection detection, and behavioural privacy rules enforced at the agent level.
03
Claude Opus 4.7 integrated via ACP protocol for autonomous coding tasks delegated from the orchestrator without manual handoff — the production pattern for agent-to-agent collaboration across foundation models.
04
Operational tooling built in: YouTube transcript ingestion, PDF reading, real-time market data, a 4-layer search stack (Tavily, DuckDuckGo, Ollama Web, Serper), and automated report generation.
05
Two full security audits completed resolving 40+ findings — .env hardening, gateway token isolation, sandbox configuration for small models, plaintext-secret removal, CVE remediation, fail2ban, and UFW lockdown.
Career at a Glance

Twenty-six years in banking transformation.

2023 — Present
Lead Solution Architect — Lending
Länsförsäkringar Bank, Stockholm
Sole architect for the Lending domain, owning the end-to-end architecture of NOVA — the bank's new Credit Origination System on Appian, replacing a 1998-era legacy platform and sized for 200,000 annual transactions across seven lending products. Delivered MLR3 and MLR4 to production; currently architecting the Appian containerisation and cloud migration. Authored v2.0 of the NOVA Non-Functional Requirements specification (ISO/IEC 25010, GDPR, PCI-DSS, DORA, EBA).
2020 — 2023
Senior Solutions Architect — Anti-Financial Crime
Swedbank, Stockholm
Led Swedbank's enterprise KYC transformation on PEGA. Delivered the corporate customer segment on schedule. Owned the complete integration model.
2018 — 2020
PEGA Centre of Excellence Founder & Product Owner
Swedbank, Stockholm
Founded the CoE from scratch — operating model, governance, and architectural standards adopted across all PEGA product teams. Designed and introduced the enterprise Situational Layer Cake architecture. Led the CoE as Product Owner (Certified SAFe POPM). Architected cloud migration strategy.
2016 — 2018
PEGA Delivery Lead
Capgemini / Swedbank, Stockholm
Delivered the Future Lending Platform and Credit Origination System end-to-end on PEGA across private and corporate credit product streams.
2013 — 2016
Delivery Manager
Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
Lloyds TSB Integrated Credit Risk System and ANZ banking programmes.
2012 — 2013
BPM Project Manager
Virtusa Consulting Services, Hyderabad
BNP Paribas PEMSA payment exceptions platform and Corner Banca case and workflow management solution.
2007 — 2012
IT Project Manager
HSBC Software Development, Pune
HSBC Invoice Finance, Receivable Finance, and Loan Applications — five years of global banking project delivery.
2000 — 2007
Project Lead
MphasiS (HP Company), Bangalore
Seven years foundation in banking project leadership and SDLC.
Contact

Open to senior roles in Q2 2026.

Lead Solution Architect, Principal Architect, AI Transformation Lead, or Head of AI Engineering roles — at banks, fintechs, or consultancies in English-working environments. Permanent or contract. Stockholm preferred; open to relocation across the EU, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, and Dubai for the right role.

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Phone
+46 72 240 3490