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Twenty-six years in banking transformation.
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.
Every role, most recent first
Deliveredemployer work, on the CVBuilt and operatedmy own systems, runningProposedpresented, not built
- Apr 2023 – Present
Lead Solution Architect - Lending
Länsförsäkringar Bank, Stockholm
Sole architect for the Lending domain, with direct reports across a vendor-resourced delivery group of 15-20 (feedback given directly; formal reviews via vendor), 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 and lead remediation across performance, scalability and technical debt; planned the migration from on-premises Appian to Kubernetes (AKS/EKS). Chair the monthly architecture governance forum for the lending domain. Authored the NOVA Non-Functional Requirements specification aligned to ISO/IEC 25010 (GDPR, PCI-DSS, DORA, NIST CSF, EBA). Introduced GitHub Copilot and LLM-assisted test-case generation into the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
- Aug 2020 – Apr 2023
Senior Solutions Architect - Anti-Financial Crime
Swedbank, Stockholm
Led a vendor-resourced team of 15 PEGA architects, developers and testers, with direct reports (feedback given directly; formal reviews via vendor), on Swedbank's Next Generation KYC programme on PEGA CLM/KYC. Delivered the corporate KYC solution to production in 2021 and led the private customer KYC solution through inception. Owned the integration spine to the customer master, core banking, transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP/RCA screening and document archives; recognised internally as the PEGA architecture authority for the programme.
- Aug 2018 – Aug 2020
PEGA Centre of Excellence Founder & Product Owner
Swedbank, Stockholm
Founded the CoE from zero, led the team of 5-10 technically (people management by team managers), and established governance and architectural standards across delivery programmes. Designed and introduced the enterprise Situational Layer Cake architecture. Led the CoE as Product Owner (Certified SAFe POPM). Architected Swedbank's PEGA Cloud migration strategy.
- Mar 2016 – Aug 2018
PEGA Delivery Lead
Capgemini / Swedbank, Stockholm
Delivery Lead for Swedbank's Future Lending Platform programme; delivered the platform to production for unsecured consumer loans, publicly reported as an 80%-plus reduction in end-to-end processing time with 65% instant response. Established and led Capgemini's offshore PEGA development centre in Kolkata, scaled to approximately 50 seats supporting the programme.
- Jul 2013 – Mar 2016
Delivery Manager
Wipro Technologies, Bangalore
End-to-end delivery of Lloyds TSB's Integrated Credit Risk System (UK) and ANZ Bank's customer/account service workflow platform (APAC). Directly managed a team of 30+ across delivery, QA and business analysis, including mentorship and performance reviews.
- Sep 2012 – Apr 2013
BPM Project Manager
Virtusa Consulting Services, Hyderabad
BNP Paribas PEMSA payment exceptions platform and Corner Banca case and workflow management solution.
- Oct 2007 – Aug 2012
IT Project Manager
HSBC Software Development, Pune
Managed project delivery teams with direct reports on PEGA-based workflow and case management for HSBC Global Banking & Markets trade finance and enterprise operational workflows.
Earlier experience, 2000 to 2007
MphasiS (An HP Company), Accenture Services, Manipal Info COM, SrmRadiant (Lambent Tech training division)
AI in production architecture work, since 2023
The AI practice is not new. Since 2023 I have used AI in production architecture work inside a regulated bank: a self-authored tool that translates Swedish-language documents, meeting notes and Teams transcripts into English (built because policy did not permit routing regulated content through external consumer services), and GitHub Copilot and employer-provisioned Azure OpenAI across code and database review, solution and integration design, and CI/CD pipeline automation. In 2025 I extended that practice into independent, production-grade agentic AI.
Agentic evidence-assembly layer for AML alert triage, Swedbank
Designed a research and evidence-assembly layer between transaction-monitoring detection and analyst disposition, assembling adverse media, sanctions, and case-history context without changing detection scores or filing decisions. Presented to programme governance.
Sovereign-AI architecture proposal
Designed an on-premises GPU architecture for hosting open-weight models, such as Mistral, to keep regulated customer data inside the firewall rather than routing it through cloud-hosted model APIs. Documented and circulated at Länsförsäkringar Bank; discussed concept with Swedbank Data and AI team.
Open to senior roles.
Lead Solution Architect, Principal Architect, AI Transformation Lead, or Head of AI Engineering roles - leading agentic AI transformation for regulated enterprises across banking, fintech, insurance and product organisations, in English-working environments. Permanent or contract. Based in Stockholm; open to roles in Sweden, the Nordics, EU, UK and internationally, including relocation.