Senior AI Solution Architect
Sambit Swain
Department of Government Enablement
Abu Dhabi
1
Certification
17
years of professional experience
Seasoned AI and Cloud Architect with over 17 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and AI solutions across government and financial services sectors. Currently serving as Senior AI Solution Architect at the Department of Government Enablement (DGE), UAE, leading the architecture of secure, sovereign, and scalable AI platforms for government entities. Expertise spans Generative AI, Machine Learning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Multi-Cloud Architecture (Azure & AWS), Cloud Security, DevOps, and Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF). Proven track record in architecting cloud-native applications, AI-powered platforms, and highly secure environments that meet stringent compliance and governance requirements. Strong leadership experience managing and mentoring cloud/AI teams. Experienced in designing and deploying AI solutions for fraud detection, credit risk assessment, intelligent automation, and enterprise knowledge management, leveraging modern AI technologies, large language models (LLMs), and cloud-native architectures.
Work History
Senior AI Solution Architect
6 Months- Architect and deliver enterprise AI applications on Azure and AKS for UAE government entities.
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available AI platforms aligned with government security, compliance, and data governance requirements.
- Designed and developed 3 AI applications from Idea to Golive that is used by UAE government departments.
- Lead sovereign AI initiatives using Sovereign AI and locally hosted LLMs to ensure data privacy and sovereignty.
- Architected and deployed a self-hosted Workflow automation platform, enabling government users to create low-code workflows and AI-powered agents.
- Integrated Microsoft 365 services (SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive) and other enterprise systems to automate business processes and improve operational efficiency.
Senior Solution Architect
7 Months- Designing and Architecting Mobile banking digital platform for ADCB for more than 2 Million users using the principle of TOGAF methodologies.
- Design highly scalable Microservices architecture for digital banking Apps in AWS EKS.
- Architected AI landing zone for the Bank where multiple Applications can use the common framework for Chatbot and multi agent use cases.
- Skilled in Prompt engineering, Fine tuning of LLMs and Implemented Responsible AI principles and LLM safety guardrails for GenAI models.
- Designed Azure OpenAI-based conversational banking assistant integrated with core banking APIs for customer self-service.
- Designed Application architectures in Azure to meet high scalability and resilience requirements using services like Frontdoor, Vwan, AKS, APIM.
- Defined security compliance in azure using Azure policies.
- Design Application migration and data migration techniques for Mobile and web app modernization.
2nd VP Enterprise Cloud Architect(AWS and Azure)
3 Years 1 Month- Facilitate Mission critical Apps (50+) in their cloud migration to Azure, including App design and Architecting.
- Designed AML transaction monitoring pipeline with anomaly detection models.
- Implemented account onboarding chatbot using Azure OpenAI model with RAG implementation.
- Implemented Responsible AI and PII data filtration for information feeding into AI model in Azure AI.
- Expertise in system design and Application design.
- Experienced in Managed Identity and access Management (Entra ID) and Azure Policies to check and remediate security vulnerabilities in Azure cloud.
- Expertise in Azure Network Architecture, Azure Firewall, NSG, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute.
- Implementing Cloud Architecture that meets security compliance of NIST, GDPR.
- Part of Architecture Review Board (ARB) to approve Application cloud designs and security.
- Experienced in using CSPM tools like Wiz for vulnerability analysis and remediation.
- Experienced in designing multi-tenant architecture in Kubernetes.
- Have created AWS Enterprise Architecture according to banking security standards and scalability to meet the migration of a large bank.
- Successfully conducted annual DR test for AWS and Azure meeting the SLA requirements of Northern Trust.
- Setup Organizations, Configure SCPs, guardrails, etc. in AWS.
- Maintain Enterprise cloud architecture in Azure with VWAN architecture.
- Maintain centralized terraform repo for IaaC implementation of cloud deployments.
- Creating application patterns like Microservices, Data, Event driven, Kubernetes pattern to be used by app team for migration to cloud.
Senior Cloud and Devops Consultant
1 Year 9 Months- Designing Cloud architecture in AWS and Azure and its deployments and automation.
- Migrated TIBCO applications from on prem to AWS and Azure cloud.
- Setting up of cloud security and IDS/IPS like guardduty, encryption etc.
- Cloud infrastructure and networking setup including VPN and direct connect setup for hybrid infrastructure.
- RFP resolutions, cost optimizations, estimations.
- Automation of AWS/Azure application deployments using terraform and configuration management using ansible.
- Deployment of applications as docker images in EKS and AKS Kubernetes clusters.
- Understand the existing infra and design the Devops architecture for the project.
- Setup Gitlab, nexus, SonarQube and Jenkins.
- Code the Jenkins pipeline script in groovy and configure them.
- Setup cloud Infrastructure in GCP for Kubernetes POC.
Senior Engineer
9 Years 2 Months- Mentoring and guiding junior employees in this project.
- Conducting POC for different options of cloud deployments i.e. VMs, Containers, etc.
- Designing and implementing HA cloud infrastructure for a large sized project with DR infrastructure with multiple servers hosted on public cloud.
- Application monitoring using tools like AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana.
- Following cloud best practices in deployments and security, automation of patching and vulnerability tests.
- Experienced in python programming for ML models.
Asst manager
1 Year 10 Months- Joined as GET from college.
- Inventory management using SAP.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics and instrumentation
GPA: 8.24
12th
GPA: 68%
10th
GPA: 78%
Skills
Gen AI Architecture
AWS Architecture
Azure Architecture
Azure AI and data
AI Architecture and Governance
Devops
Kubernetes
Python Programming
Security Compliance (NIST
GDPR)
Azure policies
AWS guardrails
Good Presentation skills
TOGAF
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect Certified
- ITIL v4 Certified
- Six Sigma Certified
Awards
- Awarded for Successful DR test for AWS/Azure in Northern Trust
- Received Best Employee Award for the Year 2021 in TIBCO software.
Personal Information
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior AI Solution Architect
Department of Government Enablement
04.2026 - CurrentRead More
Senior Solution Architect
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
08.2025 - 03.2026Read More
2nd VP Enterprise Cloud Architect(AWS and Azure)
Northern Trust Bank
06.2022 - 07.2025Read More
Senior Cloud and Devops Consultant
TIBCO Software Limited
08.2020 - 05.2022Read More
Senior Engineer
Honeywell India Limited
06.2011 - 08.2020Read More
Asst manager
ESSAR Oil(Nayara)
08.2009 - 06.2011Read More
St.Josheph's convent High School
10th
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GM college
12th
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Institute of technical education and research
B.Tech from Electronics and instrumentation
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