Ashutosh Agrawal
Slough
Summary
Results-driven Solution Architect with over 22 years in IT, including 20 years in banking and finance. Specialises in designing end-to-end microservices and event-driven solutions that align with business outcomes. Expertise in API governance, integration design, and cloud transformation using AWS, along with strong skills in Java/J2EE and DevOps practices. Proven experience in modernising systems and delivering strategic architecture visions to enhance business value.
Overview
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Certification
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21
years of professional experience
Work History
Solution Architect (TAM)
Amazon Web Service (AWS)
05.2025 - 10.2025
- Proposed Agentic AI-driven architecture to AWS enterprise customer, automating payment processing workflows and defining AI integration strategy to enhance operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and accelerate decision-making.
- Designed an automated PCI security compliance solution for the AWS customer using AWS Security Hub and Trusted Advisor services. Delivered real-time dashboards and reports that improved visibility by 50%, reduced manual audit efforts by 30%, and recommended a prioritized security improvement plan strengthening overall cloud security posture.
- Delivered a FinOps initiative for an AWS enterprise customer, achieving a 15% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs. Architected financial reporting and cost management using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Cloud Intelligence Dashboard, and established cost-optimization frameworks and architectural modernisation patterns to enhance cost visibility, governance, and operational efficiency.
- Delivered architecture vision for payment gateway monolithic application into cloud-native microservices and event-driven architecture with API design and integration strategies, enhancing scalability, resiliency, and monitoring of microservices.
Solutions Architect
GSS (Global Screening Services)
11.2024 - 05.2025
- Defined and delivered architecture vision, high-level design, and prototype for enterprise-wide authentication and authorisation of internal and external users of enterprise products and services, using SAML, OAuth2, and AWS services (Cognito, Lambda, AVP) to implement secure access for enterprise portal and sanction screening microservices, enhancing compliance and platform scalability.
- Led the design of scalable solution architectures to support enterprise-level applications, enhancing system efficiency and productivity.
- Designed strategic DevSecOps pattern and pipeline for automated build, packaging, and deployment of UI and Java/Spring Boot backend microservices in containerised (EKS) environment, improving deployment efficiency and security.
- Developed and maintained architectural documentation, including diagrams and technical guidelines, to guide project teams.
- Facilitated workshops and training sessions for developers and stakeholders on best practices and emerging technologies.
Solutions Architect
Barclays (Barclaycards) – (Paystream agency)
06.2024 - 11.2024
- Led the design of scalable solution architectures to support enterprise-level applications, enhancing system efficiency and productivity.
- Delivered architecture vision and high-level design of enterprise data platform for Barclaycards, leading RFPs and vendor product assessments with technical and commercial judgement, optimising data integration with credit reference agencies (Equifax, Transunion, Experian) to enhance operational efficiency by 10 days per month.
- Defined architecture vision and produced high-level design for Barclaycard strategic solutions, standardising Barclaycard and mortgage application platforms to enhance data quality, governance, and integration of business processes.
- Developed and maintained architectural documentation, including diagrams and technical guidelines, to guide project teams.
- Facilitated workshops and training sessions for developers and stakeholders on best practices and emerging technologies.
Solutions Architect
Experian Pvt Ltd, London
03.2022 - 05.2024
- Architected and delivered auto-scaling solution for Experian One services on Amazon EKS using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, KEDA, Karpenter, and Prometheus-based custom metrics. Optimized resource utilization, achieving a 30% reduction in AWS costs while enhancing service resiliency, scalability, and high availability through intelligent workload orchestration and cloud-native architecture best practices.
- Designed data lake and automated data flows for credit bureaus integration with Experian, saving 10 man-days/month in manual development and maintenance while reducing data link issues from manual tasks.
- Reviewed the end-to-end DevOps pipeline of the build of the source code, containerization of the Experian one micro services and 3rd party solution and in deployment in terms of automation and security aspects. This has achieved the completion of end-to-end automation company initiative, closing any security loopholes and reduction of 30% incidents in the build and release of the Experian One Services.
- Designed an improved error management solution in distributed Experian One micro services resulting in the better efficiency (50% time) of the users in terms of debugging, correlating and fixing the business errors.
- Reviewed and suggested the improvements in the end-to-end implemented Kafka Platform architecture, producers, and consumers applications design in the Crosscore product in Experian one platform. This has resulted in reduction of the 50% production incidents over a quarter.
- Designed synthetic data simulation solution leveraging generative AI patterns and tools, improving strategy selection efficacy by 50% in mortgage strategy management application.
Strategic Architect
Barclays, Fleet (United Kingdom)
12.2018 - 03.2022
- Transformed the payment gateway monolithic application into the cloud-native microservices and event-driven architecture that has increased the scalability, resiliency, and monitoring of the payment services. This has resulted in improvement in the system payment transactions processing performance by 90 % and decreased the production support issues by 50%.
- Implemented enhanced operational observability system in payment gateway using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, replacing legacy Splunk and Nagios tools, saving £100K/year in software licensing and resourcing costs.
- Designed efficient DevOps CI and CD pipeline for deploying containerised payment gateway Java applications and services in AWS and Kubernetes.
- Implemented automated merchant billing system by designing real-time data streaming architecture using Kafka streaming platform. This solution resulted in saving the manual operational billing efforts i.e. 15 man-days/month and reduced the over billed issues due to manual processes.
Vice President
Barclays
Pune
06.2012 - 11.2018
- Lead the Java development team in building the Barclays client asset management reporting system by implementing the messaging and Soap web services-based applications that has helped strategically transforming the legacy system.
- Migrated corporate banking Java and C++ applications to AWS cloud platform using Infrastructure as Code tools Chef and Terraform, enhancing scalability and operational efficiency.
- Improved the Applications testing framework by implementing the Test-driven development leveraging Junit, Mockito tools that has reduced the production issues by 30%.
- Collaborated with stakeholders, including users, product owners, business analysts, architects, development managers, agile scrum coaches, developers, testing teams, support teams, and infrastructure teams, to align project goals and drive successful delivery.
Senior Associate
Sapient Consulting Ltd
Gurgaon
09.2011 - 04.2012
- Enhanced Java platform for banking system through JVM tuning and implementation of highly concurrent multi-threaded system, eliminating Java memory issues and improving performance by 30%.
- Managed data collection, visualisation and reporting for projects of different scale and applications.
- Reviewed work of junior associates, identified knowledge gaps, corrected mistakes and recommended changes to prevent future mistakes and improve performance.
- Trained junior associates in proper procedures, team policies and strategies for success.
Associate
J P Morgan Chase Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
12.2009 - 09.2011
- Understood business requirements, estimated product delivery, contributed to system architecture design, and implemented Java applications.
- Created high-level and low-level design documents for system modules, developed and conducted unit testing, and performed code reviews with optimisation improvements.
- Resolved customer inquiries through effective communication and problem-solving.
- Assisted customers with inquiries by providing clear and timely responses.
- Supported various departments by handling clerical tasks and administrative duties.
System Integration Analyst
Avaya Pvt Ltd
Pune
06.2008 - 12.2009
- Implemented Avaya Notification Server, designing applications for SIP-based recording call centre and Java portal to enhance communication management.
- Utilised advanced Excel functions to manipulate large datasets for insightful reporting.
- Implemented quality control measures for analytical processes, maintaining high standards.
- Mentored junior analysts, providing guidance and support to foster professional development.
Senior Software Engineer
S1 Services Pvt Ltd
Pune
07.2004 - 05.2008
- Developed MVC-based Java applications to enhance system architecture and improve code maintainability.
- Developed and implemented new software applications, enhancing company productivity and client satisfaction.
- Mentored junior software engineers, providing guidance on coding standards, best practices, and professional development.
- Addressed support issues in Jira, working to resolve bugs and improve user experience. with comprehensive bug fixes.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
NIT Raipur
Raipur07-2001
Master Of Technology -
IIT Delhi
New Delhi06-2004
Skills
- Cloud computing, SaaS
- AWS API Gateway
- Cloud Native Architecture
- Microservices Architecture, API Integration, API design and management
- Event Driven Architecture
- Java
- Spring/ Spring Boot
- Rest web service
- OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, API security
- AWS Lambda
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Docker
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Elasticsearch
- APIs, Swagger/Open API
- SOAP Webservice
- Data Integration, Streaming Analytics
- AWS Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, Data Integration
- AWS Glue
- Terraform
- SQL
- Python
- JavaScript, jQuery
- React JS
- Chef
- Jenkins
- Maven
- Nexus
- Unit Testing - Mockito
- Automate Testing - Cucumber and Selenium
- Jaeger
- Hashicorp Vault
- Service mesh - Istio
- Kubernetes Event Driven autoscaler
- KEDA, Karpenter
- Generative AI
- OpenAI API, LLM
- Data Quality and Governance
- Enterprise Architecture
- TOGAF, Zachman Framework
- Scaled Agile
- Team Management
- Hibernate
- EXT JS
- JMS
- Apigee
- Json/XML
- API Gateway
- AWS Secret Manager
- OpenAI API, LLM
- KEDA, Karpenter
- AWS Cognito
Certification
AWS Solution Architect Associate & AWS Sysops Admin Associate, Safe 4(Scaled Agile) Practitioner, Sun Certified Java Programmer
Timeline
Solution Architect (TAM)
Amazon Web Service (AWS)
05.2025 - 10.2025
Solutions Architect
GSS (Global Screening Services)
11.2024 - 05.2025
Solutions Architect
Barclays (Barclaycards) – (Paystream agency)
06.2024 - 11.2024
Solutions Architect
Experian Pvt Ltd, London
03.2022 - 05.2024
Strategic Architect
Barclays, Fleet (United Kingdom)
12.2018 - 03.2022
Vice President
Barclays
06.2012 - 11.2018
Senior Associate
Sapient Consulting Ltd
09.2011 - 04.2012
Associate
J P Morgan Chase Pvt Ltd
12.2009 - 09.2011
System Integration Analyst
Avaya Pvt Ltd
06.2008 - 12.2009
Senior Software Engineer
S1 Services Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Engineering -
NIT Raipur
Master Of Technology -
IIT Delhi