George Thomas

Owned enterprise data and AI architecture strategy, translating regulatory, compliance, and business objectives into scalable cloud
and AI capabilities, while partnering with executive leadership to prioritize investments and guide delivery across domains.
• Defined and governed the architecture roadmap, aligning compliance, fraud, and analytics capabilities with business
priorities and CDO-led digital strategy, resulting in a 75% improvement in fraud detection effectiveness.
• Spearheaded the transition from legacy campaign analytics to an enterprise-grade AI operating model, establishing
architectural and AI standards, AI adoption, and cloud governance improved analytics capabilities by 60%.
• Led modernization of data platform to a hybrid, cloud-native data pipeline architecture to improve service availability by
90% and operational efficiency by 35% through centralized data consistency.
• Established data visualization capabilities, creating dashboards using through modernized visualization platform to
support business critical decision, and help to enhance productivity by more than 40%.
• Acted as architecture authority, mentoring architects through design reviews, and improving overall documentation
maturity via standards and best practices, aligning strategy with stakeholder goals.

Architect Manager with deep experience leading post-merger integration, enterprise middleware modernization, and cloud
enabled digital platforms within two large, regulated banking environments.
• Led middleware and integration architecture for the NBAD-FGB merger, ensuring seamless system consolidation across
core banking, payments, and digital channels while preserving service continuity and regulatory compliance.
• Defined enterprise integration and services architecture standards, identifying reusable capabilities across business
streams and guiding platform rationalization and migration from monolithic integrations to scalable microservice-based
implementations and introduction of SaaS based white-labeled application.
• Architected corporate and wealth banking integration platforms, delivering high-performance customer and payment
systems that increased business productivity by 30% and improved client experience at scale.
• Drove Cloud Smart and multi-cloud adoption strategy, enabling scalability, better resilience, and faster time-to-market for
integration and digital banking transformation capabilities.
• Member of the Architecture Review Board and Digitization Team, establishing architectural guardrails, enforcing best
practice governance, and designing and delivering the banks first SaaS white-labeled budgeting platform, generating
20% revenue growth while enabling low-cost digital services for SME customers.

Early-career architect and integration leader with proven experience delivering regulator-critical banking systems and driving
enterprise middleware transformation in a tier-1 banking environment.
• Progressed from System Analyst to Group Leader - Middleware Integration, reflecting consistent delivery excellence,
leadership trust, and expanding responsibility across enterprise integration initiatives.
• Delivered complex, regulator-facing banking solutions, spanning AML compliance platforms, digital channels, and
blockchain-based cross-border payment systems, working closely with business leaders, regulators, and strategic
vendors.
• Acted as key integration and solution lead, translating regulatory, security, and business requirements into scalable
system and middleware designs aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Led enterprise-wide middleware transformation, replacing legacy integration platforms with future-ready middleware
technologies, improving scalability, resilience, and alignment with long-term digital strategy.
• Partnered with Enterprise Architecture and senior stakeholders, ensuring cross-domain alignment, reduced integration
risk, and successful adoption of new capabilities across the organization.

• Performed implementation, troubleshooting, enhancement and performance tuning of solutions, including requirement
analysis, process & solution design.
• Customized & implemented new Core banking application EBA for their new banking operations in Saudi.
• Call center development for bank in collaboration with Avaya

Recognized as a trusted leader and enterprise architect for resolving complex challenges and capability upliftment through
strategic architecture, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
• Addressed performance bottlenecks and rising infrastructure costs by defining a scalable enterprise architecture,
increasing processing efficiency by 2X times, and reducing operational costs by 30%.
• Resolved recurring availability and latency issues by leading cloud/platform modernization and API optimization
initiatives, improving application uptime by 99% and performance by 25% across strategic platforms.
• Stabilized and modernized a fragmented application landscape by assuming ownership of a $5M portfolio of ~10 multi
tier enterprise applications, aligning application and capability modernization priorities with business goals and driving
measurable cost and efficiency gains, along with the repetitive/human process with intelligent automation
• Partnered closely with senior leadership and business stakeholders, translating requirements into scalable architecture
decisions aligned with enterprise standards and roadmap, enables 20% increase in project delivery.
• Provided executive-level governance across projects and vendors, overseeing delivery quality, controlling scope,
minimizing rework, and ensuring predictable outcomes through strong stakeholder and vendor management.
• Built and led high-performing teams, mentoring leads and engineers, reducing delivery iterations, strengthening
architectural discipline, and creating a sustainable leadership pipeline, improves performance by 40%.