Kaustav Dutta

• Serve as principal AI strategy advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs at 30+ EMEA financial institutions, architecting
enterprise AI adoption roadmaps spanning Generative AI, Agentic AI workflows, and intelligent automation —
directly influencing multi-year technology investment strategies.
• Designed Oracles Generative AI banking reference architecture, enabling CxO clients to evaluate, pilot, and scale
LLM-based solutions across customer service, credit decisioning, and regulatory reporting — accelerating time-to
value for AI pilots.
• Conceptualised and delivered Oracle Fusion AI Agent Studio-based agentic workflow blueprints, positioning
Oracle as the leading Agentic AI platform partner for EMEA banking institutions.
• Spearheaded multi-million dollar AI platform and advisory engagements, combining strategic narrative with
technical credibility to win competitive mandates against hyperscaler-first competitors.
• Designed and facilitated 50+ board-level AI strategy workshops, translating frontier model capabilities into
actionable transformation roadmaps, change management programmes, and measurable KPI frameworks for C
suite sponsors.
• Represented Oracle at regional CxO forums, innovation summits, and industry panels, establishing authority as a
trusted AI strategy voice across EMEA banking and shaping the industrys Responsible AI adoption narrative.
• Guided CxO clients on AI vendor ecosystem strategy — Oracle AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI — covering
platform selection, build-vs-buy decisions, and hyperscaler partnership structuring.

Team & Function Leadership
• Led a multi-disciplinary solution consulting team across technical pre-sales, solution architecture, and
business advisory tracks, defining operating models, capability frameworks, and performance standards
across 30+ EMEA financial institutions.
• Mentored and developed a community of solution architects and AI advisors, building a high-performance
culture focused on customer outcomes, continuous improvement, and accountability — directly mirroring
VP-level Solution Engineering function ownership.
• Served as primary escalation point and senior solution authority for partner-led and direct enterprise
pursuits; shaped career development pathways and drove team-wide elevation of technical and commercial
acumen.
Strategic Pre-Sales &
• Owned and drove solution engineering contribution across the full pre-sales lifecycle — from opportunity
qualification and discovery through to solution design, PoC delivery, and RFx response — significantly
improving win rates and deal velocity on multi-million dollar AI platform mandates.
• Facilitated 50+ board-level and executive AI strategy workshops with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and government
ministry stakeholders, delivering differentiated value narratives and ROI frameworks that translated AI
capabilities into measurable commercial outcomes.
• Led competitive displacement engagements, combining architectural credibility with commercial narrative to
secure strategic mandates; established ROI models and business case methodologies connecting AI
platform capabilities to client transformation KPIs.
AI Solution Design & Architecture
• Designed Oracles Generative AI banking reference architecture, covering LLM-based customer service,
credit decisioning, and regulatory reporting — setting the technical bar for solution design across GenAI,
Agentic AI, RAG, and Conversational AI.
• Developed Oracle Fusion AI Agent Studio-based agentic workflow blueprints and demo environments,
enabling rapid prototyping and MLP approaches that validated AI value early and reduced delivery risk for
enterprise clients.
• Advised enterprise clients on AI platform selection, integration architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, and
responsible AI governance — ensuring all proposed solutions were feasible, scalable, secure, and aligned to
platform strategy.
Partner Ecosystem Enablement & Practice Building
• Designed and maintained a library of reusable solution blueprints, partner-specific positioning guides,
competitive differentiators, and proposal templates — reducing bespoke engineering effort per engagement
and accelerating partner proposal quality.
• Led technical deep-dives, architecture walkthroughs, and capability workshops with SI and reseller partners,
enabling them to independently position, demonstrate, and extend AI solutions within their own customer go
to-market.
• Defined value engineering frameworks and ROI models tailored to partner-led opportunities; represented
Oracle at regional CxO forums and industry panels, influencing partner roadmap decisions and joint GTM
programmes across the EMEA ecosystem.

• Acted as Account CTO for global tier-1 banks, directing AI, RPA, and intelligent automation programmes within
enterprise transformation blueprints — achieving 30-40% reduction in delivery timelines through AI-augmented
reuse architectures.
• Led operating model transformation engagements redesigning workforce and process structures around AI
enabled capabilities, embedding automation into core banking, payments, and risk operations to drive significant
cost optimisation and agility.
• Delivered enterprise transformation blueprints and payments modernisation strategies bridging legacy
infrastructure with cloud-native and AI-ready platforms across multiple global financial institutions.
• Built next-generation AI-literate leadership pipelines across India and Europe, mentoring architect communities
and establishing internal centres of excellence for emerging AI and automation practices.
• Recognised as Best People Manager of the Year (Capgemini, 2021) for building high-performance advisory teams
delivering AI transformation outcomes at scale.

• Led and scaled multi-disciplinary Solution Engineering and advisory practices for global tier-1 banks,
directing AI, RPA, and intelligent automation programmes; defined operating models and career frameworks
that reduced delivery timelines by 30-40%.
• Developed and operationalized partner technical onboarding, quality assurance methodologies, and Centers
of Excellence for emerging AI practices — standardizing solution engineering across global delivery teams.
• Drove operating model transformation engagements redesigning workforce and process structures around
AI-enabled capabilities across core banking, payments, and risk operations — embedding automation into
mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Mentored architect communities across India and Europe, building AI-literate leadership pipelines and
providing architectural guidance during high-stakes customer pursuits and RFx responses.
• Recognized as Best People Manager of the Year (Capgemini, 2021 ) for building high-performance advisory
teams delivering AI transformation outcomes at scale.

• Delivered high-impact AI strategy and architecture advisory to CxO stakeholders at Fortune 100 banks across
APAC and North America, influencing multi-year IT modernisation investments valued at hundreds of millions of
dollars.
• Led consulting engagements introducing intelligent automation and early machine learning capabilities into
enterprise banking platforms, developing AI capability maturity models and board-aligned transformation
roadmaps.
• Drove large-scale hybrid cloud transformations for Fortune 100 banks, building scalable target-state architectures
that unlocked AI-readiness by modernising data and integration layers.
• Championed reusable AI frameworks, solution accelerators, and playbooks supporting business-IT alignment and
platform modernisation — recognised with the Cognizant Innovation Excellence Award (2015).

• Delivered AI strategy and architecture advisory to CxO stakeholders at Fortune 100 banks across APAC and
North America, influencing multi-year IT modernization investments valued in the hundreds of millions of
dollars.
• Championed reusable AI frameworks, solution accelerators, and playbooks enabling consistent, high-quality
partner and internal delivery across geographies; designed AI capability maturity models aligned to board
level transformation roadmaps.
• Drove large-scale hybrid cloud transformations, building scalable target-state architectures that unlocked AI
readiness by modernizing data and integration layers across regulated enterprise environments.
• Recognized with the Cognizant Innovation Excellence Award (2015) for developing reusable AI frameworks
adopted across multiple Fortune 500 client engagements.

• Led multi-tower enterprise architecture for global investment firms, aligning Oracle and IBM technology stacks to
support operational scale, risk management, and compliance — laying the architectural foundation for subsequent
AI and data platform transformation.
• Defined an enterprise-wide architecture services model that pivoted the practice from staff augmentation to
business-outcome-based advisory — a model that directly foreshadowed todays AI advisory engagement
approach.
• Partnered with IBM R&D and global solution hubs to integrate early AI and analytics capabilities into reusable
architecture patterns delivered across geographies.

• Led multi-tower enterprise architecture for global investment firms, aligning technology stacks to support
operational scale, risk management, and compliance — laying the architectural foundation for subsequent AI
and data platform transformations.
• Partnered with IBM R&D to integrate early AI and analytics capabilities into reusable architecture patterns,
establishing the blueprint for outcome-based technical advisory models and scalable partner delivery.
• Defined an enterprise-wide architecture services model that pivoted the practice from staff augmentation to
business-outcome-based advisory — directly applicable to building and scaling modern Solution
Engineering functions.
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• Banking Products — led full-cycle software development and deployment for financial services
clients.
• Wipro — developed Java-based enterprise applications; managed full software lifecycle and
automated testing for financial services.

| Full-cycle
enterprise application development for financial services clients; automated testing frameworks; core banking and
transaction processing modules.