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Principal Solution Architect (AI & GenAI Toolchain) · GenAI & Financial Services / Insurance
A quick introduction
AI architecture leader with 16+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale solutions for Financial Services. Deep BFSI domain expertise across capital markets, derivatives and regulatory reporting, paired with proven strength architecting GenAI and agentic systems (LangGraph, LangChain, Vertex AI) that bridge cutting-edge AI with legacy banking data. Trusted technical authority in customer-facing and executive-advisory roles, translating complex business requirements into secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures.
16+ years in BFSI — Capital Markets & Derivatives (CDS/IRS, Dodd-Frank) · Regulatory Reporting · Corporate Cashflow · Credit Bureau / Microfinance · Middle & Back-Office Banking — at Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse via Cognizant & HSBC.
- Full name
- Sunil Sarolkar
- Role
- Principal Solution Architect (AI & GenAI Toolchain)
- Location
- Pune, India
- Focus
- GenAI & Financial Services / Insurance
Professional experience
June 2026 – Present
Principal Solution Architect, Customer Facing
US Insurance Client via Zensar Technologies, Pune
Agent-Assist Next Best Offer Engine (Insurance): Architected a recommendation engine combining a Neo4j persona knowledge graph with lifetime-value, likelihood-to-act and product-fit models — served from AKS via Helm with Azure Blob-backed model artifacts.
Legacy Modernization — COBOL/Tandem to .NET on Azure: Leading discovery and phased migration strategy for a mainframe-to-cloud program — AST-driven transformation pipeline, spec-driven development with AI coding agents, and golden-master validation to guarantee functional equivalence.
Jul 2015 – May 2026
Assistant Vice President, Engineering Lead
Deutsche Bank, Pune
Executive Advisory & Technical Presales (BFSI): Primary AI technical architect for global BFSI business lines — led design workshops and presented GenAI ROI and architecture strategy directly to executive leadership.
Prioritization Rubrics across Business Units: Built and executed a standardized evaluation rubric to prioritize architecture requirements across multiple business units in parallel, matching recommendations to each unit's engineering maturity and business velocity.
Enterprise-Scale RAG — DB Omni: Implemented an organisation-wide RAG pipeline integrating GitHub, Bitbucket and Confluence into a single unified search; enabled code explainability with business context and surfaced knowledge gaps — materially reduced information-search time.
Agentic QA & Reconciliation Automation: Architected an enterprise multi-agent system (LangGraph, LangChain) automating end-to-end test execution and post-trade data reconciliation across banking platforms — QA testing cycles reduced by ~60%.
Corporate Cashflow Analytics — Deterministic ML at Scale: Implemented agentic workflow using deterministic tool calls and a custom-trained model with confidence scoring; low-confidence cases route to human review, feeding continuous retraining. Processes 10B+ monthly records — ~70% reduction in compliance rule-change effort, ~30% performance improvement.
Regulatory Data-Adjustment Automation: Automated manual data adjustments in the back-office regulatory reporting warehouse (event-driven architecture on GCP — BigQuery, Dataflow — and AWS), reducing Functional Analyst adjustment effort by ~70%.
Enterprise LLMOps: Established distributed tracing and audit logging so every automated financial decision is traceable; designed functional evaluation metrics for real-time model and agent quality.
Dec 2013 – Jul 2015
Software Engineer
Credit Suisse via Cognizant Technology Solutions
Back-Office Position Management (Capital Markets): Built core backend for an enterprise transactional Data Warehouse managing real-time account-position changes across global securities infrastructures; used ESB to handle high-frequency capital-markets data.
Aug 2011 – Dec 2013
Software Engineer
HSBC Software Development India
Dodd-Frank Compliance & Derivatives Processing: Engineered middle-office integration platforms handling FIXML APIs for DTCC and MarkitWire to process Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) trade data for Dodd-Frank regulatory reporting.
Trading Platform Integrations: Built secure, low-latency "Smart Client Frameworks" to route real-time transaction data from Bloomberg front-office terminals downstream into Global Calypso back-office systems for post-trade clearing and settlement.
Mar 2010 – Aug 2011
Software Engineer
High Mark Credit Information Services (now CRIF High Mark)
Credit Bureau Bulk Ingestion (Consumer Credit / Fintech): Designed high-volume, secure ETL pipelines ingesting bulk financial data from Micro-Finance Institutions; automated cleansing and transformation into regulator-mandated formats for credit-bureau reporting.
Core competencies
BFSI Domain Expertise
- Capital Markets & Derivatives (CDS, IRS, FIXML)
- Dodd-Frank & Regulatory Reporting
- Corporate Cashflow
- Credit Bureau / Microfinance
- Middle & Back-Office Operations
- Financial Data Warehousing
Customer Engineering & Advisory
- Technical Discovery
- Architectural Scoping
- Rapid Prototyping & PoC Delivery
- Executive Presales
- Value-Realization Mapping
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Alignment
Agentic AI & Search Engineering
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- Vertex AI
- Production RAG Pipelines
- Text-to-SQL
- Semantic & Hybrid Retrieval
- Evaluation (LLM-as-a-judge)
Enterprise Integration & API Governance
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- OpenAPI
- API Gateways
- ESB
- Event-Driven Architectures
- Distributed Systems
Data Engineering & Pipelines
- Kafka
- Spark
- Airflow
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Streaming & Batch Processing
Security, Observability & Cloud
- OAuth2
- Short-Lived Credential Management
- Distributed Tracing
- Audit Logging
- Blast-Radius Containment
- Cloud-Native Design (GCP, AWS)
Selected projects
Trade Data Insights Pipeline
Corporate Cashflow, Deutsche Bank (enterprise multi-agent workflow)
Led technical discovery and scoping to ingest and process unstructured corporate cashflow telemetry; translated vague business requests into a concrete multi-agent architecture (LangChain) reasoning over complex financial data. ~70% reduction in compliance rule-change effort, ~30% performance improvement.
Applied Model Context Protocol (MCP) principles for safe agent-to-database interaction, with evaluation guardrails ensuring deterministic outputs for compliance review.
Structformer — Regulatory Data Text-to-SQL Engine
Deutsche Bank regulatory reporting
Designed a custom Transformer engine (SentencePiece tokenizer) automating data adjustments for financial regulatory reports. ~70% time saved in data adjustment.
Built automated Text-to-SQL workflows letting non-technical compliance stakeholders query complex data lakes securely; validated against deterministic financial-accuracy metrics (99%).
AI-Driven Indian Sign Language Translation
IISc Capstone
Real-time, low-latency multimodal ML pipeline for continuous streaming under strict edge constraints; custom temporal recognition (OpenPose + Transformer/LSTM) delivering high-speed inference without heavy cloud compute.
Education & certifications

2024
PG Certification, Computational Data Science
IISc Bangalore
Grade A+ (94%; 100% in Scalable Computing & 90% in ML). Top Talent Pass (TTPS) Eligible.


2024
Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud
Demonstrated proficiency in designing and building data processing systems and operationalizing machine learning models on Google Cloud.


2007
Diploma in Advanced Computing
C-DAC / ACTS, Pune

2006
B.E. Electronics
Pune University, VIT College
Training & earned badges
Internal professional development and credentials earned at Deutsche Bank.




