Igor Ageyev

Senior AI Executive / Practice Leader / Principal Enterprise Architect with 25 years' experience, spending that time between C-suite strategy and the engineering of production systems across global banks and digital consultancies. Proven track record of turning bespoke AI projects into scalable, repeatable enterprise platforms and industry accelerators.

● Commercial & Pre-Sales impact: £200M+ in technology spend influenced, €10M+ in new AI spend unlocked, led the discovery and technical pitching to win a number of multi-million pound (90M) digital engineering programmes.

● AI-native engineering & economics: 5x reduction in operational process TCO (75-80%) with 50% reduction in cycle times via Probabilistic Workflows and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) damping.

● Industry thought leader (author of Architecture of Intellect at www.notesofea.com). Inventor of the Enterprise AI Management Pattern (EAMP), which comprises decoupled AI Control Planes, Semantic Data Contracts (SDC), and automated guardrails to help product teams move faster without the overhead of central bureaucracy.

CORE COMPETENCIES & TECHNOLOGY STACK

● AI Platform & Agentic Architecture: GenAI & Predictive AI; AWS Bedrock, Azure AI / Foundry, Databricks; Meta Llama Open-Weights, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini; Dual Layer Orchestration (Netflix Conductor, LangGraph, CrewAI); Zero Trust Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateways; Semantic Data Contracts (SDC).

● AI Governance, Security & LLMOps: Runtime guardrails and Policy as Code (Open Policy Agent / OPA, Rego); Enterprise RAG and Vector Memory Quarantine; Shadow Deployment Protocols; JWT Identity propagation; AI FinOps (token to transaction attribution); EU AI Act, FCA and GxP compliance.

● Enterprise Strategy & Practice Leadership: Target Operating Model (TOM) design; Technical pre-sales and C-suite pitching; Practice building (hiring & mentoring); API first and platform engineering; Multi-cloud hybrid topologies (AWS, Azure); Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and fitness functions; TOGAF, SAFe, ITIL.

SIGNATURE COMMERCIAL & PLATFORM HIGHLIGHTS

● 80% reduction in regulated KYC/AML (FCA remediation) run-rate: Architected an AI-native compliance platform using isolated middleware and confidence-gated agentic routing to reduce the monthly run-rate from £150k-£264k to £32k-£34k with a mathematical bound on the regulatory exposure.

● €13–15M strategic portfolio shift (Top 3 CEE bank): Audited 40 AI use cases and 6 pilots for the Board; killed off the 'tool first' low ROI experiments and realigned the portfolio around the business constraints, which has delivered €3–5M in savings and unlocked €10M in ecosystem funding.

● 50% faster commercial loan onboarding (Samlink/Kyndryl): ran the end-to-end pilot to production conversion for the Meta Llama 3.3 70B agents on Azure Foundry, cutting approval times in half and identifying a 50% path to AI infrastructure cost optimisation.

Global Monitoring and Information Agency Ltd | London, UK

Head of Enterprise AI Strategy & Principal Platform Architect | 01/2026 – Present

Lead an independent advisory practice in the areas of applied AI strategy, quantitative FinOps and technical platform architecture for enterprise clients. Author of the Architecture of Intellect framework.

● Productising AI accelerators & platforms: Designed the 7-plane EAMP reference architecture and the Semantic Data Contracts (SDC) (the YAML/JSON ontology bridges) to prevent SQL injection and enforce PII masking. Productised our bespoke KYC/AML and financial dispute workflows as repeatable, scalable assets that can be rapidly deployed to clients.

● Dual Layer Agentic Orchestration: multi-tenant AI Native IT Ops workspaces architected with deterministic macro orchestration (Netflix Conductor, Kafka) for SLA governance and probabilistic cognitive micro orchestration (LangGraph) plus automated RAG ingestion (Kestra).

● Zero Trust MCP & Governance: Production grade MCP gateway patterns with JWT identity propagation and OPA/Rego policy evaluation. Created practical triage frameworks (The 6 Diagnostic Questions) to eliminate 70%+ of AI proposals that were not going to work before any CapEx was committed.

● HMRC (Valuation Office Agency) - Executive Programme Assurance (07/2026 to 08/2026): End-to-end architectural delivery assurance for the NGR programme (Azure, Dynamics 365, microservices) with the technical delivery being fully aligned to partner accountability across the 4 major releases.

Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) Marketing and Trading | London, UK

Lead Enterprise Architect — Governance & Resilience | 09/2025 – 12/2025

● Delivered the Board approved Programme Initiation Document (PID) and target operating model for a ~£10M Disaster Recovery Remediation Programme (DRRP), including the critical cloud and data dependencies for the regulated energy trading business.

Top-3 Bank in Central and Eastern Europe (NDA) | Vienna, Austria

Lead Enterprise Architect & Executive AI Advisor | 03/2025 – 09/2025

● Enterprise AI Portfolio Triage: 40 AI use cases evaluated and 6 pilots completed (using advanced RAG, PEFT and quantisation across the SaaS and internal landing zones).

● Lightweight guardrails and reusability: Replaced a series of disparate experiments with a single 3-tier AI integration architecture, with intelligent traffic routing and shared evaluation patterns. Presented the target architecture to the CEO and Board, which led to the €13-15M portfolio shift.

Kyndryl (Financial Services Advisory Practice) | Finland & Middle East (KSA)

Lead Enterprise Architect — AI Transformation & Pre-Sales | 04/2024 – 04/2025

Led technical strategy, commercial pre-sales, and engineering architecture across major digital banking transformations:

● Pre-Sales & C-Suite pitching (SNB): Led the discovery and technical pitching in conjunction with Sales, architecting three composable enterprise designs in the pursuit of a $60-90M greenfield neo-bank, with the objective of 30% lower TCO and 50% faster TTM versus McKinsey.

● Production AI on Cloud (Samlink): ran the commercial lending AI agent programme on Microsoft Azure Foundry with AWS failover and built an AI FinOps cost distribution model for both retail and commercial.

● Practice Delivery (Al Rajhi & BSF): Won and delivered a $15M IT TOM and governance transformation (aiming at a 30% reduction in incidents). Designed the Digital Factory operating model at Banque Saudi Fransi with AI copilots (Gemini 1.5 Pro) embedded to accelerate DevOps and product delivery by 30%.

Santander UK | London, UK

Enterprise Architect & Senior Risk Manager (2LoD AI & Technology Oversight) | 07/2022 – 04/2024

● 1LoD Enablement & Applied AI Governance: Led the enablement and governance of the adoption of Santander Group's global Gluon AI/development platform within Santander UK; led on the Santander AI Lab (including the predictive gen-fraud-graph) to enable safe experimentation to scale across front office conversational AI and back office automation.

● Risk & Cloud Transformation (~£100M scope): 2LoD risk and governance for the CTO 2.0 Rebuild programme and a ~£60M AWS/Azure hybrid cloud migration. Embedded automated IAM and CloudWatch guardrails as part of the programme to take the bank's architectural risk posture from Red to Amber.

EARLIER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (1990s – 2022)

● RBS International (NatWest Group) (2022): Architected the FATCA/CRS tax reporting integrations and the GDPR customer data lifecycle platforms.

● Verifone (2020 – 2022): £2M secured to build out the global EA practice; recruited and mentored the architecture team; led the early enterprise work on predictive AI and LLMs (OpenAI); defined the global AWS hybrid cloud resilience principles.

● Luminor Banking Group (2019–2020): Led the RFP and concept design for an AI assisted loan origination and KYC/AML journey (50% faster decisioning) as part of the post-merger AWS/Azure microservice migration.

● Previous Leadership: Led £160M EMEA infrastructure optimisation at the Royal Bank of Canada (managing 6 architects); designed ML card dispute automation at TSB Bank; Chief Architect at Sthaler FinTech (secured 2 investor rounds); Chief Enterprise Project Architect at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (led 18 architects on a £70M greenfield project); CTO / Principal Architect at Zalog Bank.

● Author: Architecture of Intellect: Part 1 — Language & Part 2 — Framework (2026) |

● Security Clearance: UK Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) — Active (Granted 07/2026)

● Qualifications: TOGAF Certified | M.Sc. (Distinction) in Radio Electronics Engineering