Amrut Raut

About Amrut Raut

A motivated, dynamic, results-driven, hands-on Technology / Engineering Leader and experienced Lead Solution Architect. He has over 21 years of IT experience, specialising in designing scalable, available, fault-tolerant enterprise software on cloud platforms using modern architectural patterns. As one of the Senior Leadership Team for major customer accounts, he has successfully managed multi-million-pound programmes and carried responsibilities for technical delivery, assurance, innovation, recruitment, and technical talent development. He is passionate about building capability, establishing new practices, creating training and certification paths, aligning skills with commercial demand, and improving delivery margins to support sustainable growth.He has a deep understanding of application architecture and can translate complex designs for diverseaudiences. Having proven expertise in building and leading high-performing cross-functionalengineering teams, implementing modern cloud-native architectures, agile methodologies andoverseeing end-to-end technical strategy aligned with business objectives. He excels in cloudmigration, digital transformation, and delivering mission-critical solutions using agile at scale.

Experience

1. Solutions Architect (Manager)

   Kainos

   Jul 2022 — Present · GB

   As Technology Lead & key member of the Senior Leadership Team for major customers in UK public sector account, providing technical direction, architectural governance, and delivery leadership across large-scale, mission-critical programmes.• Led multiple engineering teams and the architecture function for Kainos customer accounts, delivering high-profile products.• Played a key role in scaling the customer account to 70+ member Engineering Team by building delivery capability, strengthening stakeholder confidence, and supporting long-term commercial growth, driving a 4× revenue increase to £12M.• Owned end-to-end solution architecture and technical assurance — from discovery and feasibility through formal design authority approvals and live service rollout.• Authored and led approval of multiple High-Level Designs (HLDs), navigating complex Service Design Boards and Technical Design Authorities.• Provided strong technical governance via architecture forums, IT health checks, disaster recovery planning, and operational readiness reviews along with successfully taking projects through Kainos internal engineering audits.• Championed engineering excellence through guilds, design forums, code reviews, and consistent low-level design practices.• Built and scaled OutSystems low-code capability for Kainos customer account, creating training and certification pathways aligned to business demand.• Influenced senior stakeholders on GenAI adoption for engineering.• Defined and implemented DevOps strategies and mature CI/CD pipelines, significantly reducing deployment lead time while enabling frequent, secure releases.• Strengthened collaboration across architecture, delivery, and operations, improving delivery speed, solution quality, and project margins.• Contributed to bids and proposals including SOWs, architecture evaluations, effort estimation, risk management, and mentoring senior engineers and architects.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  MCA, Masters in Computer Application

  2002 — 2005