Arindam Gupta
Associate Director @Cognizant
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WORK HISTORY
Associate Director @Cognizant
GB
Present | Enterprise Architect & Cloud Governance Lead | CognizantLeading Enterprise Architecture for a large-scale IT estate carve-out onto public cloud. Accountable for target-state architecture across compute, network, identity, security, and DR. Also, Cloud Transformation Architect for a wholesale distribution client - governing multi-cloud strategy and embedding Agentic AI into operations.Key areas: multi-cloud governance · infrastructure separation · CUD cost strategy · HLD & RACI · GenAI adoption.Prior to 2025 | Lead Architect - GenAI & Agentic Solutions | CognizantLed GenAI and Agentic AI architecture across UK and EU - defining solution patterns adopted globally. Worked with 30+ clients from strategy to production across Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Bedrock. Primary architecture liaison between Cognizant and Microsoft outside North America.Prior to 2023 | Lead Delivery Architect | CognizantEnterprise architecture authority across major UK accounts - target-state cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, and GCP, Architecture Review Boards, and multi-year programme governance. Senior technical lead for client CTOs.Prior to 2017 | Senior Technical Delivery Manager | CognizantLed 60+ Insurance data programmes. Built a 400+ member globally distributed team from scratch covering migration, modernisation, and cloud transitions.Prior to 2009 | Technical Architect | CognizantSolution Architect and Delivery Manager for Auto-ID and IoT programmes across Retail, Manufacturing, and Logistics.
EDUCATION
Asutosh College
Higher Secondary (XII), Science
Assembly of God Church School
ICSE (X)
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science
University of Calcutta
BSc, Physics Honours
SKILLS
ABOUT ARINDAM GUPTA
I help organisations make their most complex architecture and technology decisions pay off, and then deliver them.With 26 years in the industry, I\'ve led some of the most challenging transformation programmes across the UK and EU: full IT estate separations, greenfield cloud builds, and GenAI strategies that go beyond the pilot stage into genuine business operations. My work sits at the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, Multi-cloud Strategy, and Agentic AI, three areas where demand for people who can do all three, at scale, is significant and growing.What I bring:Enterprise Architecture, defining target states, governance frameworks, and the decisions that set programmes up to succeed. I run design authorities, produce high-level designs, and hold architecture integrity across complex multi-vendor environments.Multi-cloud, deep expertise across GCP, AWS, and Azure. I design platforms that fit how the business actually operates. I\'ve led carve-outs, multi-region deployments, and cloud cost strategies including Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for long-term savings.GenAI & Agentic AI, architecture and adoption for 30+ clients globally, across Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Bedrock. I identify the right use cases, design the solution, and manage the change that makes AI adoption stick.At Cognizant, I collaborate with Google, Microsoft, and AWS to shape AI-first strategies and drive enterprise transformation across the UK.Career highlights- Full IT estate carve-out onto public cloud: end-to-end architecture across compute, network, identity, security, and DR- Built a 400+ member global delivery team from scratch for data migration and platform modernisation- GenAI and Agentic AI architecture for 30+ clients, including board-level cases influencing multi-million pound decisionsOpen to: Enterprise Architect | Principal Architect | Head of Cloud Architecture | AI Transformation Lead | UK & EU#EnterpriseArchitecture #GenAI #AgenticAI #MultiCloud #GCP #AWS #Azure #DigitalTransformation #FinOps #AITransformation #UKJobs #OpenToWork
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