Santhosh Thomas

About Santhosh Thomas

At Visa Consulting and Analytics, I help banks in their modernization and transformation…

Experience

1. Associate Director -enterprise Architecture

   EY

   Feb 2017 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Built EY’s Product Industrialization Competency to convert business ideas into commercial products—successfully launched Digital Passport and Open Banking solutions. Key Achievements: Pioneered Generative AI integration into product strategy—led PoCs using RAG and Agentic AI powered by Semantic Kernel and OpenAI, delivering actionable use cases for the Nexus Digital Marketplace. Architected scalable platforms by identifying potential performance bottlenecks and optimizing design at the application and infrastructure layers. Enabled real-time data streaming through Event-Driven Architecture (Apache Kafka/Flink) on Microsoft Azure—collaborated with business stakeholders to align tech with strategic use cases. Enhanced product marketability via evaluation and integration of third-party solutions and patterns tailored to banking use cases. Shaped product roadmaps in PI planning and backlog grooming with a clear architectural lens—enabled prioritization of value-driven features. Led GTM efforts globally—crafted technical responses and demos for RFI/RFPs, supporting solutioning and client acquisition. Delivered cloud-native Open Banking deployments for 5 mid-tier Australian banks—oversaw design, integration, and rollout on Azure. Championed platform resilience by embedding scalability, reliability, observability, and high performance into infrastructure blueprints. Governed Architecture in Managed Services stream—established onboarding protocols and review mechanisms for product and project transitions. Standardized architectural practices across the Enterprise Architecture competency—published reusable templates and insights including POVs on Generative AI’s impact on architectural productivity.

Education

• Sacred Heart college

  Bachelor's degree, Science

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Windows Azure
• Robotic Automation
• Integration
• Solution Architecture
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Soa
• .net
• Asp.net Web Api
• Uipath
• Openspan
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Business Analysis
• Web Services
• Wcf
• C#
• Ssis
• Agile Methodologies
• IT Strategy
• Rightfax
• Snapsflow
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)