Description

Enterprise and solution architect with 19 years of international consulting experience delivering business-led architectures across 30 countries in regulated and complex environments. Trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, translating ambiguous goals into current-state assessments, target-state architectures, and pragmatic roadmaps that teams can execute. Strong track record leading stakeholder alignment and architecture governance across pre-sales, delivery, and operations, including multi-team and global delivery setups. Deep expertise in cloud, data platforms, and AI-enabled solutions (Azure/AWS), including security, data governance, and Responsible AI considerations.

My experience spans industries including banking, insurance, financial services, telecommunications, retail, transportation and logistics, airlines / aviation, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals / life sciences, paper / forest products, technology, enterprise software, and consulting.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Swedish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Helsinki (up to 30km)

Independent
Enterprise and Solution Architect
January 2023 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
Espoo, Finland
Focused on maintaining and strengthening expertise in modern cloud, data, analytics, and AI architecture while managing personal and family circumstances requiring dedicated time and attention. Continued structured professional development across enterprise AI use cases, cloud data platforms, AI evaluation, observability, safety controls, Microsoft Fabric, modern lakehouse architecture, semantic modeling, and Responsible AI / EU AI governance considerations.

Key focus areas:
Deepened knowledge of modern AI architecture patterns, including orchestration approaches, tool/function calling, and enterprise AI use cases.
Strengthened understanding of production AI practices, including evaluation, observability, quality controls, and safety considerations.
Expanded knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and modern Microsoft data platform capabilities, including unified analytics, semantic modeling, and lake-centric architecture.
Stayed current on Responsible AI, AI governance, and evolving EU regulatory considerations relevant to enterprise adoption.
Continued reviewing cloud, data, and AI architecture patterns across Azure/AWS, modern data platforms, and enterprise analytics environments.
Accenture
Data Architecture Senior Manager (European Data & AI)
September 2021 - January 2023 (1 year and 4 months)
Helsinki, Finland
Senior/Enterprise Architect on post-sale customer engagements, translating business goals into current-state assessments, target-state architectures, and delivery roadmaps.
Established architecture governance and decision cadence (principles, decision records, quality-attribute baselines), clarifying trade-offs and decision rights to align stakeholders and de-risk delivery.
Created solution blueprints for data platforms, analytics, integration, and governance; partnered with delivery teams to execute pragmatically.
Led stakeholder alignment on architecture decisions, sequencing, and non-functional requirements across business, security, and engineering.
Selected engagement:
Telecom: shaped target-state data platform architecture and roadmap; maintained decision records and quality attributes and ran a review cadence aligning business, security, and delivery teams on integration and governance patterns for analytics.
Teradata
Cloud Solutions Architect
January 2017 - May 2021 (4 years and 4 months)
Helsinki, Finland
Led pre-sale and post-sale cloud architecture across EMEA for customers in insurance, retail, banking, manufacturing, and telecom.
Drove architecture reviews and decision governance (decision records, non-functional requirements), aligning customer and delivery teams on integration, security, and operational constraints.
Designed hybrid cloud and on-prem integrations for data warehousing, data lakes, analytics, and ML workloads.
Delivered cloud migration roadmaps and reference patterns; supported metadata management and lineage initiatives in Azure-based environments.
Selected engagements:
Insurance: defined migration roadmap for development/test systems to cloud with production-ready guardrails; captured key decisions (ADRs) and non-functional requirements (security, networking, DR/BCP, observability) and used a review cadence to keep stakeholders aligned for future production adoption.
Retail: defined a hybrid migration approach for development/test environments with a pragmatic path to production readiness; clarified constraints and non-functional requirements (security, latency, operational support) and aligned stakeholders on what stays on-prem vs moves to cloud.
Paper & pharma: implemented metadata management and analytics architectures to improve governance and reporting.