Kutigeza

About

Géza Kuti

Enterprise architect and data/AI executive with 25+ years of experience designing, governing, and delivering platform and application architectures in highly regulated environments including banking, insurance, and life sciences.

Professional bio

Enterprise architect and data/AI executive with 25+ years of experience designing, governing, and delivering platform and application architectures in highly regulated environments including banking, insurance, and life sciences. Trusted advisor to CIO/CDO, risk, audit, and security stakeholders on target-state architecture, technology standards, transformation roadmaps, regulatory evidence, and safe AI adoption. Built practices from zero, owned P&L, and delivered multi-million CHF programmes across enterprise data, AI, cloud, and architecture governance.

Currently Director, Delivery Management | Head of Data Engineering | Lead Enterprise Data Architect at EPAM Systems (Switzerland/DACH). Past roles include Managing Director / AI & Cloud Architecture Consultant at Data Science Commando and Founder & Managing Director / Head of Data Engineering / Lead Architect at Media Bay Kft.

What I believe

  • AI adoption should be measured by business outcomes, operational reliability, and risk clarity.
  • Data quality, ownership, lineage, and engineering discipline are not optional AI prerequisites.
  • Human judgment should be designed into workflows rather than treated as an afterthought.
  • Clear writing is a technical leadership tool.

How I work

I prefer explicit problem framing, fast diagnosis, written trade-offs, architecture decision records, governance cadence, and measurable next steps that satisfy both delivery teams and audit/risk stakeholders.

Enterprise architecture deliverables

  • Architecture principles and standards catalogues for technology, security, integration, and data
  • Reference architectures and paved-road patterns for hybrid cloud, platform services, integration, and AI/LLM guardrails
  • Architecture Decision Records, exception handling, and compliance evidence packs for audit/risk stakeholders
  • Capability maps and application portfolio views covering ownership, lifecycle state, technology health, and risk
  • Dependency mapping and target-state / transition roadmaps with heatmaps, sequencing, and decommission plans
  • Governance cadence playbooks for ARB/Tech Council agendas, decision templates, and architecture review checklists

Topics I write about