IT Contractors UK Profile
Venkata Naidu Marada
AI & Solution Architect | TOGAF® · AWS, AZURE Pro® · ArchiMate® | Enterprise AI Delivery · FS · Automotive · Insurance
Verified email
Founding Contractor · 2026
Contractor snapshot
Primary specialism
Architecture
Location / working location
Leamington Spa
Current availability
Available now
Confirmed 10 Aug 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
I've spent 20 years solving the problems enterprises don't know how to hand to a machine — until now. Most of my career has been in the gap between what technology can theoretically do and what actually runs in production. I design and deliver AI and cloud architectures end-to-end: from the first discovery workshop, through HLD and LLD, to a deployed system with MLOps pipelines, governance controls, and measurable outcomes. Not advisory. Not PoC. Production. In the last two years that's meant building a RAG pipeline that cut board pack preparation time by 70% at Tata Technologies, an NLP-driven governance automation system that compressed a 3–4 week ADA approval cycle by 60%, and a GDPR-compliant agentic AI pipeline for HSBC that replaced a manual 5-day HR process with an auditable, AI-driven workflow — live in production. Before AI became the conversation, I was doing this with cloud migrations, enterprise integration, and platform architecture across Financial Services, Automotive, Insurance, and Telecom — JLR, HSBC, NFU Mutual, Northern Trust, AT&T, and others. Complex, regulated, high-stakes environments where architecture decisions have real consequences.
Core skills
AI
AWS
Solution Architect -Togaf
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: AI & Solution Architect · TOGAF® · AWS · AZURE Pro® · ArchiMate® · Enterprise AI Delivery · FS · Automotive · Insurance
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
Expected rate
£430–£500/day
Active clearanceBPSS · DV
SeniorityArchitect
Contract length6–12 months
IT experience20 years
Contracting experience5 years
Available from31 Aug 2026
Relevant work experience
● GenAI Solution Architect and Enterprise AI specialist with 20+ years delivering production-grade RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration platforms, and agentic AI systems across Financial Services (HSBC), Insurance (NFU Mutual), Automotive (JLR, Tata Technologies), and Telecoms (AT&T). Founder of Prayag Solutions Ltd — UK-based AI Architecture and Cloud Consulting practice. ● Specialist in end-to-end GenAI solution architecture: RAG pipeline design (vector indexing, hybrid search, embedding pipelines, reranking), LLM orchestration (Azure ML Prompt Flow, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, n8n), document intelligence (Azure Document Intelligence OCR), and AI evaluation frameworks — with HITL governance, MLFlow observability, and GDPR-aligned controls embedded from inception. Every engagement is production delivery, not PoC. ● Strong multi-cloud AI platform expertise: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure ML Prompt Flow, AWS Bedrock (Claude/Titan). Currently extending GCP/Vertex AI, Agent Engine, and Apigee capability alongside established Azure and AWS production delivery. Terraform IaC across multi-cloud environments directly transferable to Google Cloud Deploy stacks. ● Deep enterprise architecture governance: TOGAF, ArchiMate, ADA/SPADA/DMDA, SAP LeanIX — combined with CXO-level stakeholder engagement across 50+ initiative-scale programmes. Proven track record translating ambiguous strategic requirements into governed, deployed AI solutions with measurable business outcomes. Hybrid, On-Prem & Public Cloud: Led end-to-end hybrid architecture across JLR (38 on-prem servers to AWS), NFU Mutual (Azure target-state), and Tata (AWS + Azure DR) — Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, multi-AZ VPC across all engagements. Both platforms in production delivery. AWS & Az
Experience & credentials
Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.
Sector experience
Solution Architect │ Hybrid & Multi-Cloud │ Enterprise Governa GenAI S
Certifications
🏅 SAP LeanIX Application Rationalisation 2026 🏅 AI Generalist 2026 🏅 AWS Solutions Architect — Profe
Professional links
Contact details are controlled by the contractor and are not displayed automatically. Profile information is self-declared unless explicitly marked as verified.