About
Sajiv Francis
Enterprise Architect — solution architecture, AI, digital
transformations, and program delivery.
Indo-Canadian, living in Arizona. I do this work inside a
Fortune 100 technology company by day, and write here on the
side about what changes when the practice of architecture
meets new AI tools.
Now — May 2026
-
Trying to work out what agentic architectures actually look
like in real enterprise stacks — beyond the demo videos.
-
Building tooling for my own work in public: RAG over my notes,
AI-grounded writing, automated white papers.
-
Following SAP S/4HANA's evolution — especially where AI starts
being useful inside it, not bolted on.
Background
Eight years of building at the intersection of AI and enterprise
systems — from a 2018 grad-school location tool for Connecticut
seniors, to an NLP-powered adaptive learning system in 2019
(predating mainstream RAG by four years), to enterprise data
orchestration, to leading AI programs inside one
of the world's largest technology companies.
Why this work
I came into enterprise architecture sideways — through digital transformation projects in SAP & software
engineering, then through trying to make AI useful inside
organizations. What I care about now is the
seam where new model capabilities meet decades-old enterprise
systems, and how architects translate one to the other without
breaking either.
Life outside work
Married, two kids. Most weekends are theirs.
When time allows: I ride a Harley, collect stamps (a habit my
grandfather used to do, decades ago, that I've never quite outgrown)
and I also pretend to follow Formula 1 and MotoGP as closely as I
once did.
And there's almost always instrumental jazz on while I work — here's
the rotation, if you'd like it playing too:
Education & communities
Communities
- Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)
- ASUG (Americas' SAP Users' Group)
- The Open Group — TOGAF certified member
- Arizona Science & Engineering Fair (judge)
Writing
I write about the future of architecture practice at the
intersection of AI and organizational design — for practitioners,
not just academics. Recent pieces are on the
writing page.