Tech modernisation: Reimagining engineering in the age of AI

By Raj Sattaluri, SVP – Solutions Engineering, Innominds 

Modernisation as the defining imperative

Every organisation today is being judged by its ability to modernise — not by competitors, not by customers, but by its own systems. Legacy platforms have become the most persistent source of delay, cost, and operational risk. Decades of embedded business rules, patches, and exception logic lie buried in opaque code that engineering teams lack the time or clarity to interpret. For large enterprises, particularly those with complex, decades-old core banking or manufacturing systems, this architectural debt is no longer a balance sheet item, it is a competitive liability.

The organisations moving ahead are the ones treating modernisation as a strategic reset: a chance to rebuild the foundations of product delivery, data flow, and AI-enabled operations. AI-led engineering and Agentic AI are changing the equation, enabling teams to uncover logic, map dependencies, and redesign systems with ...