Principal Enterprise Architect

As the Principal Architect, you play a pivotal role in shaping the technological and business strategies of our organization. Your primary responsibilities include designing and implementing enterprise-level solutions that align seamlessly with our long-term goals and objectives. Leveraging your expertise in technology architecture, innovation, and leadership, you will be a key driver of success in our dynamic and evolving industry.

In this role, you are accountable for guiding, providing direction, and managing a portfolio of solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes. This encompasses systems (applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services. Your role involves defining target architecture, strategy, and roadmap, with a specific focus on core banking, Customer Relationship Management, Data platform, and branch technologies.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you bridge gaps between various teams and projects, ensuring solutions are consistent with the target architecture, cost-effective, and aligned with business goals. Your role involves close collaboration with senior executives, product owners, and application/integration/data engineers, driving the development and ownership of technology architecture for foundational initiatives, platform advancements, and modernization projects.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide robust solutions and architecture for key business initiatives, overseeing a portfolio of applications spanning consumer and commercial banking domains.

• Establish and maintain architecture standards and best practices.

• Understand business drivers and capabilities, translating them into enterprise system design and change requirements to drive targeted business outcomes.

• Guide and influence product owners, solution architects, designers, and developers in implementing sound architecture choices (Buy vs. Build, or Real-time vs. Batch).

• Collaborate with Enterprise architecture to establish standards, evaluate products, and contribute to enterprise architecture initiatives.

• Design and lead the implementation of solutions across all business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, capabilities, and requirements.

• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with solution and application architects handling single projects or initiatives.

• Provide consulting support to solution and application architects within projects, ensuring alignment with proposed solutions and overall enterprise architecture.

• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio, identifying deficiencies through aging technologies or misalignment with business requirements.

• Stay abreast of technology trends and apply existing, new, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI, ML, automation) to enable new business and operating models.

• Analyze the business-IT environment, detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation).

• Analyze the technology industry, competitors, and market trends to determine potential impacts on the enterprise.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum of 10 years of software development experience as a solutions or application architect, with a focus on designing solutions for Financial/Banking sector applications.

• Experience in core banking platforms, preferably Temenos Transact, digital banking platforms, open banking standards, CRM, preferably D365.

• Cloud architecture experience, preferably in Azure.

• Familiarity with modern composable core banking systems and awareness of the fintech landscape.

• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and methodologies.

• Extensive knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes, with in-depth expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, cloud computing).

• Proficiency in evaluating and recommending emerging technologies and best practices.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Azure Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent) preferred.

• In-depth knowledge of integration patterns and expertise in developing RESTful APIs with a good understanding of microservices architecture.

• Understanding of SAFe and LPM process. Design and implement applications in one of the major cloud technologies (AWS, AZURE, or GCP), preferably Azure.

• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes, displaying intellectual curiosity and integrity.

• Proven ability to innovate and adapt to the latest developments in your area of expertise, with the ability to acquire new skills and knowledge.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, translating business requirements into technical solutions.

• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality software solutions.

• Familiarity with software development methodologies, such as Agile or Scrum.