Principal Architect, Business Capabilities

Principal Architect, Business Capabilities

• Overall Objectives
  • Define, model, and manage the enterprise’s business capability landscape to support strategic alignment and transformation.
  • Drive technical excellence in the architectural design of business solutions by leveraging industry best practices, modern architectural patterns (such as microservices, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures), and advanced technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise systems.
  • Serve as the authoritative owner of the capability map and its relationships to processes, journeys, services, and technology.
  • Ensure capability-centric thinking is embedded across architecture, planning, and delivery practices.
  • Act as a key integrator between strategy, business design, and IT execution, fostering traceability and reuse.
  • Enable investment planning, portfolio rationalization, and operating model design through structured capability management.
• Role Specific Responsibilities
  • Own and evolve the enterprise business capability map and underlying taxonomy.
  • Maintain traceability between capabilities and key business architecture views: journeys, processes, value streams, services, and systems.
    
    Conduct capability assessments, maturity reviews, and heatmaps to identify transformation opportunities.
  • Collaborate with strategy and transformation teams to map target capabilities and support gap analysis.
  • Align capability changes with business cases, investment proposals, and roadmaps.
  • Ensure capability information is available and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and planning tools.
  • Support the definition of target operating models from a capability-centric perspective.
• Seniorities, Employment, and Functions
  • Seniority level:
    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type:
    
    Full-time
  • Job function:
    Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
  • Industry: Banking