Principal Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint, frameworks and target-state architecture, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives and future-state technology vision.
• Define and maintain architectural principles, domain strategies, and standardized reference models that support scalable, interoperable, and secure technology ecosystems.
• Translate corporate strategy, regulatory mandates, and digital transformation goals into clear architectural initiatives and target-state designs.
• Lead multi-year roadmap development across technology domains including applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security in collaboration with domain architects and delivery teams.
• Continuously assess technology trends and emerging innovations to guide modernization and strategic platform selection.

• Chair Architecture & Design Review Boards (ARBs) to review, guide, and approve solution designs, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.

Define governance processes for architectural compliance, exception management, and deviation tracking across business portfolios and technical teams.

• Perform architecture assurance and gap assessments to identify technical risk, misalignment, and opportunities for consolidation or optimization.
• Ensure ongoing enforcement and evolution of architecture policies, design standards, and lifecycle documentation for all enterprise assets.
• Support audit readiness and regulatory compliance by embedding architecture governance in change delivery.

• Act as a strategic advisor to Head of Architecture, shaping investment decisions and prioritizing technology initiatives based on architectural insights.
• Work closely with product managers, domain architects, engineers, and business analysts to co-create architectural solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Build alignment across multiple delivery streams and business units to ensure architecture decisions enable reusability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

Facilitate cross-functional design workshops, architecture forums, and technical deep-dives to enable

• shared understanding and decision-making.
• Represent the enterprise architecture function in vendor evaluations, technology partnerships, and RFP/RFI processes.

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise-scale platforms, including cloud-native systems, Payment Systems, API gateways, service orchestration layers, event-driven architectures, and data lakes.
• Guide the definition of architecture enablers and technical epics within agile planning cycles.
• Ensure timely delivery of architecture artifacts and technical blueprints to support sprint-level execution and platform runway readiness.
• Monitor implementation of architectural designs to ensure conformance with standards and provide hands‑on support in resolving complex design challenges.

Foster Dev Sec Ops  and platform engineering practices by integrating architecture with CI/CD pipelines, security automation, and observability frameworks.

• Proven track record in defining and evolving enterprise-wide architecture strategies, reference models, and technology roadmaps.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or FEAF, and experience applying them in complex organizations.
• Experience driving architecture transformations aligned to digital business models (e.g., omnichannel, platform as a service, composable architectures).
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience architecting across multiple domains, including:
• Applications:
  Monolith to microservices decomposition, modernization, and lifecycle management.
• Data:
  Master Data Management (MDM), data lakes, streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka), and analytics platforms.
• Integration: API‑led design (REST, Graph
  
  QL), event‑driven architecture, service mesh, and ESB replacement strategies.
• Infrastructure & Cloud:
  Hybrid/multi‑cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), IaaS/PaaS adoption models.
• Deep understanding of architectural implications for regulatory…