Enterprise Architect

Job Purpose:The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise architecture to ensure alignment between business strategy and technology capabilities. The role provides strategic leadership across business, application, data, technology, and integration architectures while enabling digital transformation, innovation, operational efficiency, risk mitigation, and long-term scalability. The Enterprise Architect acts as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and ensures that technology investments deliver measurable business value.Key Accountabilities:Define, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture framework, standards, principles, and target-state architecture.Develop enterprise technology roadmaps aligned with organizational objectives, growth strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.Collaborate with executive leadership to translate business strategies into technology capabilities and architectural plans.Establish and enforce architecture standards, governance processes, reference architectures, and best practices across the organization.Evaluate, select, and recommend technologies, platforms, and solutions that support business requirements and long-term sustainability.Design and oversee business, application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure architectures.Ensure seamless integration across enterprise platforms, applications, channels, and technology ecosystems.Lead architecture reviews and provide governance oversight for strategic projects and technology initiatives.Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, API-driven architecture, microservices, automation, and emerging technologies.Identify architectural risks and define mitigation strategies related to security, compliance, scalability, availability, and operational resilience.Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, governance frameworks, and enterprise security policies.Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define future-state capabilities and transformation priorities.Drive innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and assessing their applicability to business needs.Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to solution architects, developers, and engineering teams.Continuously assess and optimize enterprise architecture to improve operational efficiency, agility, performance, and cost effectiveness.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline.Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Enterprise Architecture, or a related field.TOGAF Certification is mandatory or highly preferred.Additional certifications in Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, or Digital Transformation.Minimum Experience:+8 years of overall IT experience.Minimum 5 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, or Architecture Leadership roles.Proven experience developing and governing enterprise architecture frameworks and roadmaps.Experience leading enterprise-wide modernization and transformation initiatives.Banking sector experience is strongly preferred..Job-Specific Skills:Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF).Business Architecture.Application Architecture.Data Architecture.Technology Architecture.Security Architecture.Integration Architecture.Architecture Governance.Technology Strategy Development.Digital Transformation Roadmaps.IT Governance.Innovation Management.Capability-Based Planning.Enterprise Modernization.Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP).SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Services.API Management.Microservices Architecture.Enterprise Integration Patterns.Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments.Agile Methodologies.Scrum Framework.DevOps Practices.Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).Enterprise Engineering Practices.