1. Architecture Strategy & Governance
- Build, maintain, and continuously improve the bank-wide application architecture framework and standards.
- Define architecture principles, target-state roadmaps, and modernization strategies aligned with business goals.
- Drive transformation from legacy/traditional applications to cloud-native, microservices, containerized, or serverless architectures.
- Participate in Architecture Review Boards and key governance forums.
- Ensure all solutions comply with architecture blueprints, security standards, development methodology, and regulatory requirements.
- Manage architecture changes to ensure consistency, integrity, and standardization across systems.
2. Solution Design & Project Delivery
- Own end-to-end technical solution design for banking applications, digital platforms, and enterprise systems.
- Analyze business, functional, technical, and data requirements to design optimal architecture solutions.
- Produce architecture artifacts including HLD, LLD, deployment models, data flows, integration diagrams, and technical specifications.
- Work closely with Business Units, PM, BA, DEV, QE, Enterprise Architects, and Infrastructure teams to deliver effective solutions.
- Evaluate solution options, conduct technical scoring, and recommend suitable technologies/vendors.
- Coordinate development, testing, implementation, and documentation throughout project lifecycle.
- Ensure adherence to SDLC, software engineering best practices, and architecture intent during delivery.
3. Integration Architecture & Ecosystem Connectivity
- Design integration architecture across key banking platforms such as Core Banking, CRM, Digital Channels, Data Platforms, LOS, BPM, and other enterprise systems.
- Define and govern integration patterns using APIs, ESB, middleware, messaging, and event-driven architecture.
- Recommend solutions using API Gateway, Kafka, RabbitMQ, streaming platforms, and service mesh where appropriate.
- Support Open API / Open Banking initiatives and secure integration with partners, fintechs, and external ecosystems.
4. Cloud Transformation & Application Modernization
- Define migration roadmaps to cloud using Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, or Replace approaches.
- Design solutions for on-premise, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Promote containerization using Docker / Kubernetes and platform engineering best practices.
- Drive DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps adoption.
- Optimize architecture for cost efficiency, operational simplicity, and faster time-to-market.
5. Non-Functional Requirements & Operational Excellence
- Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including scalability, availability, resilience, observability, maintainability, and performance.
- Design strategies for caching, load balancing, HA, DR, autoscaling, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Ensure strong security controls covering IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, and compliance.
- Identify architecture risks, technical debt, bottlenecks, and propose mitigation plans.
6. Technology Leadership & Capability Development
- Research emerging technology trends and assess practical adoption opportunities for the bank.
- Contribute to development of enterprise standards, reusable patterns, and architecture playbooks.
- Coach and mentor engineering teams on modern architecture, cloud technologies, and agile delivery models.
- Act as a senior architecture advisor to management and project stakeholders.
- Support strategic initiatives and perform other responsibilities assigned by management.
