Lead Enterprise Architect - AI and Shared Orchestration, Director

As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you will define the strategic target architecture and roadmap, aligning them with business strategy and objectives. You will facilitate collaborative architecture decision-making, engage with business and digital leaders, and proactively build strong relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and industry thought leaders. This role provides significant exposure to shaping long-term architectural direction across the bank.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect customer-centric, high-performance, secure, robust, and sustainable end-to-end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for delivery programmes of high architectural significance or risk.
• Inspect and verify that proposed designs meet business needs and comply with Architecture Council-approved principles, standards, and patterns.
• Drive technology innovation by identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their potential impact.
• Shape strategic investment programmes, identifying opportunities for simplification or reuse, and guide programme design to adopt key architecture enablers.
• Promote a DevOps mindset by embedding architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines with development teams.
• Continuously research and evaluate emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and industry best practices to identify risks and innovation opportunities.
• Contribute to architecting capability growth by sharing knowledge, mentoring, coaching, and building capability across the community of practice.

Skills & Experience:

• Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices, and AI.
• Deep understanding of agile architecture and DevOps practices, along with business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.
• Extensive experience defining and developing strategic target architectures aligned with organisational objectives.
• Proven experience engaging with senior stakeholders to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• Experience leading collaborative decision-making processes across business and technology teams.
• Strong ability to identify strategic investment opportunities, craft compelling business cases, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Extensive experience overseeing architecture quality, risk management, and governance.
• Track record of fostering a culture of architectural excellence through mentorship and knowledge sharing.