Principal Enterprise Architect

As a senior Enterprise Architect at Intellect Design Arena Ltd., you will play a crucial role in defining and evolving the architecture strategy for iGTB, the award-winning transaction banking platform. Your strong leadership and deep technical expertise will be essential in driving innovation, ensuring engineering excellence, and aligning architecture with evolving business needs within the BFSI domain. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Architectural Strategy & Governance:** - Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards and principles across iGTB product suites. - Set up governance structures to ensure compliance across product lines. - **Technology Leadership:** - Stay updated on emerging technologies and assess their relevance for adoption to enhance scalability, security, and performance. - **Tooling & Automation:** - Evaluate and implement tools to enhance developer productivity, code quality, and application reliability. - Implement automation across testing, deployment, and monitoring processes. - **Architecture Evangelism:** - Drive the adoption of architecture guidelines and tools across engineering teams through mentorship, training, and collaboration. - **Solution Oversight:** - Participate in the design of individual modules to ensure technical robustness and compliance with enterprise standards. - **Performance & Security:** - Oversee performance benchmarking and security assessments. - Collaborate with third-party labs for necessary certifications. - **Customer Engagement:** - Represent architecture in pre-sales, CXO-level interactions, and post-production engagements to showcase the technical superiority of the product. - **Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement:** - Support teams in resolving complex technical issues and integrate learnings into architectural best practices. - **Automation Vision:** - Lead the end-to-end automation charter for iGTB, encompassing code quality, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release management. **Profile Requirements:** - 18+ years of experience in enterprise and solution architecture roles, with a preference for BFSI or fintech backgrounds. - Proven track record in architecting mission-critical, scalable, and secure systems. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including interactions with CXOs. - Demonstrated leadership in architecting complex enterprise products and managing teams of architects. - Ability to combine technical depth with business context to drive informed decisions. - Passion for innovation, engineering excellence, and architectural rigor.,