Principal Enterprise Architect

Role Overview: You are a senior Enterprise Architect at Intellect Design Arena Ltd., responsible for defining and evolving the architecture strategy for the iGTB transaction banking platform. Your role involves architecting large-scale, cloud-native enterprise applications within the BFSI domain, driving innovation, ensuring engineering excellence, and aligning architecture with evolving business needs. Key Responsibilities: - Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards and principles across iGTB product suites. Set up governance structures to ensure compliance across product lines. - Stay updated on emerging technologies; assess and recommend adoption to improve scalability, security, and performance. - Evaluate and implement tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and application reliability, including automation across testing, deployment, and monitoring. - Drive adoption of architecture guidelines and tools across engineering teams through mentorship, training, and collaboration. - Participate in the design of individual modules to ensure technical robustness and adherence to enterprise standards. - Oversee performance benchmarking and security assessments. Engage with third-party labs for certification as needed. - Represent architecture in pre-sales, CXO-level interactions, and post-production engagements to demonstrate the product's technical superiority. - Support teams in resolving complex technical issues. Capture learnings and feed them back into architectural best practices. - Lead the end-to-end automation charter for iGTB across code quality, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release management. Qualification Required: - 18+ years of experience in enterprise and solution architecture roles, preferably within BFSI or fintech. - Proven experience with mission-critical, scalable, and secure systems. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including CXO interactions. - Demonstrated leadership in architecting complex enterprise products and managing teams of architects. - Ability to blend technical depth with business context to drive decisions. - Passion for innovation, engineering excellence, and architectural rigor.,