Vice President Enterprise Architecture

As a VP Enterprise Architect at Intellect Design Arena Ltd., reporting to the CTO, you will play a pivotal role in defining and evolving the architecture strategy for iGTB, a renowned transaction banking platform within the BFSI domain. Your strong leadership skills and deep technical expertise will be instrumental in driving innovation, ensuring engineering excellence, and aligning architecture with evolving business needs. **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 adoption to enhance scalability, security, and performance. - **Tooling & Automation:** - Evaluate and implement tools to boost developer productivity, code quality, and application reliability. - Implement automation across testing, deployment, and monitoring processes. - **Architecture Evangelism:** - Drive adoption of architecture guidelines and tools among engineering teams through mentorship, training, and collaboration. - **Solution Oversight:** - Participate in the design of individual modules to ensure technical robustness and adherence to enterprise standards. - **Performance & Security:** - Oversee performance benchmarking and security assessments. - Engage with third-party labs for certification as required. - **Customer Engagement:** - Represent architecture in pre-sales, CXO-level interactions, and post-production engagements to showcase the product's technical superiority. - **Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement:** - Support teams in resolving complex technical issues. - Capture learnings and incorporate them into architectural best practices. - **Automation Vision:** - Lead the end-to-end automation charter for iGTB covering areas such as code quality, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release management. **Profile Requirements:** - 18+ years of experience in enterprise and solution architecture roles, preferably within BFSI or fintech. - Proven track record in architecting 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.,