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.

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