Principal Technology Architect

Job Description:

• Experience
• 15 years of overall technology experience
• 5 years in Architecture or CTO Advisory roles
• Experience leading enterprise transformation programs in Banking Financial Services Insurance Capital Markets or Payments
• Experience driving Cloud Data AI Digital Engineering or Modernization initiatives

Key Responsibilities:

• AI Transformation Strategy
• Define enterprise AI transformation vision roadmap and target state architecture
• Identify AI use cases and transformation opportunities across business and technology domains
• Develop AI adoption frameworks governance models and operating structures
• Drive AI first engineering practices across delivery organizations
• Enterprise Architecture
• Define business application data technology and security architecture blueprints
• Develop modernization roadmaps for legacy platforms
• Drive architecture governance and design assurance
• Establish architecture standards reference architectures and reusable patterns
• AI Data Platforms
• Architect enterprise AI platforms leveraging LLMs Agentic AI RAG Knowledge Graphs and AI orchestration frameworks
• Define AI operating models model lifecycle management and responsible AI controls
• Design AI ready data architectures including Data Fabric Lakehouse and Knowledge Platforms
• Drive integration of enterprise knowledge with AI ecosystems
• Engineering Transformation
• Drive adoption of AI assisted software engineering
• Establish platform engineering and developer productivity initiatives
• Lead modernization using cloud native and event driven architectures
• Promote reliability observability resilience and security by design practices
• Client Advisory Consulting
• Partner with CTOs and business executives on transformation strategy
• Conduct maturity assessments and capability gap analyses
• Develop business cases value realization frameworks and investment roadmaps
• Lead executive workshops and transformation steering committees
• Innovation Thought Leadership
• Create AI transformation assets accelerators frameworks and industry solutions
• Mentor architects and engineering leaders
• Represent the organization in client forums and industry events
• Publish reusable assets and best practices

Technical Requirements:

• AI GenAI
• Generative AI and LLM architectures
• Agentic AI systems
• RAG architectures
• AI orchestration frameworks
• Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks
• AI governance and Responsible AI
• Enterprise Architecture
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture framework
• Business and Technology Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Architecture governance
• Technology strategy and roadmapping
• Cloud Engineering
• Azure AWS GCP
• Kubernetes and Container ecosystems
• DevSecOps and Platform Engineering
• API Event Driven and Microservices Architecture
• Infrastructure as Code
• Reliability Operations
• SRE
• Observability Platforms
• Resilience Engineering
• Performance Engineering
• Operational Excellence

Additional Responsibilities:

• Preferred Skills
• Banking Payments domain expertise
• Digital Channels and Customer Platforms
• Core Banking modernization
• FinOps
• Quantum of Experience in AI enabled SDLC transformation
• Product Operating Model experience
• Certifications Preferred
• TOGAF
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure AI Engineer Associate
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• Cloud Architect Certifications
• AI ML Certifications
• SRE Foundation
• Kubernetes Certifications
• Anthropic Certifications
• Success Metrics
• The candidate will be measured on
• AI transformation deals influenced and won
• AI use cases industrialized
• Reusable AI assets and accelerators created
• Client stakeholder satisfaction
• Architecture governance effectiveness
• Productivity gains through AI adoption
• Talent development and architect mentoring
• Revenue growth from transformation programs

Preferred Skills:

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