Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture Review & Governance
- Review architecture, solution design, and technology deliverables developed by internal teams and external partners.
- Coordinate review activities with business, technology, and governance stakeholders.
- Ensure identified issues, risks, and improvement actions are addressed prior to approval.
- Monitor deliverable quality, completeness, and compliance with established standards and requirements.
2. Architecture & Solution Assessment
- Assess architecture and solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise principles, target-state architecture, and industry best practices.
- Identify architectural risks, gaps, dependencies, and implementation challenges.
- Evaluate design decisions from both business and technology perspectives.
- Provide recommendations to enhance solution quality, scalability, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.
3. Solution Validation & Advisory
- Facilitate architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical discussions.
- Evaluate the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions, operating models, and implementation approaches.
- Validate assumptions, recommendations, and design decisions proposed by project teams and technology partners.
- Provide independent assessments and advisory support for architecture and technology-related decisions.
4. Quality Assurance & Acceptance Support
- Validate deliverables against agreed quality standards, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure supporting documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and ownership arrangements are complete and adequately maintained.
- Provide recommendations on deliverable readiness and approval status.
- Support continuous improvement of architecture governance and review practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Digital Transformation, or related areas.
- Experience in Banking & Financial Services, or large-scale transformation programs.
- Experience working with technology vendors, system integrators, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Technical Expertise
- Strong knowledge of TOGAF, BIAN, DDD, API, Integration, Cloud, and Microservices Architecture.
- Ability to assess enterprise-scale architecture deliverables from both strategic and implementation perspectives.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience facilitating architecture reviews and governance forums.
- Ability to constructively challenge and validate recommendations from partners and vendors.
