About the Company

The Principal Architect / Director - Architecture for Trade Innovation will be accountable for the discovery of “as-is” and defining, governing and evolving the target-state architecture for Trade Innovation across current platforms and future offerings. The role combines enterprise architecture depth, hands-on modern engineering judgement, and senior stakeholder leadership. It requires the ability to shape a multi-year architecture roadmap while staying close enough to engineering execution to ensure designs are pragmatic, secure, scalable, reliable, and deliverable. The role will lead the architecture agenda for AI-enabled application modernization, decomposition of legacy platform capabilities, contemporary UI and API experiences, distributed services, event-driven integration, cloud-native deployment models, DevSecOps and operational resilience. The role is expected to act as the technical conscience of the product engineering organization and as the architecture partner to Product, Security, Cloud, Engineering, QA,



Operations and Customer / implementation teams.

About the Role

Architecture strategy and roadmap. Define and own the target-state architecture. Establish the north-star architecture for Trade Innovation covering domain decomposition, modularity, microservices, APIs, events, data, workflow, security, observability, deployment topology and migration sequencing. Translate strategy into execution. Convert the architecture vision into a practical roadmap with transition states, sequencing principles, decision gates, architecture runway and measurable delivery outcomes. Drive enterprise alignment. Ensure Trade Innovation architecture aligns with enterprise architecture standards, cloud and security principles, API governance, platform golden paths and broader product strategy. Lead architectural governance. Run architecture reviews, maintain architectural decision records, establish reference patterns, and ensure designs meet non-functional

📌 Principle Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Finastra
📍 Bengaluru