About the Role

This is a strategic leadership role at the intersection of quantitative finance, engineering excellence, and regulatory technology, responsible for defining and scaling the next-generation Risk Technology ecosystem for the Bank and evolving Kotak's strategic risk platforms, including Stratum and Risk Central, into a unified, enterprise-grade risk ecosystem.

Responsibilities
Define and execute the long-term technology strategy for Risk Platforms aligned to business growth, risk governance, and regulatory priorities.
Build and operate the Bank's next-generation enterprise risk platform supporting intraday and end-of-day risk management capabilities.
Drive modernization of legacy systems toward API-first, cloud-ready, event-driven, and highly resilient architectures.
Establish scalable quantitative engineering capabilities supporting risk calculations, analytics, stress testing, capital management, and regulatory reporting.
Build future-ready AI and analytics capabilities that enhance decision-making, risk monitoring, and operational effectiveness.




Partner closely with Risk, Treasury, Quantitative Research, Finance, Compliance, Operations, and Technology leadership teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
Define the target-state architecture for Risk Technology platforms and engineering ecosystems.
Lead modernization of fragmented and batch-oriented systems into real-time, event-driven, highly scalable platforms.
Establish reusable architecture patterns, governance frameworks, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps across the portfolio.
Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, API platforms, data modernization, and platform engineering best practices.
Ensure scalability, resilience, observability, security, and operational excellence across mission-critical risk systems.

Risk Platforms & Quantitative Engineering
Lead technology strategy, arc

📌 Technology Leader Risk Bengaluru
🏢 Kotak Mahindra Bank
📍 Bengaluru