Domain Architect

Reports to: Lead Domain Architect, Manager Flex Arch, Head of Architecture

Division: Architecture & Strategy

Location: Bangalore / Gurugram

Purpose The Domain Architect defines the end-to-end technical architecture to support the delivery of the investment slate, guiding and influencing business delivery, and ensuring alignment to target-state technology. This role requires robust domain engagement across Wealth / HNW and Financial Services, with exposure to Capital Markets, Trading & Settlement, Market Rates, Managed/Investment Funds, and Financial Advisor platforms.

Capabilities, Experience & Qualification Requirements

- Essential Capabilities (Core): Decision Quality, Strategic Mindset, Situational Adaptability, Self-awareness, Courage, Accountability.

- Technical Capabilities:
- Strong business acumen and engagement skills to influence business strategy, shape and prioritise outcomes, and develop domain roadmaps.
- Ability to lead and maintain backlog of business outcomes and portfolio view of the domain.
- Experience in scaled agile structures coordinating with solution architects.
- Proven business engagement and influencing skills with fact-based analysis.
- Understanding trade-offs in technology change while delivering business benefit.
- Commercial acumen, negotiation, and business alignment.
- Experience with cloud technologies and general software architecture across OLTP, warehouse, workflow, and mobile applications.
- Exposure to trading, settlement, market rates, and capital markets projects requiring responsiveness, throughput, and reliability.

- Experience:
- 10+ years in Technology industry.
- 5+ years in Architecture, with agile practices in large organisations under regulatory/legacy constraints.

- Qualification Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent.
- Architecture or technology-related certifications (cloud preferred).




- Business acumen in capital markets, wealth, financial advisor strategy, managed/investment funds, and general banking/financial services is an advantage.

Key Decisions

- Deliver quality attribute-based architecture (technical debt, failure analysis, service performance, scalability, availability).
- Define target-state architectures and roadmaps.
- Manage technical debt and recommend interventions to reduce/decommission legacy platforms.

Key Accountabilities

- Lead technical direction-setting for stories/epics/features.
- Deliver end-to-end technical outcomes across domains.
- Identify service impacts and sequence initiative features on service backlogs.
- Provide technical direction and leadership across the lifecycle.
- Create and maintain Target State Architecture and map components to asset management.
- Align application roadmap to NAB technology strategy and architectural principles.
- Perform optimisation, scaled modelling, walkthroughs, and design reviews.
- Drive backlog grooming, raise features/epics/stories, and provide architecture input for prioritisation.
- Identify external dependencies.
- Conduct impact analysis of functional/non-functional requirements, regulatory impacts, and risks.
- Document architectural decisions for compliance.
- Validate design artefacts for completeness and testability.
- Assist engineers with issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
- Support production releases under You build it, you run it.

Key Stakeholder Groups

- Business domain executives, Product Owners
- Technology delivery teams/executives
- Release Train Engineers
- Architecture & Strategy & Advisory

Key Performance Indicators

- Engagement and influence in domain-centric roadmaps.
- Influence in legacy platform decommissioning/tech debt reduction.
- Clear definition and simplification/automation of capability build in target state.
- Operate as trusted advisor to business and technology executives.

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