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Job Summary

This role could be based in India and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based

Principal Solution Architect - is responsible for overseeing the solution architecture for the assigned domains

• Have a deep understanding of the relevant domains, focused on digital channels, Mobile, Web and AI
• Good understanding of underlying foundational technologies including cloud, resiliency, security and identity
• Drive technical solutions for platforms across these domains
• Lead the strategy, architecture and roadmaps
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure that technology strategy, priorities are relevant to business strategy and objectives
• Contribute in uplifting architecture practice in all aspects including resiliency, security, reduction of complexity and performance, as well as architecture governance for these domains
• Enforce Enterprise Architecture Policy expectations
• Ensure regulatory and audit expectations and requirements from Architecture & cloud adoption perspective
• Ensure an innovative and sustainable enterprise
• Create intentional architecture to be nimble aligned with cloud transformation agenda
• Manage holistically obsolescence and vulnerability
• Lead principle driven management of security, reliability, resiliency, and recoverability

Key Responsibilities

Strategy




• Develop and drive technology strategy aligned to both Business and Group's Tech strategy
• Provide architecture direction, guiding principles, guardrails and roadmaps that are aligned to both Business and Group's Tech strategy
• Govern the tech decisions, and architecture directions across portfolio of change
• Accelerate the Cloud Value strategy through architecting robust foundational building blocks and reusable Cloud patterns.
• Provide directions of SaaS based products where it makes technical and commercial sense to migrate from on-prem products.
• Drive Adoption of Information and Cyber Security controls delivered by Cyber Security Services globally across the Consumer, Private and Business Banking (WRB) portfolio.
• Strategy to increasing productivity of our cloud architecture & engineering through providing them the right tools, career paths and collaboration capabilities.
• Improve developer productivity through creation Infrastructure as Code, Cloud patterns which are engineered well and used by development teams across the bank accelerating speed to market.
Business
• Enable business to increase revenue where speed to market is crucial - by modernising, reducing the complexity of the technology landscape and transforming technology assets to fit-for-purpose,



flexible and cloud ready platforms that supports business innovations required to enable aggressive acquisition & retention in the targeted segments & markets.
• Improve cost efficiency - drive efficiency by identifying opportunities to rationalise to a fewer best of breed platforms which provides strategic business capability and aggressively decommission redundant applications.
• Collaborate with various Business, Technology and Security Teams.
• Govern the architecture decisions, and directions across the bespoke domain
• Bring thought leadership in assessing and defining architecture and design solutions for cloud

Processes
• Develop architecture blueprint for transformation agenda including cloud following Architecture Management standards and processes
• Facilitate Architecture governance and approvals
• Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, Cloud and Technology Governance to follow appropriate policies, procedures and controls
People & Talent
• People leadership responsibility, set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development; make sure that the team members are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles, ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage and retain talents with diversity agenda in mind.
Risk Management
• Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control env

📌 Principal Solution Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Chennai