Closing date for applications: 01/11/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

#R-00286648

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Digital Architecture & Platform Lead

- This is a role where you'll shape the direction of Risk's digital capabilities, translating strategic priorities and decisions into initiatives that deliver long-term value
- Working across Risk, Technology and Architecture teams, you'll drive simplification, standardisation and reuse of platforms and services while ensuring alignment to enterprise-wide objectives
- We're offering this role at director level

What you’ll do

As a Digital Architecture & Platform Lead, you'll define and drive Risk's digital roadmap, target-state architecture and platform strategy, ensuring decisions, capabilities and technology priorities are aligned to business outcomes and long-term strategic goals.

In addition, you'll work across Risk, Technology and Architecture teams to align roadmaps, establish governance and shape scalable, reusable and AI-enabled solutions through strong stakeholder management, you'll drive simplification, standardisation and digital maturity across the function while enabling the successful delivery of Risk's transformation priorities.

You’ll also be responsible for:

- Defining, governing and maintaining the Digital roadmap for Risk to deliver business outcomes, priorities and target state
- Overseeing technology resources, including legacy platform performance, end-of-life or vendor-support resolutions and consumption of cloud, licences and tokenisation capacity for the function




- Defining the strategic direction for Risk's digital platforms, future capabilities and enabling architecture, establishing proportionate design principles and guardrails that support the sustainable adoption of scalable, reusable and responsible AI-enabled solutions across the function
- Developing and maintaining a digital maturity framework covering workflows, data consumption, technology, AI, knowledge, reuse, adoption, skills, behaviours and business outcomes
- Assessing proposals for alignment to agreed Risk outcomes, architectural coherence, cross-Risk value, reuse potential and fit with the target state
- Setting the target-state architecture, principles, standards and proportionate design guardrails aligned to enterprise requirements

The skills you’ll need

We're looking for someone with significant experience in enterprise-wide Risk, digital transformation, architecture and platform strategy, with a proven track record of translating business priorities into scalable technology outcomes.

You'll bring robust governance and delivery expertise with the ability to align investments, roadmaps and architectural decisions to support long-term strategic objectives.

In addition, you’ll need:

- Strong experience in platform direction for common digital capabilities
- Experience defining value frameworks and assessing investment requirements
- Strong Enterprise Risk background with proven leadership and stakeholder management experience

Welcome to our Chennai hub

Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.

Key facts:

- Surrounded by 10 acres
- Space for 3,600 colleagues
- Opened in 2009

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