The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team plays a critical role in shaping the bank’s technology landscape, ensuring that technology strategy, platforms, and solutions are aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and long‑term sustainability.
The Domain Architect is accountable for increasing the maturity of the Enterprise Architecture function by defining, governing, and evolving the foundational elements of enterprise architecture across their assigned domain. This includes establishing clear architecture mechanisms, standards, patterns, and practices, and providing sustained architectural direction over time.
The role is responsible for:
- Defining and evolving architecture mechanisms, standards, patterns, and reference architectures
- Owning the software and technology catalog for the domain, including Invest / Hold / Disinvest lifecycle positioning
- Driving adoption and consistent application of EA standards and practices in close collaboration with Technology Owners and Application Teams
- Providing thought leadership and clear long‑term architectural direction for the domain
- Defining and maintaining multi‑year architecture and technology roadmaps, aligned with business strategy and regulatory priorities
- Leveraging automation and AI‑enabled approaches to simplify, modernise, and scale EA governance, standards management, and overall EA capabilities
The role works closely with business stakeholders, Technology Owners, application and delivery teams, and governance bodies to ensure that enterprise and domain‑level architectures are robust, scalable, secure, compliant, and future‑ready.
Future‑State Architecture & Platform Strategy
- Define and evolve the future‑state architecture for the assigned domain, including architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Establish clear architectural mechanisms and positions that guide how technologies are selected, used, and evolved within the domain.
- Define strategic technology and platform direction, including modernization, consolidation, and managed exit of legacy technologies.
- Develop architecture position papers, option analyses, and target‑state roadmaps to support executive and governance decision‑making.
- Ensure architectural direction consistently addresses scalability, resilience, security, data protection, regulatory compliance, and operational sustainability.
- Contribute to enterprise‑level architecture initiatives and overall EA practice maturity uplift.
Security Domain Architecture
- Define and evolve security by design architecture mechanisms and patterns across platforms and solutions
- Establish standards for identity, access, encryption, secrets management, API security, and zero trust architectures
- Maintain the security technology catalog, including lifecycle positioning aligned with risk and regulatory posture
- Ensure security architecture is embedded consistently through EA governance and early design engagement
- Define the long term enterprise security architecture roadmap, aligned with CISO strategy and regulatory expectations
Software/Technology Catalog & Lifecycle Management
- Own the domain software and technology catalog, in collaboration with Technology Owners.
- Define Invest / Hold / Disinvest lifecycle positioning with clear architectural rationale.
- Ensure lifecycle intent is reflected in:
o Architecture standards and patterns
o Architecture governance decisions
o Long‑term modernization and rationalisation roadmaps
- Prevent uncontrolled technology sprawl and duplication.
Architecture Strategy, Adoption & Governance
- Define and enforce architecture guardrails to drive standardisation, reuse, resilience, and security‑by‑design.
- Govern solution and platform designs through EA governance forums (e.g. EADA), focusing on alignment to standards, patterns, and approved catalog technologies.
- Drive early and consistent adoption of architecture guidance across Technology Owners and Application Teams.
- Manage non‑standard designs through alignment or formally governed exceptions.
- Continuously improve architecture standards and governance mechanisms based on business evolution, delivery feedback, and operational insights.
EA Capability Modernisation & Thought Leadership
- Act as a trusted domain authority and source of architectural thought leadership.
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to inform pragmatic architectural evolution.
- Guide appropriate architectural style shifts while balancing innovation with regulatory and operational readiness.
- Identify and promote the use of automation and AI‑enabled approaches to simplify, scale, and industrialise EA mechanisms (standards management, governance, reviews, insights).
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with Technology owners to align architecture direction, lifecycle intent and platform roadmaps.
- Engage with Application Team and Solution Architects to provide early guidance
- Collaborate with internal governance bodies (e.g., Cloud, Data, Security) to ensure coherence across domains.
- Engage with vendors and strategic partners to assess solutions and ensure alignment with enterprise and domain architecture direction
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architecture, or Solution Architecture roles within complex, large‑scale environments.
- Strong and proven technical foundation built through hands‑on engineering experience, typically progressing from roles such as system administration, software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps into architecture roles.
- Proven experience defining future‑state architectures and driving strategic platform decisions, including technology evaluation and target‑state
- Proven hands-on experience in Cloud & Hybrid Security, Network Security, Identify and Access Management, Data Security and Cryptography, Application and API security
- Deep experience and knowledge with security protocols and data protection standards in banking environments (e.g., OAuth2, TLS, PKI, DLP).
- Demonstrated ability to design architectures grounded in real‑world delivery, operational, and production experience — not purely theoretical models.
- Demonstrated experience operating within regulated, banking‑grade environments.
- Proven ability to influence architectural outcomes across multiple delivery teams without direct delivery ownership.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant domain platforms and technologies (e.g., cloud platforms, containers, databases, middleware, security tooling, platform services).
- Solid understanding of security‑by‑design, regulatory compliance, and risk considerations.
- Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) is a plus.
- Experience working within Agile / DevOps delivery models.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast‑paced, cross‑functional environments.
- Relevant architecture or domain certifications are an advantage.
