- Define target architectures and solution blueprints that align with business strategies and comply with governance and regulatory standards. - Own architecture and technical design decisions. - Act as a recognized technical authority in cross-functional team discussions. Provide technical leadership across teams. - Evaluate, Manage, and drive proof of concepts on new technologies and tools that contribute to the lines of business. - As part of the project solutions process, drive, review, and validate the high-level solution design together with the business transformation team and development team for design approvals. - Lead solution design for projects comprising of a cross-functional project team in alignment with the overall IT landscape of the bank during project execution. This involves actively working with the team to analyse functional and non-functional requirements, translate them into a solution, and ensure that the proposed architecture is feasible and aligned to the bank’s IT landscape, regulatory and security requirements. - Familiar with architectural patterns, and enterprise integration patterns and possess a wide knowledge of emerging technologies, competing products & services, and commonly used third-party tools & frameworks that can be effectively positioned to solve a Bank’s need. - Contribute to ongoing architecture governance in the form of reviewing the applicability of existing standards, guidelines and processes as well as constantly provide feedback to recalibrate existing or introduce new architecture standards, guidelines and processes. - Participate in the definition and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks within the client environment, where necessary. - Collaborate with engineering teams to provide guidance on technical and architectural topics.