Architect (Enterprise Architecture)

Full-time

**Company Description**:

- Technology is our how. And people are our why. For over two decades, we have been harnessing technology to drive meaningful change.

By combining world-class engineering, industry expertise and a people-centric mindset, we consult and partner with leading brands from various industries to create dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences that drive innovation and transform businesses.

From prototype to real-world impact - be part of a global shift by doing work that matters.

We’re looking for a **Principal Enterprise Architect** to lead the design, alignment, and governance of complex IT systems across business domains. In this role, you’ll act as a strategic partner to stakeholders, ensuring that architecture decisions support both technical excellence and business outcomes.

This is a highly collaborative role requiring deep technical fluency, cross-functional awareness, and strong leadership across project, client, and organizational boundaries.

**Strategic Architecture Leadership**
- Design and own end-to-end enterprise solutions across multiple platforms, domains, and business areas.
- Translate business goals into scalable, secure, and maintainable IT architectures.
- Drive architecture decisions aligned to roadmap, business strategy, and regulatory needs.

**Design & Documentation**
- Lead architectural reviews, create system blueprints (C4, RAIDs, data flows), and guide solution realization.
- Translate logical designs into physical implementations considering performance, security, integration, and cost.
- Ensure alignment of frontend/backend systems, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and infrastructure (cloud/on-prem).

**Governance & Best Practices**
- Define and enforce architecture standards, security guidelines, and development methodologies.
- Drive compliance with internal and external audit, risk, and regulatory requirements.
- Support architectural decision records (ADRs), build-vs-buy analysis, and service blueprinting.

**Stakeholder Engagement**
- Act as a senior advisor to internal and client teams, balancing technical and business priorities.
- Influence decisions across delivery, infrastructure, security, and executive leadership.
- Facilitate workshops, build consensus, and advocate for architectural best practices.

**Mentorship & Leadership**
- Coach junior architects and engineering teams on architecture fundamentals.
- Promote a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

**Qualifications**:

- 10+ years in IT architecture roles, with 3+ years in enterprise or principal architect capacity.
- Strong experience across **cloud (AWS, Azure)**, **microservices**, **DevOps**, **API management**, and **enterprise integration** (MQ, ESB, event streaming).
- Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar a plus.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in architectural tools and modeling standards (C4, UML, BPMN, etc.).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field/

**Preferred**:

- Experience in regulated industries (e.g., banking, payments, insurance).
- Familiarity with Lean Value Trees, Agile roadmapping, or strategic portfolio planning.
- Strong negotiation and decision-making ability across technical and business domains.

**Additional Information**:
Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

- ** Finance**: Competitive salary package, share plan, company performance bonuses, value-based recognition awards, referral bonus;
- ** Career Development**: Career coaching, global career opportunities, non-linear career paths, internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
- ** Learning Opportunities**:Complex projects, rotations, internal tech communities, training, certifications, coaching, online learning platforms subscriptions, pass-it-on sessions, workshops, conferences;
- ** Work-Life Balance**: Hybrid work and flexible working hours, employee assistance programme;
- ** Health**: Global internal wellbeing programme, access to wellbeing apps;
- ** Community**: Global internal tech communities, hobby clubs and interest groups, inclusion and diversity programmes, events and celebrations.