Senior Director, Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Lead, nurture, and retain a high-performing architecture team through effective hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.

• Define role clarity, expectations, and growth trajectories for architects.

• Develop and refine current-state and target-state architectures that align with business strategies, regulatory requirements, and long-term sustainability.

• Create and uphold enterprise and domain reference architectures, standards, and guiding principles.

• Oversee architectural governance processes, including architecture reviews, decision records, and technology lifecycle management.

• Ensure that architectural components and standards are comprehensively documented, including value propositions, states, operational considerations, KPIs, and decision rationales.

• Empower delivery teams with reusable patterns, templates, guardrails, and architectural guidance.

• Provide architectural leadership across data architecture, data management, data security, data delivery, advanced analytics enablement, and alignment with business architecture.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, risk, and business stakeholders.

• Propel modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt, streamline integrations, and enhance resilience and scalability.

• Direct API-first and event-driven integration strategies.

• Advocate for security, privacy, and resiliency as foundational design principles.

• Facilitate cloud maturity through cost-conscious architectural decisions and platform enablement.

• Assess emerging technologies and transform successful proofs into scalable, governed capabilities.

• Plan and manage team capacity, prioritize tasks, and align investments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading teams, including coaching, developing talent, setting expectations, and driving accountability for results.

• Extensive experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture within complex environments, preferably in regulated financial services.

• Capability to define target-state architecture and promote adoption through standards, governance, and roadmaps.

• Strong architectural breadth with expertise in data and integration concepts, including APIs and event-driven patterns.

• Understanding of security and resiliency as cross-cutting concerns.

• Experience in establishing and managing architectural governance, including tradeoff analysis and decision facilitation.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business domains.

• Proficient in translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes, risks, and value statements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for executive and senior stakeholder audiences.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience leading architecture across multiple domains in a federated or matrixed operating model.

• Background in wealth management, retirement, or similarly regulated sectors.

• Hands-on experience in modernization or large-scale transformation projects.

• Familiarity with cloud architecture, cost optimization, or platform enablement models.

• Experience supporting AI or advanced analytics adoption with architectural guardrails.

• Relevant architecture, cloud, or security certifications are advantageous.

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Fluid career paths.

• Internal mobility opportunities.

• Support for purpose, well-being, and work-life balance.

• A welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.

• Opportunities for volunteering.

• Reliable high-speed internet and home workspace support for remote positions.

• Provision of necessary computer equipment.