Principal Enterprise Architect

About

Description

Optimal Growth Technologies provides organizations of all sizes with the best, most trustworthy solutions. In the ever-evolving technology market, we believe that companies need reliable allies who can guide them through the challenges that accompany technological growth. To enable our business partners’ and our customers’ businesses by expanding and managing their portfolios through an adaptive and strategic approach to the continuously evolving technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve the enterprise architecture blueprint, frameworks and target-state architecture, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives and future-state technology vision
• Define and maintain architectural principles, domain strategies, and standardized reference models that support scalable, interoperable, and secure technology ecosystems
• Translate corporate strategy, regulatory mandates, and digital transformation goals into clear architectural initiatives and target-state designs
• Lead multi-year roadmap development across technology domains including applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security in collaboration with domain architects and delivery teams
• Continuously assess technology trends and emerging innovations to guide modernization and strategic platform selection
• Chair Architecture & Design Review Boards (ARBs) to review, guide, and approve solution designs, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and strategic objectives
• Define governance processes for architectural compliance, exception management, and deviation tracking across business portfolios and technical teams
• Perform architecture assurance and gap assessments to identify technical risk, misalignment, and opportunities for consolidation or optimization
• Ensure ongoing enforcement and evolution of architecture policies, design standards, and lifecycle documentation for all enterprise assets
• Support audit readiness and regulatory compliance by embedding architecture governance in change delivery
• Act as a strategic advisor to Head of Architecture, shaping investment decisions and prioritizing technology initiatives based on architectural insights
• Work closely with product managers, domain architects, engineers, and business analysts to co-create architectural solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Build alignment across multiple delivery streams and business units to ensure architecture decisions enable reusability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness
• Facilitate cross-functional design workshops, architecture forums, and technical deep-dives to enable shared understanding and decision-making
• Represent the enterprise architecture function in vendor evaluations, technology partnerships, and RFP/RFI processes

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• TOGAF, Zachman, or similar EA certification preferred
• 8 years technical background inclusive of software architecture, software design, software development in a large enterprise environment
• Domain experience in Financial Services and Financial technologies will be an added advantage
• Has demonstrable knowledge and experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

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