Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office
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Job Summary
About the Role
The Head Solution Architecture & Standards Office owns the technology architecture standards and governance framework that ensures every development initiative across Polaris Banks digital and retail banking arms is scalable secure and well-integrated. This is a leadership and governance role: you will set direction define standards and provide architectural oversight across three specialist domains Solution Architecture Security Architecture and Integration & API Architecture working through and with specialist architects and leads in each area rather than executing all specialist work personally.
Key Responsibilities
Governance & Standards
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture framework technology standards and design principles applied across all development initiatives
- Chair architecture review boards; approve or escalate designs that deviate from standards
- Own the technical governance process ensuring traceability between business requirements and architectural decisions
Solution Architecture
- Oversee the design of end-to-end solutions for major business initiatives ensuring architectural integrity scalability and alignment with enterprise standards
- Guide the application of microservices architecture domain-driven design and cloud architecture patterns across teams
- Ensure solution designs are maintainable and support long-term platform evolution
Security Architecture
- Set secure-by-design standards and oversee their application across all solution designs
- Ensure threat modeling identity & access management design and cryptographic standards are consistently applied
- Partner with Information Security to ensure architecture decisions meet regulatory and compliance requirements
- Oversee remediation of architecture-level vulnerabilities identified through security assessments
Integration & API Architecture
- Set standards for integration patterns API design API gateway usage and middleware architecture
- Oversee API lifecycle governance to ensure consistency reusability and performance across the API portfolio
- Guide adoption of event-driven architecture patterns for high-throughput real-time use cases
Core Competencies
- Enterprise architecture leadership and technical governance
- Working knowledge across solution security and integration architecture disciplines (deep expertise in at least one is expected; working fluency across the others to lead specialist teams credibly)
- Stakeholder management across engineering security product and compliance functions
- Ability to translate business requirements into architectural strategy
Familiarity With Tools (used by the function not a personal daily requirement)
Enterprise architecture tools (BizzDesign Sparx EA) Confluence JIRA; OWASP tools Burp Suite IAM platforms; API gateways Swagger/OpenAPI Postman Mulesoft Apache Camel Kafka RabbitMQ
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field; relevant certifications (TOGAF AWS/Azure Architect CISSP or equivalent) an advantage
- Demonstrated track record leading architecture functions in a regulated industry ideally banking/financial services
Required Skills:
. Bachelors degree in Business Marketing Finance or related field; MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is a plus. Minimum of 5-7 years experience in banking marketing or financial inclusion. Proven track record in developing and scaling customer-focused initiatives preferably targeting women. Strong understanding of gender finance customer segmentation and inclusive banking practices.
