Senior Principal - Enterprise Architect

Lead enterprise architecture across business, data, application, technology, and security domains aligning decisions with business strategy and driving modernization.

Build and embed AI-driven governance capabilities into engineering workflows for automated architecture compliance, resilience scoring, and continuous assurance integrated with CI/CD pipelines.

Establish and chair architecture governance forums, mentor architects, manage enterprise reference architectures, and deliver executive communications on architecture strategy and risk.

Minimum 18+ years of technology experience with extensive enterprise architecture expertise at scale.

Hands-on experience building agentic AI/LLM-based systems and implementing governance-as-code integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Strong software engineering skills including code reasoning and automation development, plus deep understanding of resilience engineering and cloud, data, integration, and security architectures.

Work Experience Required: 18+ years; Location: Bangalore; Role Type: Hybrid; No explicit notice period stated.

Proven track record as a senior thought leader and trusted advisor to senior business and technology executives in large or regulated enterprises, preferably financial services.

Strategic operator skilled at translating architecture trade-offs into executive narratives and building consensus among diverse stakeholders including business, engineering, security, and operations.

Experienced in embedding automated governance tightly with developer workflows and building AI-driven continuous architecture compliance and resilience evaluation capabilities.