VP, Enterprise Architect - Group Technology

About the role

The VP, Enterprise Architect leads the Bank's Enterprise Architecture, IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) initiatives within Group Technology. Working with Architecture, Cloud, Security, Engineering and COE teams, the role strengthens technology asset governance, software supply chain visibility and architecture repository management, while enforcing enterprise standards and using AI-assisted tooling to improve technology visibility, regulatory compliance and governance across applications and infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Drive ITAM to improve asset visibility, ownership and lifecycle management, and support SBOM initiatives to track software products, third-party components and dependencies.
• Maintain architecture repositories and technology maps (applications, infrastructure, cloud and platforms), analysing asset data to close gaps and raise data quality.
• Take part in architecture reviews and governance forums so solutions meet enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Platform, Cloud, Security, Engineering, DevSecOps and COE teams to deliver integrated architecture, ITAM and SBOM outcomes.
• Translate complex business requirements into architecture models, process flows and actionable recommendations.
• Use AI-assisted tools to optimise architecture discovery, modelling, analysis and documentation.

Required profile

• 10-15 years of hands-on experience developing and delivering large, complex enterprise solutions; a banking/financial services background is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for risk, dependencies and gaps.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and technical writing skills.
• High adaptability, organizational rigor and a passion for modern Enterprise Architecture and AI-enabled workflows.

Required skills

• Application architecture, cloud-native technologies (AWS, GCP, OpenShift, Kubernetes), microservices, APIs, middleware and container platforms.
• Solution design, architecture modelling, integration patterns and governance.
• ITAM, SBOM and productivity tools: JFrog, Nexus IQ, Jira, Confluence, Copilot, ChatGPT, Power BI, Miro, Figma.