Lead Enterprise Architect, Director

Closing date for applications: 16/07/2026

Location Bangalore, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X

In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Lead Enterprise Architect

We’ll look to you to define and evolve the bank’s strategic target architecture and roadmap, aligning technology with business strategy and transformation priorities

You’ll lead collaborative architecture decision-making, partnering with business and technology leaders to shape the bank’s long-term direction

With significant exposure, you’ll build and influence relationships with senior stakeholders, vendors, and industry leaders

We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you’ll architect customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architecture.

You’ll be actively contributing to the growth of architecting capability and the community across the bank through thought leadership, knowledge sharing, contributing to the community of practice, and building capability in others through coaching, mentoring and teaching.

As well as this, you’ll be:

Lead architecture governance and design reviews for high-impact or high-risk programmes

Ensure solutions align with business needs and comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and patterns

Shape and influence strategic investment programmes, identifying opportunities for simplification, reuse, and innovation

Drive adoption of emerging technologies by assessing trends and their impact on the bank

Partner with senior stakeholders to define and deliver business-driven change across an aligned portfolio

Lead and influence cross-functional technical teams to deliver architecture outcomes effectively

Manage risk associated with change implementation, ensuring business readiness and operational stability

Support demand forecasting and resource planning across the portfolio

Embed DevOps and modern engineering practices, integrating architecture into delivery pipelines

Track architecture outcomes and transformation impact using data and insight to ensure value realisation

Continuously refine architecture approaches through stakeholder feedback and delivery learnings

Provide clear updates and strategic insights to senior stakeholders on architecture direction, progress, and outcomes

Grow architectural capability through coaching, mentoring, and thought leadership

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.

You’ll bring extensive experience of defining and developing strategic target architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.

You’ll also demonstrate:

Extensive experience defining and delivering target architectures aligned to strategic goals

Strong leadership across large-scale transformation and infrastructure-led change

Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead collaborative decision-making

Experience developing business cases and securing investment for strategic initiatives

Expertise in architecture governance, risk management, and quality assurance

A track record of driving standardisation, resilience, and continuous improvement

Experience building and developing high-performing architecture communities

Welcome to our Bangalore hub

Located at Taurus 4, Bagmane Constellation Business Park, our new office stands as a state-of-the-art hub for innovation and collaboration.

Key facts:

A 30 acre campus

Space for 6,000 colleagues

Opened in 2025

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

JavaScript

ReactJS

AngularJS

Back end

Python

Java

Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

AWS

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Data

Kafka

Hadoop

PostgreSQL

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