Associate Director, Tech SME

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Tech SME.

Principal Responsibilities

• Architecture Strategy & Roadmaps: Define target and transitional architectures for Private Banking CRM and related ecosystems, produce and maintain architectural roadmaps, capability maps, and evolution plans aligned to business outcomes and regulatory mandates.
• Solution Design & Governance: Lead end-to-end solution architecture for new initiatives, establish and enforce architecture standards, run design reviews and govern adherence to reference architectures, technical policies, and regulatory controls.
• Integration & API Architecture: Define integration patterns, oversee API portfolio lifecycle, guide interoperability between Java services, Power Platform components, and legacy/external systems.
• Power Platform Architectural Oversight: Architect governance for environments, solution segmentation, Dataverse data models, connector design, and ALM alignment with enterprise standards.
• Non-Functional Engineering & Risk Mitigation: Define and validate non-functional requirements, champion threat modeling, secure design, data classification handling, and compliance traceability.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Advise engineering leads on design trade-offs, mentor architects and senior engineers, facilitate cross-functional alignment.
• Standards, Patterns & Reuse: Curate reusable patterns, promote architecture decision records and structured documentation.
• Quality & Support Readiness: Validate solution designs for operational readiness, support major incident post-mortems with architectural remediation inputs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8+ years progressive experience in solution / software architecture within regulated financial services.
• Strong expertise in API and integration architecture, practical Power Platform architectural governance, proficiency in cloud architecture, security patterns, and container/microservices concepts.
• Skilled in modeling, architectural documentation, and decision recording.
• Solid understanding of non-functional engineering and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Experience establishing and governing architecture standards and conducting design reviews across multiple squads.
• Strong stakeholder management and concise communication skills.