Group Digital Enterprise Architect

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. The Digital Enterprise Architect reporting to Head of Group Architecture will lead the design and governance of Prudential’s enterprise-wide technology architecture.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Architecture Development

• Define long-term enterprise architecture direction with emphasis on platforms, reusable components, Data and AI driven cloud-native design.
• Build future-state architecture aligned with Prudential’s business strategy, focusing on convergence, modernization, cost efficiency, Data and AI, and scalability.
• Own, define, and continuously evolve the enterprise target architecture for Digital, Traditional AI and Agentic AI solutions across the group.
• Define and communicate target-state architecture that delivers measurable business outcomes such as improved customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish architecture roadmaps that balance short-term delivery with long-term strategic vision.
• Translate business strategies into technology outcomes (e.g., faster time-to-market, reduced cost-to-serve, enhanced resilience).
• Monitor and report on architecture KPIs (system availability, scalability, interoperability, and cost efficiency).
• Ensure architecture decisions directly support Prudential’s digital transformation goals and sustainability commitments.

Policy & Frameworks

• Formulate and enforce Group policies, frameworks, and design standards.
• Ensure compliance with security, resilience, and regulatory requirements in the financial sector.

Technology Leadership

• Acting as a thought leader on emerging digital business models and technologies, articulating the digital future and the enterprise's role in it internally and externally.
• Drive adoption of digital platforms, APIs, microservices, and data-driven, AI solutions.
• Champion adoption of digital platforms, APIs, microservices, and data-driven solutions.
• Oversee Solution Architecture function, managing a team of solution architects across multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).
• Provide hands-on oversight of solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as the final escalation point for solution design conflicts, balancing innovation with risk management.

Governance & Collaboration

• Partner with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to ensure architectural consistency and interoperability.
• Ensure all solution designs comply with Prudential’s established enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and technology standards.
• Serve as a key member of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), reviewing proposals and providing authoritative guidance.

Job Requirement

• 15-20 years in enterprise architecture, preferably in banking, insurance, or financial services, who is currently working as Enterprise Architect, Digital Architect, Transformation Architect in the last 2-5 years.
• Strong expertise in:
• Hands-on Enterprise TOGAF or similar framework.
• Proven leadership in managing architecture teams and delivering enterprise-scale outcomes.
• Experience in managing stakeholders.
• Outstanding knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes.
• Experience in proposal writing & responding to proposals to business and management.
• Should have managed Programs with Global rollouts nature across APAC.
• Good grounding in modern data architectures and machine learning concepts.
• Experience in cloud-native composable platforms (Azure, GCP).
• Modern Tooling experience like Keycloak, Ping Identity, Dynatrace or similar tools, mobile tools, business Analytics tools for digital platforms.
• Enterprise integration (APIs, microservices, Data & AI).
• Application Data architecture, analytics, and AI/ML solutions.
• Hands-on Experiences building POC, Architecture models, Solution Architecture, Governance.
• Proven ability to effectively drive people, process and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment.