Global Head, Architecture
Core
Senior technology leader and principal architect shaping the technology direction of a complex, regulated financial-services estate, ensuring strategy is grounded in engineering reality and operational outcomes.
Role type
Senior IC principal engineer and architect (strategy & hands-on)
Builds
Integrated tools, solutions, and data services for investment decisions and operational efficiency in Lending, Reg & Compliance, and Global Markets.
Domain
Financial services (banking, capital markets, syndicated lending, securities processing, regulatory reporting)
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
25+ years experience in tier-1 banks/capital markets, setting technology strategy for regulated platforms, defining multi-year roadmaps, governing reference architectures, designing distributed/event-driven systems, cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), AI-enabled system design (explainable/auditable), security and controls design, coaching senior engineers
Preferred skills
Experience with agent-based systems, service abstractions, semantic data models, knowledge graphs, analytics and AI in production (fraud/AML, anomaly detection)
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, agent-based systems, service abstractions, semantic data models, knowledge graphs
Responsibilities
Partner with Head of Technology to shape and refine technology strategy, engage with senior engineering leaders to turn strategy into real designs, step in during major incidents and recovery efforts, act as engineering authority leading through influence, balance long-term strategy with near-term delivery and regulatory expectations, coach and multiply senior engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategy-level influence