Chief Architect Ib Engineering

ID de la solicitud: 266720

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CHIEF ARCHITECT IB ENGINEERING

Purpose:

The Domain Architecture Director plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology within International Banking. This role exists to define and steward a cohesive architectural vision that enables scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant platforms, while accelerating the transition toward a simplified, cloud-native technology landscape.

By leading modernization and transformation initiatives, the Director ensures that the bank’s technology portfolio evolves to support business agility, operational efficiency, and innovation at scale. This includes driving distributed architectures, application modernization, platform rationalization, and cloud migration strategies that unlock long-term value.

This role is designed for a strategic leader with deep experience in financial services or digital-native banking environments—someone who can influence across executive and technical domains, and who brings a bold perspective on how technology can elevate the bank’s international ambitions.

Accountabilities

•Architectural Strategy: Define and lead the design of technology solutions across the application portfolio within the assigned macro domain, enabling business transformation and legacy modernization.

•Portfolio Classification & Simplification: Own the classification of APMs into functional domains, driving simplification and rationalization to align with the target architecture.

•Currency & Compliance: Oversee remediation plans to keep systems current, secure, and compliant with enterprise and regulatory standards.

•Cloud-Ready Architecture: Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and cloud-efficient, aligned with enterprise patterns and policies.

•Technology Roadmap: Lead the domain’s technology roadmap, including capability mapping, architecture patterns, and blueprints, while managing exceptions and driving continuous improvement.

•Business Partnership: Co-create solutions with business and engineering teams from ideation to production, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and operational readiness.

•Planning & Risk Management: Drive annual technology planning, identify risks, propose mitigation strategies, and align decisions with enterprise vision.

•Platform Optimization: Lead initiatives to consolidate and modernize platforms, improving cost efficiency, resilience, and technical capabilities.

•Governance & Automation: Strengthen architecture governance through automation, ensuring compliance and proactively managing deviations.

•Leadership & Coaching: Mentor architects and engineering teams, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration to ensure successful delivery of modernization initiatives.

•Data Architecture Specialization This role includes a dedicated specialization in data architecture, with an expectation to be highly proficient in the Global reference architecture.

oAct as a senior leader for data architecture adoption across domains, ensuring consistent implementation of its principles and patterns.

oEstablish standardized data ingestion and metadata management frameworks, including integration patterns (APIs, streaming, CDC), schema management, and data quality controls.

oGovern the transformation of raw data into curated, standardized, and reusable data assets through scalable processing engines and federated domain workspaces.

oDefine and operationalize data products, ensuring clear ownership, contracts, SLAs, secure data sharing, and bi-directional data exchange across domains.

oImplement cross-cutting governance frameworks including metadata, lineage, cataloging, lifecycle management, trust scoring, and policy enforcement to ensure data reliability and compliance.

oDrive data platform operations including DataOps, data profiling, FinOps for data usage, and access control mechanisms to ensure efficiency, scalability, and cost optimization.

oLead the adoption of modern data platform capabilities (batch, streaming, real-time processing) leveraging cloud-native services aligned with Global architecture principles.

oEnsure strong alignment with foundational services such as orchestration, IAM, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and audit logging to support secure and resilient data platforms.

oEnsure data architectures comply with regulatory, privacy, and cross-border data requirements across all jurisdictions

oCollaborate with application, API, and platform teams to embed architecture principles into microservices, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.

Job Requirements:

•Professional Experience:

o10+ years of experience in technology architecture, including 5+ years within financial services or digital-native banks.

oProven expertise in designing and implementing banking and cloud architectures across different cloud providers (Google, AWS, Azure).

oDemonstrated success leading large-scale migrations from on premises to modern cloud environments.

•Certifications:

oDatabricks Platform Architect are highly valued.

oAzure Data Engineer Associate

oGoogle Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

oAdditional certifications in AWS or Azure are highly valued.

oCertifications in Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate) considered an asset.

•Technical Skills:

Architecture & Design

oStrong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, etc. and how to apply them pragmatically in large organizations.

oAbility to design and evaluate scalable, secure, and modular systems, aligned with cloud-native and distributed principles.

oExpertise in Microservices and API Design based on REST, GraphQL, event-driven architecture patterns.

oExperience defining target architectures, roadmaps, and reference implementation across large portfolios.

Cloud & Infrastructure

oBroad understanding of cloud native architectures, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and migration strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

oKnowledge about infrastructure automation, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines to enable scalability and operational excellence.

oCapable to collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment on cloud strategy, automation and resilience.

Integration & Data

oExpertise in integration patterns, messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API gateways, etc.

oSolid understanding of data architecture, including data lakes, ETL pipelines, big data analytics and data governance.

Security & Compliance

oAbility to design architectures that comply with global financial regulations and data residency requirements.

oFamiliar with cybersecurity architecture including Zero Trust, IAM, encryption standards and secure cloud design.

oCollaborates effectively with security and risk teams to ensure compliance and resilience across all layers of architecture (PCI DSS, GDPR, SOX, local banking regulations).

oExpertise on Risk Management: Threat modeling, vulnerability assessment.

•Leadership and Communication Skills:

oStrategic thinker with strong business acumen and enterprise perspective.

oAbility to lead multidisciplinary technical teams.

oEffective communicator able to simplify complexity and present strategies and progress to executive teams and regulators.

•Language

oAdvanced or native English

oFluent Spanish

Ubicación(s):  Perú : Lima : San Isidro
 

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