Key responsibilities:

- Provide strategic guidance and direction to drive the Company's Technology data and analytics platforms and solutions for future.

- Define data architecture strategies for scale, reliability and high performance.

- Enhance entire data echo systems with AI driven solutions and delivery.

- Streamline data management (data sourcing, quality, lineage, modelling).

- Enable data driven decision making across organization.

- Setting the strategy for data architecture to support the Business and IT strategies and maintaining the data architecture principles.

- Manage relationships with the leadership of the Data, Operations, Risk Tech Capability to influence the adoption of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, standards and policies.

- Maximise relationships with vendors, regulators and industry bodies to seek and adopt industry standard methodologies in enterprise architecture and technology strategy.

- Act as trusted advisor and leader across the wider Company's Technology.

- Leads the solutioning ensuring alignment with the broader Company's Technology and Group technology strategies.

- Accountable for supporting all data, analytics aligned platforms, products and applications e.g. Oracle DWH, Hadoop, Power BI.

- Facilitate the adoption of agile delivery methodology to enable business agility and a culture of continuous improvement. Provides leadership, mentor and development to their team to drive high performance.

- Maintains relationships with key suppliers, setting performance standards and handling the resolution of raised service issues.

- Demonstrate the latest emerging & innovative technology and automation and promotes it adoption across the function, to enable business growth, simplification of processes, improved customer experience and cost reduction of delivery & maintenance.

Technical/job functional knowledge:

- Over 15+ years of experience in data and analytics handling large volumes of data.

- Implementation experience of AI tools and technologies and AI platform enablement.

- Modern engineering practices, agile practices, automation and deployment pipelines.

- Experience in architecting enterprise data warehouse, BI & analytics and data management platforms.

- Engineering balanced solutions and processes for the long term.

- Experience handling products on different solution models (SaaS, PaaS, managed service etc.)

- Experience building and operating a technology organisation operating at scale across multiple products.

- Experience of the developing and executing strategy and governance across a number of fields including Product Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Change Management, and delivering the agreed strategy to completion.

- Experience of demonstrating deep and broad knowledge of emerging technology to promote innovation across the organisation to deliver services and solve business problems.

- A strong knowledge of data quality and lineage from source to output.

- Experience of building and leading a scaled agile function.

- Proven track record of using industry standard processes and frameworks and promoting innovation across the organisation in the use of technology to solve business problems.

Business and sector expertise:

- Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy across corporate technology domains preferably in FinTech industry.

- Experience in working with business stakeholders, especially data, BI, analytics and AI capability areas.

- High-level understanding/appreciation of processes that impact business operations.

- Experience of advising/communicating at 'Global Head of' levels' of Management.

- Experience of developing and influencing strategic working relationships with key technology suppliers.

Leadership and management experience:

- Strong leadership skills in managing individuals and leading high performing teams.

- Experience of defining strategic goals for functions and systems for measuring goal attainment.

- Experience providing technology leadership in managing complex transformations areas of human resources, finances, operations and Lead to Cash.

- Finding opportunities to partner with external Technology organisations, developing the approach and negotiating terms.

- Experience of establishing Architecture in an Agile culture.

- Leadership and management experience at Director or equivalent level, managing global teams in a matrix environment.

Location: BKC, Mumbai.