Domain Architect

Domain Architect

Reports to: Lead Domain Architect, Manager Flex Arch, Head of Architecture

Division: Architecture & Strategy

Location: Bangalore / Gurugram 

Purpose

The Domain Architect defines the end-to-end technical architecture to support the delivery of the investment slate, guiding and influencing business delivery, and ensuring alignment to target-state technology. This role requires strong domain engagement across Wealth / HNW and Financial Services, with exposure to Capital Markets, Trading & Settlement, Market Rates, Managed/Investment Funds, and Financial Advisor platforms.

Capabilities, Experience & Qualification Requirements

• Essential Capabilities (Core): Decision Quality, Strategic Mindset, Situational Adaptability, Self-awareness, Courage, Accountability.
  
• Technical Capabilities:
  
  
• Strong business acumen and engagement skills to influence business strategy, shape and prioritise outcomes, and develop domain roadmaps.
  
• Ability to lead and maintain backlog of business outcomes and portfolio view of the domain.
  
• Experience in scaled agile structures coordinating with solution architects.
  
• Proven business engagement and influencing skills with fact-based analysis.
  
• Understanding trade-offs in technology change while delivering business benefit.
  
• Commercial acumen, negotiation, and business alignment.
  
• Experience with cloud technologies and general software architecture across OLTP, warehouse, workflow, and mobile applications.
  
• Exposure to trading, settlement, market rates, and capital markets projects requiring responsiveness, throughput, and reliability.
  
• Experience:
  
  
• 10+ years in Technology industry.
  
• 5+ years in Architecture, with agile practices in large organisations under regulatory/legacy constraints.
  
• Qualification Requirements:
  
  
• Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent.
  
• Architecture or technology-related certifications (cloud preferred).
  
• Business acumen in capital markets, wealth, financial advisor strategy, managed/investment funds, and general banking/financial services is an advantage.
  

Key Decisions

• Deliver quality attribute-based architecture (technical debt, failure analysis, service performance, scalability, availability).
  
• Define target-state architectures and roadmaps.
  
• Manage technical debt and recommend interventions to reduce/decommission legacy platforms.
  

Key Accountabilities

• Lead technical direction-setting for stories/epics/features.
  
• Deliver end-to-end technical outcomes across domains.
  
• Identify service impacts and sequence initiative features on service backlogs.
  
• Provide technical direction and leadership across the lifecycle.
  
• Create and maintain Target State Architecture and map components to asset management.
  
• Align application roadmap to NAB technology strategy and architectural principles.
  
• Perform optimisation, scaled modelling, walkthroughs, and design reviews.
  
• Drive backlog grooming, raise features/epics/stories, and provide architecture input for prioritisation.
  
• Identify external dependencies.
  
• Conduct impact analysis of functional/non-functional requirements, regulatory impacts, and risks.
  
• Document architectural decisions for compliance.
  
• Validate design artefacts for completeness and testability.
  
• Assist engineers with issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
  
• Support production releases under You build it, you run it.
  

Key Stakeholder Groups

• Business domain executives, Product Owners
  
• Technology delivery teams/executives
  
• Release Train Engineers
  
• Architecture & Strategy & Advisory
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Engagement and influence in domain-centric roadmaps.
  
• Influence in legacy platform decommissioning/tech debt reduction.
  
• Clear definition and simplification/automation of capability build in target state.
  
• Operate as trusted advisor to business and technology executives.