Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

About the role

First Citizens India (FC Global Services India LLP), a global capability center of First Citizens BancShares, is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect in Bangalore on a hybrid model. The Enterprise Architecture team defines technology vision, standards, and target-state architecture to enable business growth and innovation. In this role, you will lead enterprise architecture strategy across business, data, application, technology, integration, and security domains, build AI-driven architecture governance capabilities, and drive modernization and resilience initiatives.

What you’ll do

• Lead enterprise architecture strategy and governance across business, data, application, technology, integration, and security architecture domains
• Partner with senior technology and business leaders to align architecture decisions with organizational strategy and investment priorities
• Drive cloud, application, platform, and data modernization initiatives while balancing risk, value, scalability, and cost effectiveness
• Build AI-driven architecture governance capabilities that automate design reviews, compliance assessments, resilience scoring, and architectural conformance checks
• Integrate governance-as-code and architecture conformance controls into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous compliance and early detection of architectural drift
• Enhance enterprise resilience through automated assessment of availability risks, single points of failure, disaster recovery alignment, blast radius exposure, and recovery objectives
• Establish architecture governance forums, mentor architects, and advance enterprise architecture maturity across the organization
• Translate complex architecture decisions into business-focused recommendations for executive stakeholders and major investment initiatives

What you’ll bring

• 18+ years of technology experience with significant enterprise architecture leadership experience
• Hands-on experience building AI-driven or agentic AI solutions
• Proven experience implementing governance-as-code and automated architecture controls
• Strong understanding of resilience engineering and large-scale enterprise technology environments
• Experience working with senior business and technology executives
• Enterprise Architecture frameworks knowledge (TOGAF, ArchiMate, Zachman)
• Cloud architecture and modernization expertise
• Application, integration, data, and security architecture skills

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services is preferred
• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF and cloud architecture certifications are preferred

Skills