Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office

About the
Role

The Head, Solution
Architecture & Standards Office owns the technology architecture,
standards, and governance framework that ensures every development initiative
across Polaris Bank's digital and retail banking arms is scalable, secure, and
well -integrated. This is a leadership and governance role: you will set
direction, define standards, and provide architectural oversight across three
specialist domains — Solution Architecture, Security Architecture, and
Integration & API Architecture — working through and with specialist
architects and leads in each area, rather than executing all specialist work
personally.

Key
Responsibilities

Governance
& Standards

• Define and maintain the enterprise
  architecture framework, technology standards, and design principles
  applied across all development initiatives
  
• Chair architecture review boards;
  approve or escalate designs that deviate from standards
  
• Own the technical governance process,
  ensuring traceability between business requirements and architectural
  decisions
  

Solution
Architecture

• Oversee the design of end -to -end
  solutions for major business initiatives, ensuring architectural
  integrity, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards
  
• Guide the application of microservices
  architecture, domain -driven design, and cloud architecture patterns across
  teams
  
• Ensure solution designs are
  maintainable and support long -term platform evolution
  

Security
Architecture

• Set secure -by -design standards and
  oversee their application across all solution designs
  
• Ensure threat modeling, identity &
  access management design, and cryptographic standards are consistently
  applied
  
• Partner with Information Security to
  ensure architecture decisions meet regulatory and compliance requirements
  
• Oversee remediation of
  architecture -level vulnerabilities identified through security assessments
  

Integration
& API Architecture

• Set standards for integration
  patterns, API design, API gateway usage, and middleware architecture
  
• Oversee API lifecycle governance to
  ensure consistency, reusability, and performance across the API portfolio
  
• Guide adoption of event -driven
  architecture patterns for high -throughput, real -time use cases
  

Core
Competencies

• Enterprise architecture leadership and
  technical governance
  
• Working knowledge across solution,
  security, and integration architecture disciplines (deep expertise in at
  least one is expected; working fluency across the others to lead
  specialist teams credibly)
  
• Stakeholder management across
  engineering, security, product, and compliance functions
  
• Ability to translate business
  requirements into architectural strategy
  

Familiarity
With Tools (used by the function, not a personal daily requirement)

Enterprise
architecture tools (BizzDesign, Sparx EA), Draw.io/Lucidchart, Confluence,
JIRA; OWASP tools, Burp Suite, IAM platforms; API gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI,
Postman, Mulesoft, Apache Camel, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science,
  Engineering, or related field; relevant certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure
  Architect, CISSP, or equivalent) an advantage
  
• Demonstrated track record leading
  architecture functions in a regulated industry, ideally banking/financial
  services