Senior Principal - Enterprise Architect

svb; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FC Global Services India LLP, part of First Citizens BancShares, is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect in Bengaluru to lead enterprise architecture initiatives, drive modernization, and ensure secure, scalable IT portfolios. The role emphasizes agentic AI for governance and continuous governance through automated intelligence.

The ideal candidate partners with senior leaders to align technology decisions with business strategy and investment priorities, shaping enterprise standards

Qualifications

• Experience across business, data, application, technology, and security architecture.
• Hands-on experience building agentic AI for architecture governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Architecture across all EA domains and align decisions with strategy and investment priorities.
• Own and evolve the enterprise reference architecture, target-state blueprints, and architectural north stars.
• Drive modernization initiatives across cloud, platform, data, and application transformation while balancing risk, value, and cost.
• Establish and chair architecture governance forums; mentor architects and uplift EA practice maturity.

Job description

Job Description:

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India), a part of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top 20 U.S. financial institution, is a global capability center (GCC) based in Bengaluru. Our India-based teams benefit from the company's over 125-year legacy of strength and stability. First Citizens India is responsible for delivering value and managing risks for our lines of business. We are particularly proud of our strong, relationship-driven culture and our long-term approach, which are deeply ingrained in our talented workforce. This is evident across all key areas of our operations, including Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of providing solutions fit for our clients' greatest ambitions.

Value Proposition:

Focus on Enterprise-Wide Influence: Shape enterprise technology direction and influence strategic investments across the organization. Focus on AI-Powered Innovation & Transformation: Build agentic AI-driven governance capabilities embedded into engineering workflows.

Job Details

Position Title: Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

Career Level: P5

Job Category: VP

Role Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Bangalore

About the Team:

Enterprise Architecture establishes standards, target-state roadmaps, governance practices, and modernization strategies across the enterprise.

Impact:

We are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to serve as a thought leader and trusted advisor across the enterprise. Conversant with the full breadth of enterprise architecture (EA) practice - business, data, application, technology, and security architecture - this individual partners with senior technology and business leaders to align architecture decisions with organizational strategy, drive modernization initiatives, and ensure the enterprise technology portfolio is secure, scalable, and cost-effective. Distinctively, this role brings extensive hands‑on experience building agentic AI to automate architecture and design reviews against the enterprise reference architecture. The Principal Architect treats architecture governance as code: codifying standards, patterns, and guardrails so that conformance is continuously and automatically evaluated. They tap directly into CI/CD pipelines to interrogate code and assess alignment with the organization's architectural north stars - shifting governance left from periodic manual review to continuous, automated assurance. A central focus is enterprise resilience: the role builds AI-driven capabilities that evaluate designs for availability risk, single points of failure, blast radius, and recovery alignment, embedding resilience scoring and proactive feedback into the design lifecycle and into the Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG/ARG) process.

Key Deliverables (Duties and Responsibilities)

Enterprise Architecture LeadershipAct as a recognized thought leader across all EA domains - business, data, application, integration, technology, and security architecture.Partner with senior technology and business leaders to align architecture decisions with organizational strategy and investment priorities.Own and evolve the enterprise reference architecture, target-state blueprints, and architectural north stars.Drive modernization initiatives - cloud, platform, data, and application transformation - balancing risk, value, and cost.Ensure the enterprise technology portfolio is secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective; champion rationalization where appropriate.Establish and chair architecture governance forums; mentor architects and uplift EA practice maturity across the organization. Agentic AI for Architecture Governance & ResilienceBuild AI-driven automated design analysis that ingests architecture artifacts (diagrams, ADRs, runbooks, IaC) and evaluates them against a curated library of approved patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails - including resilience patterns such as bulkheads, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and multi-region / high-availability designs.Implement resilience scoring and gap analysis that evaluates every design for availability risk, single points of failure, dependency-chain depth, blast radius, RTO/RPO alignment, and graceful degradation - flagging designs below resilience thresholds before formal governance review.Deliver real-time governance feedback via an AI assistant integrated into architecture and design tooling (e.g., LucidChart, draw.io, Confluence, ServiceNow, Abacus), providing inline, proactive resilience and conformance recommendations during the design process.Automate compliance and risk scoring of design submissions against regulatory requirements and organizational risk-appetite frameworks, flagging high-severity resilience deviations for human escalation.Automate Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG/ARG) preparation - pre-review summaries, risk assessment