Banking AI Architect Lead — GenAI & Modernization Expert

Hcl Comnet; Singapore; On-site; SGD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Hcl Comnet seeks an Experienced Senior Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise architecture across Digital Banking, Payments, and Corporate Banking, with a strong GenAI focus. Responsibilities include design reviews, governance, and modernization initiatives to ensure secure, scalable AI-enabled platforms.

Ideal candidate brings 12-15 years in banking architecture, deep Java, Spring, and microservices expertise, plus experience with GenAI, API security, and agile methods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering/IT/CS or related field.
• 12-15 years of Architecture experience in Banking with AI architecture focus.
• Domain exposure: Payments/Transaction Banking/Corporate Banking/Digital Banking/API/ Core Banking.
• Strong expertise in Java (Java 8/11/17+) and enterprise application development.
• Deep knowledge of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and microservices architecture.
• Understanding of performance tuning, scalability, resiliency, and high-availability architectures.
• Exposure in GenAI and agentic AI architecture, including RAG, model integration/orchestration and AI-enabled engineering or modernization.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture, authentication, authorization, and API security best practices.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe environments.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Improved engineering standards, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and alignment between Business and Technology objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture across Digital Banking, Payments and Corporate Banking platforms.
• Lead solution design, architecture reviews, technical governance and pre-sales solutioning.
• Drive modernization initiatives including application refactoring, framework upgrades and platform transformation.
• Shape AI-enabled modernization and identify practical GenAI/agentic AI use cases across banking platforms, with appropriate architecture, security, data and governance controls.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, coding practices and API design standards.
• Provide technical leadership across onsite and offshore teams.
• Review sizing, estimates, technical risks and delivery feasibility during ROM/SOW stages.
• Engage directly with client architects, engineering managers and senior technology stakeholders.
• Ability to connect AI opportunities to banking business outcomes and translate them into secure, scalable enterprise architectures, especially where Alibaba Cloud/Qwen or similar AI platforms are relevant
• Ability to discuss real-world banking architecture challenges, resiliency patterns, scalability and modernization approaches.
• Mentor architects, technical leads and senior developers

Skills

Java expertise

Spring framework

Microservices

REST APIs

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Distributed systems

Security architecture

GenAI/agentic AI

Agile/Scrum/SAFe

Leadership

Stakeholder management

AI integration

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / IT / CS

Tools

Jenkins

SonarQube

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

Hcl Comnet seeks an Experienced Senior Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise architecture across Digital Banking, Payments, and Corporate Banking, with a strong GenAI focus. Responsibilities include design reviews, governance, and modernization initiatives to ensure secure, scalable AI-enabled platforms.

Ideal candidate brings 12-15 years in banking architecture, deep Java, Spring, and microservices expertise, plus experience with GenAI, API security, and agile methods.