Senior Principal AI Architect Banking GenAI & Modernization

HCL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. seeks an experienced Senior Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture across Digital Banking, Payments and Corporate Banking platforms. You will drive modernization, define engineering standards, and guide large offshore teams while aligning AI opportunities with business outcomes.

Expertise in GenAI, agentic AI, and secure, scalable architectures is essential, with hands-on ability to connect AI to banking challenges and governance considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/IT/CS or related field.
• 12–15 years of architecture experience in Banking with AI focus.
• Domain exposure across Payments, Transaction Banking, Corporate Banking, Digital Banking.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture across Digital Banking, Payments and Corporate Banking platforms.
• Lead solution design, architecture reviews, governance and pre-sales solutioning.
• Drive modernization initiatives including refactoring and platform transformation.
• Shape GenAI/agentic AI use cases with 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.
• Engage with client architects and senior technology stakeholders.
• Translate AI opportunities into secure, scalable enterprise architectures with Alibaba Cloud/Qwen relevance.
• Mentor architects and senior developers.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Security Architecture

AI-ready architecture

Agile/Safe

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GRPC

Pact/WireMock

Job description

HCL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. seeks an experienced Senior Principal AI Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture across Digital Banking, Payments and Corporate Banking platforms. You will drive modernization, define engineering standards, and guide large offshore teams while aligning AI opportunities with business outcomes.

Expertise in GenAI, agentic AI, and secure, scalable architectures is essential, with hands-on ability to connect AI to banking challenges and governance considerations.