Group Digital Enterprise Architect
Description
Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.
The Digital Enterprise Architect reporting to Head of Group Architecture will lead the design and governance of Prudential’s enterprise-wide technology architecture. This role ensures that IT systems, platforms, and digital, AI solutions align with Prudential’s strategic goals of modernization, resilience, and customer-centric innovation across the group covering 10+ markets.
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Architecture Development
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Define long-term enterprise architecture direction with emphasis on platforms, reusable components, Data and AI driven cloud-native design.
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Build future-state architecture aligned with Prudential’s business strategy, focusing on convergence, modernization, cost efficiency, Data and AI, and scalability.
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Own, define, and continuously evolve the enterprise target architecture for Digital, Traditional AI and Agentic AI solutions across the group.
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Define and communicate target-state architecture that delivers measurable business outcomes such as improved customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
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Establish architecture roadmaps that balance short-term delivery with long-term strategic vision.
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Translate business strategies into technology outcomes (e.g., faster time-to-market, reduced cost-to-serve, enhanced resilience).
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Monitor and report on architecture KPIs (system availability, scalability, interoperability, and cost efficiency).
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Ensure architecture decisions directly support Prudential’s digital transformation goals and sustainability commitments.
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Achieving business goals by designing, building, and maintaining high calibre solutions according to standards best technologies that meets the current and future needs
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Advising on technical solutions, standard integration methodologies and the alignment of business and technology
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Preparing and distributing architectural vision, goals, standards, structure, behaviour patterns, models, to all affected stakeholders
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Checking conformance to standards and architectural decision and resolving design and architectural conflicts by explaining and justifying design and architectural decisions
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Identifying technical risks and problems in the design, implementation and at run-time
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Monitoring conformance to design standards and decisions during the implementation
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Provide Support for RFPs for Digital Transformation program
Policy & Frameworks
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Formulate and enforce Group policies, frameworks, and design standards.
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Ensure compliance with security, resilience, and regulatory requirements in financial sector.
Technology Leadership
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Acting as a thought leader on emerging digital business models and technologies, articulating the digital future and the enterprise's role in it internally and externally
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Drive adoption of digital platforms, APIs, microservices, and data-driven, AI solutions.
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Champion adoption of digital platforms, APIs, microservices, and data-driven solutions.
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Oversee Solution Architecture function, managing a team of solution architects across multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).
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Provide hands-on oversight of solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
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Act as the final escalation point for solution design conflicts, balancing innovation with risk management.
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Drive standardization of solution patterns and reusable components across the enterprise.
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Partner with delivery teams to ensure solutions are implemented as designed, with clear traceability to business outcomes.
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Mentor and develop solution architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
Governance & Collaboration
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Partner with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to ensure architectural consistency and interoperability.
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Ensure all solution designs comply with Prudential’s established enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and technology standards.
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Serve as a key member of the Architecture Review Board (ARB), reviewing proposals and providing authoritative guidance.
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Escalate and resolve design conflicts, ensuring decisions are transparent and traceable to business outcomes.
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Shift governance from being purely compliance-driven to outcome-driven, ensuring architecture decisions deliver measurable results (e.g., reduced operational risk, improved customer experience, cost efficiency).
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Define and monitor architecture KPIs that track adherence to governance expectations.
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Communicate governance decisions clearly, translating technical standards into business-relevant language.
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Oversee all solution designs to ensure they are consistent with enterprise architecture governance.
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Provide pre-approval guidance to solution architects, reducing friction during formal governance reviews.
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Provide technical guidance and mentorship to solution architects and engineering teams.
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Identify gaps in governance processes and propose enhancements to make them more agile and business-aligned.
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Introduce reusable solution patterns that simplify compliance with governance expectations.
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Regulatory Compliance: Must stay ahead of country regulations.
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Legacy Modernization: Balancing innovation with integration of legacy systems.
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Cybersecurity Threats: Ensuring resilience against evolving digital risks.
Job Requirement
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15-20 years in enterprise architecture, preferably in banking, insurance, or financial services, who is currently working as Enterprise Architect, Digital Architect, Transformation Architect in last 2-5 years.
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commitment of min 3 years in previous job in same role, with min 1 year project level engagement.
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Strong expertise in:
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Hands-on Enterprise TOGAF or similar framework.
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Proven leadership in managing architecture teams and delivering enterprise-scale outcomes.
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Experience in managing stakeholders.
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Outstanding knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes
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Experience in proposal writing & responding to proposals to business and management
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Should have managed Programs with Global rollouts nature across APAC.
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Good grounding in modern data architectures and machine learning concepts Experience
- Min 10 years of Solution Architect experience is required. 2+ years progressive leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex contexts
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Cloud-native composable platforms (Azure, GCP).
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Modern Tooling experience like Key cloak, Ping Identity, Dynatrace or similar tools, mobile tools, business Analytics tools for digital platforms.
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Enterprise integration (APIs, microservices, Data & AI).
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Application Data architecture, analytics, and AI/ML solutions.
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Hands-on Experiences building POC , Architecture models, Solution Architecture, Governance
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Proven ability to effectively drive people, process and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment perhaps through successful delivery of multiple complex, integrated projects
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Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing AI, data, and cloud architectures in complex enterprise environments
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Significant experience architecting and governing enterprise-scale platforms , ideally involving AI- or data-intensive systems
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Strong architectural judgment and comfort making long-term, high-impact design trade-offs.
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Solid understanding of event-streaming arc