Digital Architecture & Platform Lead , Director
NatWest Group is hiring a Digital Architecture & Platform Lead , Director in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on NatWest Group.
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Join us as a Digital Architecture & Platform Lead
- This is a role where you'll shape the direction of Risk's digital capabilities, translating strategic priorities and decisions into initiatives that deliver long-term value
- Working across Risk, Technology and Architecture teams, you'll drive simplification, standardisation and reuse of platforms and services while ensuring alignment to enterprise-wide objectives
- We're offering this role at director level
What you’ll do
As a Digital Architecture & Platform Lead, you'll define and drive Risk's digital roadmap, target-state architecture and platform strategy, ensuring decisions, capabilities and technology priorities are aligned to business outcomes and long-term strategic goals.
In addition, you'll work across Risk, Technology and Architecture teams to align roadmaps, establish governance and shape scalable, reusable and AI-enabled solutions through strong stakeholder management, you'll drive simplification, standardisation and digital maturity across the function while enabling the successful delivery of Risk's transformation priorities.
You’ll also be responsible for:
- Defining, governing and maintaining the Digital roadmap for Risk to deliver business outcomes, priorities and target state
- Overseeing technology resources, including legacy platform performance, end-of-life or vendor-support resolutions and consumption of cloud, licences and tokenisation capacity for the function
- Defining the strategic direction for Risk's digital platforms, future capabilities and enabling architecture, establishing proportionate design principles and guardrails that support the sustainable adoption of scalable, reusable and responsible AI-enabled solutions across the function
- Developing and maintaining a digital maturity framework covering workflows, data consumption, technology, AI, knowledge, reuse, adoption, skills, behaviours and business outcomes
- Assessing proposals for alignment to agreed Risk outcomes, architectural coherence, cross-Risk value, reuse potential and fit with the target state
- Setting the target-state architecture, principles, standards and proportionate design guardrails aligned to enterprise requirements
The skills you’ll need
We're looking for someone with significant experience in enterprise-wide Risk, digital transformation, architecture and platform strategy, with a proven track record of translating business priorities into scalable technology outcomes.
You'll bring strong governance and delivery expertise with the ability to align investments, roadmaps and architectural decisions to support long-term strategic objectives.
In addition, you’ll need:
- Strong experience in platform direction for common digital capabilities
- Experience defining value frameworks and assessing investment requirements
- Strong Enterprise Risk background with proven leadership and stakeholder management experience
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
01/11/2026How we rate this
Digital Architecture & Platform Lead , Director at NatWest Group rates 46 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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