The Principal Architect and the Principal Technology Manager driving the definition of the Architecture Blueprint for the Bank, a corporate division, several businesses or one business within a division. They ensure that the Architecture Blueprint is aligned with the Target State Architecture for the Bank, utilising the Bank's Architecture Framework (dbAF) and focusing on an optimised and efficient end-to-end technology to support the business processes.
The Principal Architect and Principal Technology Manager influences the organisation and the engineering community to deliver solutions that comply with the architecture Blueprint and with the Target State Architecture of the Bank. They have an advanced understanding of IT industry trends and enterprise-scale methodologies, processes, techniques and technologies for delivering effective IT solutions that achieve the target state architecture.