Job Description:
Job Title: India Head of Architecture
Corporate Title: Director
Location: Pune, India
Subdivision and Team Overview
The DWS Architecture function defines, governs, and assures the target architecture across the global franchise. Within the future operating model, the India Architecture team will convert architecture direction into scalable engineering capabilities through Architecture as Code, reusable implementation assets, and AI-based automation. Its contribution will focus on embedding patterns and guardrails into engineering workflows and improving the quality, usability, and traceability of architecture information.
Role Description
As India Head of Architecture, you will lead the India-based architecture team and act as the senior point of contact for Architecture in India. Working in close alignment with the Global Chief Architect and architecture leaders across DWS, you will ensure high-quality delivery across architecture layers and domains. A particular focus will be architecture engineering and automation: improving architecture intelligence, implementing Architecture as Code, and building and maintaining production-ready patterns, guardrails, and reusable components that delivery teams can directly integrate. This includes the automated creation and updating of detailed, consistent, and traceable diagrams for current-state, target-state, transition, and project-specific architectures and designs, based on trusted architecture and technology data. In addition, you will apply AI-based automation to architecture deliverables, tollgates, controls, and evidence. You will promote consistent architecture outcomes, effective collaboration, appropriate escalation, and adherence to DWS standards, controls, and governance requirements.
Why This Role Matters
India is a strategic DWS technology location with deep architecture, engineering, and data expertise. This role will lead the transformation of the existing architecture capability in India, refocusing it on architecture engineering, Architecture as Code, and AI-based automation. It will strengthen the team’s contribution to DWS’s global architecture priorities and advance architecture intelligence, design automation, AI-enabled ways of working, and practical engineering enablement. The role offers broad interaction with senior stakeholders across technology, data, engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and control functions and will help improve how architecture work is produced, governed, evidenced, and scaled across DWS.
What we’ll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,
Best in class leave policy.
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
Lead the India Architecture team through clear priorities, strong delivery management, coaching, and thought leadership, fostering effective cross-functional collaboration in India and across the global DWS Architecture community.
Build and maintain production-ready architecture patterns, automated guardrails, reference implementations, reusable components, architecture decision records, and solution design documentation that delivery engineering teams can directly use to accelerate compliant delivery, with proportionate human review and clear accountability.
Implement and continuously improve AI-based automation across the architecture lifecycle, covering architecture workflows, controls, evidence creation, decision logging, management information, and the generation of architecture deliverables.
Build and maintain trusted architecture intelligence by improving the quality, completeness, and usability of…