Principal Architect (ISG)

Role overview

This position is for a Principal Architect within the Integrated Solutions Group, focused on data and analytics architecture for banking platforms. The role centers on shaping resilient, scalable solutions using Temenos Analytics and Temenos Data Hub to support strategic banking insights, operational stability, and responsible innovation. The job is based in Chennai and follows a day-shift, work-from-office model.

Experience

The role calls for 18 to 22 years of experience.

Core responsibilities

• Own the overall architecture direction for data and analytics in banking by aligning Temenos Analytics and Temenos Data Hub capabilities with business objectives.
• Create enterprise-level data models and integration approaches across core banking, channels, and analytics domains to build trustworthy and reusable data assets.
• Set target-state architecture blueprints for Temenos Analytics and TDH implementations, balancing performance, cost, security, and long-term maintainability across markets and business units.
• Support solution teams in designing ingestion, transformation, and consumption flows that deliver strong value while reducing technical debt and operational exposure.
• Evaluate and approve both high-level and detailed technical designs for pipelines, semantic layers, and analytics services, ensuring alignment with architecture standards and regulatory needs.
• Define practices for data quality, metadata, lineage, and observability so analytics outputs can be relied upon for reporting and strategic decisions.
• Work with product owners, business analysts, and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into realistic and executable technical designs.
• Advise on tuning, sizing, and optimization of Temenos Analytics and Data Hub environments so dashboards remain responsive and data stays available on time.
• Promote secure-by-design and privacy-aware engineering by embedding controls for access, masking, and retention in line with policy.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams on reference architectures for on-premise and cloud-hosted Temenos analytics landscapes with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Coach senior engineers and architects on modern data architecture practices while encouraging experimentation within strong governance boundaries.
• Present architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders so technology investments are informed and well understood.
• Assess new data technologies and banking patterns continuously, and recommend practical improvements to the architecture roadmap that increase client value and societal impact.

Technical and domain requirements

• Extensive background in enterprise-scale data and analytics architecture, preferably with significant exposure to banking or financial services.
• Hands-on expertise with Temenos Analytics, including setup, performance tuning, and integration with core and surrounding systems.
• Practical implementation experience with Temenos Data Hub, including ingestion, transformation design, orchestration, and governance.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and data lake concepts, with the ability to select the right pattern for regulatory and business requirements.
• Good command of SQL and modern data processing frameworks to review designs and guide efficient engineering execution.
• Experience defining enterprise data standards for quality, metadata, lineage, security, and reference data management in complex organizations.
• Exposure to analytics and reporting tools commonly used with Temenos ecosystems is an advantage.
• Cloud-based data platforms and containerized deployment models that support elastic scaling and automated recovery are a plus.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills for working effectively across business and technology teams in a day-shift, work-from-office setting.
• Background in regulatory reporting, risk analytics, or financial performance management is beneficial because it supports compliance and trust-oriented architecture decisions.

Additional details

This is a day-shift position with no travel required. The primary work location is Chennai, India. Alternate locations are not available. The job type is Principal Architect (ISG) [40SG00]. Preferred certifications include enterprise architecture credentials and vendor or partner training related to Temenos data and analytics platforms.

Company overview

Cognizant builds modern businesses by helping clients update technology, rethink processes, and reshape experiences so they can stay competitive in a fast-changing environment.