Digital & Technology Architecture Head

Strategic Activities

·         Understand the current technology landscape and identify the critical gaps in terms of the overarching requirements from various core functions (commercial, operations, etc.)

·         Decide on and design the overall technology strategy and roadmap to fit the organizational need for Air India

·         Hold the team accountable to drive enterprise level digital transformation projects that align with the overall organizational strategy and different requirements of the functions

·         Provide guidance and recommendations to the CDTO and senior leadership on different enterprise and data architecture options and make the business case for selecting the appropriate model

·         Act as an SME of Digital/ Technology Architecture for the senior management

Digital and Technology Architecture

·         Head the digital transformation and innovation projects from idea generation to new ventures in close collaboration with business stakeholders and external partners

·         Present the vision & value of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide range of audiences in alignment with business priorities and objectives

·         Plans tasks and estimates for the required research and volume of activities to complete work

·         Own and assess non-functional requirements and propose solutions for Availability, Backup, Capacity, Performance, Redundancy, Reliability, Scalability, Supportability, Risks and Costs models

·         Provide strategic guidance to teams on managing third-party service providers in terms of service levels, costing, etc.

·         Drive the team to ensure appropriate documentation is developed in support of value realization

·         Lead the technical team and head collaboration between Business Users and software providers to build digital solutions

Enterprise Architecture

·         Ownership of overall Enterprise Architecture including compliances and standards

·         Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap for Air India applications aligning with Enterprise Architecture

·         Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Enterprise needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

Data Architecture

·         Ownership of overall Data Architecture including compliances and standards

·         Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap for Air India applications aligning with Data Architecture

·         Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Data needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

Team Management

·         Lead the technical team and head collaboration between Business Users and software providers to build digital solutions

·         Support, nurture and develop the team members’ skills in all digital transformation and architecture innovation aspect