You'll be joining a small team run from London with support from Pune. Our role is to provide IB technology teams with oversight, support, analysis, and solutions to implement strategic architecture.
Your role
The CTO Architect role sits within the IB CTO Architecture function and provides support across our Governance Crew, wider IB Streams, and interacts with the Group CTO. The role helps ensure the Investment Bank (IB) is aligned with both IB and group‑level architectural direction.
- Create, maintain, evolve, and communicate architectural standards, guardrails, reference architectures and best practices, aligned with both IB and GCTO strategy
- Own and run key architectural governance processes within the IB CTO function, ensuring proactive architectural control across the division.
- GCTO point of contact for the Investment Bank, representing IB CTO in group-led initiatives and ensuring clear, relevant communication flows
- Triage incoming IB and GCTO work, determine impact, and coordinate responses, shielding the core architecture team by absorbing operational, data-gathering, and coordination tasks.
- Support IB engineering teams with early engagement on new initiatives, ensuring architectural considerations are addressed from ideation to delivery
You are:
- Comfortable working independently to create direction, as well as in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Focused on quality and are a quick-learner
- Not afraid to tear up the rulebook and start again
- An independent thinker who looks for a more efficient means to achieve goals
- Fluent in English
MUST
- Strong background in enterprise/solution architecture, spanning business, application, data, and technology domains.
- Experience operating in a governance‑heavy, multi‑stakeholder environment where transparency and process are critical.
- Ability to interpret, communicate, and apply Group‑level architectural strategies into divisional contexts.
- Capable of working autonomously, creating clarity and structure where none exists.
- Strong communication and influencing skills across technology and business stakeholders.
- Experience in the financial domain.
- Certifications like cloud certifications, architecture certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF).
- Experience working in geographically distributed teams
Luxoft DXC
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Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a global digital strategy and software engineering firm with over 17,000 international employees within its 58 offices in 29 countries. It is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
In January 2019, Luxoft was acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology. Luxoft partnered with LG Electronics to create a next-generation Autonomous Mobility concept vehicle that integrates consumers' personalized digital lifestyles into a driving experience. Luxoft enabled Switzerland's first Blockchain based e-vote platform with the City of Zug and Hochschule Luzern's Blockchain Lab.
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company is a world-renowned company. It has been present on the Polish market for over 13 years. We have offices in Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Gdansk. We employ over 2,000 professional experts carrying out projects for over 100 clients from the financial, automotive, medical, tourist industries, etc. We work for many international clients, including the USA, Great Britain, and Switzerland.
So far, Luxoft Poland has made a name for itself as a company that offers work on innovative projects, we offer various experiences in the field of IT, opportunities for rapid development, an extensive training program, and attractive benefits for employees.
At present, 62% of Luxoft Poland employees come from Poland, and 38% from around 50 countries, including Ukraine, Brazil, India, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, USA, etc.
At Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company almost 80 percent of employees are experts with the "Senior" experience level, with at least five years of experience. We care about our employees, so every day we try to provide them with the best possible conditions for work and development.
Technology is our passion! We focus on top engineering talent means that you will be working with the best industry professionals from around the world. Because of that, Luxoft is a global family with an epic atmosphere – we love what we do!