Your 1st 90 day plan as Enterprise Architect when you joined

Absolutely! Here’s a structured 90-day plan you can present for an Enterprise Architect role in Banking Cloud Platforms, covering Azure, AWS, hybrid/multi-cloud, microservices, governance, and stakeholder engagement.

I’ll break it down week-by-week and focus on realistic, strategic, and tactical actions.

0–30 Days: Understand, Assess & Engage

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Objectives

• Build context of business, technology, and organizational landscape.

• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities in current architecture.

Actions

1. Understand Business & Strategic Goals

   • Meet with business leaders, product owners, and CXOs to understand goals, KPIs, and pain points.

   • Review business drivers for digital lending, cloud adoption, modernization, and regulatory compliance.

2. Assess Current Architecture

   • Review existing enterprise architecture artifacts: cloud deployments (Azure/AWS), microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps pipelines.

   • Evaluate current reference architectures, patterns, standards, governance frameworks, and security compliance.

3. Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement

   • Identify key stakeholders: business, infrastructure, security, compliance, DevOps teams, vendors.

   • Schedule one-on-one sessions to understand priorities, pain points, and expectations.

4. Quick Wins

   • Identify immediate risks (e.g., security gaps, cost optimization, operational inefficiencies) that can be addressed quickly.

31–60 Days: Strategize & Standardize

Objectives

• Define the architecture strategy, governance framework, and cloud adoption roadmap.

• Establish alignment between business, cloud, and technology strategy.

Actions

1. Define Cloud Adoption Strategy

   • Evaluate workloads for public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem.

   • Recommend workload placement based on security, compliance, performance, and cost.

2. Establish Architecture Standards & Reference Models

   • Define microservices patterns, API design standards, event-driven patterns (Kafka, DAPR, Temporal).

   • Define data architecture, security standards, identity management, and multi-cloud governance.

3. Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Integration Planning

   • Identify integration patterns: API gateways, service mesh, identity federation, connectivity between on-prem and cloud.

   • Plan SSO and centralized authentication/authorization (Azure AD + SailPoint, PingFederate).

4. Modernization Roadmap

   • Create phased plan for cloud-native migrations, legacy system modernization, and platform rationalization.

61–90 Days: Execute, Govern & Evangelize

Objectives

• Implement governance, monitor architecture health, and evangelize best practices.

• Begin delivering measurable impact through architecture guidance.

Actions

1. Implement Governance & Monitoring

   • Conduct architecture clinics, design reviews, and enforce standards.

   • Define KPIs for architecture health, cloud adoption, security, and compliance.

2. Support Key Initiatives

   • Engage with ongoing digital lending modernization, API-first initiatives, or AI/ML programs.

   • Ensure regulatory compliance (RBI, SEBI, PCI-DSS) is embedded in architecture.

3. Knowledge Sharing & Team Enablement

   • Mentor solution architects, senior engineers, and cloud leads.

   • Evangelize cloud-native patterns, microservices best practices, and DevSecOps automation.

4. Continuous Improvement

   • Collect feedback from stakeholders and refine architecture roadmap.

   • Identify opportunities for cost optimization, resiliency, and innovation.

Deliverables by 90 Days

• Assessment Report: Current state, gaps, and risks.

• Architecture Strategy: Cloud adoption, modernization, and integration roadmap.

• Standards & Reference Architecture: Microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, security, identity management.

• Governance Framework: Design review process, architecture clinics, KPI monitoring.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Signed-off architecture principles and modernization priorities.

Interview-Friendly Summary

“In the first 30 days, I will immerse myself in understanding the business strategy, technology landscape, and stakeholder expectations. Between days 31–60, I will define a cloud adoption strategy, establish architecture standards, and create a modernization roadmap aligned with regulatory and business requirements. By days 61–90, I will implement governance, support critical initiatives, mentor teams, and ensure architecture delivers measurable value in scalability, security, and innovation.”

🏁 0–30 Days: UNDERSTAND (Discovery & Alignment Phase)

Objective: Build deep understanding of the business, current architecture, challenges, and stakeholder priorities.

Key Actions:

1. Meet CXOs, business heads, security, and compliance leaders to understand business strategy and pain points.

2. Review current architecture landscape — applications, integrations, data flow, infra, and cloud maturity.

3. Assess architecture governance process, tools, and standards currently in use.

4. Identify critical projects, transformation programs, and high-risk legacy systems.

5. Evaluate skills, team structure, and DevOps maturity.

6. Document current state using TOGAF or ArchiMate models.

Deliverables:

• Current State Architecture Baseline

• Stakeholder Map & Pain Point Analysis

• Business Capability Model (Level 1–2)

• Architecture Maturity Assessment Report

• Quick-Win Opportunities List

🚀 31–60 Days: STRATEGIZE (Define Future State & Roadmap)

Objective: Define target architecture, governance model, and transformation roadmap aligned with business priorities.

Key Actions:

1. Define target state architecture (business, data, application, and technology layers).

2. Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference models (Cloud-Native, API-first, Security-by-Design).

3. Define governance structure — Architecture Review Board (ARB), Clinics, and Exception Process.

4. Prioritize transformation initiatives and identify MVPs for modernization.

5. Create architecture roadmap with short-, mid-, and long-term milestones.

6. Align roadmap with business outcomes and KPIs (e.g., time-to-market, resilience, cost optimization).

Deliverables:

• Target State Architecture Blueprint

• Enterprise Architecture Principles & Standards Document

• Governance Framework (ARB Charter, Templates, Review Process)

• 12–24 Month Transformation Roadmap

• Strategic Initiative Portfolio

⚙️ 61–90 Days: EXECUTE (Operationalize & Deliver Value)

Objective: Embed architecture governance, enable delivery teams, and demonstrate quick wins.

Key Actions:

1. Set up Architecture Repository, dashboards, and architecture knowledge base.

2. Conduct monthly Architecture Clinics and Technical Review Boards.

3. Support delivery teams with reference implementations (e.g., microservices, DevSecOps, event-driven, GenAI).

4. Drive adoption of standards and tools (CI/CD, observability, cost optimization).

5. Measure architecture KPIs — agility, reuse, reliability, and security posture.

6. Communicate early success stories and value to leadership.

Deliverables:

• Architecture Repository & Knowledge Portal

• Reference Implementations & Blueprints

• Governance in Action (ARBs, Reviews, Scorecards)

• Quick-Win Deliverables (e.g., Modernized Service, Cloud Migration Pilot)

• 90-Day Value Report & Future Roadmap

💡 Summary View

Phase	Duration	Focus	Key Outcomes
Understand	0–30 days	Discovery & Baseline	Architecture Assessment, Pain Points, Quick Wins
Strategize	31–60 days	Target State & Roadmap	Future-State Blueprint, Governance Model, Transformation Roadmap
Execute	61–90 days	Implementation & Value Delivery	Governance in Action, Quick Wins, KPIs, and Communication to Leadership