Solution/Technical Architect

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Lead the design for new solutions requested by major IT stakeholders from client side
• Provides consultancy and advisory services for system integration, PoC, and impact analysis
• Build a methodology for right sizing and ensure infrastructure is not over/under provisioned while we have the most resilient system set up possible
• Conduct an in-depth analysis of system performance and identify any potential bottlenecks that may hinder optimal performance
• Effectively convey solution designs to diverse teams, and provide hands-on documentation or training sessions as necessary
• Architect end-to-end solutions for core banking transformation, including legacy system modernization and cloud migration
• Design and oversee data lake integration, ensuring efficient data ingestion, processing, and access across platforms
• Define solution blueprints, technical standards, and integration patterns aligned with enterprise architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs
• Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies, tools, and platforms for modernization and data integration
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and data governance standards
• Provide architectural guidance during development, testing, and deployment phases
• Mentor engineering teams and support solution reviews, performance tuning, and optimization

Required Skills:
• A minimum of 11 years’ experience delivering projects within the financial services industry, including at least 5 years in a dedicated solutions architect role.
• Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures in complex enterprise environments.
• Ensure all proposed solutions are in alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture standards and technology strategy.
• Proven experience in modernizing core banking systems and integrating with cloud-native platforms
• Strong understanding of data lake architectures (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, GCP BigLake)
• Expertise in API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
• Familiarity with banking domains such as payments, customer onboarding, loans, and compliance
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A deep technical understanding required to source infra resources ranging from on-premises to cloud. Should be familiar with architect best practices but also be flexible to adapt to the team’s established practices and environment.
• Good understanding of concurrent software systems and building them in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and robust.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, eliciting key business requirements, and managing stakeholder relationships across all phases of the project.
• Strong functional knowledge in payments or cash management.
• Well-versed in end-to-end system development and project delivery specific to the banking sector.
• Expertise in integration technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, MQ, ESB and any of the middleware platforms (e.g.: Boomi, Mulesoft, IBM Integration Bus).
• Strong knowledge of data standards and protocols (XML, JASON, ISO 20022, SWIFT) and regulatory compliance.
• Subject matter expert of common java web frameworks.
• Experience in implementing scalable web applications with fully automated deployment and control Jenkins etc.
• Experience in various SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Desired Skills:
• Excellent understanding of the solution design and vendor management.
• Excellent understanding of the Agile development methodologies.
• Effective written and verbal communication.