Banking Solutions Architect

JOB LOCATION: Anywhere in India

Role Overview:

We are looking for experienced/ expert level solution architects, ideally with deep experience in Finance & Risk business and systems, one for each of the below areas:

• Treasury - Liquidity, Collateral and Treasury
• Finance - Accounting, Performance, Forecasting, Taxation, Control, Procurement, Cost and Pensions Management
• Risk Models - Asset Liability and Capital Management
• Regulatory Reporting Financial and Regulatory Reporting Management

Mandatory requirements:

Candidates must meet all of the following:

1) Finance & Risk Domain Expertise

• Design and govern endtoend solutions to translate Finance & Risk business requirements into robust, scalable solution architectures aligned with longterm architecture strategy
• Act as a trusted architecture partner to Finance, Risk, Operations, Architecture and Technology stakeholders
• Experience in designing or reviewing solutions for implementing mergers & acquisitions would be an advantage

2) Solution Architecture and Design

• Significant experience as a Solution Architect, ideally within complex financial services environments
• Ability to produce clear functional architecture, design logical components and define interactions between systems, whilst delivering decommissioning and archival initiatives
• Experience balancing business outcomes with long term architecture strategies
• Experience in working with engineering teams to align technical designs with the published architecture.
• Peer review designs produced by other team members, ensuring architectural integrity and compliance with standards.
• Experience in creating practical, workable architectures that can be aligned to IT principles/standards, whilst following the banks architecture governance processes.

3) Leadership & Ways of Working

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
• Practical and delivery focused mindset
• Able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment
• Evidence of thought leadership, ownership and initiative

Desirable (not mandatory):

These are beneficial, but should not exclude otherwise strong candidates:

• Knowledge of BIAN, TOGAF, ArchiMate or C4.
• Experience with Avolution Abacus or similar architecture tools.
• Familiarity with microservices, API integration patterns and cloud concepts such as AWS.
• Exposure to global banking environments or large-scale transformations.