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1873BR
Department
Asia-Pacific Corporate Function Coordination Department
Section
Core Banking Delivery
Location
Singapore
Job Responsibilities
Architectural Design & Strategy:
- Lead the architectural design and evolution of the bank's core banking platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and technology strategy.
- Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, roadmaps, and standards for core banking systems.
- Evaluate and recommend new core banking solutions, technologies, and vendors.
- Drive the adoption of modern architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture) within the core banking domain.
Solution Definition
- Translate complex business requirements and user stories into detailed architectural designs, technical specifications, and integration patterns.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and ensure architectural feasibility.
- Define service contracts, data models, security protocols, and integration points for core banking services.
- Develop multiple solution options where relevant and propose most appropriate for the context
Technical Leadership & Guidance
- Provide architectural leadership and technical guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and design patterns.
- Conduct architectural reviews, code reviews, and provide mentorship to engineers.
- Champion best practices in software engineering, security, performance, and scalability.
- Architect who is a pragmatic in building required processes, works with stakeholders in tuning the existing processes to enable the team in consistently delivering quality in alignment with organizational processes
Team Leadership & Development
- Play a lead role in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring a team of Domain Solution Architects (e.g., Lending Architect, Trade Architect).
- Build a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and collaborative problem-solving within the architecture community.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to architects and senior engineers, leading to successful delivery of core-banking transformation objectives, while ensuring architecture processes and principles are upheld.
Integration & Ecosystem Management
- Design and oversee the integration of the core banking system with various internal and external systems (e.g., payment gateways, CRM, risk management, data warehouses, regulatory reporting).
- Ensure robust integration management and secure data exchange between systems.
Performance, Scalability & Resilience
- Design solutions that meet stringent non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
- Conduct performance analysis, capacity planning, and identify optimization opportunities.
Risk & Compliance
- Ensure all architectural designs and implementations comply with banking regulations, internal security policies, and industry standards.
- Identify and mitigate architectural risks.
Innovation & Research
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and innovations in core banking systems, cloud computing, AI/ML, and open banking.
- Propose and champion innovative solutions to enhance the core banking platform.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect for Core Banking Systems.
- Deep understanding of banking products and processes (e.g., Deposits, Loans, Payments, Trade Finance, Treasury, Customer Management, General Ledger).
- Strong understanding of architectural patterns and principles: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, API-First Design, Domain-Driven Design, Cloud-Native principles.
- Experience with integration technologies and patterns: REST APIs, SOAP, Kafka, MQ, ETL/ELT, API Gateways. Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience designing cloud-native or cloud-migrated solutions.
- Familiarity with data architecture principles: Data modeling, data governance, master data management (MDM), and data warehousing concepts.
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and secure coding practices in a financial context.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences (technical and non-technical).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Certifications in relevant architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) or cloud platforms are a plus.
