Solution Architect- Core banking

We r looking for Solution Architect- Core banking

- Immediate joiner preferred
- Preference for candidates with Core Banking experience, more than 7 years

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 transforming core banking systems

. 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

. 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).