Banking Solutions Architect

Work Set up: Onsite | Ortigas, Pasig City

Position Type: Contractual - 13 months (can be extended)

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Architecture Leadership:
  • Define target architectures, roadmaps, and timescales to ensure optimal use of technology.
  • Lead the architecture and enabling technologies strategy for the core banking domain.
  • Identify and define service domains and create an aligned bank capability model.
  • Provide vision and strategies for large-scale transformations, including big-bang and phased modernization approaches.
• Innovation and Enterprise Solutions:
  • Drive out-of-the-box thinking to deliver impactful customer-focused solutions.
  • Champion ideas that enhance technology value delivery, focusing on responsive design, data management, and analytics.
  • Lead the full lifecycle delivery of technical solutions, from concept to operational support.
• Industry Expertise and Collaboration:
  • Deliver deep insights into retail and corporate banking trends and regulatory frameworks.
  • Act as a liaison between business and IT, fostering trusted relationships with stakeholders.
  • Represent the bank in global forums, such as BIAN, and contribute to industry standards.
• Governance and Stakeholder Management:
  • Set up and chair architecture governance forums.
  • Present strategies and solutions effectively to senior stakeholders and governance bodies.
  • Ensure compliance with governance requirements and regulatory standards.
• Technical Leadership:
  • Provide guidance on security, infrastructure, APIs, and event-driven architecture patterns.
  • Define BIAN-aligned API contracts, workflows, and business process communication strategies.
  • Map the bank’s data to the Business Object Model (BOM) for better alignment and integration.
• Program and Deal Management:
  • Lead core banking transformation programs.
  • Perform effort estimation, costing, and architecture design for multi-million-dollar deals.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience in core banking transformation programs with expertise in retail and corporate banking.
• Strong understanding of enterprise banking capabilities and mapping applications to capabilities.
• Expertise in BIAN capability models, including defining service domains, API contracts, and workflows.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks for retail and corporate banking.
• Strong skills in stakeholder management and communication, including outstanding presentation skills.
• Proficiency in security and infrastructure patterns, as well as API and event-driven architecture.
• Experience in architecture governance forums and ensuring compliance with governance standards.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and proactive approach to identifying and proposing improvement ideas.
• Familiarity with effort estimation, costing, and multi-million-dollar deal architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BIAN Certification is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of BIAN frameworks, including BOM, service domains, and global forum representation.