Responsible for designing and reviewing optimal solution approaches for Retail Banking Group initiatives, ensuring alignment between business requirements and the enterprise technology strategy. This role spans a broad set of responsibilities, including establishing guidance for solution development and review processes, crafting scalable and fit-for-purpose architectures, and overseeing the implementation of low-level designs. Operating across both agile squads and waterfall-managed systems of record, the Solution Architect collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including business, product, engineering, and technology, to deliver value-driven outcomes that support RBG’s strategic goals.
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Responsibilities
- Driving the identification and design solutions to meet evolving business needs.
- Ensuring RBG architectural governance and adherence to Enterprise Architecture standards throughout the solution and software lifecycle.
- Reviewing and supporting engineering teams in building robust, scalable products and platforms.
- Driving the adoption of APIs and microservices across retail banking systems, including External APIs for partner integrations & open banking and internal APIs for modular service orchestration.
- Promoting reusability and extensibility across retail platforms to accelerate product delivery.
- Guiding development teams in adopting and implementing security architecture and standards specific to customer-facing applications.
- Ensuring non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, availability, scalability) are embedded in all solution designs.
- Collaborating with agile delivery models, working closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to ensure timely and scalable solution delivery.
Required Skills
- Overall, around 15+ years of experience with application developments, 5+ years of experience in solutioning & Architecture.
- Strong knowledge of banking technology with at least 5+ years of experience in solutioning banking applications.
- Ability to operate within retail digital squads and SOR systems, balancing agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Expertise in crafting Blueprint, High-level, and Low-level designs.
- Ability to challenge technology solutions provided by vendors and in-house teams to propose an optimal solution.
- Experience defining functional and non-functional application requirements.
- Expertise in OAuth2.0, FAPI2.0, TLS, mTLS, GDPR/PII compliance and related security Architecture standards.
- Experience working with an Agile DEVOPS development methodology using continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
Qualifications
- Overall, around 15+ years of experience with application developments, 5+ years of experience in solutioning & Architecture.
- Strong knowledge on Domain Driven Design, microservices, API, and front-app development tools such as Java, node.js, SpringBoot, API gateway, service mesh, react, ReactNative, .net core, and emergent AI technology.
- Excellent knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies such as SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience working with online commerce and omni-channel retail business practice.
- Expert knowledge of multi-cloud stack.
- Enterprise Architecture certification TOGAF is preferred.
