Lead Solutions Architect

As a Lead Solution Architect for Core Banking Transformation, your role will involve the following key responsibilities: - Leading end-to-end architecture activities across core banking, payments, trade, GL, and analytics platforms. - Defining integration mechanisms between FLEXCUBE, Finastra, Trade360, Oracle GL, and external systems. - Collaborating with enterprise architects, domain experts, country ops, and EUC owners to ensure alignment with country-specific banking operations and workflows. - Analyzing and integrating EUC applications while rationalizing legacy tools. - Defining enterprise data architecture across various systems and cloud platforms. - Designing data pipelines, lakehouse architecture, and analytics solutions using Databricks. - Ensuring data quality, lineage, governance, and reconciliation across different systems. - Overseeing architecture alignment for Payments, Trade, Lending, GL, and Markets while ensuring compliance with standards such as SWIFT, ISO20022, AML, and financial reporting. - Defining strategies for SIT, UAT, and E2E validation for cross-domain flows. - Leading migration, cutover, and hypercare planning activities. - Driving design authority, architecture approvals, and adherence to standards. Your deliverables will include: - Architecture documentation such as HLD, LLD, and enterprise architecture blueprint. - Integration documentation including API specifications, ICDs, and system interaction diagrams. - Data architecture artifacts like data lakehouse design, data models, and data flow diagrams. - Databricks related deliverables such as data pipelines, ETL frameworks, analytics architecture, and notebooks. - End-to-end process flows for payments, trade, lending, and GL. - Documentation related to EUC inventory, integration, and rationalization strategy. - Test strategy, validation reports, cutover plan, and go-live readiness for deployment. - Governance artifacts like RTM, decision logs, and architecture approvals. - Support materials including runbooks and operating model. In terms of skills and qualifications, you should possess: - 15+ years of experience in banking IT with at least 5 years as a Lead Architect. - Strong expertise in Core Banking systems, particularly FLEXCUBE. - Experience in Payments, specifically with Finastra payments. - Knowledge of Trade finance platforms, preferably Trade360. - Familiarity with Oracle GL and accounting integration in the finance domain. - Proficiency in integration technologies like API, ESB, Kafka, and microservices. - Strong background in data architecture and modeling. - Experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud data platforms such as Azure/AWS. - Expertise in cloud architecture and data lakehouse patterns. - Regulatory knowledge including SWIFT, ISO20022, and AML/KYC standards. - Leadership qualities, stakeholder management skills, and strong decision-making abilities. As a Lead Solution Architect for Core Banking Transformation, your role will involve the following key responsibilities: - Leading end-to-end architecture activities across core banking, payments, trade, GL, and analytics platforms. - Defining integration mechanisms between FLEXCUBE, Finastra, Trade360, Oracle GL, and external systems. - Collaborating with enterprise architects, domain experts, country ops, and EUC owners to ensure alignment with country-specific banking operations and workflows. - Analyzing and integrating EUC applications while rationalizing legacy tools. - Defining enterprise data architecture across various systems and cloud platforms. - Designing data pipelines, lakehouse architecture, and analytics solutions using Databricks. - Ensuring data quality, lineage, governance, and reconciliation across different systems. - Overseeing architecture alignment for Payments, Trade, Lending, GL, and Markets while ensuring compliance with standards such as SWIFT, ISO20022, AML, and financial reporting. - Defining strategies for SIT, UAT, and E2E validation for cross-domain flows. - Leading migration, cutover, and hypercare planning activities. - Driving design authority, architecture approvals, and adherence to standards. Your deliverables will include: - Architecture documentation such as HLD, LLD, and enterprise architecture blueprint. - Integration documentation including API specifications, ICDs, and system interaction diagrams. - Data architecture artifacts like data lakehouse design, data models, and data flow diagrams. - Databricks related deliverables such as data pipelines, ETL frameworks, analytics architecture, and notebooks. - End-to-end process flows for payments, trade, lending, and GL. - Documentation related to EUC inventory, integration, and rationalization strategy. - Test strategy, validation reports, cutover plan, and go-live readiness for deployment. - Governance artifacts like RTM, decision logs, and architecture approvals. - Support materials including runbooks and operating model. In terms of skills and