Solution Architect

**Role: Solution Architect**

**Location: India, Remote**

**Type: Contract**

As a Senior Solution Architect plays a vital role in our journey to lead the banking industry in creating a digital-first environment.

We recognize our people as our greatest asset, and we strive to nurture your personal development and career growth

In this role, you will:

- Leading a team of Architects
- Design end-to-end solutions to meet business needs within a broader solution implementation context.
- Work with the business and projects to help define and refine their requirements.
- Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions.
- Produce required design artifacts, independently or as part of a team.
- Define and derive best practices and contribute to the development of the overall architecture practice.
- Present to the Bank’s Architecture Review Board when necessary.
- Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction.
- Support delivery leadership to break down the solution so that it can be delivered incrementally.
- Support and collaborate with other engineering functions, including integration and data factories, information security, build, test, and release.
- Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose.

What will make you stand out?

You are an experienced senior solution architect in designing solutions for large-scale projects and programs, working in complex, multi-vendor change delivery organizations. You can influence, design, and deliver complex solutions in partnership with diverse stakeholders for internal and external customers.

**Experience in any of the technology domains listed below**:

- Experience leading a team of Architects.
- Knowledge of Banking and Payments standards including one or more of the following: Open Banking, IBAN, SEPA CT/DD, SEPA Instant, ISO-20022, ISO-8583.
- Payment domain - cross-border, domestic payments, SWIFT messages, ISO20022/SEPA/UK LVP - FPS/CHAPS/BACS, Payments Engine/FIS suite of products.
- REST API design / SOAP services / MuleSoft Any point Platform / Swagger or RAML definitions / WebSphere MQ or Kafka
- API security standards such as mutual authentication, OAuth and OIDC
- IBM MQ /Message Broker/ sFTP & Control-M FTP/Connect: Direct
- Familiar with the implementation of industry wide Infosec & Audit Controls
- Hands-on with Networking Architecture
- Hands-on with Infrastructure scaling & Architecture
- Database technologies such as Oracle Exadata / MongoDB / SQL Server / PostgreSQL.
- Exposure to technology stacks such as Java, Kubernetes, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, Docker, Microservice adapters, ElasticSearch, ELK, ServiceNow, Control-M, AppDynamics, Node.js.
- IASA CITA-F / CITA-A / CITA-P (or) TOGAF Certification

**Job Type**: Contractual / Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: ₹3,000,000.00 - ₹4,500,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Payments domain: 8 years (required)
- Middleware Integrations: 5 years (required)
- Implementing & Managing Application Servers: 3 years (required)
- DB servers, Indexing servers & Messaging servers: 4 years (required)
- SWIFT messages, ISO20022/SEPA/UK LVP - FPS/CHAPS/BACS: 7 years (required)
- Payments Engine/FIS suite of products: 3 years (required)
- CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible: 4 years (required)
- Java or Python development: 5 years (required)

Work Location: Remote