Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect in the API Management domain, you define end-to-end integration solutions that connect satellite systems with the Core Banking Platform. You work with stakeholders to ensure alignment with the bank’s target architecture and roadmaps, delivering measurable business value. You will lead architectural design across teams, champion security and patterns, and contribute to the skills growth of the architecture community. This role offers the opportunity to shape secure, scalable digital services and mentor peers within a collaborative, architecture-driven environment.

• Design customer-centric, high-performance integration solutions linking Online Banking and Colleagues platforms to Core Banking
• Collaborate across teams to align solutions with strategic target architectures and roadmaps
• Support enterprise and solution architecture realization throughout the development lifecycle
• Provide technical guidance, resolve impediments, and promote architecture patterns and practices
• Embed security patterns with Security Engineering and Risk teams to enhance solution security
• Define minimum viable solution architectures with programme stakeholders
• Prepare and present designs to architecture boards and stakeholders
• Assist in selecting and integrating technologies using approved catalogues and patterns
• Adopt a DevOps mindset to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
• Create architecture documentation following Bank templates
• Apply TOGAF and Bank architecture methods to define, document, and implement solutions

• Knowledge of solution architecture frameworks and modern technologies (Cloud, microservices, AI)
• Agile architecture and DevOps practices
• Experience defining and developing strategic architectures aligned with organizational objectives
• Ability to engage with partners to deliver tangible business outcomes
• Collaborative decision-making with business and technology teams
• Oversight of architecture design quality focusing on risk management and governance
• Participation in architecture reviews to ensure alignment with standards
• People development: mentoring and promoting knowledge sharing

• Collaborative decision-making
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Risk management and governance
• Cloud
• Microservices
• AI