Lead - Application

Acura Solutions; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Acura Solutions in Mumbai seeks a senior architect to design secure, scalable cloud-native architectures for LOS/LMS, lead a BA team, and drive governance for product development and releases.

The role requires strong domain knowledge in lending, business analysis, and IT systems, plus hands-on AI API integration experience in financial workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience in lending or mortgage domains.
• Strong business analysis and IT systems knowledge.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience integrating third-party AI/ML APIs into production financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable cloud-native architectures for LOS and LMS.
• Lead and manage a team of BAs translating requirements into inputs for IT partners.
• Create an application roadmap for core applications aligned with business objectives.
• Drive IT governance for new product development and release management.
• Manage the complete SDLC from BRDs to production release.
• Establish API architecture and orchestration with gateways and workflow engines.
• Engage with User Groups and lead budget planning for applications.
• Institute best practices for production support and stakeholder management.

Skills

Lending domain

Mortgage domain

Business analysis

IT systems

Analytical thinking

Big-picture thinking

AI API integration

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native architectures (Microservices, Event-driven) for Loan Origination Systems (LOS) and Loan Management Systems

• Lead and also manage a team of BAs in translating Business requirements across core applications in to actionable inputs for IT Partners for delivery
• Create an Application Roadmap for Core applications in line with business objectives
• Drive the IT governance framework on New product development/enhancement and release management
• Manage the complete SDLC cycle of business requirements starting with BRDs -Techno-functional specifications - Development - UATProduction release
• API Architecture & Orchestration: Establish robust API gateways and workflow engines to seamlessly sequence calls between core banking systems, credit bureaus, and vendor AI endpoints
• Conduct Cost Benefit analysis of all major projects recommend a Prioritization Framework for project delivery keeping in mind the business objectives
• Effectively engage with User Group to meet the project delivery objectives and keep them updated on status of various projects
• Lead the Budget preparation existing and new application developments
• Institutionalize best processes for effective production support and better stakeholder management

Required Skills - Strong understanding of lending or mortgage domains, Strong knowledge of business analysis, business products, and IT systems. Strong analytical, problem-solving and understanding the big-picture. - AI API Implementation: Hands-on experience integrating and orchestrating third-party AI/ML APIs (LLMs, OCR, intelligent data extraction) into production financial workflows