Senior Banking Solutions Architect

SLI Consulting Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SLI Consulting Inc. seeks an experienced Solution Architect to translate business requirements into scalable architectures for banking programs. You will define artifacts, govern non-functional demands, and lead design workshops with vendors and cross-functional teams.

You will drive trade-off analyses, coordinate architecture dependencies across channels, and guide Build/Integration teams through deployment readiness and testing from an architectural perspective.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in solution architecture / systems design for banking or financial services programs.
• Proven experience on core banking / deposits platforms (CASA/TD) and complex integration landscapes preferred.
• Hands-on experience with TCS, Finacle, or Fiserv platforms (at least two required)
• Experience across multi-stakeholder teams.
• Knowledge of solution architecture methods and artifacts
• Understanding integration approaches, security fundamentals, and deployment concepts
• Non-functional design: performance, resiliency, DR, logging/monitoring, and maintainability
• Banking domain understanding: deposits lifecycle, product parameters, interest, fees, accounting impacts

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into solution architecture covering components, integration patterns, data flows, and operational considerations.
• Define and maintain architecture artifacts: target architecture, HLD/SAD, interface designs, data flow, deployment view, and architecture decision records.
• Define and govern non-functional requirements (performance, availability, resiliency, security, DR, observability, maintainability).
• Lead solution design workshops with vendor and stakeholders; review vendor design deliverables and ensure alignment.
• Drive fit-gap at solution level and propose pragmatic design options with trade-offs (cost, timeline, risk, operability).
• Coordinate architecture dependencies across channels, surrounding systems, and enabling capabilities (IAM, logging/monitoring, middleware/API gateway, batch scheduling).
• Provide design guidance to Build and Integration teams; ensure requirements are implementable and traceable to design and test coverage.
• Support environment planning and release readiness: ensure deployment architecture, environment configuration needs, and integration connectivity are defined early.
• Participate in test strategy/design from an architecture lens; support defect triage for design-related issues.

Skills

Translate requirements into arch

Stakeholder management

Analytical problem solving

Communication skills

Structured problem solving

Tools

TCS

Finacle

Fiserv

Job description

SLI Consulting Inc. seeks an experienced Solution Architect to translate business requirements into scalable architectures for banking programs. You will define artifacts, govern non-functional demands, and lead design workshops with vendors and cross-functional teams.

You will drive trade-off analyses, coordinate architecture dependencies across channels, and guide Build/Integration teams through deployment readiness and testing from an architectural perspective.