Solutions Architect (Banking and Financial Services)

Indra Philippines, Inc.; Eastern Manila District; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Indra Philippines, Inc. is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead and shape IT solution delivery for banking and payments projects in the Philippines.

You will partner with business and technology teams to craft architectures that cover current, transition, and target states, ensuring guardrails and governance are followed. A strong background in software or systems development with 8+ years, including 3+ in solution architecture, and solid knowledge of agile methods will help you

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software, systems, or application development with 3+ years in solution or solution architecture.
• Strong experience in banking, financial services, digital channels, or payments.
• Understanding of solutions delivery lifecycle, agile methods and processes.
• Proven capability to support project and delivery teams by providing guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural considerations.
• Understanding of financial services, payments or insurance industry is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Proactively and holistically leading or supporting the activities related to the development of IT’s Solution Architecture.
• Creating deliverables that provide solution direction for supporting the bank’s organizational and strategic portfolio of programs/ projects where the solution should depict the current, transition and target state solutions.
• Determining as the most appropriate technology to resolve a business problem built around the parameters of enterprise architecture guardrails to aid the teams responsible for performing the project planning, implementation and operational support.
• Leading and providing guidance to technical implementation teams and other stakeholders within the organization as part of the over-all project delivery.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Banking domain knowledge

Agile methods

Stakeholder guidance

Technical leadership

Tools

Middleware & integration

Database management

Security practices

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Proactively and holistically leading or supporting the activities related to the development of IT’s Solution Architecture.
• Creating deliverables that provide solution direction for supporting the bank’s organizational and strategic portfolio of programs/ projects where the solution should depict the current, transition and target state solutions.
• Determining as the most appropriate technology to resolve a business problem built around the parameters of enterprise architecture guardrails to aid the teams responsible for performing the project planning, implementation and operational support.
• Leading and providing guidance to technical implementation teams and other stakeholders within the organization as part of the over-all project delivery.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software, systems, or application development, with 3+ years in solution or solution architecture role.
• Strong experience in banking, financial services, digital channels, or payments
• Understanding of solutions delivery lifecycle, agile methods and processes
• Proven capability to support project and delivery teams by providing guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural considerations
• Understanding of financial services, payments or insurance industry is an advantage
• Good understanding of strategic, new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating model
• Good knowledge and understanding of application development, middleware, system integration, infrastructure, database management, data governance, security and IT operations
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments gained from financial services, payments or insurance industry