Solution Architect

LG CNS CO., LTD. Singapore Branch; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider is seeking a Solutions Architect in Singapore to lead the design of new solutions for major clients in the financial services industry. This role involves consulting on system integrations, architecting core banking transformations, and mentoring teams. Ideal candidates will have over 11 years of experience, strong skills in API design, data lakes, and a solid understanding of banking technologies. The position requires excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 11 years’ experience delivering projects in the financial services industry, with at least 5 years as a solutions architect.
• Experience designing scalable, secure, integration architectures in complex environments.
• Proven experience transforming core banking systems.
• Strong knowledge of API design and event-driven systems.
• Good understanding of concurrent software systems with scalability and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for new solutions requested by major IT stakeholders.
• Provide consultancy and advisory services for system integration.
• Architect end-to-end solutions for core banking transformation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Data lake architecture

API design

Microservices architecture

Stakeholder management

Integration technologies

Project delivery

Agile methodologies

Payments domain knowledge

Database management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

MongoDB

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Boomi

Mulesoft

Job description

Leading the way in financial IT service market in Korea, we now seek to expand our expertise to the APAC. With LG CNS Singapore, you will embark on a journey to deliver cutting-edge IT technologies to APAC clients, which have been proven successful in Korea and become an industry-leading Digital Transformation expert.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design fornew solutionsrequested by major IT stakeholders from client side
• Provides consultancy and advisory services for system integration, PoC, and impact analysis
• Builda methodologyfor right sizing and ensure infrastructure is not over/under provisioned while we have the most resilient system set up possible
• Conductan in-depth analysis ofsystemperformance andidentifyany potential bottlenecks that may hinderoptimalperformance
• Effectively convey solution designs to diverse teams, and provide hands‑on documentation or training sessions as necessary
• Architect end-to-end solutions for core banking transformation, including legacy system modernization and cloud migration
• Design and oversee data lake integration, ensuring efficient data ingestion, processing, and access across platforms
• Define solution blueprints, technical standards, and integration patterns aligned with enterprise architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs
• Lead the evaluation andselectionof technologies, tools, and platforms for modernization and data integration
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and data governance standards
• Providearchitectural guidance during development, testing, and deployment phases
• Mentor engineering teams and support solution reviews, performance tuning, and optimization

Required Skills:

• A minimum of 11years’ experiencedelivering projects within thefinancialservices industry, including at least 5 years in a dedicated solutions architect role.
• Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures in complex enterprise environments.
• Ensure all proposed solutions are in alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture standards andtechnology strategy.
• Proven experience intransformingcorebanking systems
• Strong understanding of data lake architectures (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, GCPBigLake)
• Expertisein API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
• Familiarity with banking domains such as payments, customer onboarding, loans, and compliance
• Knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS, GDPR, PCI‑DSS)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A deep technical understandingrequiredtosourceinfraresourcesranging fromon-premisestocloud. Should be familiar witharchitectbestpractices butalso be flexible to adapt to the team’s established practices and environment.
• Good understanding of concurrent software systems and building them in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and robust.
• Experience infacilitatingworkshops, eliciting key business requirements, and managing stakeholderrelationships across all phases of the project.
• Strong functional knowledge in payments or cash management.
• Well‑versed in end-to‑end system development and project delivery specific to the banking sector.
• Expertisein integration technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, MQ, ESB and any of the middleware platforms (e.g.: Boomi,Mulesoft, IBM Integration Bus).
• Strong knowledge of data standards and protocols (XML, JASON, ISO 20022, SWIFT) and regulatory compliance.
• Subject matter expert of common java web frameworks.
• Experience in implementing scalable web applications with fully automated deployment and control Jenkins etc.
• Experience in various SQL and NoSQLdatabases (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Desired Skills:

• Excellent understanding of thesolutiondesignandvendormanagement.
• Excellent understanding of the Agile development methodologies.
• Effective written and verbal communication.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience, or combination.