Solution Architect

BGTS International; Fatih; On-site; TRY 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

BGTS International is seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead technical discovery, craft target architectures, and shape delivery roadmaps for complex banking projects. You will own RFP/Tender content, design demos and reference architectures, and balance commercial factors with delivery realities.

You will advise on AI-enabled value while navigating regulatory and operational risk, ensuring alignment between sales commitments and actual delivery, and contribute to reusable assets and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in solution architecture, technical consulting, or presales in banking or financial services.
• Working knowledge of core banking platforms and modern digital banking architecture.
• Understanding of AI adoption in financial services, governance, and production-grade concepts.
• Awareness of regulatory context: DORA, PSD2/PSD3, GDPR, BCBS 239, EU AI Act.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with business and IT stakeholders and translate findings into target architectures and roadmaps.
• Own the solution content of RFPs, RFIs, and tenders—architecture, delivery model, assumptions, risks, and effort estimates.
• Design and present demos, proofs of concept, and reference architectures; build working prototypes when persuasive.
• Shape commercial structure with sales and delivery: scope, estimates, and trade-offs.
• Advise clients on AI value vs regulatory/operational risk and governance for production use.
• Act as the bridge into delivery to ensure what was sold is built.
• Contribute to reusable assets: solution patterns, estimation models, accelerators, enablement.

Skills

Solution architecture

Technical consulting

Presales

Banking / financial services

English communication

Tools

Temenos

Thought Machine

FlexCube

Mambu

Tuum

Fimple

Comparable platforms

Job description

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery with business and IT stakeholders; convert findings into target architectures, transformation roadmaps, and phased delivery plans.
• Own the solution content of RFPs, RFIs, and tenders — architecture, delivery model, assumptions, risks, and effort estimates that survive scrutiny.
• Design and present demos, proofs of concept, and reference architectures. Where a working prototype makes the argument better than a slide, build it.
• Shape commercial structure alongside sales and delivery: scope boundaries, estimation, T&M versus fixed-price trade-offs, and accountability overlays.
• Advise clients on where AI genuinely creates value versus where it introduces regulatory and operational risk — and articulate the governance required for production use.
• Act as the bridge into delivery, ensuring what was sold is what gets built.
• Contribute to reusable assets: solution patterns, estimation models, accelerators, and internal enablement.

What you bring

• 7+ years in solution architecture, technical consulting, or presales, with meaningful time in banking or financial services.
• Working knowledge of core banking platforms (Temenos, Thought Machine, FlexCube, Mambu, Tuum, Fimple or comparable) and modern digital banking architecture — API-led design, event-driven integration, cloud-native deployment.
• Practical understanding of AI adoption in financial services: agentic and GenAI use cases, model governance, human-in-the-loop design, and the difference between a demo and a production-grade system.
• Awareness of the regulatory context: DORA, PSD2/PSD3, GDPR, BCBS 239, EU AI Act, and local supervisory expectations.
• Enough hands-on coding to stay credible — you can read a codebase, prototype an integration, and hold your own with engineers. We are not asking you to be a full‑time developer.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication in English. You can move between a CIO conversation and an architecture review without changing your credibility.