Senior Core Banking Functional Lead - Corporate Lending

NTT DATA, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. seeks a Functional Lead with deep core banking experience to own end‑to‑end design for corporate and syndicated lending.

You will coordinate across Credit, Accounts, Customer, Payments, and downstream systems while guiding complex jurisdictional modelling and legal-entity structures. The role demands decisive leadership, strong communication with senior stakeholders, and a track record of delivering results in legacy environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of Industry experience with strong background in core banking or lending platforms, preferably corporate or syndicated lending solutions
• Proven ability to work seamlessly across business and technology domains, not just within a single function
• Experience taking ownership of complex design decisions, not limited to requirements documentation
• Strong capability to work in ambiguity, especially within legacy environments and regulatory constraints
• Decisive, with a strong focus on outcomes and delivery
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and explaining trade-offs
• Trusted by peers and stakeholders to 'own the complexity'
• Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging effectively with senior business leaders and technical teams

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end functional design for corporate and syndicated lending products in Transact.
• Lead and conclude decisions related to company and book structures, jurisdictional separation and legal-entity modelling.
• Act as the primary integration point across Credit, Accounts, Customer, Payments, and downstream systems.
• Analyse and resolve complex issues relating to holiday calendars, rollovers, revaluations, overdue logic, CIF/region validation, sort codes and account structures.
• Produce concise design and governance papers to support Design Authority and senior stakeholder decision‑making.
• Engage directly with Temenos product and architecture teams, reviewing and closing BRDs and functional use cases.
• Apply rigorous data analysis and impact assessment to support, justify, and defend design decisions.
• Act as a senior escalation point where delivery is blocked by ambiguity, legacy constraints or unclear dependencies.

Skills

Core banking

Lending platforms

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery focus

Ambiguity management

Communication skills

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. seeks a Functional Lead with deep core banking experience to own end‑to‑end design for corporate and syndicated lending.

You will coordinate across Credit, Accounts, Customer, Payments, and downstream systems while guiding complex jurisdictional modelling and legal-entity structures. The role demands decisive leadership, strong communication with senior stakeholders, and a track record of delivering results in legacy environments.