Solution Architect - Project Delivery Specialist

This role focuses on defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities, including payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The Solution Architect will partner with stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions, lead modernization initiatives, and ensure architecture supports key business priorities like client experience, resilience, and compliance. The role also involves establishing architecture standards, governance processes, and assessing legacy environments for migration paths. Experience in banking/financial services and transaction banking architecture is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services.
  2. Partner with business, operations, product, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions.
  3. Develop target-state architectures, capability models, application landscapes, integration blueprints, and transition roadmaps.
  4. Lead architecture decisions for modernization initiatives such as platform consolidation, cloud adoption, API enablement, workflow digitization, and data architecture improvements.
  5. Ensure architecture supports key business priorities including client experience, straight-through processing, resilience, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • architecture
  • solution design
  • technology leadership
  • banking or financial services experience
  • transaction banking architecture (Payments, Cash Management, Trade Services, Securities Services)
  • enterprise-scale architecture design (applications, data, integration, technology)
  • banking architecture patterns
  • microservices
  • APIs
  • event-driven architecture
  • cloud platforms
  • enterprise integration
  • core banking / transaction banking platforms
  • payment hubs
  • trade finance systems
  • securities processing platforms

Nice to have

  • data architecture
  • reference data
  • transaction lifecycle data flows
  • reporting architecture
  • regulatory and control considerations (resilience, auditability, data governance, security)
  • influencing senior stakeholders
  • leading cross-functional architecture governance

What the JD emphasized

  • transaction banking capabilities
  • scalable architecture solutions
  • modernization initiatives
  • architecture standards
  • enterprise-scale architecture