Lead Solution Architect - Mobile

Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact.

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Your Role and Responsibilities We are seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions for the banking industry. This role bridges business strategy and technology execution, ensuring architecture aligns with banking products, regulatory requirements, digital transformation goals, and enterprise standards. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in core banking, payments, lending, channels, integration, cloud, security, and solution governance.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for banking platforms, applications, and digital initiatives.
• Translate business, functional, and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead architecture design for core banking, payments, lending, customer onboarding, and digital channels.
• Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, security standards, data privacy, and risk policies.
• Drive integration architecture across legacy systems, third-party platforms, APIs, middleware, and cloud services.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, delivery teams, vendors, and enterprise architects.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend architecture patterns, tools, and frameworks.
• Govern solution design through architecture reviews, standards, and approval processes.
• Support modernization and transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption and application re-platforming.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, performance, and disaster recovery in solution designs.
• Provide technical leadership during project delivery, implementation, and production rollout.
• Identify architecture risks, dependencies, and constraints, and define mitigation strategies.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, design documents, and roadmaps.
• Mentor development and engineering teams on architecture best practices and design principles.
• Support audit, compliance, and operational readiness activities across banking technology solutions.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Professional Expertise
  • Minimum 10 years IT architecture; 5 years banking/financial services
  • Banking products, processes, and domain knowledge
  • Banking regulations knowledge (Basel III/IV, PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR, DORA, Open Banking)
  • Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
  • Stakeholder management and C-suite engagement
  • Large-scale cloud transformation program leadership
  • Risk, audit, and governance frameworks
• Technical Expertise
  • Hybrid Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, multi-cloud, cloud landing zones
  • Core Banking & Integration: Temenos, Finacle, APIs, Kafka, MuleSoft, middleware
  • Microservices & Cloud-Native: Kubernetes, Docker, DevSecOps, serverless, service mesh
  • Security & Compliance: Zero Trust, IAM/PAM, encryption, SIEM, NIST/CIS standards
  • Data & Analytics: Data platforms, Snowflake, Synapse, BigQuery, data governance
  • Resilience & Performance: HA/DR, RTO/RPO, observability, monitoring tools, SRE practices
  • Architecture Governance: Design review boards, FinOps, documentation

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Hybrid Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud-based technologies and hybrid cloud architectures, with the ability to design and implement scalable and secure solutions.
• Enterprise Software Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise software solutions, including those related to application and system integration, with the ability to integrate these solutions into hybrid architectures.
• Technical Vision Development: Experience developing and communicating technical visions and strategies to drive business transformation, with the ability to articulate the value proposition of hybrid solutions to clients.

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