About This Role

15 to 20 years of experience
Skills: Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Supply Chain Finance, Cloud-Native Architecture, Microservices, API Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Payments, Core Banking, TOGAF / ArchiMate, Monolithic to Microservices Migration, Stakeholder Management, ISO 20022, Basel III, Roadmap Planning

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect with 15+ years of overall experience and 5+ years in Solution and / or Enterprise Architecture. You will define target state architectures and high-level designs for Supply Chain Finance — aligned to the bank's strategy and enterprise architecture guidelines — covering all relevant architecture dimensions including business, application, data, and technology. You will work across multiple stakeholder groups, domains, and geographies to deliver end-to-end solution designs that meet immediate business outcomes while progressing the long-term enterprise architecture vision.

Key Skills and experience:

- Proficient in defining the target state architecture and high-level design for the assigned scope based on business outcomes and aligned with the bank's strategy. The target architecture and solution should cover all relevant dimensions – business, application, data and technology architecture.

- Domain - Proficient in Trade Finance domain along with deep understanding of integration to Payments and Core Banking platform.

- Proficient in Cloud Native Architecture, Microservices design patterns, API design, Event-Driven Architecture and Database concepts. Expected to have good understanding of monolithic to microservices migration.





- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across multiple functional areas, domains and geographies, to define the strategic architecture for a given area.

- Analysis of options and delivery of end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks making sure the implementation delivers both the immediate business outcomes and moves us towards the longer-term enterprise architecture outcomes.

- Positive communication and negotiation skills

- Preferrable to have knowledge and experience of Industry Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF, ArchiMate etc.

- Preferrable to have knowledge and experience of global and regional regulatory frameworks (e.g., Basel III, PSD2, ISO 20022).

Key Responsibilities:

- Current State analysis – Collaborate with business, product owners, architects and technical SMEs from different areas to understand and document the current state architecture, pain points, objectives and strategy from different stakeholders.

- Architectural Strategy – Define target state architectural strategy for Trade Finance in-line with bank’s strategy and enterprise architecture guidelines.

- Solution Development – Define target state solution architecture, design end-to-end architectural views and processes for the given scope.

- Roadmap options evaluation – Document different roadmap options, analysis of different options and define end-to-end roadmap for the recommended option.

- Implementation roadmap – Define high-level implementation roadmap for the given scope and document impacts to other domains, ROM, dependencies, risk etc.

- Review and sign-off of the target state and roadmap with relevant stakeholders.

📌 Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Lister Digital
📍 India