Core Banking Architect | RFS360 Core Banking and Wealthview Banking

Position Description

CGI is seeking an experienced Core Banking Architect to lead the technical architecture and evolution of RFS360 Core Banking and Wealthview Banking platforms. The role focuses on designing secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions while supporting platform modernization, integrations, and operational continuity.

The Architect will collaborate with product, development, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into effective technical solutions.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Define and maintain application architecture, technical roadmaps, design standards, and architectural decisions for RFS360 and Wealthview Banking.
• Design enterprise solutions across applications, databases, APIs, messaging, batch processing, infrastructure, and security.
• Lead technical design reviews and guide development teams on implementation, integration, and modernization decisions.
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, availability, resilience, data integrity, and backward compatibility.
• Guide integration with digital banking, WBDK, payment services, third-party systems, and client platforms.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and dependencies while recommending sustainable solutions.
• Incorporate security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and disaster recovery requirements into solution designs.
• Support CI/CD, release planning, deployment, testing, production readiness, and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and mentor technical teams to promote architecture best practices.
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution design, or enterprise application architecture.
• Strong experience with multi-tier, service-oriented, API-based, and distributed architectures.
• Experience with relational databases, transaction processing, data integrity, performance tuning, and system integration.
• Knowledge of APIs, middleware, messaging, event-driven architectures, and batch processing.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Experience designing, integrating, and supporting enterprise applications in production.
• Understanding of core banking processes, transaction flows, operational controls, and auditable processing.
• Experience providing technical leadership across development, testing, security, and operations teams.
• Strong communication, technical documentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
  
  

Assets

• Financial services experience, particularly core banking, retail banking, credit unions, deposits, lending, or payments.
• Experience with .NET, SQL Server, IIS, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience integrating banking platforms with digital banking, WBDK, and payment networks.
• Knowledge of multi-client platforms and legacy banking modernization.
• Familiarity with Azure, Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Knowledge of PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST.
• Relevant architecture, cloud, security, Agile, or DevOps certifications.
  
  

Compensation

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $90,000.00 – $140,000.00. This role is a future opportunity.

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