Solutions Architect/ Product Manager

Job Title: Solutions Architect / Product Manager

Duration: 1-Year Term employment

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services.
• Partner with business, operations, product, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions.
• Develop target-state architectures, capability models, application landscapes, integration blueprints, and transition roadmaps.
• Lead modernization initiatives, including platform consolidation, cloud adoption, API enablement, workflow digitization, and data architecture improvements.
• Ensure architecture supports key business priorities such as client experience, straight-through processing, resilience, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide domain expertise across payment rails, liquidity and cash management, trade services, and securities servicing.
• Establish architecture standards, governance processes, and solution review frameworks.
• Collaborate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and target-state architecture.
• Assess legacy environments and define practical migration strategies to modern, interoperable platforms.
• Support risk, security, regulatory, and operational resilience requirements.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, or a related field (Master's preferred).
• 5+ years of architecture, solution design, or technology leadership experience within banking or financial services.
• Significant transaction banking expertise, including:
• Payments: SWIFT, ISO 20022, clearing and settlement, domestic/international payments, real-time payments
• Cash Management: liquidity management, virtual accounts, receivables, payables, treasury connectivity
• Trade Services: letters of credit, guarantees, documentary collections, supply chain finance
• Securities Services: custody, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, collateral and margin processes
• Experience designing enterprise-scale application, data, integration, and technology architectures.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Familiarity with core banking and transaction banking platforms, payment hubs, trade finance systems, and securities processing platforms.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, transaction lifecycle data flows, reporting architecture, governance, and security.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead architecture governance initiatives.