Solution Architect

Role overview

Solution Architect at Bounteous

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.

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect with 15+ years of overall experience and 5+ years in Solution and / or Enterprise Architecture.

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

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.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Good 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).

Employment details

• Location: Gurgaon [Bengaluru] [Chennai] [India]