Solution Architecture (Data&API)

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture, Domain Architecture, Enterprise Architecture or comparable senior architecture role.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale data, API and integration solutions.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or technology domains.
• Strong understanding of banking technology and business processes.
• Experience with Core Banking platforms is highly desirable.
• Experience working in complex, regulated environments with demanding security, resilience and data governance requirements.

Lead architecture across domains:

• Define and evolve architecture vision, principles and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs.
• Align business capabilities, data assets, APIs and technology platforms across delivery streams.
• Oversee end-to-end solution architecture and coordinate software architects.
• Identify interfaces, data flows, and cross-domain dependencies, guiding evaluation of solutions.

Drive data product excellence:

• Establish patterns and standards for domain-owned data products.
• Clarify data ownership, product boundaries, quality, metadata, lineage and lifecycle.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to maximize data value and safety.
• Promote modern data architecture practices including data product thinking.

Shape the domain API landscape:

• Define API-first architecture principles, design standards, governance, and lifecycle.
• Guide domain boundaries, API contracts, versioning, security, and integration patterns.
• Ensure APIs are secure, scalable, resilient, observable and user-friendly.
• Support event-driven and service-oriented integration approaches.

Build resilient, delivery-ready solutions:

• Define functional and non-functional requirements for availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience and operability.
• Define subsystems, interfaces, responsibilities, and interactions.
• Maintain architectural runway for sustainable delivery and future changes.
• Enable Continuous Delivery and DevOps with design guidelines and automation.

Collaborate and influence:

• Work closely with Product and Solution Management, business stakeholders, engineering teams, Enterprise Architects, and suppliers.
• Contribute architectural expertise to planning, design, demonstrations and exploration.
• Shape and realize architectural enablers and capacity allocation.
• Communicate complex architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams and foster collaboration and decentralized decision-making.