Lead Architect – Payments – Major Global Bank – Singapore recruitment

Successful applicants can expect to have the highest level of expertise in the development, specification and communication of the organisation’s technology architecture plan, the infrastructure components required to support it, and in the integration of corporate and business area business and technology architectures.

One of the key project initiatives you will be working on is to work on a large multiyear, multimillion dollar transformation project to combine various cash management systems across multiple countries.  This will tie into broader initiatives addressing Liquidity Management and Payments and Clearing.

Key Roles Responsibilities

• Understand the strategy, needs of business units and assist in the development of technology roadmaps.

• Serve as domain architect to implement an updated technology foundation for the bank with full capability accountability for architecture deliverables (process, information, technology etc.) from concept to implementation

• Leading the definition of one or more application and technology architecture domains in consultation with the respective Business, Heads of Architecture and the IT Group as a whole.

• Own and lead architecture definitions and roadmaps for new initiatives in Transaction Banking, especially transaction banking

• Interface with senior stakeholders including other group architects to drive architectural directions

• Spearheads various key technology initiatives like standard definition, frameworks, architecture blueprints

• Identify opportunities to leverage technology synergies to save costs and improve efficiencies and capture new business values

• Remaining current on leading trends in designated architecture areas and IT in general.

Essential

• Proven analytical capability and thorough working knowledge of payments and/or transaction banking for a Wholesale Bank

• A proven track record of extensive experience in working on the following tasks: Technology Strategy, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture in financial services, covering multiple locations