Solution Architect (Trade Finance)

About the role

The Solution Architect will be responsible for defining, designing, and governing the target-state architecture for regional Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance platforms. The role requires a strong combination of banking domain expertise, hands-on technical design capability, container platform knowledge, and enterprise integration experience. The successful candidate must be able to work with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, infrastructure teams, and delivery squads to translate business outcomes into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance platforms across regional markets

• Define current-state and target-state architecture across application, integration, data, infrastructure, deployment, and security domains

• Prepare and maintain solution architecture documents, technical design documents, integration specifications, architecture decision records, and deployment diagrams

• Drive architecture governance through EAC, EASF, EA review forums, security reviews, and technical design walkthroughs

• Translate Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance business requirements into implementable technical designs

• Design containerized deployment patterns using Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes-based architecture

• Lead integration design across channels, core banking, payment systems, SWIFT, screening systems, treasury, customer master, document management, data platforms, and external partner ecosystems

• Provide technical guidance to delivery teams, developers, analysts, testers, and vendor implementation teams

• Review technical designs, solution proposals, code-level architecture, security patterns, integration designs, and performance considerations

• Support SIT, UAT, performance testing, integration testing, cutover planning, and production issue resolution

About you

• 10+ years in banking technology, with strong exposure to Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Transaction Banking, Corporate Banking, or digital banking platforms

• Strong working knowledge of LC, Guarantees, Collections, Open Account Trade, Receivables, Payables, Supplier Financing, Invoice Financing, and SCF operating models

• Proven experience in solution architecture, application architecture, integration architecture, deployment architecture, and technical governance

• Hands-on knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, container deployments, container security, scaling, monitoring, and operational support patterns

• Strong technical background in REST APIs, API Gateway, ESB, message queues, event-driven architecture, SOAP, SFTP, file integration, and enterprise integration patterns

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, JBoss, WildFly, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, ActiveMQ, Kafka, Apache Camel, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and CI/CD tools

• Ability to prepare and defend architecture decisions, technical papers, risk assessments, design documentation, and executive-level architecture summaries