Technical Architect - Trade Finance

Technical Architect-Trade Finance-Mumbai-Bangalore

Trade Finance Technical Architect:

Job responsibilities :

- Working closely with stakeholders to develop practical domain roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while taking into account business, technical and delivery constraints

- Analyzing stakeholder requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision for one or more parts of the enterprise with a focus on reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, reduced risk and/or improved business capabilities

- Reviewing application design, problem ticket and incident to propose short term and long term resolution to fit with the domain roadmap

- Guiding and challenge the project on architecture and design decision

- Governing the technical debt of the domain

- Reviewing non-functional requirement and proposed architecture changes to anticipate evolving non-functional requirements

- Developing architecture principles and standards

- Communicating the principles, standards, vision and roadmaps to stakeholders and proactively addressing any questions / concerns identified

- Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in both business and IT to assist in defining and delivering high quality solutions

- Provide thought leadership on architectural or other topics

- Embed Platform Thinking in everything

Technical Expertise & Experience :

- At least 15 years' experience in the IT industry, preferably in large, complex enterprises

- At least 8 years of experience in banking technology

- At least 5 years' experience in Architecture in a large multi-technological environment

- Deep experience delivering mission critical, enterprise scale IT solutions in a heterogeneous technology environment, both in-house built and 3rd party vendor products

- Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding (e.g. Java, C++, Cobol, RPG, Python), functional specifications using modelling technics (e.g. UML, ERD, ORM, OCL) and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience

- Familiarity with best practice methodologies and tools for the entire solution lifecycle from ideation to requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and operations

- An understanding of all domains of Enterprise Architecture, including the business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains

- Familiarity with one or more formal Architecture frameworks / methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman, BIAN, etc.)

- Practical experience in data modelling, object modelling, design patterns and Enterprise Architecture tool or other software modelling tools.

- Familiarity with heterogeneous technology platforms such as CICS, AS400, Unix/Linux, Windows