Solutions Architect

Overview

Solutions Architect - Core Banking (Philippines)

Leading the way in financial IT service market in Korea, we now seek to expand our expertise to the APAC. With our client, you will embark on a journey to deliver cutting-edge IT technologies to APAC clients, which have been proven successful in Korea and become an industry-leading Digital Transformation expert.

The Role.

• Lead the design for new solutions requested by major IT stakeholders from client side
• Provides consultancy and advisory services for system integration, PoC, and impact analysis
• Build a methodology for right sizing and ensure infrastructure is not over/under provisioned while we have the most resilient system set up possible
• Conduct an in-depth analysis of system performance and identify any potential bottlenecks that may hinder optimal performance
• Effectively convey solution designs to diverse teams, and provide hands-on documentation or training sessions as necessary
• Architect end-to-end solutions for core banking transformation, including legacy system modernization and cloud migration
• Design and oversee data lake integration, ensuring efficient data ingestion, processing, and access across platforms
• Define solution blueprints, technical standards, and integration patterns aligned with enterprise architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs
• Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies, tools, and platforms for modernization and data integration
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and data governance standards
• Provide architectural guidance during development, testing, and deployment phases
• Mentor engineering teams and support solution reviews, performance tuning, and optimization

The Expertise.

Required Skills

• A minimum of 11 years’ experience delivering projects within the financial services industry, including at least 5 years in a dedicated solutions architect role.
• Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures in complex enterprise environments.
• Ensure all proposed solutions are in alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture standards and technology strategy.
• Proven experience in modernizing core banking systems and integrating with cloud-native platforms
• Strong understanding of data lake architectures (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, GCP BigLake)
• Expertise in API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
• Familiarity with banking domains such as payments, customer onboarding, loans, and compliance
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A deep technical understanding required to source infra resources ranging from on-premises to cloud. Should be familiar with architect best practices but also be flexible to adapt to the team’s established practices and environment.
• Good understanding of concurrent software systems and building them in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and robust.
• Experience in facilitating workshops, eliciting key business requirements, and managing stakeholder relationships across all phases of the project.
• Strong functional knowledge in payments or cash management.
• Well-versed in end-to-end system development and project delivery specific to the banking sector.
• Expertise in integration technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, MQ, ESB and any of the middleware platforms (e.g.: Boomi, Mulesoft, IBM Integration Bus).
• Strong knowledge of data standards and protocols (XML, JASON, ISO 20022, SWIFT) and regulatory compliance.
• Subject matter expert of common java web frameworks.
• Experience in implementing scalable web applications with fully automated deployment and control Jenkins etc.
• Experience in various SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Desired Skills

• Excellent understanding of the solution design and vendor management.
• Excellent understanding of the Agile development methodologies.
• Effective written and verbal communication.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience, or combination.

Experience

• 11 to 25 years.

About us.

Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes. This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.