Solutions Architect

Company Overview:

UBX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unionbank of the Philippines. UnionBank is a top 10 universal bank in the Philippines by assets, with annual revenues of over PHP 25 Billion. UnionBank is a leader in digital financial services and has been recognized as the top digital bank in the Philippines by Asiamoney and IDC. UnionBank has established UBX to build on its leadership in digital: UBX facilitates UnionBank's exploration and creation of new, digital, and potentially non-banking business models.

UBX's mission includes investments in financial technology (fintech) companies and other ventures whose capabilities complement UBX's platform development. UBX is developing platforms that embed financial services into customer and business experiences. This results in financial services that are accessible to a broader community – physically, logically, and economically. UBX invests to impact financial inclusion positively and materially.

Truly innovative financial technology should make banking perfectly transparent in the lives of consumers and businesses. When we talk about banking today, we still talk about accounts, lines of credit and cash management services. Banking still distracts and interrupts. Our goal: banking that becomes invisible, banking vanishes into our lives and businesses. Therefore, we are particularly focused on ecosystems: can we participate in and build the platforms where we can seamlessly embed banking in the context of experiences for consumers and businesses.

Our Customers:

Ecosystems are built on platforms that support multi-participant markets and multi-point transactions. Therefore, from an ecosystem development perspective, our customers are the participants in these ecosystems.

This can be made clearer by way of example. For the financial services platform, the resulting ecosystem has the following participants:

● Financial institutions such as rural bank and non-bank financial institutions

(coops, lenders, etc.)

● Customers of these financial institutions

● Financial service providers that leverage the platform such as lenders and

insurers

● Technology providers that build solutions on top of the platform

Solutions Architect

Job Summary:

A Solutions Architect is responsible for understanding the business requirements (user stories) design and overseeing the implementation of IT solutions that meet the business goal. SA works closely with a cross-functional team to deliver a scalable, secure and efficient solution architecture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners, demand management team and other stakeholders to provide high-level assessments for all technology projects.

• Collaborate with product owners (PO) to analyze and understand the business requirements/user stories.

• Collaborate with different IT units (Enterprise Architects, Application leads, Testing Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Information Security Architects, Project Managers, SLMs, Application support teams) to create and design solutions and document it into a Technical Implementation Plan.

• Conduct Buy, Build and Borrow assessment as part of the creation of the overall solution and provide recommendations on project direction.

• Conduct solutions walkthrough to internal stakeholders and service providers as part of the selection process to determine project cost, timeline & best-fit solution.

• Collaborate with product owners to prepare project budget presentations to Budget Committee.

• Oversee implementation and ensure that the solution design is adhered to during implementation.

• Maintain updated solution architecture documentation.

• Create a Technical Implementation Plan

Technology Knowledge

The following points are NOT exhaustive and are provided for general reference purposes only.

• Core Banking Systems including but are not limited to Finacle and TSYS.

• Software Development Architecture

• Banking Security and Compliance

• Data management and Data Analytics

• Emerging technologies including but not limited to Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning