Core Banking Solution Architect – (Current Accounts/Loans/payments/account switching/Cloud/DevOps/API/Reporting)
Posted 1 day ago by GIOS Technology
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Core Banking Solution Architect role focuses on designing and delivering innovative solutions for current accounts and loans within a core banking environment. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to drive architecture strategy and ensure compliance. The architect will lead the design of systems related to loans, payments, and account switching while promoting cloud adoption and operational efficiency. This hybrid role is based in either Knutsford or Northampton, UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and architecture for loans, savings/current accounts, account switching, and payment systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to align architectural solutions with strategic and operational goals.
- Manage architectural governance by producing design artefacts covering privacy, records management, and risk controls.
- Evaluate and integrate vendor solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and systems strategy.
- Promote cloud adoption, automation, and operational efficiency by reducing manual processes.
- Advise stakeholders, product owners, and business analysts to ensure technical solutions meet both functional and compliance requirements.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in Core Banking and Current Account operations, including loans, payments, and account switching.
- Expertise in architecture paradigms: Cloud, APIs, DevOps, and security best practices.
- Familiarity with payment schemes and regulatory compliance within banking.
- Proficiency in workforce planning and reporting tools: Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Tableau, Confluence.
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence strategic decisions.
- Experience in vendor evaluation and systems integration.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Northampton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
I am hiring for, Job Title: Core Banking Solution Architect – Current Accounts & Loans Location: Knutsford OR Northampton, UK(Hybrid)
Job Description We are seeking a highly skilled Core Banking Solution Architect with expertise in current account journeys (including loans, account switching, and payments) to design and deliver innovative, secure, and scalable solutions within a core banking environment. This role will involve close collaboration with stakeholders across business and technology to drive architecture strategy, ensure compliance, and support seamless integration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and architecture for loans, savings/current accounts, account switching, and payment systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to align architectural solutions with strategic and operational goals.
- Manage architectural governance by producing design artefacts covering privacy, records management, and risk controls.
- Evaluate and integrate vendor solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and systems strategy.
- Promote cloud adoption, automation, and operational efficiency by reducing manual processes.
- Advise stakeholders, product owners, and business analysts to ensure technical solutions meet both functional and compliance requirements.
Key Skills & Requirements:
- Strong experience in Core Banking and Current Account operations, including loans, payments, and account switching.
- Expertise in architecture paradigms : Cloud, APIs, DevOps, and security best practices.
- Familiarity with payment schemes and regulatory compliance within banking.
- Proficiency in workforce planning and reporting tools: Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Tableau, Confluence .
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence strategic decisions.
- Experience in vendor evaluation and systems integration.
Technical Skills: Core Banking | Current Accounts | Loans | Account Switching | Payments | Cloud Architecture | APIs | DevOps | Security | JIRA | Tableau | Confluence | Regulatory Compliance