System Architect

Purpose of the job:

As a member of a highly skilled team of architects and experts, you will participate in defining, managing and driving the platform architecture for company’s new Nordic wide Core Banking Platform.

Proactively collaborate with stakeholders on value driven strategy, driving the vision for, the creation of and the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for the company Core Banking Platform and its related system stacks. You will be contributing to defining and maintaining the technical architecture and help prepare the backlog for the next PI for the Technology and Infrastructure team within the Core Banking Program.

Responsibilities:

• Help document and communicate the integrations and interfaces in the Core business flows across multiple platforms and architectures
• Contribute to documenting the required Information Systems and Platform Enabler Capabilities and problem spaces
• Contribute to core compliance documents (SDD, TRRD)
• Participate in IT systems and IT infrastructure designs, following company architecture governance
• Contribute to developing and maintaining architecture roadmaps for Core Banking Technology and Infrastructure
• Work with Product Management and Release Train Engineers to initiate and drive delivery of technology solutions
• Coach and assist developers, platform teams, ops teams and Infrastructure teams on best practices and key knowledge areas like: Non Functional Requirements, Monitoring and Root Cause identification
• Build effective relationships with peers across the organisation to facilitate the
• improvement of the IT technology architecture and platforms.
• Facilitate a shared understanding and commitment among stakeholders to provide solutions to issues in order to achieve the target architecture within own area

Description of knowledge and experience:

Skills:

• Proven stakeholder management experience in IT technology domain
• Strong banking background, with Core banking transformation experience preferred
• Business knowledge (Professional level)
• IT infrastructure and technical architecture (Professional level)
• Conceptual thinking (Professional level)
• Integration Architecture

Key Technology Knowledge:

• IBM Mainframe
• Transition from Mainframe to Midrange
• Message Queueing (MQ, Kafka)

Nice to have:

• Temenos T24/Transact
• Integration principles, technologies and concepts (OSB, MQ, WebLogic or similar)
• Agile methodology

Competencies:

• Adapting and responding to change (Professional level)
• Creating and innovating (Professional level)
• Influencing (Professional level)
• Working with people (Superior level)