Senior Solution Architect - Banking

About Nagarro

Nagarro is a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling significantly. We create products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. With over 17,500 experts across 39 countries, we operate at scale across all devices and digital mediums. Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are seeking talented individuals to join our growing team.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with a strong background in banking and financial services to join our team. This role is crucial for designing and overseeing the architecture of our core banking solutions, particularly focusing on deposits modernization.

Responsibilities

• Understand client business use cases and technical requirements, translating them into elegant technical designs.
• Map architectural decisions to requirements and communicate them effectively to developers.
• Identify and evaluate various solutions to determine the best option meeting client requirements.
• Own the solution architecture for the Deposits Modernization Program (CASA/Time Deposit scope), ensuring business and non-functional requirements are met across applications, integrations, environments, and security controls.
• Collaborate with Build, Integration, Data Migration, Testing, and Operations teams (including vendor architects) to ensure the delivered solution aligns with architecture standards, is scalable, secure, and supportable.
• Translate business requirements into solution architecture, covering application components, integration patterns, data flows, and operational considerations.
• Define and maintain key architecture artifacts: target architecture, HLD/SAD, interface designs (logical), data flow diagrams, deployment views, and architecture decision records.
• Define and govern non-functional requirements (performance, availability, resiliency, security, DR, observability, maintainability) and ensure their integration into the design.
• Drive fit-gap analysis at the solution level and propose pragmatic design options/alternatives with clear trade-offs (cost, timeline, risk, operability).
• Support environment planning and release readiness, ensuring deployment architecture, environment configuration needs, and integration connectivity are defined early.
• Participate in test strategy/design from an architectural perspective (SIT/UAT, performance testing, DR testing) and support defect triage for design-related issues.
• Develop and design the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, defining technologies, patterns, and frameworks.
• Understand and apply technology integration scenarios to projects.
• Resolve issues raised during code/review through exhaustive root cause analysis and justify decisions.
• Conduct Proofs of Concept (POCs) to validate suggested designs and technologies.

Requirements

• Total experience: 9+ years.
• 5-8 years of experience in solution architecture/systems design for banking or financial services programs.
• Proven experience with core banking/deposits platforms (CASA/TD) and complex integration landscapes.
• Hands-on experience with deposit management platforms like Finacle.
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder teams.
• Strong understanding of the banking domain, including deposits lifecycle, product parameters, interest, fees, and accounting impacts.
• Ability to translate requirements into implementable architecture and produce clear design documentation.
• Ability to lead solution design workshops with vendors and stakeholders, review vendor design deliverables, and ensure alignment with project standards and scope.
• Ability to coordinate architecture dependencies across channels, surrounding systems, and enabling capabilities (IAM, logging/monitoring, middleware/API gateway, batch scheduling).
• Ability to provide design guidance to Build and Integration teams, ensuring functional requirements are implementable and traceable to design and test coverage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to relocate to the Philippines for the long term.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to the Philippines.