Specialist - Solution Architecture

Job Purpose:

The Solution Architect will be responsible for designing secure, scalable, and compliant solutions with infrastructure primarily across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role is suited for experienced IT professionals with deep expertise in Microsoft, Oracle, Open-Source technologies, IBM, and Red Hat technologies who are looking to grow to have an architectural capacity in a banking environment.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Design and document IT solutions aligned with business, security, infrastructure and regulatory requirements.
• Design and document business application infrastructure solutions based on business requirements, security, and regulatory.
• Act as a technical lead for infrastructure initiatives involving Microsoft and Red Hat products, IBM, Oracle, and other technology providers.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Operations teams to ensure system resilience and governance.
• Provide support for infrastructure standardization, hardening, and automation.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and infrastructure availability strategies.
• Assist in infrastructure risk assessments and audits.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree majoring in one of the following:

• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Software Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Information Systems

Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum of 10 + years of experience in IT and Infrastructure or operations roles, preferably in banking or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS
• Microsoft Exchange or Exchange Online
• Windows Server administration
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system management
• RedHat OpenShift Containerization Platforms.
• Web applications (IIS, Tomcat)
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
• MS SQL Server.
• Oracle – Preferred, not mandatory.
• Open-Source Databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
• Public Key infrastructure
• Intermediate networking experience.
• Understanding of infrastructure security controls and regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI DSS).
• Familiar with virtualization technologies (VMware/Hyper-V), storage systems, and networking basics.
• At least 1 Data Center implementation experience.
• Primarily MS Azure, secondly Amazon Cloud. AI Landing Zones exposure.
• Basics of Message Brokers experience or exposure like IBM MQ / Active MQ.
• Basics of API Security.
• Basics of Infrastructure Security
• OpenShift specific experience:
• Experience with Containers and Orchestrations (Red hat OpenShift, Docker, K8s, and RHACM, Bare metal).
• Good hands-on experience of managing Red Hat OpenShift (4.x) environment.
• Understanding of Docker images/containers for different technology stacks.
• Leve 2 Understanding and experience of containerized systems with CI/CD tooling, Helm charts.
• Good documentation and communication skills.
• MS-Visio.
• Power Point.
• Word.
• Excel.
• Experience in the below domains would be advantageous, NOT essential though:
• Card & SWITCH Systems Infrastructure.
• Mobile applications infrastructure.

Preferred Experience:

• Preferred proven track record and competence in Banking products & their technology implementation.

Competencies:

• Ability to align technical, security, and functional requirements in the specified technology.
• Problem solving / Analytical thinking.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent People and team development skills.
• Communication and presentation skills at different organizational levels (Oral & Written).
• Be able to navigate the deliverables to extremely demanding timescales, ensuring all requirements are fulfilled adhering to the already set architecture principles.
• Positive feedback from leadership teams in the organization.
• Maintain good relationships with various business units, especially around expertise
• Commitment to delivery.