Systems Architect

Role

Required Banking and Product Knowledge

• Financial-institution relationship management and correspondent banking.
• Nostro/vostro, clearing, payments, trade finance, guarantees, and cash management.
• FI lending, bank credit analysis, country risk, obligor ratings, and limit management.
• Cross-border funding, liquidity, treasury, and Global Markets solutions for banks and NBFIs.
• KYC, AML, sanctions, onboarding, and periodic-review requirements.
• RAROC, risk-adjusted pricing, and portfolio-performance concepts.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Banking, Economics, Business, International Relations, or a related discipline.
• 7–12 years of banking experience in areas including FI coverage, correspondent banking, FI credit, transaction banking, treasury, operations, or banking transformation.
• Proven delivery across multiple functions, including Coverage, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Finance, and Technology.
• Experience with process redesign, target operating models, requirements definition, UAT, and benefit tracking.
• Strong executive communication, workshop facilitation, and data-driven problem-solving capability.

Preferred Profile

• Direct FI relationship, correspondent banking, FI credit, or international banking experience combined with change-delivery capability is preferred.
• Experience building cross-sell models or improving institutional-client onboarding and servicing is preferred.
• Regional or international experience across multiple legal entities or markets is advantageous.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum, CFA, FRM, ICA, or ACAMS qualifications are beneficial but not mandatory.

Core Competencies

• Transformation and project delivery discipline.
• Business analysis, process redesign, and operating-model implementation.
• Executive stakeholder management and structured communication.
• Risk, issue, dependency, decision, and benefit tracking.
• Analytical problem-solving with strong attention to controls.
• Translate front-office requirements into technology and operations deliverables.
• Work across business, Risk, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and IT.

Responsibilities

• Deliver banking transformation initiatives across Coverage, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Finance, and Technology.
• Redesign processes and develop target operating models.
• Define requirements and support user acceptance testing.
• Track transformation benefits and support data-driven problem-solving.
• Facilitate workshops and communicate with executive stakeholders.
• Translate front-office requirements into technology and operations deliverables.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and benefits with attention to controls.
• Build cross-sell models or improve onboarding and servicing for institutional clients, where applicable.