Systems Architect

Role

Required Banking and Product Knowledge

• Trade finance products including letters of credit, guarantees, collections, open-account trade, and supply-chain finance.
• Global Markets products for cross-border clients, especially FX spot, forwards, swaps, and hedging.
• Corporate and institutional client journeys, working capital, and cross-border flow economics.
• Trade operations, SWIFT messaging, sanctions, AML, credit, and documentary controls.
• Digital trade platforms, workflow automation, APIs, and straight-through processing concepts.
• Commercial measures including wallet share, conversion, fee income, NIM, and RAROC.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Banking, Economics, Business, International Trade, Engineering, or Technology.
• 7–12 years of banking experience across Trade Finance, Global Markets, Treasury Sales, Corporate Banking, FI, or transformation.
• Demonstrated delivery of front-to-back initiatives involving business, operations, risk, compliance, and technology.
• Strong capability in process design, requirements definition, UAT, business cases, benefits tracking, and executive reporting.
• Experience with complex banking products and explaining requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Profile

• Strong trade-finance knowledge combined with practical exposure to FX, treasury sales, or market solutions is preferred.
• A business-led transformation manager able to connect commercial opportunities with operational and technology execution.
• International banking, trade-corridor, or multi-country transformation experience is advantageous.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum, CDCS, CSDG, CITF, CFA, FRM, or ACI 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 front-to-back banking initiatives involving business, operations, risk, compliance, and technology.
• Design processes and define business requirements for transformation initiatives.
• Support UAT, develop business cases, track benefits, and provide executive reporting.
• Connect commercial opportunities with operational and technology execution.
• Translate front-office requirements into technology and operations deliverables.
• Manage transformation delivery and track risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and benefits.
• Coordinate work across business, Risk, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and IT.