Role description
Experience 15 years in software engineering and architecture including at least 6 years as a solution or technical architect on banking or lending platforms
Role Summary
The bank is moving away from vendor products to a custom collateral platform The target design is modular composable and API and eventled The new platform becomes the master record for collateral and sends approved changes to the loan origination LOS and loan servicing LMS systems The Technical Architect owns the endtoend technical design and must deliver it within a phased roadmap
P0 core collateral controls and a reconciled migration off the legacy platform
P1 automation
P2 AI capabilities
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Design
Define the targetstate architecture core collateral engine integration hub data hub and interaction layer UI dashboards workflows
Design domainbased microservices for the collateral lifecycle registry valuation perfection insurance release and document management
Design configurable rules and workflow engines for triggers s makerchecker approvals and escalations
Produce architecture decision records ADRs reference architectures nonfunctional requirements NFRs and design standards and take designs through the banks architecture review boards
Integration
Design the API event and batch integration layers This includes pubsub messaging message converters adapters and repair queues for failed batch processing
Lead integration design with AFS Vision Loan IQ nCino the customer master credit risk systems and document repositories
Reuse the banks existing integration API and event hubs and migrate legacy pointtopoint interfaces step by step
Data Migration
Design the collateral data model the single authoritative collateral record and data quality and reconciliation controls
Own the technical strategy for migration and coexistence with the legacy platform This covers incremental data migration parallel runs reconciliation and decommissioning
Design reporting and analytics data flows including support for regulatory reporting
Security Controls NFRs
Build in rolebased access segregation of duties encryption full audit trails and data retention
Define targets for performance scalability resilience high availability disaster recovery and observability
Keep the design aligned with the banks security model risk and technology risk standards and with US regulatory expectations OCCFRB
Engineering Leadership Delivery
Set up the platform foundation first then support iterative MVP nanoproduct releases
Define CICD DevSecOps test automation and environment strategy
Guide onsite and offshore engineering teams through code reviews design walkthroughs and technical governance
Work with the Commercial Lending Collateral SME to turn business capabilities into technical designs
Support the upfront study of the legacy application and present the proposed architecture in client workshops
Required Qualifications
Proven experience architecting large custom platforms in banking Commercial lending collateral or credit platforms are strongly preferred
Deep expertise in microservices domaindriven design and APIfirst eventdriven architecture
Handson strength in JavaSpring Boot or NET RESTGraphQL APIs and Kafka or equivalent messaging
Cloudnative architecture on AWS or Azure containers Kubernetes and managed services
Strong data architecture skills relational databases Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server data modeling ETLELT and reconciliation design
Experience migrating from legacy or COTS platforms with coexistence and phased cutover
Experience integrating with lending systems such as AFS ACBS Loan IQ nCino or core banking platforms
Solid grasp of enterprise security IAMSSO OAuth2 encryption secrets management and audit logging
Excellent communication and stakeholder skills comfortable presenting to bank CTO and CIOlevel audiences and architecture review boards
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with rules or workflow engines such as Drools Camunda or Pega
Familiarity with collateral products such as STOC or Broadridge COLLATE
Modern frontend architecture Angular or React and document management integration
Exposure to AIML use cases such as intelligent document extraction and predictive monitoring
Certifications such as TOGAF AWSAzure Solutions Architect Professional or Kubernetes
Key Competencies
Pragmatic design judgment a strong focus on security and controls handson technical depth and the ability to lead distributed teams toward fixedscope phased releases