Technical Solutions Lead

Job description

ila Bank is looking for a Technical Solutions Lead with deep experience in enterprise solution architecture, system implementation, integration and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate has a strong background in designing and delivering complex technology solutions, with expertise in modern integration patterns, cloud-native architectures, APIs and emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, and a solid understanding of the financial services industry.

The role translates business requirements into scalable, secure and resilient technology solutions, leads solution design across multiple banking platforms and initiatives, and keeps them aligned with architectural standards, regulatory requirements and business objectives. The Technical Solutions Lead is also a key technology partner to internal and external stakeholders, working with business, product, operations, vendors and technology teams to deliver and continuously evolve the bank's technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall technology, solution architecture and AI strategy, aligned with business objectives, digital transformation initiatives and product roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across all technology platforms, applications, integrations and engineering teams.
• Establish and maintain architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and best practices.
• Lead the design, evaluation and implementation of scalable, secure, resilient and cost-effective technology solutions.
• Act as the primary technical authority for solution architecture, technology selection, architecture reviews and technical governance.
• Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and strategic objectives.
• Define solution architectures for digital banking, payments, lending, wealth management, customer engagement and enterprise platforms.
• Lead architecture modernization using cloud-native technologies, microservices, API-first design, event-driven architectures and platform engineering practices.
• Lead the design and implementation of core banking solutions, including Temenos and related banking platforms.
• Develop and govern enterprise integration strategies, including APIs, middleware, event streaming, open banking integrations and third-party connectivity.
• Lead technical discovery workshops, architecture assessments, proofs of concept and technology evaluations.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements for scalability, performance, reliability, availability, maintainability and operational resilience.
• Govern technical design decisions so they comply with security, regulatory, risk and compliance requirements.
• Lead technical release governance and oversee production readiness, deployment strategies and environment management.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development, QA, DevOps and support teams.
• Lead architecture and integration initiatives across payment ecosystems, including Benefit, local clearing houses, card schemes and external financial service providers.
• Drive technology roadmap planning, platform rationalization and technical debt reduction.
• Collaborate with vendors, partners and technology providers to ensure adherence to architecture standards and successful delivery.
• Identify opportunities to use AI, Generative AI, machine learning and agentic AI across business processes, products, operations and software engineering.
• Design and govern enterprise AI architecture, including large language models, retrieval augmented generation, vector databases, AI gateways, agent orchestration and model integration patterns.
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices across the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in solution architecture, particularly core banking implementation and integration in a cloud environment.
• Extensive experience with the Temenos core banking system and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale banking solutions in a cloud environment.
• Strong understanding of banking products, processes and regulations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related subject.

Skills

• API and integration design
• Cloud architecture
• Generative AI
• Microservices
• Payments
• Solution architecture
• Temenos core banking