Solutions Architect

The role

Architects in the Expert Services team enable clients to modernise core banking and payments systems using the Vault platform. This role involves working across pre-sales and delivery engagements to provide expert advice on deployment, configuration, integration, and migration.

What you will do

• Present Vault architecture and best practices to senior client stakeholders during pre-sales and delivery.
• Interact with senior stakeholders across client organisations.
• Work with banks to define target architectures and transition states for Vault implementations and migrations.
• Design end-to-end solutions for core banking replacement initiatives.
• Create and utilize AI agents to accelerate the delivery of architectural deliverables.
• Maintain an advanced level of understanding of the Vault platform and its future direction.
• Act as a self-sufficient consultant.
• Deliver training to client teams on Vault functionality and architecture.
• Create and maintain client-facing collateral on architectural topics.
• Interface with the Thought Machine product function to influence the product roadmap.

Required qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise architectures for large financial service institutions.
• Deep domain knowledge in core banking, with an understanding of the business drivers and regulatory context influencing large-scale transformation programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong technical background, with good practical knowledge of established architectural patterns such as event-based architecture, CQRS, and process orchestration.
• Expert knowledge of cloud technologies and architectures, including emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery.
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to communicate and defend a technical position to a mixed and potentially senior audience.
• Good understanding of the business context, regulatory environment, and motivations for banking transformations.

Nice to have

• Experience creating AI agents to accelerate delivery and improve efficiency.
• Some experience of large-scale migration programmes, particularly core banking migrations.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Bonus incentive
• Healthcare
• 25 days holiday and public holidays
• Competitive maternity and paternity leave
• $1,500 SGD per year flexible spend benefit
• All the latest tech you need
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress

About the company

Thought Machine aims to rid the world's banks of legacy technology through core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.