Core Banking Domain Architect @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The mission

As a Core Banking Domain Architect you will design and implement the foundational systems and infrastructure that enables banking operations, including account management and transactions. You will ensure that the core banking system meets the regulatory requirements, scales efficiently, and integrates with other banking systems while having in mind security, efficiency, robustness and reliability.

Key resposabilities

• Design & document complex, secure and resilient systems which can cover business needs, consolidating multiple driving factors, using advanced knowledge of system design, analysis and development;
• Work together with the teams to discover the best requirements, designs and architectures;
• Maintain the current state architecture for the Core Banking domain;
• Contribute to global solution designs so that they easily integrate core banking solution;
• Facilitate simplicity, staying lean and helping remove/preventing waste;
• Coordinate architecture activities for incremental changes (maintaining and extending existing solutions) and innovative changes (conceiving new solutions for emerging opportunities) for Core Banking domain;
• Use different patterns and elaborate designs to cover the non-functional requirements especially on the resilience and performance areas;
• Asses and select appropriate technologies from the many open source, commercial on-premises, and cloud-based offerings available;
• Create flexible but robust designs that prepares the company for the future;
• Deep dive into both new, cutting edge and legacy technologies helping build POCs and advising on best strategies;
• Align with the reference architecture and central architecture team to create designs that satisfy the consumers of the Core Banking systems;
• Work together with other domain architects and development teams for cross domain topics;
• Design the technical solutions in the core banking domain that are consumed by different organizations;
• Help in simplifying and consolidating the IT landscape;
• Help prevent technical atrophy, technical debt and maintain technical currency through architectural governance;
• Define and align architecture standards.

Requirements

• Previous experience working with core banking systems is a must.
• Empathy, integrity and a solid ethical sense;
• Engineering skills, thorough knowledge of content and architecture of multiple domains and/or platforms (technologies, applications, infrastructure, business processes);
• Passion and natural inclination towards understanding systems in their entirety and devising strategies to improve them;
• A natural talent for spotting patterns;
• Ability to grasp and master new concepts quickly;
• Vision and well backed up ideas about the future, with a strong understanding of the past;
• Persuasiveness and ability to sell and argument own ideas;
• Ability to create clear and impactful presentations and diagrams;
• Strong stakeholder & vendor management skills;
• Exposure to multiple domains of the Software Development Lifecycle;
• Ability to understand requirements from various stakeholders,
• Ability to work within budget, schedules, technology availability constraints;
• Ability to understand and consider not only the functional requirements, but also the non-functional attributes of platform quality such as performance, availability, scalability, security and usability;
• Familiar with DevOps best practices and automation of processes like build stage, configuration management, deployment, documentation, testing, and monitoring;