Solution Architect

Leading the way in financial IT service market in Korea, we now seek to expand our expertise to the APAC. With LG CNS Singapore, you will embark on a journey to deliver cutting-edge IT technologies to APAC clients, which have been proven successful in Korea and become an industry-leading Digital Transformation expert.
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Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Lead the design for new solutions requested by major IT stakeholders from client side 

• Provides consultancy and advisory services for system integration, PoC, and impact analysis 

• Build a methodology for right sizing and ensure infrastructure is not over/under provisioned while we have the most resilient system set up possible 

• Conduct an in-depth analysis of system performance and identify any potential bottlenecks that may hinder optimal performance 

• Effectively convey solution designs to diverse teams, and provide hands-on documentation or training sessions as necessary 

• Architect end-to-end solutions for core banking transformation, including legacy system modernization and cloud migration 

• Design and oversee data lake integration, ensuring efficient data ingestion, processing, and access across platforms 

• Define solution blueprints, technical standards, and integration patterns aligned with enterprise architecture 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs 

• Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies, tools, and platforms for modernization and data integration 

• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and data governance standards 

• Provide architectural guidance during development, testing, and deployment phases 

• Mentor engineering teams and support solution reviews, performance tuning, and optimization 

Required Skills: 

• A minimum of 11 years’ experience delivering projects within the financial services industry, including at least 5 years in a dedicated solutions architect role.  

• Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures in complex enterprise environments. 

• Ensure all proposed solutions are in alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture standards and technology strategy. 

• Proven experience in transforming core banking systems  

• Strong understanding of data lake architectures (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, GCP BigLake) 

• Expertise in API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems 

• Familiarity with banking domains such as payments, customer onboarding, loans, and compliance 

• Knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS, GDPR, PCI-DSS) 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills 

• A deep technical understanding required to source infra resources ranging from on-premises to cloud. Should be familiar with architect best practices but also be flexible to adapt to the team’s established practices and environment. 

• Good understanding of concurrent software systems and building them in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and robust. 

• Experience in facilitating workshops, eliciting key business requirements, and managing stakeholder relationships across all phases of the project. 

• Strong functional knowledge in payments or cash management. 

• Well-versed in end-to-end system development and project delivery specific to the banking sector. 

• Expertise in integration technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, MQ, ESB and any of the middleware platforms (e.g.: Boomi, Mulesoft, IBM Integration Bus). 

• Strong knowledge of data standards and protocols (XML, JASON, ISO 20022, SWIFT) and regulatory compliance. 

• Subject matter expert of common java web frameworks. 

• Experience in implementing scalable web applications with fully automated deployment and control Jenkins etc. 

• Experience in various SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL). 

Desired Skills: 

• Excellent understanding of the solution design and vendor management. 

• Excellent understanding of the Agile development methodologies. 

• Effective written and verbal communication. 

Preferred Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience, or combination.