Senior Assistant Vice President

The Solution Architect & RFP Response Lead is a dual-role function responsible for (1) designing secure, scalable, and regulatory-compliant data solutions across the Banking & Capital Markets value chain, and (2) leading end-to-end RFP/RFI/RFQ responses—including solution strategy, win-themes, pricing alignment, delivery model, and orals—working closely with Sales, Product, Delivery, Risk, Legal, and Partner Ecosystem teams.

You will shape solution blueprints for core banking modernization, payments transformation, data & analytics, digital channels, wealth/asset servicing, risk & finance, and front-to-back capital markets platforms, while driving a compelling, compliant, and differentiated response for complex procurement cycles

Key Responsibilities

A. Solution Architecture (60%)

• Discovery & Architecture
  • Lead client discovery, current-state assessments (business, applications, data, infra), and target-state reference architectures (cloud/on-prem/hybrid).
  • Define logical, physical, and integration architectures with clear NFRs (scalability, resiliency, performance, latency, DR/RTO/RPO).
  • Establish data architecture patterns (canonical models, data mesh/lakehouse, lineage, metadata, MDM, privacy-by-design).
• Domain-Specific Design
  • Banking: core and digital banking, onboarding & KYC, loan origination & servicing, payments (RTGS/ACH/SEPA/SWIFT/ISO 20022), cards, fraud & AML, collections.
  • Capital Markets: order management, trade capture, pricing & risk analytics, confirmations/settlements, collateral, market & reference data, regulatory reporting, surveillance.
  • Risk & Finance: ALM, IFRS/CECL, Basel, liquidity/stress testing, reconciliations, controls automation.
• Cloud & Platforms
  • Define target cloud data landing zones (Azure/AWS/GCP), multi-region setup, network segmentation, secrets management, observability (APM, logs, traces).
  • Evaluate/build on core banking and capital markets ecosystems: Temenos, Finastra, FIS, Fiserv, Mambu, Thought Machine, Calypso/Adenza, Murex, Broadridge, SimCorp—incl. integration and extension patterns.
  • API-led connectivity (REST/GraphQL, event streaming/Kafka), microservices, containers/Kubernetes, serverless where appropriate.
• Security, Risk & Compliance
  • Embed zero-trust principles; enforce access controls, encryption, tokenization, key management.
  • Ensure compliance with SOX, GLBA, PCI-DSS, PSD2, MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, GDPR/CCPA, and local regulations; define control mappings and evidence plans.
• Delivery Architecture
  • Define DevSecOps toolchains, IaC (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation), CI/CD, automated testing, quality gates.
  • Develop migration cutover plans, data migration strategies, and rollback/DR drills.

Tools & Environment (Typical)

• Architecture: Draw.io, Visio, Lucid, Archi/ArchiMate.
• DevSecOps: GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Snyk, HashiCorp (Terraform/Vault), Jenkins, ArgoCD.
• Cloud & Data: Azure/AWS/GCP, Kafka, Spark, Databricks/BigQuery/Synapse/Snowflake, Redis, Postgres/Oracle, Elastic/Prometheus/Grafana.
• RFP Ops: RFPIO/RFP360/Loopio, SharePoint/Teams, Confluence/Jira, PowerPoint/Word, Adobe Acrobat, compliance trackers.

B. RFP/RFI/RFQ Response Leadership (40%)

• Response Orchestration
  • Own the response calendar, structure, and storyline: exec summary, problem framing, solution blueprint, value levers, delivery approach, and win themes.
  • Run color-team reviews (Pink/Red/Gold), manage version control, and coordinate SMEs across products, security, delivery, legal, and finance.
• Technical Content & Differentiation
  • Author solution narratives, diagrams,