Solutions Designer

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Solution Designers (Architect, Commercial Banking, mainframe to modernization, Integration with JAVA)_W2_ long term

Job Title: Solution Designers (Architect, Commercial Banking, mainframe to modernization, Integration with JAVA)

Location: All _USA

Job Type: Long-term Contract

Job Description:

About the Role:

* We are seeking a seasoned Technical Lead to join our core banking modernization initiative, focused on implementing a New Core Banking Platform to transform our Consumer Banking capabilities, with specific focus on Deposits.

* The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, a solid banking domain background, and hands-on experience working on core banking transformation or migration projects.

This role will play a key leadership position driving solution design, integration, and delivery using the modern technology stack adopted by the new platform (based on API and Event Streaming architecture) and will closely collaborate with vendor teams and internal stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

* Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of the New Core Platform in the Consumer Banking – Deposits domain.

* Design and develop integration patterns, APIs, and services to enable communication between core platform, channels, enterprise middleware, data lake and downstream systems.

* Collaborate with FIS and other platform vendors to understand capabilities, SDKs, event models, and service orchestration layers.

* Translate business use cases into scalable, secure, and performant technical designs across:

# Interest, fees, overdrafts, and transaction posting

# Product factory configurations and core services

# Regulatory compliance and reporting

* Drive the adoption of event-driven architecture, microservices, and real-time processing patterns where applicable.

* Provide leadership and mentoring to the development team; enforce coding standards, quality gates, and Dev Ops practices.

* Partner with architects, QA, Dev Ops, and PMO to align technical solutions with business outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

* 15+ years of software engineering experience in banking or financial services, with at least 5+ years in a technical leadership role.

* Strong experience working on core banking systems — FIS Modern Banking, FIS Systematics, Temenos, Thought machine, Pismo or similar.

* Demonstrated experience leading core banking modernization or migration projects (e.g., greenfield core implementation, legacy decommissioning, or coexistence strategies).

* Deep understanding of Consumer Banking/Small Business Banking products and processes, especially Deposits (checking, savings, CDs, interest-bearing accounts, and transaction postings).

* Hands-on experience with the New Core Platform’s technical stack, including:

# Java 11+, Spring Boot, RESTful services

# Confluent Kafka (event streaming and integration)

# Open Shift, Kubernetes, Docker (containerization and orchestration)

# API Gateway & Mediation (Apigee, WSO2 API Manager or vendor-provided gateways)

# Postgre

SQL, Oracle, or other relational databases

# Observability tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc.)

* Familiarity with FIS modern core banking concepts such as product factories, service orchestration, event notifications, and platform APIs is a strong plus.

* Solid grasp of domain-driven design, integration patterns, and transactional consistency in distributed systems.

* Solid presentation skills on presenting to senior leadership, cross platform teams, architectural diagrams

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in a leadership role in at least one large-scale core banking transformation program.

* Exposure to working with vendor SaaS platforms or hybrid deployments and no code/low code architecture

* Familiarity with data migration tooling and cutover strategies from legacy platforms (FIS Systematics or similar).

* Knowledge of security best practices, authentication and regulatory compliance frameworks.

* Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed, fast-paced…