Maybank Hiring! Full Time Solution Strategist, Core Banking Innovation in Federal Territory - Ricebowl

Job Description

The Solution Strategist defines and governs the enterprise, application, infrastructure, and security architecture for the Core Banking Innovation programs. The role owns architecture principles, standards, and designs, ensuring that all solutions are aligned to the organization’s enterprise architecture strategy and regulatory expectations across the core platform and its extensions.

• Architecture Governance: Manage architecture activities, governance forums (SDRF, EASF, EAC etc.) across the Core Banking programs.
• Design Maintenance: Maintain and continuously update enterprise, application, infrastructure, and security architecture designs.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Engage business, technology, vendor and operations stakeholders to deliver innovative and sustainable IT solutions.
• Risk Management: Identify architectural risks and dependencies early and define mitigation strategies for delivery teams.
• Progress Reporting: Provide regular updates on architecture deliverables, sign-off status and post-implementation review insights.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

• Architecture Sign-Off: Maintain Core Banking reference architectures aligned to cloud, security, data, and integration strategies.
• Solution Design Quality: Define and enforce NFRs (performance, resilience, RTO/RPO, observability) and secure-by-design practices including threat modeling and PCI DSS controls.
• Core Project Delivery Leadership: Assume delivery co-ownership for priority or at-risk Core Banking initiatives and ensure end-to-end delivery integrity from requirements to stabilization.
• Cost Optimization & Lifecycle: Design for efficiency (right-sizing, autoscaling, managed services) and maintain tech currency inventory with no critical EOL in production.
• Vendor & Partner Oversight: Evaluate vendor architectures, enforce API, security, and resiliency standards, and lead technical due diligence during RFP/RFI.
• BAU Support: Provide architectural guidance for Business-as-Usual operations and post go-live evolution and continuous compliance against EA standards.
  
  

Job Skills

• TOGAF
• Solution-Architecture
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Openshift
• REST-API
• GraphQL
• RabbitMQ
  
  

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise, application, or solution architecture.
• Proven track record defining target architectures for large core banking or financial services transformations.
• Track record running Architecture Review Boards and design gates, enforcing standards across multiple squads.
• Deep experience with API-led integration (REST/GraphQL), event-driven patterns (Kafka/RabbitMQ), microservices, service mesh, and container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift). Skills:
• Deep understanding of architecture frameworks, design patterns, and reference models.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to articulate architectural trade-offs to executives.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into clear solution designs and functional specifications aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Ability to balance strategic direction with pragmatic delivery constraints. Preferred / Advantageous Experience
• TOGAF Certification: Strong understanding of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or equivalent enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Core Banking Experience: Prior architecture leadership on core banking modernization or replacement programs.
• Retail Banking Platforms: Hands-on exposure to loans, LOS, ATMs, and core banking platform delivery.
• Cloud & Microservices: Experience designing cloud-native and microservices-based banking platforms.
• Security Architecture: Familiarity with banking security standards, zero-trust principles, and regulatory frameworks.
• Integration Patterns: Knowledge of API, event-driven, and co-existence integration patterns with legacy systems.