# Solutions Architect

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

Architects within the Expert Services team at Thought Machine play a crucial role in enabling clients to successfully modernise their core banking and payments systems using the Vault platform.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Present Vault architecture and best practices to senior client stakeholders during pre-sales engagements and delivery.

- Interact with senior stakeholders across client organisations in both delivery and pre-sales, leveraging a broad consulting skillset.

- Work with banks to define target architectures and transition states for Vault implementations and migrations, ensuring the application of best practice.

- Design end-to-end solutions for core banking replacement initiatives, with the Vault product suite as the central component.

- Create and utilize AI agents to accelerate the delivery of architectural deliverables, and enable clients to take advantage of the same assets.

- Maintain an advanced level of understanding of the Vault platform and its future direction, providing a thorough overview to clients.

- Act as a self-sufficient consultant, often engaging with clients individually without continuous team support.

- Deliver training to client teams on Vault functionality and architecture.

- Create and maintain client-facing collateral on architectural topics.

- Interface with the Thought Machine product function to feedback necessary product features that allow clients to realise value, influencing the product roadmap.

**Requirements**

**Essential**

- Experience designing enterprise architectures for large financial service institutions.

- Must have deep domain knowledge in core banking, with an understanding of the business drivers and regulatory context influencing large-scale transformation programmes.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong technical background, with good practical knowledge of established architectural patterns such as event-based architecture, CQRS, and process orchestration.

- Expert knowledge of cloud technologies and architectures, including emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery.

- Strong client-facing skills with the ability to communicate and defend a technical position to a mixed and potentially senior audience.

- Good understanding of the business context, regulatory environment, and motivations for banking transformations.

**Desirable**

- Experience creating AI agents to accelerate delivery and improve efficiency.

- Some experience of large-scale migration programmes, particularly core banking migrations.

**Benefits**

- Highly competitive salary

- Bonus incentive

- Healthcare

- 25 days holiday and public holidays

- Competitive maternity and paternity leave

- $1,500 SGD per year flexible spend benefit

- All the latest tech you need

- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues

- An environment where we encourage learning and progress

## Skills

### Required
- enterprise architecture
- core banking
- cloud technologies
- event-based architecture
- CQRS
- process orchestration
- stakeholder management
- client-facing skills

### Nice to have
- AI agents
- large-scale migration programmes
- core banking migrations

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