ČSOB - Solution Architect Customer Domain

Primary Responsibilities

• Architecture Definition: Define detailed IT architecture for information systems and applications within the Customer domain, aligned with business requirements and strategic objectives.
• Solution Design: Design application and integration architecture, including REST/SOAP service definitions, data flow design, and evaluation of alternative solutions.
• Integration & Interoperability: Design integration scenarios between systems (including API, ESB, MQ) ensuring compliance with architectural principles.
• Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation according to defined standards (ArchiMate, UML) and tools (Confluence, Enterprise Studio).
• Non-Functional Requirements: Collaborate on defining non-functional requirements (performance, availability, scalability) and on infrastructure and security design with Technology and Security Architects.
• Stakeholder Communication: Present proposed solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences at various management levels.
• Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders, IT analysts, ICT architects, and other solution architects to design complex solutions.
• Vendor Management: Communicate with internal and external suppliers during the preparation of detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Implementation Support: Provide consultation and oversight during solution development, deployment across environments, and testing phases.
• Compliance & Governance: Review and approve detailed functional and integration designs to ensure compliance with architectural standards, IT strategy, and technology trends.
• Repository Management: Maintain the architecture repository and solution models using appropriate tools.

Qualifications & Skills

• Language Skills: Excellent oral and written communication in both Slovak and English.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Knowledge of architectural and security standards.
  • Experience designing SOAP/REST/MQ services and integration solutions.
  • Familiarity with API management and microservices architecture is an advantage.
• Domain Knowledge:
  • Deep understanding of the Customer domain (onboarding, KYC, risk profiling, GDPR, FATCA).
• Experience:
  • Proven experience as a Solution Architect, preferably in banking or other highly regulated sectors.
• Soft Skills:
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and learning new technologies quickly.
  • Flexible in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
  • Proactive, positive mindset with strong communication skills.
• Tools & Standards:
  • Experience with architecture modeling tools (e.g., Sparx EA, Enterprise Studio BizzDesign) and familiarity with methodologies (TOGAF, SAFe).