Total 2 job vacancies by Intellect Design Arena Pte. Ltd.

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Lead & Solution Architect to anchor the technical direction of complex banking product and platform builds delivered to global financial institutions. The role blends deep engineering leadership with architecture ownership: setting technical standards, designing scalable and secure solutions, leading interface and API development, and steering agile squads through multi-wave delivery across both cloud and on-premises environments. The successful candidate has progressed from senior engineering into a mid-level architecture remit within IT services and/or banking product organisations, and is comfortable operating between code, design authority forums, and client-facing technical governance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Solution & technical architecture — own end-to-end solution design for product and integration workstreams; produce HLDs/LLDs, component models, sequence flows and non-functional specifications; chair or contribute to design authority / architecture review boards.

• Engineering leadership — lead technical squads (onshore/offshore) across the full SDLC; set coding standards, branching strategy, code-review discipline and definition-of-done; act as senior escalation point for technical risk.

• Interfaces & API development — design and govern system-to-system interfaces and API contracts (REST/SOAP, event/streaming, file-based and messaging); own interface cataloguing, versioning, schema governance and backward-compatibility strategy.

• Product engineering — drive feature engineering on core banking / transaction-banking products; balance configurability vs. customisation, manage technical debt, and uphold productisation principles for reusable, multi-tenant builds.

• Agile delivery — run agile ceremonies as technical lead; translate epics into technical stories, estimate with the team, and protect velocity while maintaining quality gates and CI/CD discipline.

• Cloud & on-premises deployment — architect for both cloud-native (containers, managed services, IaC) and on-premises data-centre topologies; address HA/DR, scalability, observability and environment management for each.

• Non-functional & security — embed performance, resilience, scalability and security-by-design; partner with infosec on threat modelling, secure SDLC, secrets management and compliance to banking regulatory expectations (e.g. MAS TRM where applicable).

• Client & stakeholder engagement — present designs and trade-offs to bank architecture teams, CIOs and technical SteerCos; defend decisions, manage dependencies and align on integration landscapes.

• Mentorship — coach senior and mid-level engineers, conduct technical assessments, and raise the engineering bar across the delivery centre.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• 12–15 years in software engineering with demonstrable progression into a technical lead and mid-level architect role.

• Proven experience across both IT services organisations and software product companies, with substantial exposure to the banking / financial services domain.

• Track record of leading agile product engineering and complex systems integration / interface development for enterprise-grade platforms.

• Hands-on delivery experience across both cloud and on-premises implementations.

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; recognised architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF) and/or relevant cloud certification is an advantage.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Domain

Required competencies

Architecture

Microservices & modular monolith design, domain-driven design, event-driven & layered architecture, API-first design, integration patterns, HLD/LLD, NFR & capacity planning

Languages & frameworks

Java / Spring Boot (core), with working knowledge of one or more of: J2EE, Node.js, .NET, Python; ORM/persistence frameworks

Interfaces & APIs

REST, SOAP, GraphQL (desirable), OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, ISO 20022 / SWIFT / MT-MX (banking interfaces), messaging (Kafka, MQ, JMS), file-based & batch integration

Data & persistence

Relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL), SQL tuning, schema design; exposure to NoSQL and caching (Redis)

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS / Azure / GCP (at least one in depth), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Helm), on-premises data-centre & VM topologies, HA/DR design

DevOps & quality

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps), Git branching strategy, automated testing, code quality (SonarQube), observability (logging, metrics, tracing)

Security & compliance

Secure SDLC, OAuth2/OIDC, TLS/PKI, secrets management, threat modelling, alignment to banking regulatory standards (MAS TRM, ISO 27001 awareness)

Agile & tooling

Scrum / SAFe / Kanban, story estimation, Jira/Confluence, technical backlog management

DESIRABLE / DIFFERENTIATORS

• Domain depth in transaction banking, payments, trade finance, lending or treasury platforms.

• Experience modernising or integrating with legacy core-banking systems.

• Performance engineering and large-scale load/throughput optimisation.

• Experience operating in regulated multi-country banking programmes with onshore/offshore delivery models.

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with deep functional expertise in Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance (SCF) to lead requirements, solutioning and functional delivery on global product builds and bank implementations. The role sits at the intersection of banking business knowledge and software product engineering: eliciting and shaping requirements, translating complex trade and SCF business processes into product capabilities and configurations, and steering functional delivery from discovery through UAT and go-live. The ideal candidate has built and implemented global trade / SCF products within an IT product or services organisation, and can engage credibly with bank business heads, operations and technology teams alike.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Requirements & functional analysis — lead elicitation, analysis and documentation of business and functional requirements; produce BRDs/FRDs, user stories, process flows, use cases and data mappings for trade and SCF products.

• Domain solutioning — translate documentary trade, guarantees, supply chain finance, factoring, receivables/payables finance, risk participation and syndication processes into product capabilities, configurations and gaps/customisations.

• Product build — work with product management and engineering to define and refine global product features; contribute to product backlog, prioritisation, configurability vs. customisation decisions and roadmap inputs.

• Implementation & rollout — support multi-country, multi-wave bank implementations; lead functional fit-gap, solution design workshops, product walkthroughs and configuration definition across cloud and on-premises deployments.

• Interface & data analysis — define functional requirements for interfaces (e.g. SWIFT, AML/sanctions screening, accounting/GL, limits & collateral, FX), data migration mappings and reconciliation rules.

• Testing & quality — author and review functional test scenarios, support SIT/UAT, triage defects, and own functional sign-off and exit criteria.

• Stakeholder management — facilitate workshops with bank business, operations, compliance and technology stakeholders; manage scope, decisions log, RAID and traceability; present to functional SteerCos.

• Regulatory & compliance alignment — ensure solutions reflect trade-specific regulatory, AML/sanctions, and bank policy requirements; align to standards such as URC, UCP, URDG, ISP and ICC rules where relevant.

• Knowledge leadership — act as functional SME and mentor junior BAs; build reusable functional assets, question banks and accelerators.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• 12–15 years in business analysis with significant depth in Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance.

• Experience within an IT / software organisation building or implementing global trade / SCF products (not solely in-bank operations).

• Proven delivery across the full lifecycle — discovery, requirements, solution design, configuration, UAT and go-live.

• Exposure to both cloud and on-premises product implementations.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree; trade finance / banking certifications (e.g. CDCS, CITF, CSDG, CTFP) and/or business-analysis certification (CBAP) are an advantage.

FUNCTIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Domain

Required competencies

Trade finance

Documentary credits (LC), collections, guarantees & standby LCs, bills, reimbursements; ICC rules (UCP 600, URC 522, URDG 758, ISP98); trade-based AML & sanctions screening

Supply chain finance

Payables finance / reverse factoring, receivables finance, factoring, dynamic discounting, distributor & dealer finance, invoice financing, onboarding & programme structures

Risk participation & syndication

Funded & unfunded risk participation, asset distribution, syndication, limits, collateral and exposure management (desirable / strong plus)

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation, BRD/FRD authoring, user stories & acceptance criteria, process modelling (BPMN), use cases, gap analysis, traceability, RAID & decisions logs

Product & delivery

Product configuration, fit-gap analysis, backlog management, agile (Scrum/Kanban), UAT planning & defect triage, exit criteria & functional sign-off

Interfaces & data

Functional specs for SWIFT (MT/MX, ISO 20022), AML/sanctions, accounting/GL, FX, limits; data migration mapping & reconciliation rules

Tooling

Jira, Confluence, Visio / draw.io, advanced Excel; SQL for data analysis (desirable); test management tools

Soft skills

Workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, structured documentation, cross-cultural onshore/offshore collaboration

DESIRABLE / DIFFERENTIATORS

• Hands-on experience with a leading trade / SCF product platform (e.g. iGTB / Intellect, Finastra, Surecomp, CGI, or equivalent).

• Experience on multi-country bank trade back-office implementations across APAC and international branches.

• Familiarity with digital trade, ESG-linked SCF, and emerging trade-digitisation standards (e.g. MLETR, electronic documents).

• Exposure to data migration, cutover planning and reconciliation on trade/SCF migrations