Banking Domain Architect Consultant

This is a consultancy mission at a leading financial institution, where you will represent Keystone Solutions as a Banking Domain Architect. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will work on-site with the client, delivering expertise and value while being part of a dynamic and ambitious team. You will be hired by Keystone Solutions to work on client projects, bringing your skills to diverse and challenging environments.

• →Ensure the coherence and sustainability of overall Party Domain solutions and systems, aligning with enterprise strategy, domain blueprints, and technology evolution, while considering internal and external constraints (risk, cost, delay, etc.) and adhering to architectural practices, rules, and principles.
• →Focus on key initiatives such as customer referential evolution, party life-cycle management, consent & preferences, and AML.
• →Collaborate with Business and IT to promote and validate solutions with all stakeholders.
• →Capture business needs and model them by documenting functional solutions.
• →Design solution architecture to align with the bank’s strategy and standards.
• →Leverage Enterprise Data Modelling expertise to design reusable APIs, events, and data products supporting digital transformation projects.
• →Utilize Cloud expertise to enhance designs with cloud capabilities.
• →Participate in and advise on studies, projects, and assets concerning the development and evolution of architecture, both for internal development and package solutions, in line with enterprise strategy.
• →Support and control the implementation of architectural rules and decisions before and after production installation.
• →Define, document, and maintain reference architecture with a focus on simplification.
• →Actively participate in architectural committees.
• →Communicate current and target architecture, rules, and best practices.
• →Stay updated with business and technology evolutions, incorporating them into company architecture as appropriate.

• Feature architecture, asset architecture, reference architecture, standard patterns
• IT architecture strategy, urbanization, blueprints
• Application diagrams, system maps, service interfaces, technical interfaces
• Architectural studies, architectural rules & principles

• Primary focus on the Party domain and AML, with activities encompassing the entire enterprise architecture.

• Adopt an Agile mindset: positive attitude, pragmatism, efficiency, and a thirst for knowledge.
• Prioritize team success over individual achievement, embracing feedback and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to cross-functional Agile teams, taking on roles beyond your primary discipline to achieve sprint goals.

• Fluent in either Dutch or French, with working knowledge of the other.
• Fluent in English.

• At least 4 years of relevant experience.

• Expectation: 50% on-site and 50% homeworking.

• Mandatory technical experience: knowledge of functional, technical, application, and data architecture; architectural urbanization rules; experience with data modelling and API design; analysis and definition of application architectures.
• Preferable technical experience: experience with Enterprise modelling languages (such as Archimate).
• Mandatory business experience: practical experience with Scrum; knowledge of project management.
• Preferable business experience: background in Party Domain and AML is a plus.

• Team player
• Communicative, networking, negotiator
• Analytical, accurate
• Creative, innovative, visionary
• Risk aware