Role: Solution Architect - BFSI Sector (With Global Consulting Firm)

This role is ideal for freelancer or independent consultants

Location: Mumbai

Duration: 3-6 Months

Roles and Responsibilities :

The engagement will focus on the structured assessment and closure of approximately 10+ applications within the client's enterprise technology landscape as part of a transformation initiative. The scope includes evaluating current-state architecture, identifying gaps, and defining assessment conclusions and recommendations sufficient to enable downstream decision-making, prioritization, and delivery planning.

In addition, architectural inputs will be provided for 50+ prioritized digital journeys to ensure consistency between experience design, application architecture, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements.

Technical Landscape Analysis :

- Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the bank's technology landscape, including infrastructure (on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid), network architecture, security zones, and connectivity.

- Assess the current-state architecture of approximately 70 in-scope applications, including core banking systems, digital channels, supporting platforms, middleware, APIs, and third-party integrations, with the objective of reaching documented assessment conclusions for each application.

- Analyse data platforms, data flows, storage mechanisms, lineage, and integration patterns.

- Identify architectural dependencies, technical debt, scalability limitations, resilience gaps, and single points of failure.

- Assess alignment with banking requirements related to information security, data privacy, regulatory compliance, auditability, availability, and disaster recovery.

- Document current-state architecture using industry-standard artifacts suitable for internal governance.

Architecture Design :

- Define end-to-end solution architectures aligned with business objectives, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements.

- Design target-state and transition-state architectures to enable phased implementation.

- Define integration, data, and security patterns consistent with bank architecture standards and policies.

- Evaluate and recommend technology options and design trade-offs with explicit consideration of regulatory, security, and operational levers.

The Solution Architects will produce assessment closure outputs for all in-scope applications, including:

- Current-state architecture views

- Key constraints and dependencies

- Identified technical debt and remediation themes

- High-level recommendations and next-step options

These outputs will be suitable for executive review, architecture governance forums, and downstream delivery planning.

Delivery and Governance Support :

- Provide architectural oversight during implementation to ensure adherence to approved designs.

- Support identification, assessment, and mitigation of technical, security, and operational levers.

- Participate in design reviews, architecture governance forums, and stakeholder discussions.

- Collaborate closely with QA and delivery teams to ensure architectural controls and quality requirements are validated throughout the delivery lifecycle.