Solution Architect Core Banking & Payments -- Digital Euro Pilot (f/m/d)
Our client is one of Austria's leading corporate and investment banks with a presence in 11 Central and Eastern European markets. With approximately 42,000 employees and 18.6 million customers, the company ranks among the largest banking groups in the region.
Location: Wien. Workload: 4 days a week. Work model: hybrid, 2/3 remote days per week.
Must haves
- Core Banking Systems
- Payment-Architekturen & ISO 20022
- SEPA, Instant Payments, Cards, Open Banking, Request-to-Pay, Payment Hubs
Nice to have
- CBDC / Digital Euro
- TARGET Services
Wanted Expertise
- Architect - Software Engineering
- Architect - Infrastructure
Your Tasks
- Together with the enterprise architect, define the target architecture for the Digital Euro Pilot; assess local vs. central implementation across RBI Group entities.
- Design integration patterns between Digital Euro components and Core Banking Systems; define interfaces to payment platforms, settlement, liquidity management, and customer channels.
- Evaluate Digital Euro vendors and platforms; support build-vs-buy decisions and vendor selection. Facilitate architecture workshops; identify risks, dependencies, and design gaps.
- Prepare architecture recommendations and management-ready summaries and present them to sponsors/SteerCo; support go/no-go decisions.
- Deliverables: target architecture, integration blueprint, CBS/payment landscape assessment, decision papers, gap analysis, and roadmap.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Solution or Enterprise Architect with a strong banking/financial services background.
- Hands-on experience with Core Banking Systems (Temenos, SAP Banking, Finacle, Avaloq, Hogan or similar).
- Solid understanding of payment architectures and processing, plus deep expertise in ISO 20022 (pain/pacs/camt), SWIFT MT/MX, and cross-border payments.
- Experience with TARGET Services (T2/TARGET2, TIPS), settlement, liquidity management, and reconciliation.
- Design of large-scale integration architectures in complex banking environments; strong understanding of API-first, microservices, event-driven integration, and cloud-native.
- Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements in banking.
- Experience with CBDC initiatives or Digital Euro projects and ECB Digital Euro concepts is highly preferred.
- Experience in international multi-entity organizations.
- Fluent English (mandatory); German and/or CEE languages are an advantage.
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Teilzeit
Softwareentwicklung