Solutions Architect/ Product Manager

Toronto, ON
On-site
Posted Sep 24, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Lead modernization initiatives including platform consolidation, cloud adoption, and API enablement while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.

Job details

Job Title: Solutions Architect / Product Manager Duration: 1-Year Term employment Key Responsibilities Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Partner with business, operations, product, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions. Develop target-state architectures, capability models, application landscapes, integration blueprints, and transition roadmaps. Lead modernization initiatives, including platform consolidation, cloud adoption, API enablement, workflow digitization, and data architecture improvements. Ensure architecture supports key business priorities such as client experience, straight-through processing, resilience, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency. Provide domain expertise across payment rails, liquidity and cash management, trade services, and securities servicing. Establish architecture standards, governance processes, and solution review frameworks. Collaborate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and target-state architecture. Assess legacy environments and define practical migration strategies to modern, interoperable platforms. Support risk, security, regulatory, and operational resilience requirements. Key Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, or a related field (Master's preferred). 5+ years of architecture, solution design, or technology leadership experience within banking or financial services. Significant transaction banking expertise, including: Payments: SWIFT, ISO 20022, clearing and settlement, domestic/international payments, real-time payments Cash Management: liquidity management, virtual accounts, receivables, payables, treasury connectivity Trade Services: letters of credit, guarantees, documentary collections, supply chain finance Securities Services: custody, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, collateral and margin processes Experience designing enterprise-scale application, data, integration, and technology architectures. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration patterns. Familiarity with core banking and transaction banking platforms, payment hubs, trade finance systems, and securities processing platforms. Strong understanding of data architecture, transaction lifecycle data flows, reporting architecture, governance, and security. Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead architecture governance initiatives.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of architecture or technology leadership experience in banking. Candidates must possess significant expertise in transaction banking domains and enterprise-scale application design.