
T&T Core Banking Platform Architect Manager- MY
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define the end-to-end architecture for the Temenos core banking platform including infrastructure, application, integration, data, and security domains.
- Serve as the design authority for all core banking components - including Temenos modules (Accounts, Lending, Payments, Treasury, etc.), extensibility framework (TAFJ/TAFC), and interfaces.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define a scalable, resilient, and future-ready platform roadmap.
- Lead the technical design of customizations, product configurations, and parameterizations based on business and regulatory requirements.
- Define and govern integration patterns with surrounding systems (CRM, digital channels, payments, GL, regulatory, etc.), using OFS, APIs, MQ, Kafka, etc.
- Provide guidance on DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, and environment strategy for Temenos.
- Drive decisions around performance tuning, batch processing optimization, data partitioning, and high availability setup.
- Evaluate and guide decisions around cloud adoption (e.g., Azure, AWS) or on-prem deployment of Temenos.
- Ensure platform meets non-functional requirements (security, observability, scalability, DR/HA).
- Review vendor solution designs, code, and custom components for quality and compliance with architecture principles.
- Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Develop diverse, high-performing people and teams through new and meaningful development opportunities.
- Collaborate effectively to build productive relationships and networks.
- Understand and lead the execution of key objectives and priorities for internal as well as external stakeholders.
- Align your team to key objectives as well as set clear priorities and direction.
- Make informed decisions that positively impact the sustainable financial performance and enhance the quality of outcomes.
- Influence stakeholders, teams, and individuals positively - leading by example and providing equal opportunities for our people to grow, develop and succeed.
- Lead with integrity and make a strong positive impact by energizing others, valuing individual differences, recognizing contributions, and inspiring self-belief.
- Deliver superior value and high-quality results to stakeholders while driving high performance from people across Deloitte.
- Apply their understanding of disruptive trends and competitor activity to recommend changes, in line with leading practices.
- Tertiary qualification in a technology or business discipline with a well ranked institution.
- 8 - 12 years' relevant experience
- Experience in at least 2 full-cycle Temenos Transact implementations or major upgrades for medium or large sized banks.
- Deep knowledge of Temenos architecture (both TAFC and TAFJ) and hands-on experience designing complex, modular, and integrated solutions.
- Experience with clients in ASEAN is preferable
- Expertise in key Temenos modules - Core, AA, Funds Transfer, Lending, Treasury, TPH.
- Solid understanding of extensibility mechanisms
- Experience in defining and implementing integration architectures involving API gateways, MQ/Kafka, ESBs.
- Familiarity with data migration, ETL strategies, and legacy decommissioning.
- Strong knowledge of non-functional architecture areas: performance, scalability, observability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Good understanding of cloud-native architectures, containerization (Kubernetes/Docker), and CI/CD tooling.
- Experience working with cloud deployments of Temenos (e.g., Temenos SaaS, Azure, AWS).
- Exposure to data privacy (e.g., GDPR, PDPA), and compliance-driven architecture.
- Excellent documentation, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership skills.
- Understanding of broader core banking technology landscape
- Understanding of the new age solution provider landscape and their capabilities across banking.
- Drive, tenacity, client focused and results oriented.
- An appreciation of the consulting lifestyle and ability to travel (both locally and abroad) is a prerequisite to fit to our short-term and long-term project assignment.