About the role

Role: Integration SME
Job Level: 8 – 15 years of relevant experience (L3/L4)
Location: Philippines & Vietnam

Key Responsibilities:

MULTIVENDOR, MULTI-COUNTRY TEAM
• Act as the subject matter expert for cross-domain integration architecture during requirement analysis, solution design, build, testing, and cutover phases.
• Engage directly with product vendors and product SMEs (Trade, ACBS, CASA/Common Services, Payments, Murex) to align on integration touchpoints and drive decisions on the To-Be integration design.
• Lead workshops with business stakeholders, interface teams, the Solution Architecture team, and platform vendors to gather, validate, and finalize integration requirements.
• Own preparation of Interface Specification Documents (ISDs) and integration architecture artifacts, and drive review and sign-off with all upstream and downstream teams.
• Coordinate integration testing (SIT/end-to-end) across domains, triage cross-system defects, and drive resolution with vendors and delivery teams.
• Support cutover planning and hypercare across all integrated domains through go-live.
• Manage stakeholders across business, technology, and vendor teams, and proactively escalate cross-domain integration risks and issues.

Key Requirements:
• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with substantial hands-on experience designing integration architecture in core banking transformation programs.
• Demonstrated experience integrating core banking with Payments, Trade Finance, Lending, GL, and Treasury/Markets systems (e.g., Murex).
• Experience with middleware/integration layers such as ESB, API Gateway, or iPaaS platforms.
• Experience developing source-to-target data mapping and transformation logic across multiple domains.
• Experience supporting SIT/end-to-end testing, and troubleshooting integration defects across systems.
• Working knowledge of security and compliance requirements for banking/payment integrations (e.g., OAuth2, SSL, regulatory compliance).
• Proven experience working as an individual contributor who can independently drive solutioning, documentation, and approvals across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting cross-domain integration solutions to senior stakeholders and vendors.
• Should be in the Philippines or Vietnam for entire duration of the project.

Good to Have
• Prior experience as a techno-functional integration lead spanning core banking plus payments/trade/lending
• Exposure to treasury/markets integration (e.g., Murex) for trades, risk, and P&L feeds.
• Experience monitoring integration SLAs, throughput, and latency in a production banking environment