Role overview
A top-5 Saudi Arabian retail bank — one of the largest Sharia-compliant banks in the region — is digitizing the customer acquisition journey for its Murabaha Revolving Credit Card (MRCC) product. CoorB is providing the specialist team that owns the Technology workstream of the program .
The Solution Enterprise Architect leads that workstream end-to-end and is the single point of accountability for all technical deliverables: current-state architecture review, integration and API assessment, automation and Straight-Through Processing (STP) evaluation, and the target-state architecture blueprint. This is a discovery and assessment consultancy — no implementation, build, or Business Requirements Documents. Deliverables are architectural blueprints, gap analyses, and a prioritized implementati on roadmap.
Key responsibilities
- Own the Technology workstream end-to-end as the single point of accountability for all technical deliverables.
- Lead the 5-week current-state assessment: application, data, API/integration, and automation/STP architecture review.
- Direct the 7-week target-state design, producing architecture blueprints, gap analyses, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.
- Operate at executive level (CIO, Head of Digital, Head of Architecture) and with technology platform owners.
- Reconcile the non-functional envelope (documented ~1,000 tx /day vs. higher scoping figures) in the first technical scoping session.
- Manage the go/no-go gate between assessment and design, including platform-owner access for the Newgen orchestration layer.
- Direct the Integration/API Architect and coordinate with the Digital Journey workstream.
Requirements
Required experience & skills
- Senior consulting leadership. Demonstrated experience leading consulting engagements of comparable scope ( 12 weeks or longer, multi-disciplinary teams of three to four) for retail banking clients, producing client-ready deliverables independently to a consulting-grade standard.
- Retail banking origination or channel architecture. Prior experience leading an enterprise- or channel-architecture assessment in retail banking — credit cards, retail loans, account opening, or mortgages. Card origination preferred but not required .
- Traditional enterprise architecture stacks. Working knowledge of enterprise integration platforms (ESB, SOAP/XML services), BPM workflow engines, API gateways, on-premise middleware, and core banking systems, with the ability to assess such environments objectively on architectural merit.
- Full-time onsite presence in Saudi Arabia. Mandatory for the full 12 weeks . Remote or hybrid arrangements will not be considered; candidates must confirm visa eligibility and travel availability prior to interview.
- Professional proficiency in English. Full professional proficiency , spoken and written. All client-facing communication and deliverables are produced in English.
Preferred experience (differentiators)
- Platform experience. Hands-on with one or more of Newgen BPM, Temenos T24, IBM DataPower, or IBM WebSphere ESB.
- Credit card origination. Direct experience auditing or designing a credit card acquisition or origination architecture.
- Islamic banking products. Working understanding of Murabaha and Tawarruq structures; the MRCC flow includes a Sharia-specific commodity buy-sell step.
- KSA national digital rails. Familiarity with Nafath, Absher, SIMAH, ZATCA, SANAD, GOSI, and Wathq , and common bank integration patterns.
- Straight-Through Processing. Prior work on STP frameworks for retail banking acquisition or transaction processing.