Lending Solutions Architect (all humans)

Make a difference in the financial life of millions of people: At Erste Digital you are co-creating the digital future, in which better financial health is possible. #believeinyourself

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

We craft the digital backbone of lending for Erste and Sparkassen.

From everyday consumer loans to complex corporate financing, our applications span the full spectrum — leasing, factoring, and tailored solutions for large enterprises. We don’t just keep the systems running; we evolve them. Our platforms are not only essential to today’s profitability but are also shaping the future of banking. Join us in building the tools that turn financial vision into reality.

Are you someone who sees architecture not only just as structure, but as journey to grow?

Imagine being handed a map with no clear route — just a landscape of technologies, legacy systems, and bold ambitions. Where others see complexity, you see opportunity. You start shaping a vision for lending software that’s built not just for today, but for the future — open to innovation and new ideas. You bring teams together, align business and tech, and guide them from scattered solutions to a unified, scalable architecture. If you love solving puzzles, shaping systems, and making a real impact — you’ll feel right at home here.

Join us and help shape the future of digital lending.

What to do:

• Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain architecture principles, target states, and roadmaps across business, data, application, and technology layers for the Lending Tribe in close collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture team

• Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT stakeholders, aligning initiatives with architectural standards and long-term goals

• Solution Design & Review: Guide and review solution designs, ensuring alignment with architecture blueprints and non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security)

• Innovation & Improvement: Evaluate emerging technologies, lead PoCs, and drive architectural improvements across CI/CD, security, documentation, and operational resilience

• Collaboration & Governance: Work closely with developers, analysts, and compliance experts to ensure architecture compliance and knowledge sharing. Ensure alignment to Enterprise Architecture standards

You check these boxes:

• Ability to understand, structure, and translate complex business requirements into effective technical solutions and capability to bridge banking requirements to IT

• Solid overview over a wide range of development and integration technologies, architecture frameworks and database systems

• Strong skills in modeling and optimizing business processes (e.g., BPMN, UML)

• Solid technical understanding to evaluate and support IT solutions is essential

• Willingness to take active responsibility in the operational lifecycle of solutions and ensure their continuous improvement

• You enjoy thriving innovation and change, rethinking legacy systems or experimenting with emerging technologies

• Senior profile with relevant experience in one or more fields such as business analyses, IT architecture, IT operations, Lending Products design and development

• Assertive mindset, good coordinator and cross-team communication strengths

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and agile ways of working is advantageous

Why you will like us:

• Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste

• Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic

• Health Care – Taking care of your health is important. That’s why we contribute to your above standard medical examination and provide a helpline in case of hard lifetime situations. You also receive a salary compensation during sick leave

• Work-Life-Balance – Sabbatical, paternity leave, contribution to marriage & childbirth, 4 days of extra holiday per year, contribution to the 3rd pillar and MultiSport card. This is how we promote a balance between work, leisure, and family

• Employee Referral Program – Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital

• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - we are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 2.800,- gross per month for this full time position. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.