Senior Solution Architect - Banking

About the role

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities
• - Lead and contribute to the architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking.
• - Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and high-performance technical solutions.
• - Develop end-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, architecture patterns, and technical solutions across backend, frontend, APIs, mobile applications, microservices, message brokers, and event-streaming platforms.
• - Participate in and/or lead architecture activities for multiple projects, ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• - Design solutions within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
• - Define and evaluate architectural design principles, patterns, and approaches, clearly articulating their benefits, limitations, trade-offs, and suitability for the given business requirement.
• - Develop and maintain architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices.
• - Work closely with internal technology teams, business stakeholders, delivery teams, departments, and subsidiaries to ensure effective solution design and implementation.
• - Ensure architecture decisions appropriately balance functional requirements, customer/user experience, performance, reliability, resiliency, scalability, and security.
• - Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation and delivery.
• - Support technical decision-making and provide architectural recommendations for complex business and technology challenges.
• - Ensure proposed solutions are aligned with relevant cyber security and information security requirements.
• - Collaborate with Agile delivery teams and contribute to architecture activities throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.
• - Support architecture governance and ensure adherence to agreed architecture standards and best practices.
• - Demonstrate strong ownership, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management across complex technology initiatives.
• - Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, business domains, and evolving banking requirements.
• Functional / Domain Competencies
• The successful candidate should demonstrate strong functional knowledge and experience in:
• - Banking
• - Accounting
• - Payments
• - Lending
• - Credit Products
• - Digital Banking
• - Corporate Banking – preferred
• - Corporate Assisted Banking
• Candidates should demonstrate a strong ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new business and functional domains.
• Architecture & Technical Competencies
• Solution & Technical Architecture
• - 5+ years of hands-on experience building end-to-end:
• - Solution designs
• - High-Level Designs (HLD)
• - Technical architecture
• - Design patterns
• - Architecture solutions
• - Strong experience designing applications across:
• - Backend systems
• - Frontend applications
• - Mobile applications
• - APIs
• - Microservices
• - Message brokers
• - Event-streaming platforms
• - Strong experience working with container-based and cloud-native infrastructure and its associated ecosystem.
• - Strong understanding of modern enterprise application architecture and distributed systems.
• - Deep knowledge of architectural design principles and patterns.
• - Ability to evaluate alternative architecture approaches and clearly explain their advantages, disadvantages, trade-offs, and business/technical impact.
• Microservices & API Architecture
• - Strong hands-on experience designing and architecting microservices-based applications.
• - Strong experience with API-based ecosystems and API architecture.
• - Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs and distributed services.
• - Understanding of service-to-service communication and integration patterns.
• Event-Driven Architecture
• - Experience with message brokers and event-streaming technologies.
• - Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous communication patterns.
• - Ability to design resilient and scalable event-based solutions.
• Cloud-Native & Container Architecture
• - Strong experience with container-based / cloud-native application infrastructure.
• - Understanding of cloud-native architecture principles and associated technology ecosystems.
• - Experience designing solutions for scalability, availability, resiliency, and performance in distributed environments.
• Security Architecture
• - Adequate knowledge and practical experience in incorporating cyber security and information security considerations into application and solution architecture.
• - Ability to ensure security requirements are considered throughout solution design.
• - Understanding of secure application architecture, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native environments.
• Agile Delivery Experience
• Strong experience working within Agile methodologies and Agile delivery teams is essential.
• The candidate should have practical experience with:
• Agile Team Concepts
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Responsibilities

Skills

• Microservices
• APIs
• Event-driven architecture
• Message brokers
• Cloud-native infrastructure
• Modern application architecture
• Backend systems
• Frontend applications
• Mobile applications
• High-Level Designs (HLD)
• Technical architecture
• Architecture patterns
• Cyber security / information security
• Agile delivery