Lead Technology Architect

Lead Technology Architect – Core Banking & Digital Platforms Location : Doha, Qatar About : A major bank is reviewing its core banking and digital platforms, and we need a hands-on architect to lead the technical assessment and set out how to modernize without putting financial integrity at risk. What you’ll do • Assess the core banking setup: customizations, interfaces, batch/EOD, capacity and dependencies • Review digital channels, APIs, microservices, cloud/hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD, security and DR • Weigh up retain, upgrade, decouple or replace options for the core • Design phased migration paths, including coexistence, cutover, rollback and financial-control sign-off • Run workshops with bank and vendor teams and deliver clear findings and roadmap inputs What you’ll bring • 8+ years in technology architecture or engineering, with 3+ in banking • Hands-on Finastra Equation experience (essential) • Architecture lead on at least 2 complex banking platform transformations • Experience integrating cloud or distributed services with a legacy core • Solid grasp of core banking processing (interest, fees, postings, EOD) and distributed transaction design (idempotency, retries, no duplicate postings) Nice to have GCC banking, a cloud architecture certification, phased core migration experience