Senior Solution Architect

We are looking for a highly experienced

Senior Solution Architect / Technical Architect

to join the Architecture team supporting

Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking

initiatives. The Senior Architect will work closely with the Head of Architecture while partnering with Delivery Heads, business stakeholders, technology teams, and relevant internal departments and subsidiaries. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to design secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and high-performing solutions that balance functional requirements with customer/user experience. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in

banking and financial services

, with exposure to

accounting, payments, lending, credit products, and preferably corporate banking

, together with extensive experience in

microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, message brokers, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern application architecture

. 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