Principal Solution Architect
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About the Role
Presight seeks a Principal Solutions Architect for Financial Services to design and deliver large-scale AI-driven solutions for banks, insurers, and regulators. You will act as a trusted advisor to C-suite, define secure architectures, and shape go-to-market strategy.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as lead architectural + technical authority for Financial Services engagements, advising clients on enterprise grade AI, data, and cloud architectures
- Engage directly with C suite, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and Heads of Risk, Compliance, and Business Lines to shape AI enabled transformation agendas
- Translate complex FSI business challenges into end to end solution architectures
- Define secure, scalable, and sovereign ready architectures spanning data platforms, AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, and cloud infrastructure
- Lead the design of industry specific AI solutions across banking, insurance, payments, capital markets, and regulatory use cases
- Support solution design across hybrid, on prem, and cloud environments
- Act as core member of FSI go to market leadership team, supporting country and regional strategies
- Partner with sales and industry teams to shape propositions, solution narratives, and client specific roadmaps
- Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams to influence platform evolution
- Coach and mentor other architects, engineers, and delivery teams working on Financial Services engagements
- Lead executive workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and solution deep dives
- Represent Presight as thought leader in client forums, industry events, and executive briefings
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, cloud, data, data analytics, AI/ML, or large scale technology platforms
- Significant hands on experience working with Financial Services institutions (banking, insurance, capital markets, payments, or regulators)
- Proven ability to define, evangelise and execute end to end technology roadmaps supporting large scale transformation initiatives
- Strong track record engaging and influencing senior executives and C level stakeholders
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder facing presentation skills
- Proven experience working in Agile environments and leading distributed engineering teams
Full Job Posting
Overview
- Presight is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect – Financial Services to play a pivotal role in shaping, designing, and delivering large scale AI driven solutions for banks, insurers, capital markets firms, and regulators across the GCC and international markets.
- This is a senior, customer facing role for an individual who combines deep Financial Services domain expertise with strong architectural leadership across data, AI, and cloud platforms.
- You will act as a trusted advisor to C suite and senior technology leaders, helping institutions translate strategic business priorities into secure, scalable, and outcome driven AI architectures.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead architectural + technical authority for Financial Services engagements, advising clients on enterprise grade AI, data, and cloud architectures aligned to regulatory and operational constraints.
- Engage directly with C suite, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and Heads of Risk, Compliance, and Business Lines to shape AI enabled transformation agendas.
- Translate complex FSI business challenges (e.g. risk, compliance, growth, customer intelligence, financial crime, operational efficiency) into end to end solution architectures.
- Define secure, scalable, and sovereign ready architectures spanning data platforms, AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, and cloud infrastructure.
- Lead the design of industry specific AI solutions across banking, insurance, payments, capital markets, and regulatory use cases.
- Support solution design across hybrid, on prem, and cloud environments, working closely with hyperscalers and sovereign cloud platforms.
- Act as a core member of the FSI go to market leadership team, supporting country and regional strategies.
- Partner with sales and industry teams to shape propositions, solution narratives, and client specific roadmaps.
- Provide structured feedback to Presight’s product and engineering teams to influence platform evolution based on real world FSI requirements.
- Coach and mentor other architects, engineers, and delivery teams working on Financial Services engagements.
- Lead executive workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and solution deep dives with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Represent Presight as a thought leader in client forums, industry events, and executive briefings.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, cloud, data, data analytics, AI/ML, or large scale technology platforms.
- Significant hands on experience working with Financial Services institutions (banking, insurance, capital markets, payments, or regulators).
- Proven ability to define, evangelise and execute end to end technology roadmaps supporting large scale transformation initiatives.
- Strong track record engaging and influencing senior executives and C level stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder facing presentation skills.
- Proven experience working in Agile environments and leading distributed engineering teams.
Technical Strengths
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and large scale data platforms, cloud and hybrid architectures, AI/ML and emerging GenAI architectures, global security, governance, and regulatory considerations in FSI.
- Comfortable operating across architecture, strategy, and execution rather than purely technical delivery.
Communication & Leadership
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to bridge business and technology conversations.
- Highly confident in executive presentations, whiteboarding, and facilitation.
- Natural mentor and coach with experience guiding senior engineers and architects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Enterprise, microservices, and event driven architecture patterns
- End to end infrastructure and platform architecture (cloud, hybrid, containerized environments)
- Cloud platforms: Azure (mandatory), G42 Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, GCP
- Frontend & Backend technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, Node.js
- AI/ML architectures and Python based development
- Databases and data platforms: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB
- API & integration technologies: REST, SOAP, event streaming
- Identity & Access Management: IAM, SSO, OAuth, AD/LDAP
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Observability, logging, and performance tuning (e.g. ELK stack)
- DevOps & CI/CD pipelines and automation
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