Principal System Architect – Digital Banking / Digital Payments / FinTech
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Role Overview
The Principal System Architect will lead enterprise architecture strategy for large-scale digital banking and digital payments platforms.
The role defines architecture standards, governs technical solutions, and drives secure, scalable, cloud-native, and highly available systems.
The role works with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
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Role Summary
The Principal System Architect will lead enterprise architecture strategy for large-scale digital banking and digital payments platforms.
The role defines architecture standards, governs technical solutions, and drives secure, scalable, cloud-native, and highly available systems.
The role works with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, and Executive Leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Define enterprise architecture strategy, technology roadmaps, standards, and governance.
- Design scalable cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Architect digital banking, digital payments, mobile wallet, QR payment, payment gateway, open banking, lending, transfer, billing, and remittance platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews, high-level design approvals, technical governance, and reusable architecture frameworks.
- Design integrations with Visa, Mastercard, core banking, AML, fraud, CRM, ERP, identity, and open banking APIs.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security by design, performance, scalability, and observability.
- Drive cloud, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, API-first, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, AML/KYC, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, and Zero Trust principles.
- Mentor architects and engineering teams while collaborating with technical, product, security, and business stakeholders.
Technical Skills
- Architecture skills include enterprise architecture, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, DDD, CQRS, and Saga.
- Cloud and DevOps technologies include AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
- Development technologies include Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.
- Messaging technologies include Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Database technologies include PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Redis.
- Monitoring technologies include Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field.
- At least 15 years of experience in software engineering or system architecture.
- At least 8 years as a solution, system, enterprise, or principal architect.
- At least 5 years in banking, digital payments, or FinTech.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale, cloud-native financial platforms handling high-volume transactions.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud, Kubernetes, APIs, security, DevSecOps, and financial compliance.
- TOGAF and cloud certifications are preferred.
Compensation
- Pay is AED 24,000 to AED 25,000 per month.
- The package includes a company-provided visa, health insurance, and yearly airfare.
Work Location
- The work location is in person.
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