Senior Solution Architect

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for Corporate Assisted Banking products from requirement intake through design sign-off.
• Translate product owner and business stakeholder requirements into detailed solution designs, user journeys, and integration blueprints.
• Design and govern microservices, APIs, and integrations with core banking, CRM, and assisted-channel systems.
• Ensure designs comply with architecture standards, security requirements, and reusable reference patterns.
• Partner with Information Security to validate authentication, authorization, encryption, and data-protection controls.
• Resolve design conflicts, dependency risks, and cross-squad integration issues as the squad's technical escalation point.
• Mentor Solution Architects and Technical Architects and review their designs for standards compliance.
• Contribute reusable blueprints and reference architecture to the Architecture Chapter.
• Represent the squad in architecture review boards, chapter forums, and peer review sessions.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• At least 8 years in solution or enterprise architecture with ownership of end-to-end designs.
• At least 5 years designing and delivering microservices, APIs, and web or mobile application architecture in banking or financial services.
• Experience architecting assisted or relationship-manager-facing banking channels, including corporate banking, RM tools, or CRM integration.
• Strong cloud-native background including containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, service mesh, and Azure, AWS, or OCI.
• Security architecture fluency covering OWASP Top 10, IAM, authentication, encryption, logging, monitoring, infrastructure and cloud security, and regulatory controls.
• Experience integrating event streams, message brokers, and third-party or core banking APIs.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and data modeling tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior architecture ownership in corporate or business banking is preferred.
• Experience with low-code or assisted-channel platforms used by relationship managers or branch staff is preferred.
• Formal architecture certification such as TOGAF or equivalent is preferred.