Senior Solution Architect

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for Corporate Assisted Banking products from requirement intake through design sign-off.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into solution designs, user journeys, and integration blueprints.
• Design and govern microservices, APIs, and integrations with core banking, CRM, and assisted-channel systems.
• Ensure compliance with architecture standards, security requirements, and reusable reference patterns.
• Validate authentication, authorization, encryption, and data-protection controls with Information Security.
• Resolve design conflicts, dependency risks, and cross-squad integration issues.
• Mentor architects, review their designs, and contribute reusable blueprints to the Architecture Chapter.
• Represent the squad in architecture forums, review boards, and peer review sessions.

Required Qualifications and Experience

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Architecture ownership in a corporate or business banking product line.
• Experience with low-code or assisted-channel platforms for relationship managers or branch staff.
• Formal architecture certification such as TOGAF or equivalent.