The company 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. You will work closely with the company’s Financial Services leadership, product teams, and delivery partners to define industry-specific solutions, accelerate adoption, and shape the company’s go-to-market strategy across priority FSI clients.
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Responsibilities:
- Serve as a lead architectural and 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.
- Act as a core member of the FSI go-to-market leadership team, supporting country and regional strategies.
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, evangelize, 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with enterprise, microservices, and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Experience with cloud platforms, specifically Azure (mandatory), as well as G42 Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, GCP.
- Knowledge of AI/ML architectures and Python-based development.
- Comfortable operating across architecture, strategy, and execution rather than purely technical delivery.
Location: United Arab Emirates (On-site)
Work Conditions: Full-time
