We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise in Solution Architecture and Security Architecture to support Digital Products and Wealth Management initiatives within a leading banking environment. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise across modern enterprise architectures, banking and wealth management domains, cyber security controls, and cloud-native technologies. The role requires a highly solution-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities and experience designing resilient, secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise applications.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design and architect end-to-end enterprise solutions across Digital Products and Wealth Management platforms.
- Define and maintain architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and reusable solution blueprints.
- Deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture designs aligned with business and technology strategies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including delivery, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
- Participate in architecture governance, peer reviews, and technical design workshops.
- Drive architectural decisions across applications, APIs, event-driven systems, and microservices ecosystems.
- Ensure all architecture designs incorporate performance, reliability, customer experience, resiliency, and security considerations.
- Mentor and coach junior architects and engineering teams where required.
- Contribute to architecture capability building initiatives, technical workshops, and best practice frameworks.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and architecture patterns to improve enterprise delivery capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong experience in one or more of the following domains: Banking, Wealth Management, Asset Management, Lending, Financial Services.
- 8+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale solutions and architectures.
- Expertise designing both backend and frontend applications, APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications.
- Strong understanding of Security Architecture principles, Data Classification frameworks, regulatory compliance requirements, and threat modeling methodologies.
- Working knowledge of cyber security controls, secure application design principles, and defensive security practices.
- Experience working in Agile environments including Agile Tribes and Squads model, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies.
Preferred
- Corporate Banking domain experience.
- Exposure to modern AI technologies including Machine Learning, Generative AI, and AI-assisted software engineering tools.
Required Competencies
- Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder and expectation management skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to make autonomous technical decisions.
- Delivery-focused mindset with attention to quality, performance, resiliency, and security.
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced Agile delivery environments.
The ideal candidate will have a strong combination of Solution Architecture, Security Architecture, Banking domain expertise, and modern cloud-native engineering experience. You will be passionate about building secure and resilient enterprise platforms while driving architectural excellence across digital banking and wealth management initiatives.
