We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Solution Architect / Technical Architect to join the Architecture team supporting Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking initiatives. The Senior Architect will work closely with the Head of Architecture while partnering with Delivery Heads, business stakeholders, technology teams, and relevant internal departments and subsidiaries. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to design secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and high-performing solutions that balance functional requirements with customer/user experience.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to the architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and high-performance technical solutions.
- Develop end-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, architecture patterns, and technical solutions across backend, frontend, APIs, mobile applications, microservices, message brokers, and event-streaming platforms.
- Participate in and/or lead architecture activities for multiple projects, ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
- Design solutions within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
- Define and evaluate architectural design principles, patterns, and approaches, clearly articulating their benefits, limitations, trade-offs, and suitability for the given business requirement.
- Work closely with internal technology teams, business stakeholders, delivery teams, departments, and subsidiaries to ensure effective solution design and implementation.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation and delivery.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in building end-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, technical architecture, and design patterns.
- Strong experience designing applications across backend systems, frontend applications, mobile applications, APIs, microservices, message brokers, and event-streaming platforms.
- Strong experience working with container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs and distributed services.
- Strong understanding of architecture principles, patterns, trade-offs, and best practices.
- Strong Agile delivery experience, including Tribes, Squads, Agile ceremonies, Features, Epics, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
Preferred Experience
- Corporate Banking experience.
- Digital Banking / Digital Products experience.
- Experience within large banks or financial institutions.
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
