Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise across solution architecture, application architecture, cloud-native technologies, and security architecture to support large-scale Digital Products and Digital Onboarding initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in designing secure, resilient, scalable, and high-performance solutions across web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, containers, event-driven architectures, and enterprise ecosystems .

The role requires a strong balance of customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security , along with the ability to work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams, information security teams, and other architecture functions.

Requirements Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices
• Design and deliver end-to-end solution architectures based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions
• Design architectures for web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems
• Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements
• Design solutions that balance user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security
• Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures
• Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data and technology assets
• Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to building reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms
• Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines
• Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through automation and process optimization
• Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures
• Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams
• Coach and mentor associate and junior architects
• Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required
• Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on Security Architecture

Required Technical & Architecture Skills Solution & Application Architecture

• Strong overall knowledge of software engineering and solution architecture

• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing applications, including web and mobile applications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs

• Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including:

• Microservices

• API architecture

• Application architecture

• Mobile application architecture

• Event-driven architecture

• Distributed systems

• Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems

• Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems

Cloud & Cloud-Native Architecture

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies

• Strong hands-on architectural understanding of:

• Containers

• Kubernetes

• OpenShift

• Service Mesh

• Virtualization

• Experience with cloud platforms such as:

• OpenShift

• Microsoft Azure

• AWS

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

• Ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions

Security Architecture

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cyber Security / Information Security

• Strong understanding of Security Architecture principles

• Deep understanding of:

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Encryption

• Logging & Monitoring

• Application Security

• OWASP Top 10

• Infrastructure Security

• Cloud Security

• Security regulations and compliance

• Experience collaborating with Information Security teams to embed security into solution architecture and application design

• Ability to balance security requirements with business functionality, customer experience, performance, and delivery objectives

Integration & Enterprise Ecosystem Strong experience integrating applications with enterprise technologies including:

• Mobile applications
• Microservices
• REST/API ecosystems
• Event streams
• Message brokers
• Containers
• Cloud-native platforms
• Distributed services

Architecture Tools & Platforms

• Experience with enterprise architecture tools such as Enterprise Architect
• Experience with data modeling tools
• Practical experience working with enterprise architecture standards, blueprints, reusable patterns, and reference architectures

Behavioral & Leadership Competencies The successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong delivery focus while maintaining the right balance between customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security
• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills
• Strong stakeholder management and expectation-management capabilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong time-management and prioritization skills
• High energy, enthusiasm, and passion for technology and architecture
• Ability to make autonomous technical decisions with minimal guidance
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• High learning agility and willingness to continuously develop technical expertise
• Ability to coach and mentor associate and junior architects
• Ability to work effectively across business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and architecture teams

Delivery & Architecture Governance The role will be expected to contribute to:

• Delivery of complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions within agreed timelines
• Improvement of architecture design workflows and efficiency through automation
• Development of reliable, resilient, and secure technology platforms
• Architecture peer review sessions
• Definition and adoption of reusable architecture blueprints and reference architectures
• Technical education and architecture workshops for chapter and delivery teams
• Continuous improvement of architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
• Ongoing development toward Security Architecture mastery

Preferred Experience

• Experience within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated enterprise environments
• Experience with large-scale digital transformation programmes
• Experience working on Digital Products and Digital Onboarding platforms
• Experience working with complex enterprise application ecosystems
• Experience with cloud-native modernization and distributed architectures
• Experience working closely with Cyber Security / Information Security teams