Description
The Architect will design and evolve sophisticated technology architectures supporting secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available financial services. The position requires a professional capable of connecting enterprise architecture with payments technology, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, security, and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Design enterprise and solution architectures for modern payment and financial technology platforms.
- Develop architectural blueprints covering APIs, microservices, databases, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, and integration layers.
- Establish technical standards for scalability, resilience, observability, availability, and maintainability.
- Design integrations between fintech platforms, banking infrastructure, payment networks, identity services, and external technology providers.
- Evaluate architectural risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance to engineering teams.
- Develop technology roadmaps that support business growth and long-term platform evolution.
- Ensure architecture decisions incorporate appropriate cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, and regulatory considerations.
- Analyse system performance and identify opportunities to eliminate bottlenecks and improve transaction-processing efficiency.
- Support technology due diligence for new platforms, vendors, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions.
- Establish documentation standards covering architecture principles, system dependencies, interfaces, and technology decisions.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, security, data, risk, and business stakeholders.
Professional Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- 6+ years of professional experience in software architecture, enterprise architecture, financial technology, payments, or distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, databases, and integration technologies.
- Experience designing highly available and transaction-intensive systems.
- Understanding of payment processing, financial data flows, and technology risk.
- Strong knowledge of software-development lifecycle practices and modern engineering methodologies.
- Excellent technical documentation, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to balance architectural quality with commercial priorities and delivery constraints.
Professional Value
This is a technically strategic opportunity for an experienced architect seeking to influence the core technology foundations of modern financial services, with responsibility extending from high-level architecture through to platform resilience and long-term technological scalability.
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