We are seeking two highly experienced and Senior Solution Architects with deep expertise in card processing platforms to drive architecture and design across a large-scale commercial cards ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture for card-based systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and platform roadmaps
Translate business requirements (BRDs) into solution designs, decomposing into MVPs, epics, and detailed technical stories
Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures across distributed systems
Define integration patterns (REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture) across internal platforms and external partners
Provide hands-on architectural leadership to engineering teams, ensuring design consistency and adherence to standards
Govern solutions through architecture review boards, ensuring compliance with security, data, and infrastructure standards
Identify and mitigate technical risks, including performance, scalability, and security concerns
Collaborate with vendors and third parties to define interoperability models and integration contracts
Contribute to technology strategy, including cloud adoption, modernization, and legacy transformation initiatives
Promote adoption of modern engineering practices including microservices, API-first design, and domain-driven design
Required Experience 15+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, with a strong focus on banking and payments systems
Deep domain knowledge of card processing systems (e.g., authorization, clearing, settlement, dispute management)
Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency transactional systems
Experience operating within large-scale, matrixed enterprise environments
Strong background in cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including relevant certifications
Demonstrated ability to handle complex, ambiguous technical problems and translate them into structured solutions
Strong stakeholder engagement across business, engineering, and infrastructure teams
Technical Skills Architecture & Design: Microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), layered architecture
Integration: RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specs, messaging systems (Kafka, MQ), asynchronous processing
Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud-native design, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines
Data: Distributed data systems, RDBMS/NoSQL, data modelling, data consistency patterns
Security: Secure-by-design principles, IAM, encryption, threat modelling, regulatory compliance
Resilience: High availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)
Channels: Experience designing across web, mobile, API gateways, and backend orchestration layers
Legacy Integration: Exposure to mainframe systems (desirable but not essential)
Additional Capabilities Strong focus on cybersecurity and secure architecture practices
Experience designing mission-critical systems with strict uptime and performance SLAs
Ability to mentor engineers and architects, driving technical best practices and governance
Comfortable working across global teams with distributed stakeholders
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