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. 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.