FinTech Solutions Architect - On-Site Dubai

Yallo Retail; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Yallo Retail in Dubai seeks a Fin-Tech Solution Architect on a contract basis to lead architecture design and validation across Digital Experience, Core platforms, CRM and data layers. You will own API-first designs, integration patterns, and data models, while ensuring security, compliance, and scalability in a regulated financial environment.

The role requires hands-on expertise in payments, settlement, and vendor architecture assessment, with responsibility for guiding regulated financial

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on Solution Architect experience in Fin-Tech, payments, lending, leasing or regulated financial platforms.
• Deep technical expertise in API design and integration.
• Data structures and financial data models.
• Transaction processing, settlement, and ledger integration.
• Strong experience assessing and challenging vendor technical architectures.
• Experience working within regulated financial services environments.
• Strong understanding of security, resilience, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution architectures across Digital Experience, Core platforms, CRM, Data, and Integration layers.
• Define and govern API-first, cloud-native, and event-driven architectures for web, mobile, partner, and embedded finance journeys.
• Own the Digital Experience architecture, including front-end frameworks and BFF patterns linked to core platforms.
• Design and validate API contracts, integration patterns, and event schemas for customers and partners.
• Define and validate shared data models for customers, products, transactions, pricing, and reporting.
• Design architectures supporting payments, settlement, reconciliation, and real-time decisions via digital channels.
• Review and challenge vendor architectures, proposals, and POCs for scalability and resilience.
• Assess feasibility, performance, security, and regulatory compliance of proposed solutions with group architecture.

Skills

FinTech architecture

API design

Data modeling

Payments & settlement

Vendor assessment

Regulated financial services

Security & compliance

Job description

Yallo Retail in Dubai seeks a Fin-Tech Solution Architect on a contract basis to lead architecture design and validation across Digital Experience, Core platforms, CRM and data layers. You will own API-first designs, integration patterns, and data models, while ensuring security, compliance, and scalability in a regulated financial environment.

The role requires hands-on expertise in payments, settlement, and vendor architecture assessment, with responsibility for guiding regulated financial