Part-Time Senior System Architect for Global Payments

Caliberly; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Part time

Job summary

Caliberly is seeking a Senior System Architect for a part-time engagement to shape the architecture of a modern cross-border payments and financial infrastructure platform, including exchange, clearing, messaging, and digital currency.

You will design distributed, event-driven, and microservices-based systems, guide teams, and balance pragmatism with long-term scalability while collaborating with product, engineering and DevOps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with architecture experience.
• Strong background in distributed, event-driven, microservices systems.
• Solid Java back-end stack knowledge (Spring/Spring Boot).
• Experience designing high-availability, high-throughput financial systems.
• Familiar with relational/NoSQL databases and caching.
• Cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP), security design.
• Observability and resiliency patterns; capacity planning.
• Ability to create architectural docs, diagrams, guidelines for engineering teams.
• Experience collaborating with product, engineering, and DevOps teams.
• Bonus: payments domain knowledge (ISO 20022/SWIFT)

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform architecture.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide mentoring to engineers.
• Balance pragmatism with long-term scalability in designs.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to guide implementation.

Skills

10+ years experience

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

Java/Spring/Spring Boot

APIs & integrations

HA/throughput design

Observability & resiliency

Capacity planning

Architectural documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Payments domain (ISO 20022/SWIFT)

Tools

Spring Boot

Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Caliberly is seeking a Senior System Architect for a part-time engagement to shape the architecture of a modern cross-border payments and financial infrastructure platform, including exchange, clearing, messaging, and digital currency.

You will design distributed, event-driven, and microservices-based systems, guide teams, and balance pragmatism with long-term scalability while collaborating with product, engineering and DevOps.