Senior Solution Architect

D4 Insight; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

D4 Insight seeks a Senior Solution Architect in Dubai to design resilient, secure, and scalable software across backend, frontend, and mobile domains. The role collaborates with the Head of Architecture and business stakeholders to balance performance, security, and user experience.

You will lead architecture decisions, establish standards, and guide cross-functional teams through agile ceremonies, ensuring delivery aligns with regulatory banking requirements and enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering end-to-end designs across backend, frontend, and mobile.
• Strong banking, accounting, payments, lending, and credit product knowledge.
• Led or participated in 3+ projects with resilient, secure microservice/API architectures.
• Deep knowledge of APIs, message brokers, event streams, and microservices.
• Experience with container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect resilient, secure applications within microservices and API ecosystems.
• Create architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Develop end-to-end designs and solution architectures across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs, and event streams.
• Design solutions for container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Evaluate and recommend architectural principles, explaining benefits and trade-offs.

Skills

API design

Microservices

Cloud-native

Containerization

Security by design

Agile

Leadership

Banking domain

Tools

Event streams

Message brokers

Job description

Job Overview

Location: Dubai, UAE

Experience: 10+ Years

We are looking for experienced Senior Solution Architect with deep technical expertise and strong solution-oriented capabilities to design and architect resilient, reliable, secure, and high-performing applications. The role will work closely with the Head of Architecture, while also collaborating with the Delivery Head / Lead within the relevant business or functional domain. The Senior Architect will be responsible for developing architecture solutions that effectively balance functional requirements, customer/user experience, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect resilient, reliable, and secure applications within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Create end-to-end design patterns, high-level designs, and solution architectures across:
  • Backend applications
  • Frontend applications
  • Mobile applications
  • APIs
  • Message brokers
  • Event streams
  • Microservices
• Design solutions for container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate architectural principles and patterns, clearly articulating their benefits and trade-offs.

Solution Architecture & Design

• Work closely with Agile Tribes and Squads across Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with internal departments and subsidiaries to align architecture decisions with business and technical requirements.
• Work across functional and technical teams to ensure effective solution delivery.

Security & Resilience

• Embed cybersecurity and information security best practices into architecture and solution design.
• Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate reliability, resiliency, security, and performance considerations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience developing end-to-end design patterns, high-level designs, and solutions across backend, frontend, and mobile applications.
• Strong experience in banking, accounting, payments, lending, and credit products.
• Corporate banking domain exposure is an advantage.
• Must have participated in or led at least 3 projects involving resilient, reliable, and secure applications within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of:
  • APIs
  • Message brokers
  • Event streams
  • Microservices
  • Container-based infrastructure
  • Cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong understanding of embedding cybersecurity and information security into architecture and design.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, Agile team structures, and Agile deliverables including Features, Epics, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Strong willingness to learn and adapt to new functional domains.