Senior Solution Architect - Banking

GSS Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

GSS Group in Dubai is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to drive architecture for Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking initiatives. You will design secure, scalable solutions balancing functionality with user experience, partnering with stakeholders and delivery teams.

The role requires deep banking domain expertise, strong leadership, and hands-on design in microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in solution architecture.
• Strong banking/financial services domain experience.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Ability to lead architecture governance and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, and high-performance technical solutions.
• Define end-to-end designs, architecture patterns, and technical solutions across backend, frontend, APIs, and microservices.
• Ensure architecture decisions balance requirements with customer experience, performance, reliability, and security.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Collaborate with agile delivery teams and governance bodies to ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Technical Architecture

Banking / financial services

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native

Security architecture

Agile delivery

Job description

We are looking for a highly experiencedSenior Solution Architect / Technical Architectto join the Architecture team supportingDigital Products and Corporate Assisted Bankinginitiatives.

The Senior Architect will work closely with the Head of Architecture while partnering with Delivery Heads, business stakeholders, technology teams, and relevant internal departments and subsidiaries. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to design secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and high-performing solutions that balance functional requirements with customer/user experience.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience inbanking and financial services, with exposure toaccounting, payments, lending, credit products, and preferably corporate banking, together with extensive experience inmicroservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, message brokers, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern application architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and high-performance technical solutions.
• Developend-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, architecture patterns, and technical solutionsacross backend, frontend, APIs, mobile applications, microservices, message brokers, and event-streaming platforms.
• Participate in and/or lead architecture activities for multiple projects, ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Design solutions withinmicroservices and API-based ecosystems.
• Define and evaluate architectural design principles, patterns, and approaches, clearly articulating their benefits, limitations, trade-offs, and suitability for the given business requirement.
• Develop and maintainarchitecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices.
• Work closely with internal technology teams, business stakeholders, delivery teams, departments, and subsidiaries to ensure effective solution design and implementation.
• Ensure architecture decisions appropriately balancefunctional requirements, customer/user experience, performance, reliability, resiliency, scalability, and security.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation and delivery.
• Support technical decision-making and provide architectural recommendations for complex business and technology challenges.
• Ensure proposed solutions are aligned with relevant cyber security and information security requirements.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams and contribute to architecture activities throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.
• Support architecture governance and ensure adherence to agreed architecture standards and best practices.
• Demonstrate strong ownership, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management across complex technology initiatives.
• Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, business domains, and evolving banking requirements.

Functional / Domain Competencies

The successful candidate should demonstrate strong functional knowledge and experience in:

• Banking
• Accounting
• Payments
• Lending
• Credit Products
• Digital Banking
• Corporate Banking –preferred
• Corporate Assisted Banking

Candidates should demonstrate a strong ability and willingness tolearn and adapt to new business and functional domains.

Architecture & Technical Competencies

Solution & Technical Architecture

• 5+ years of hands-on experiencebuilding end-to-end:
• Solution designs
• High-Level Designs (HLD)
• Technical architecture
• Design patterns
• Architecture solutions
• Strong experience designing applications across:
• Backend systems
• Frontend applications
• Mobile applications
• APIs
• Microservices
• Message brokers
• Event-streaming platforms
• Strong experience working withcontainer-based and cloud-native infrastructureand its associated ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of modern enterprise application architecture and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of architectural design principles and patterns.
• Ability to evaluate alternative architecture approaches and clearly explain theiradvantages, disadvantages, trade-offs, and business/technical impact.

Microservices & API Architecture

• Strong hands-on experience designing and architectingmicroservices-based applications.
• Strong experience withAPI-based ecosystems and API architecture.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs and distributed services.
• Understanding of service-to-service communication and integration patterns.

Event-Driven Architecture

• Experience withmessage brokers and event-streaming technologies.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Ability to design resilient and scalable event-based solutions.

Cloud-Native & Container Architecture

• Strong experience withcontainer-based / cloud-native application infrastructure.
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture principles and associated technology ecosystems.
• Experience designing solutions for scalability, availability, resiliency, and performance in distributed environments.

Security Architecture

• Adequate knowledge and practical experience in incorporatingcyber security and information securityconsiderations into application and solution architecture.
• Ability to ensure security requirements are considered throughout solution design.
• Understanding of secure application architecture, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native environments.

Agile Delivery Experience

Strong experience working withinAgile methodologies and Agile delivery teamsis essential.

The candidate should have practical experience with:

Agile Team Concepts

• Tribes
• Squads
• Cross-functional Agile teams

Agile Ceremonies

• Quarterly Planning
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Refinement
• Sprint Retrospectives

Agile Deliverables

• Features
• Epics
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria

The candidate should be comfortable collaborating with product, business, engineering, delivery, and architecture teams throughout the Agile lifecycle.

Required Experience

• Strong experience inSolution Architecture and/or Technical Architecture.
• Minimum5+ years of experience in end-to-end architecture, HLD, solution design, and architecture patterns.
• Strong banking / financial services domain experience.
• Experience participating in and/or leadingat least 3 projectsinvolving the design and architecture of resilient, reliable, and secure applications.
• Strong experience withmicroservices and API-based ecosystems.
• Experience across backend, frontend, APIs, mobile applications, message brokers, and event streams.
• Experience with container-based / cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of architecture principles, patterns, trade-offs, and best practices.
• Experience developing and maintaining architecture standards and guidelines.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, including Tribes, Squads, Agile ceremonies, Features, Epics, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work across business, technology, architecture, delivery, and internal stakeholder groups.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong technical leadership and architectural decision-making capability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong solution-oriented and analytical mindset.
• Ability to balance business requirements with technical excellence.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix organization.
• Comfortable working in complex, fast-paced enterprise environments.
• Strong willingness to learn and adapt to new domains and technologies.

Preferred Experience

• Corporate Banking experience.
• Digital Banking / Digital Products experience.
• Corporate Assisted Banking experience.
• Experience within large banks or financial institutions.
• Experience with enterprise-scale transformation programs.
• Exposure to modern cloud-native and event-driven architecture.
• Experience working across multiple business and technology teams.