Senior Solution Architect - Banking

GSSTech Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

GSSTech Group invites a Senior Solution Architect to lead enterprise architecture across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking. Translate complex business needs into scalable, secure designs spanning microservices, APIs, event streaming, and cloud-native platforms.

You will provide technical leadership, ensure security alignment, and collaborate with delivery teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced banking environment, driving architectural governance across multiple initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building end-to-end architectures.
• Experience across Backend, Frontend, Mobile, APIs, and enterprise patterns.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures, and message brokers.
• Proven ability to design secure, resilient, scalable solutions for banking domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
• Develop end-to-end designs and architecture patterns across platforms.
• Define architecture principles, patterns, and best practices and govern their use.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle and governance.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Technical Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Cloud-Native

Microservices

API Architecture

Security & Compliance

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

API Gateway

Job description

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Solution Architect / Technical Architect to join the Architecture team supporting Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking initiatives. 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 in banking and financial services , with exposure to accounting, payments, lending, credit products, and preferably corporate banking , together with extensive experience in microservices, 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.
• Develop end-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, architecture patterns, and technical solutions across 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 within microservices 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 maintain architecture 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 balance functional 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 to learn and adapt to new business and functional domains .

Architecture & Technical Competencies

Solution & Technical Architecture

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building 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 with container-based and cloud-native infrastructure and 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 their advantages, disadvantages, trade-offs, and business/technical impact.

Microservices & API Architecture

• Strong hands-on experience designing and architecting microservices-based applications .
• Strong experience with API-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 with message brokers and event-streaming technologies .
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous communication patterns. Ability to design resilient and scalable event-based solutions.

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