Senior Solution Architect - Core Banking Modernisation

Client of Forsyth Barnes; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 520,000 - 980,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Complex regulatory technology focus

Exposure to core bankingTransformation

High-availability systems governance

Professional development in enterprise

Job summary

Unknown Financial Institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to define and direct technology solutions for core banking sustenance projects and strategic platform initiatives. You will translate business priorities and constraints into architectures aligned with enterprise standards, guiding governance, risk management, and resilient delivery.

The role requires senior leadership across business and technology, with a focus on secure, maintainable, and scalable designs

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in solution architecture.
• Experience in banking or financial services at a senior level.
• Proven background designing and governing core banking platforms or other high-availability financial systems.
• Strong understanding of integration, data flows, infrastructure dependencies, system interfaces, and service resilience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, design assurance, and remediation of complex issues.
• Practical experience with platform performance management, capacity planning, batch or end-of-day processing, and technology modernisation.
• Knowledge of technology risk, security principles, regulatory expectations, change governance, and operational control in a regulated environment.
• Ability to convert business requirements and operational challenges into clear, supportable technical designs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex architectural choices to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures for core banking enhancements, integrations, and optimisation programmes.
• Provide technical leadership for sustenance projects ensuring objectives on resilience, security, performance and maintainability are met.
• Assess existing platforms to identify architectural constraints, technical debt, integration risks and modernization opportunities.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical evaluations, documenting decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks and actions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, application teams, infrastructure, databases, security and external technology partners.
• Direct investigation and resolution of defects, recurring incidents, performance bottlenecks and stability concerns.
• Contribute to capacity planning and end-of-day processing optimisation to sustain reliable service levels as volumes grow.
• Ensure designs support banking controls, information security expectations, regulatory requirements and governance standards.
• Monitor delivery against approved architecture, milestones, quality criteria and readiness requirements.
• Manage architectural risks, cross-project dependencies, escalation points and stakeholder decisions throughout delivery.

Skills

Solution architecture

Banking domain

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

Performance and resilience

Stakeholder management

Security and compliance

Job description

Unknown Financial Institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to define and direct technology solutions for core banking sustenance projects and strategic platform initiatives. You will translate business priorities and constraints into architectures aligned with enterprise standards, guiding governance, risk management, and resilient delivery.

The role requires senior leadership across business and technology, with a focus on secure, maintainable, and scalable designs