Senior architect/ Java lead

Rhohyve Ai Labs; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhohyve Ai Labs seeks an experienced Senior Architect to define architecture for enterprise-scale banking applications and digital platforms. You will collaborate with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing banking solutions.

The role demands expertise in banking domain, enterprise architecture, microservices, API-first approaches, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and secure integration with core

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• Extensive architecture experience in banking/financial services.
• Strong cloud, security, and integration capabilities across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end architecture for banking platforms.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design Kubernetes, microservices-based and API-first architectures.
• Define architecture standards, design principles, and reusable frameworks.
• Drive modernization of legacy banking apps toward digital platforms.
• Design for high availability, scalability, resiliency, DR, and BAU continuity.
• Govern deployment architectures across public/private/hybrid clouds.
• Guide Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and cloud-native deployments.

Skills

Banking domain

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Microservices

API architecture

DevSecOps

Security

Scalability

Resilience

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

API Gateway

CI/CD

Job description

Key Skills:

Banking Domain | Enterprise Architecture | Cloud Architecture | Kubernetes | OpenShift | Microservices | API Architecture | DevSecOps | Security | Scalability | Resilience | Technical Leadership

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to define and drive the architecture of enterprise-scale banking applications and digital platforms. The candidate will work closely with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to design scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions for retail and corporate banking. The role requires strong expertise in banking domain, enterprise architecture, microservices, API-first architecture, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/OpenShift, distributed systems, databases, security, and enterprise integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end solution and application architecture for banking platforms.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Design K8S, microservices-based and API-first architectures.
• Define architecture standards, design principles, technology choices, and reusable frameworks.
• Drive modernization of legacy banking applications toward modern digital platforms.
• Design solutions supporting high availability, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Design and govern deployment architectures across public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Define and govern Kubernetes-based application architectures, including containerization, scaling, service discovery, networking, configuration, secrets, and workload management.
• Provide architecture guidance for Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and cloud-native application deployments.
• Design secure integration with channels, core banking systems, payment systems, authentication platforms, third-party systems, and enterprise services.
• Establish API standards including REST, security, versioning, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility.
• Work with engineering teams on architecture decisions, design reviews, POCs, and technical governance.
• Identify and resolve architecture-level performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.
• Define appropriate database, caching, messaging, and integration patterns.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies based on business requirements, operational considerations, security, and enterprise standards.
• Ensure solutions comply with banking security, regulatory, audit, data protection, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple development and implementation teams.
• Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior developers.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and technology roadmaps.

Cloud & Kubernetes Expertise

Strong experience in designing and implementing solutions on:

• Containers: Docker / OCI containers
• Container Platforms: Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Kubernetes workload deployment and management
• Kubernetes networking and service discovery
• Ingress, load balancing and API Gateway integration
• Horizontal/vertical scaling and resource management
• Configuration and secrets management
• Health checks, readiness/liveness probes
• High availability and self-healing
• Kubernetes security and RBAC
• Container image management and vulnerability scanning
• CI/CD and automated deployment
• Cloud-native observability, logging, metrics and tracing
• Service mesh and microservices communication patterns
• Disaster recovery and multi-cluster architecture

Technical Architecture

Architecture & Design

• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design
• Event-Driven Architecture
• API-first Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Design Patterns
• High Availability & Resiliency

Backend & Integration

• Java / Spring Boot or equivalent enterprise technologies
• REST APIs
• API Gateway
• Kafka / messaging platforms
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• SSO and IAM
• Service-to-service security

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• CI/CD pipelines
• DevSecOps
• Git-based development and deployment
• Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Docker
• Helm
• Monitoring, logging and distributed tracing
• Production deployment and rollback strategies

Database & Data

• Oracle / PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS
• SQL and database architecture
• Redis / distributed caching
• Replication and high-availability database architectures
• Performance and capacity planning

Non-Functional Architecture

Strong experience defining and addressing:

• Performance and scalability
• High availability
• Disaster recovery
• Resilience and fault tolerance
• Security
• Data privacy
• Capacity planning
• Observability
• Maintainability
• Operational readiness
• Production supportability

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Work effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Lead architecture discussions across development, infrastructure, security, DevOps and operations teams.
• Review and approve high-level and low-level technical designs.
• Establish architecture governance and engineering standards.
• Mentor architects, technical leads and senior developers.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
• Balance business requirements, technical debt, delivery timelines, risk and long-term architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architecture, or equivalent are desirable.
• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA/CKAD are an advantage.
• Experience with large-scale digital banking transformation programs.
• Experience working across multiple geographies/entities is an advantage.
• Experience working in regulated financial services environments is highly desirable.