Financial Services Solution Architect: Secure, Scalable API

Agensi Pekerjaan Penta Consultancy Sdn. Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Agensi Pekerjaan Penta Consultancy Sdn. Bhd in Kuala Lumpur seeks a skilled Solution Architect to design end-to-end architectures for digital insurance platforms and ensure security, compliance, and scalability across frontend, API gateways, and backend services.

You will lead architecture standards, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide development from design through production support, aiming for high availability and robust disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in financial services or insurance environments.
• Strong expertise in modern application frameworks and architectures (React, Angular, Spring Boot, .NET Core, Node.js, microservices).
• Solid understanding of application security, including hands-on experience with penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, secure coding and secure API practices.
• Extensive experience with API Gateway platforms (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management).
• Knowledge of enterprise network architecture, including frontend-backend segregation, API gateway placement, load balancing, firewall configuration.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures for digital insurance platforms (customer portals, agent systems, core backend).
• Enforce architecture standards complying with financial regulations, security, and compliance.
• Architect secure frontend-to-backend communications via API gateways for omnichannel access.
• Review network topologies including API gateways, load balancers, firewalls, DMZs, secure connections.
• Integrate secure coding and API security best practices (OWASP Top 10, OAuth2, JWT, mTLS).
• Assess findings from penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, and security audits with security teams.
• Collaborate with dev, infra, DevOps, security, risk to align with policies.
• Provide architectural guidance through development, testing, deployment, support.
• Evaluate technologies for high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery.
• Create and maintain architecture docs including designs, diagrams, security models.

Skills

Solution architecture

React

Angular

Spring Boot

.NET Core

Node.js

Microservices

Application security

Penetration testing

Vulnerability scanning

Secure coding

Secure API practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kong

Apigee

AWS API Gateway

Azure API Management

Job description

Agensi Pekerjaan Penta Consultancy Sdn. Bhd in Kuala Lumpur seeks a skilled Solution Architect to design end-to-end architectures for digital insurance platforms and ensure security, compliance, and scalability across frontend, API gateways, and backend services.

You will lead architecture standards, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide development from design through production support, aiming for high availability and robust disaster recovery.