Solutions Architect

NTT DATA Payment Services; Kampung Malaysia Tambahan; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Payment Services is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead architectural governance across fintech platforms. You will drive cloud-native design, mentor teams, and ensure secure, scalable solutions while aligning with enterprise principles.

Responsibilities include establishing reference architectures, guiding distributed systems and microservices, and collaborating with CISO and audit teams to maintain regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years in software engineering and at least 3 years in architecture or a technical leadership role.
• Experience in payment gateways or financial platforms, fintech exposure preferred.
• Experience modernising legacy platforms into cloud-native architectures and guiding engineering teams.
• Strong background with microservices, DDD, clean onion architectures, CQRS/SAGA/Outbox, distributed systems, REST APIs and BFF patterns.
• Hands-on AWS (EKS/ECR/S3/RDS/Secrets Manager), Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps with ArgoCD, and Kustomize.
• Knowledge of secure cloud-native architecture, secrets management, static/container security scanning, authentication/authorization, event-driven integration (RabbitMQ).

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce architectural standards across teams for API consistency, resilience and observability.
• Guide engineering teams toward scalable, secure solutions and mentor architects and leads.
• Reduce technical debt by identifying gaps and strengthening service boundaries and domain ownership.
• Partner with platform, security, compliance and product teams to ensure long‑term platform sustainability.
• Review and approve solution designs with governance and reusable templates.
• Represent engineering in governance bodies and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.

Skills

Microservices

Domain-driven design

Distributed systems

REST APIs

.NET/C#

BFF patterns

Event-driven patterns

Cloud-native architecture

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps with ArgoCD

Kustomize

Security scanning

RabbitMQ

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps with ArgoCD

Kustomize

SonarQube

Prisma Cloud

RabbitMQ

Job description

• Define and enforce architectural standards by providing clear direction across teams, ensuring consistency in APIs, communication patterns, resilience and observability, reducing design inconsistencies and rework, and establishing comprehensive engineering architecture guidelines.
• Guide engineering teams toward scalable and secure solutions by enhancing clarity in solution design, mentoring developers and technical leads in architecture best practices, and providing architectural guidance throughout planning and delivery phases.
• Reduce technical debt by assessing existing implementations to identify architectural gaps, driving initiatives that improve system scalability, reliability, and maintainability, while eliminating microservice duplication and strengthening service boundaries and domain ownership.
• Partner with engineering, platform, network, DevOps, security, compliance, and product teams including the CISO and Internal Audit to ensure long‑term platform sustainability.
• Review and approve solution designs by establishing architecture review processes and design checkpoints, preventing over‑engineering through pragmatic decisions, and defining reference architectures and reusable design templates.
• Take ownership of the Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) by ensuring solution designs align with enterprise principles and target‑state architecture, while representing engineering in ETAC through preparing proposals, presenting designs, and ensuring initiatives comply with governance standards and strategic technology direction.

Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 3 years in software engineering and at least 3 years in architecture or a technical leadership role
• Experience in payment gateways or financial platforms, with exposure to fintech or regulated environments
• Experience modernising legacy platforms into cloud‑native architectures, designing distributed systems, and guiding or mentoring engineering teams
• Strong experience with microservices, domain‑driven design (DDD), clean/onion architectures, event‑driven patterns (CQRS, SAGA, Outbox), distributed systems, .NET/C#, REST APIs, and BFF patterns, including orchestration‑based workflows
• Hands‑on expertise with AWS (EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, Secrets Manager), Docker, Kubernetes resource design (Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets, ExternalSecrets), rolling updates, and GitLab CI/CD, GitOps with ArgoCD, Kustomize, and automated deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of secure cloud‑native architecture, secrets management, static and container security scanning (SonarQube, Prisma Cloud), authentication/authorization patterns, event‑driven integration (RabbitMQ), API versioning, backward compatibility, and feature flag/progressive rollout strategies

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our recruitment philosophy is to recruit people with whom we can build a strong, mutually beneficial and lasting relationship. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities, irrespective of race, religion, gender or disability.