Digital Banking Frameworks Architect & Solution Enablement

BDO Unibank; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO Unibank, Inc. in Ortigas seeks an experienced Architect to design, govern, and maintain reusable architecture frameworks, frontend architecture standards, and BFF patterns that enable secure, scalable banking solutions.

The role serves as the bridge between architecture and engineering, helping teams leverage standard patterns to accelerate delivery while reducing technical debt. The candidate will define architecture guardrails, deliver scaffolds and SDKs, provide technical guidance to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Software Engineering or related technology disciplines.
• Minimum 8 years application development experience.
• Minimum 5 years solution design experience.
• Minimum 3 years architecture, framework or engineering platform experience.
• Preferred – Banking industry experience, Digital Banking Experience, Payments Experience, Consumer banking experience.
• Must be willing to work onsite and be assigned in Ortigas.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and govern reusable architecture frameworks, reference implementations, technical standards, and design guidelines across front-end, BFF, API consumption, Micro Frontend, and MicroApps architecture.
• Maintain architecture guardrails that ensure digital channel solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture direction.
• Deliver practical architecture and standards enforcement tools, including scaffolds, internal SDKs, automated checks, quality gates, conformance tools, and reusable implementation mechanisms.
• Ensure solution designs comply with enterprise, security, coding, DevSecOps, regulatory, and platform engineering standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, recommend adoption opportunities, and maintain target-state framework roadmaps to support modernization.
• Support solution architects by translating approved architecture requirements into implementation-ready designs and validating detailed technical designs.
• Provide reusable frameworks, templates, components, libraries, starter kits, code generators, reference implementations, and playbooks to accelerate project onboarding.
• Provide technical consultation to developers, technical leads, build teams, product teams, QA teams, and other stakeholders on framework and design matters.
• Govern framework releases, upgrades, adoption roadmaps, utilization metrics, and technical debt across RCA projects.
• Maintain the technical repository, standards documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials to strengthen capability across teams.

Skills

Solution design

Architecture

Frontend architecture

Backend-for-Frontend (BFF)

DevSecOps awareness

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/IT/software engineering/related technology

Job description

BDO Unibank, Inc. in Ortigas seeks an experienced Architect to design, govern, and maintain reusable architecture frameworks, frontend architecture standards, and BFF patterns that enable secure, scalable banking solutions.

The role serves as the bridge between architecture and engineering, helping teams leverage standard patterns to accelerate delivery while reducing technical debt. The candidate will define architecture guardrails, deliver scaffolds and SDKs, provide technical guidance to