Senior Framework & Solution Architect (Onsite)

BDO Unibank; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO Unibank, Inc. is seeking a senior architecture leader to design, govern, and maintain reusable frameworks and patterns that enable secure, scalable banking solutions. You will bridge architecture and engineering, ensuring teams leverage standardized blueprints to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.

The role emphasizes ownership of frontend, BFF, and MicroApps architectures, with a focus on DevSecOps, security, and modernization within Ortigas onsite operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, 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, 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 from engineering and vendor teams.
• Provide reusable frameworks, templates, components, libraries, starter kits, code generators, reference implementations, and playbooks that accelerate project onboarding and reduce duplication across delivery teams.
• Provide technical consultation to developers, technical leads, build teams, product teams, QA teams, and other delivery stakeholders on framework and solution design matters.
• Support resolution of architecture, design, and production issues where framework design, integration patterns, or platform standards are involved.
• Govern framework releases, upgrades, adoption roadmaps, utilization metrics, and technical debt across RCA projects.
• Conduct technical governance, design reviews, architecture deviation assessments, and corrective action recommendations.
• Maintain the technical repository, standards documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials to strengthen architecture and framework capability across teams.
• Front-end Architecture: define front-end standards, Micro Frontend patterns, component reuse strategy, and frontend security patterns in collaboration with IT Security.
• Backend-for-Frontend: design and maintain BFF governance, service patterns, channel-specific aggregation, orchestration, and API consumption standards.
• MicroApps: define MicroApps architecture, deployment standards, framework integration approaches, and shared services integration patterns.
• Developer Experience: improve developer productivity by standardizing reusable tools, templates, CI/CD integration patterns, and engineering enablement assets

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering or related technology disciplines

Job description

BDO Unibank, Inc. is seeking a senior architecture leader to design, govern, and maintain reusable frameworks and patterns that enable secure, scalable banking solutions. You will bridge architecture and engineering, ensuring teams leverage standardized blueprints to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.

The role emphasizes ownership of frontend, BFF, and MicroApps architectures, with a focus on DevSecOps, security, and modernization within Ortigas onsite operations.