Solution Architect (Banking)

TechSurge Inc; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSurge Inc. is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to drive architectural governance and support the end-to-end lifecycle of retail banking platforms.

You will lead cross-functional teams to design scalable, secure microservices and APIs, aligning with enterprise standards and multi-cloud strategies. The role emphasizes hands-on blueprinting, high-level and low-level design, and collaboration with product, engineering, and operations to ensure timely, robust delivery of digital banking

Qualifications

• Experience architecting micro-services based applications.

Responsibilities

• Identify and design solutions meeting evolving business needs.
• Govern enterprise architecture standards across solution lifecycle.
• Support engineering teams in building robust, scalable products and platforms.
• Promote APIs and microservices adoption across retail banking systems.
• Encourage reusability and extensibility across retail platforms.
• Oversee modernization initiatives for retail needs.
• Guide teams on security architecture and standards for customer-facing apps.
• Embed non-functional requirements (performance, availability, scalability) in designs.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and operations for timely delivery.
• Maintain a retail technology radar to track trends and innovations.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture roadmaps from a retail perspective.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Microservices

API design

Cloud - multi

Security architecture

TOGAF

Domain Driven Design

Java

Node.js

Spring Boot

API gateway

Service mesh

React

React Native

.NET Core

SQL

NoSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

OAuth2.0

TLS / mTLS

GDPR/PII compliance

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

API gateway

Service mesh

Job description

Job Description

• Driving the identification and design solutions to meet evolving business needs.
• Ensuring RBG architectural governance and adherence to Enterprise Architecture standards throughout the solution and software lifecycle.
• Reviewing and supporting engineering teams in building robust, scalable products and platforms.
• Drive the adoption of APIs and microservices across retail banking systems, including External APIs for partner integrations & openbanking and internal APIs for modular service orchestration.
• Promote reusability and extensibility across retail platforms to accelerate product delivery.
• Recommend and oversee modernization initiatives to support evolving retail banking needs.
• Guide development teams in adopting and implementing security architecture and standards specific to customer-facing applications.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, availability, scalability) are embedded in all solution designs.
• Collaborate with agile delivery models, working closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to ensure timely and scalable solution delivery.
• Maintain a retail-focused technology radar to track emerging trends and recommend innovations for continuous improvement.
• Provide input into enterprise architecture roadmaps from a retail perspective, ensuring scalability and adaptability.

Required Experience and Skills

• Overall 15+ years of application development experience, including 5+ years in Solution Architecture
• Having strong knowledge of banking technology with at least 5+ years of experience in solutioning banking applications
• Ability to operate within retail digital squads and SOR systems, balancing agile and waterfall methodologies. Senior Stakeholder Management
• Expertise in crafting Blueprint, High-level and Low-level designs
• Guide all the technology teams in stability of applications and platforms by providing critical inputs on various aspects like performance testing, performance tuning etc
• Ability to challenge technology solutions provided by vendors and in-house teams to propose an optimal solution
• Ability to identify the hotspots in the current application landscape and provide solutions to rectify

Experience Defining Functional And Non-functional Application Requirements

• Experience in architecting micro-services based applications.
• Experience working with online commerce and omni-channel retail business practice.
• Expert knowledge of multi cloud stack
• Enterprise Architecture certification TOGAF is preferred
• Strong knowledge on Domain Driven Design, microservices, API and front-app development tools such as Java, node.js, SpringBoot, API gateway,
• service mesh, react, ReactNative, .net core and emergent AI technology
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and NOSQL database technologies such as SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.,
• Expertise in OAuth2.0, FAPI2.0, TLS, mTLS, GDPR/PII compliance and related security Architecture standards
• Experience working with an Agile DEVOPS development methodology using continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes