Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain APIs

DCG; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Co-financing for the sports card

Dedicated consultant support

Job summary

DCG is recruiting Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain APIs on behalf of our client in Warsaw, Poland. You will define and evolve the architecture vision for data products and domain APIs, lead end-to-end architecture across domains, and align technology with business capabilities.

You will establish architecture patterns, govern data ownership and metadata, promote API-first practices, and mentor engineers while navigating regulatory environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Solution, Domain or Enterprise Architecture.
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API and integration solutions.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or domains.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs and integration patterns.
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries and reusable architecture standards.
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented and distributed architectures.
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance requirements.
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strong data governance requirements.
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes.
• Very good English communication skill

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture vision and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs.
• Lead end-to-end architecture across domains, products and delivery streams.
• Coordinate solution architecture activities and guide engineers and architects.
• Identify interfaces, data flows, dependencies and integration requirements.
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for domain-owned data products.
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, data quality, metadata and lineage.
• Promote data product thinking and domain ownership.
• Define API-first principles, design standards, governance and lifecycle management.
• Guide teams on domain boundaries, API contracts, versioning and security.
• Ensure APIs are scalable, secure, observable and easy to consume.
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architectures where appropriate.
• Define non-functional requirements: availability, performance, security.
• Develop architectural runway for sustainable delivery and future evolution.
• Support CD and DevOps with pragmatic architecture guidelines and enablers.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams within defined guardrails.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Domain Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Data Architecture

API Architecture

API Governance

Event-driven Architecture

SOA / Microservices

Security

Scalability

Data Governance

Banking Domain

English Communication

Job description

As a recruitment company, DCG understands that every business is powered by experienced professionals. Our management style and partnership approach enable us to meet your needs and provide continuous support. Due to our ongoing growth and the large number of recruitment projects we undertake for our partners, we are currently looking for:

Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain APIs

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously evolve the architecture vision, principles and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs
• Lead end-to-end architecture across multiple domains, products and delivery streams, ensuring alignment between business capabilities, data assets, APIs and technology platforms
• Coordinate solution architecture activities and provide architectural guidance to architects and engineering teams working within individual delivery streams
• Identify system interfaces, data flows, dependencies and integration requirements across domains and support teams in evaluating architectural alternatives
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for domain-owned data products, ensuring they are discoverable, reusable, governed and reliable
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, data quality expectations, metadata, lineage and lifecycle responsibilities
• Promote modern data architecture practices, including data product thinking and domain ownership
• Define and maintain API-first architecture principles, API design standards, governance and lifecycle management practices
• Guide teams in defining domain boundaries, API contracts, versioning strategies, security mechanisms and reusable integration patterns
• Ensure APIs and integration solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable and easy to consume
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architecture approaches where appropriate
• Define functional and non-functional architectural requirements covering availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience and operability
• Define solution components, interfaces and responsibilities while ensuring alignment with the wider enterprise architecture
• Develop and maintain the architectural runway required for sustainable delivery and future technology evolution
• Support Continuous Delivery and DevOps through pragmatic architecture guidelines, automation and appropriate architectural enablers
• Contribute to solution planning, high-level design, architecture reviews and continuous exploration activities
• Communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor architects and engineering teams and support decentralised architectural decision-making within clearly defined guardrails

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience, including significant experience in Solution, Domain or Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API and integration solutions
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or domains
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs and integration patterns
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries and reusable architecture standards
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance requirements
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strong data governance requirements
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes
• Very good English communication skill

Nice to have

• Core Banking experience is a strong advantage

Offer

• Private medical care
• Co-financing for the sports card
• Constant support of dedicated consultant