Senior Solution Architect & Tech Lead - Banking Payments

Experis; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

B2B via Experis

Strategic banking transformation

Long-term cooperation

Modern technology stack

High-impact architectural role

Job summary

Experis is seeking a Solution Architect / Technical Lead for a large-scale banking project focused on payment systems. The role combines architecture, leadership, coordination, and hands-on support across Backend, Frontend, and DevOps.

Responsibilities include designing architectures, gathering requirements, coordinating teams, maintaining docs, and ensuring security and performance across high-volume transactions. Remote/hybrid with office visits in Warsaw.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with banking payment systems.
• 10+ years of experience with Java.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Kafka Streams.
• Knowledge of design patterns, UML, and Enterprise Architect.
• Experience with high-volume transaction processing systems.
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kafka Streams, Hibernate, Spring Security, and Resilience4j.
• Experience with Tomcat, Netty, Hazelcast, and Ehcache.
• Strong understanding of PKI, Digital Signatures, JWT, TLS, and mTLS.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Knowledge of Git/Gerrit, Jira, Maven, IntelliJ, and CI/CD processes.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and Loki.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and MCP.

Responsibilities

• Design solution architecture for banking payment systems.
• Gather business and technical requirements.
• Coordinate project teams and oversee technical delivery.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation.
• Support development activities across Backend, Frontend, and DevOps teams.
• Ensure system scalability, security, and performance.

Skills

Banking payments

Java

Databases

Kafka

Design patterns

UML

Enterprise Architect

Security concepts

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Git/Gerrit

Jira

CI/CD

Monitoring

AI tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Git

Gerrit

Jira

Maven

IntelliJ

Job description

Experis is seeking a Solution Architect / Technical Lead for a large-scale banking project focused on payment systems. The role combines architecture, leadership, coordination, and hands-on support across Backend, Frontend, and DevOps.

Responsibilities include designing architectures, gathering requirements, coordinating teams, maintaining docs, and ensuring security and performance across high-volume transactions. Remote/hybrid with office visits in Warsaw.