Senior Banking Solutions Architect – APAC (Travel)

GFT Technologies APAC & GCC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Technologies APAC & GCC in Singapore seeks a Senior Solution Architect to own end-to-end architecture for complex banking transformations, guiding pre-sales through delivery. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Asia and Europe, shaping architectures for digital channels, APIs, microservices, cloud and security, while ensuring production readiness and governance.

Travel is likely; the role is ideal based in Singapore, with international engagements and a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in solution architecture for banking transformations.
• Strong knowledge of digital channels, APIs, cloud, and security.
• Proven ability to lead pre-sales and delivery with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology and functional experts in an agile project delivery model, understand business requirements, lead the development team in technical decisions, and discuss and agree with different customer and partner teams on any open topic.
• Collaborate with technology, and functional experts to understand business requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Lead technical decision-making across project teams and work with clients, partners, engineering teams, and specialist SMEs to resolve architecture and technology decisions.
• Lead and contribute to pre-sales and solution-shaping activities, including client discovery, RFP/RFI responses, architecture proposals, estimation, team composition, delivery models, and client presentations.
• Operate in a consultative capacity with senior client stakeholders to evaluate solution options, drive architecture decisions, and guide solutions through implementation and production.
• Evaluate architecture and technology options and articulate trade-offs across business value, complexity, cost, security, scalability, resilience, and delivery risk.
• Provide technical leadership for emerging technologies and new solution offerings, working with specialist SMEs where deeper domain expertise is required.
• Own the end-to-end solution architecture and provide architecture governance throughout delivery, ensuring alignment between agreed architecture, scope, NFRs, security requirements, and implementation.
• Work closely with engineering teams throughout delivery, providing architecture guidance, reviewing designs, resolving technical challenges, and supporting production readiness.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Banking domain knowledge

Microservices & API-led

Cloud & DevSecOps

Job description

GFT Technologies APAC & GCC in Singapore seeks a Senior Solution Architect to own end-to-end architecture for complex banking transformations, guiding pre-sales through delivery. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Asia and Europe, shaping architectures for digital channels, APIs, microservices, cloud and security, while ensuring production readiness and governance.

Travel is likely; the role is ideal based in Singapore, with international engagements and a strong emphasis on