Enterprise Architecture Lead — Banking & Microservices

INTERTECH; Fatih; On-site; TRY 600,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Gym and recreation facilities

Birthday Leave

Language allowance

Multiple hub offices

Job summary

Intertech Türkiye seeks a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead and grow an architecture function across core banking, integration, and channel platforms. You'll define target state architectures, oversee governance, and ensure alignment with business outcomes in a regulated, high-volume environment.

Join a tech-forward team with global projects, modern Microsoft tech, and opportunities to influence large-scale modernization programs, data strategy, and AI-enabled delivery.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and architecture with at least 4 years leading an architecture team.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale distributed systems on the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, SQL Server, Oracle) and evolving monolithic systems into service-based architectures.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture practice: capability modelling, target state definition, roadmapping, governance and architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of enterprise and solution architects; set standards for how architecture work is done, reviewed and communicated.
• Own the enterprise target architecture and the transition roadmap for the core banking, channel and integration landscape, including coexistence of legacy .NET monolith and growing .NET microservices estate.
• Chair the Architecture Committee: define architectural principles, reference architectures, guardrails and decision records; ensure they are applied in delivery.
• Provide architectural direction for the bank's business process re-engineering portfolio and major transformation programs; align technology decisions with business outcomes.
• Steer platform decisions such as data platform strategy, event-driven integration, API management and build-versus-buy evaluations of low-code and vendor platforms.
• Establish quality gates, non-functional requirements and design review practices to improve reliability, performance and change safety.
• Partner with Technology Platforms, Infrastructure, Security and Data teams to translate the architecture roadmap into funded initiatives.
• Represent architecture to executive stakeholders; present options, trade-offs and recommendations for management decisions.
• Experience with core banking modernization, database platform migration and familiarity with Turkish regulatory environment (BDDK, BKM).
• Exposure to generative AI and agentic architectures in enterprise settings and AI-assisted delivery.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

Banking domain

Microsoft stack

TOGAF

Microservices

DDD

Event-driven

API design

Kubernetes

Governance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

.NET

C#

Job description

Intertech Türkiye seeks a seasoned Enterprise Architect to lead and grow an architecture function across core banking, integration, and channel platforms. You'll define target state architectures, oversee governance, and ensure alignment with business outcomes in a regulated, high-volume environment.

Join a tech-forward team with global projects, modern Microsoft tech, and opportunities to influence large-scale modernization programs, data strategy, and AI-enabled delivery.