Lending Platform Architecture Leader

Finastra; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Hybrid work

Wellbeing program

Medical insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Finastra seeks a Head of Lending Architecture & Platform Engineering to lead architectural vision and platform transformation for Lending products. You will drive cloud adoption, modernization, and AI enablement, aligning with business growth and engineering excellence.

You will manage platform services, set governance, and partner with product, security, and data teams to deliver secure, scalable SaaS solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience and technical leadership.
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architectural vision, technical strategy, and long-term scalability of the Lending platform.
• Lead the development of shared platform services (identity, observability, CI/CD, logging, IaC).
• Drive cloud migration, microservices/reference architectures, and platform modernization.
• Collaborate with AI teams to operationalize AI models with guardrails and governance.
• Drive security, resilience, cost efficiency, and compliance at the platform level.
• Hire, mentor, and develop platform engineers and architects; set OKRs.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Cloud-native design

AI enablement

Security & compliance

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Finastra seeks a Head of Lending Architecture & Platform Engineering to lead architectural vision and platform transformation for Lending products. You will drive cloud adoption, modernization, and AI enablement, aligning with business growth and engineering excellence.

You will manage platform services, set governance, and partner with product, security, and data teams to deliver secure, scalable SaaS solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.