Senior Application Solution Architect - Banking & Integrations

Techstra Solutions; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh seeks an experienced Application Solution Architect to bridge business and engineering teams, designing scalable banking solutions across on-premises systems and cloud platforms. The role leads integration of Salesforce, core banking mainframes, and Kafka-driven data flows.

You will define reference architectures, govern data models, and provide executive updates while ensuring regulatory compliance, security, and resilience through modern middleware, APIs, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8+ years in enterprise IT architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Proven experience in the retail banking or financial services domain.
• Broad Architectural Expertise across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with integration patterns, including Kafka, REST/SOAP, and middleware.
• Working knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem within an enterprise landscape.
• Strong communication and governance capabilities in a compliance-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Strategy: Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and data models to support retail banking use cases (e.g., account onboarding, KYC, loan origination).
• Solution Design: Lead high-level and detailed solution design, ensuring that new implementations align with existing enterprise standards and performance requirements.
• Integration & Ecosystem Management: Architect complex integrations between modern platforms (including Salesforce) and core on-premise banking systems, utilizing middleware, API gateways, and Kafka for event-driven data flows.
• Technical Oversight: Provide governance and technical oversight during the build and deployment cycles to ensure scalability, security, and the management of technical debt.
• Compliance & Risk: Partner with risk and audit teams to ensure all solutions comply with retail banking regulatory requirements, data lineage standards, and PII handling policies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate complex business capabilities into actionable technical blueprints and provide executive-level architecture updates to facilitate decision-making.

Skills

Enterprise IT architecture

Banking domain knowledge

Leadership & stakeholder management

System integration design

Event-driven architecture (Kafka)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

Salesforce

API gateways

Kafka

Middleware

REST/SOAP

Mainframe

Job description

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh seeks an experienced Application Solution Architect to bridge business and engineering teams, designing scalable banking solutions across on-premises systems and cloud platforms. The role leads integration of Salesforce, core banking mainframes, and Kafka-driven data flows.

You will define reference architectures, govern data models, and provide executive updates while ensuring regulatory compliance, security, and resilience through modern middleware, APIs, and