Senior Solutions Architect: AI Banking Integrations

Workatbackbase; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Backbase is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the design of BankingOS integrations and AI agent-driven banking solutions for banking customers. You will work with bank technology teams to shape architecture, build prototypes and mentor engineers.

The role combines hands-on development with senior architectural leadership, focusing on production-ready patterns, performance, security and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing complex enterprise solutions in customer-facing architecture or technical consulting.
• Practical experience building AI applications and agent workflows, including an understanding of their limitations and trade-offs.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native deployment.
• Engineering experience with Java, Spring, identity and access management, DevOps and modern cloud platforms.
• Understanding of security, data privacy, access permissions and operational resilience in banking or other regulated industries.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to executives, architects and engineers and connect them to business requirements.
• A hands-on approach to testing new technologies, building prototypes and sharing knowledge with colleagues.
• Ability to work independently, solve technical problems and make decisions when requirements are unclear.
• Experience mentoring colleagues and willingness to travel for customer engagements approximately 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with bank technology teams to understand their technical requirements and drive architecture decisions.
• Design BankingOS integrations defining how banking journeys, AI agents, data and existing systems connect via APIs, events, and patterns.
• Design Agentic Banking solutions detailing how AI agents use data and tools with permissions, approvals, testing and traceability.
• Address AI limitations including reliability, hallucinations, privacy and agent autonomy.
• Test solutions and determine where additional controls are needed.
• Build and test prototypes with AI agents, knowledge retrieval, tools and integrations.
• Plan for production with attention to performance, security, reliability, and cost.
• Document architecture in the Digital Solution Document (DSD) and align stakeholders on delivery.
• Lead technical evaluations, run architecture workshops, assessments and RFP responses.
• Explain proposed solutions and potential compromises to stakeholders.
• Share technical knowledge through demos, reusable components and architecture patterns.
• Mentor colleagues and promote adoption of new technologies in customer projects.
• Contribute to product development by sharing customer feedback and testing lessons with the product team to improve BankingOS.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI applications

Agent workflows

API integration

Cloud-native deployment

Java

Spring

DevOps

Security & privacy

Regulated industries

Technical storytelling

Mentoring

Tools

Java

Spring

IAM

Job description

Backbase is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the design of BankingOS integrations and AI agent-driven banking solutions for banking customers. You will work with bank technology teams to shape architecture, build prototypes and mentor engineers.

The role combines hands-on development with senior architectural leadership, focusing on production-ready patterns, performance, security and regulatory considerations.