Fintech Solutions Architect: Banking & Payments Leader

Pro Talent; Durban; On-site; ZAR 1,100,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Job summary

Pro Talent is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of banking and payments systems in Durban, South Africa. You will ensure seamless integration, robust architecture, and governance across projects.

You will define integration patterns with core banking, payment switches, and third parties, while guiding non-functional aspects like HA, DR, and capacity planning to support scalable fintech platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 4+ years in solution or enterprise architecture roles in banking/fintech.
• Proven track record of production-ready banking/fintech solutions.
• Strong understanding of FICA, GDPR, PCI DSS, SARB/NPS compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive end-to-end architectures for banking and payment products.
• Define integration patterns with core banking systems, payment switches, card schemes, and third-party providers.
• Develop ledger, reconciliation, settlement, and clearing workflows.
• Oversee non-functional aspects: high availability, DR, capacity planning, performance optimization.
• Lead build-vs-buy assessments and vendor selection processes.
• Produce architecture artifacts such as solution designs, data-flow diagrams, API contracts, and threat models.
• Establish architecture governance frameworks.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Banking fintech knowledge

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Cloud platforms

System design

Job description

Pro Talent is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of banking and payments systems in Durban, South Africa. You will ensure seamless integration, robust architecture, and governance across projects.

You will define integration patterns with core banking, payment switches, and third parties, while guiding non-functional aspects like HA, DR, and capacity planning to support scalable fintech platforms.