Enterprise Application FinTech Architect

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and solution architecture strategies for digital banking, payments, cards, lending, capital markets, wealth management, insurance, transaction banking and broader FinTech platforms.
• Architect end-to-end financial applications across customer channels, mobile and web platforms, domain services, APIs, integration, data, security, cloud and platform-engineering layers.
• Lead the modernisation of legacy and monolithic financial systems into domain-aligned, API-first, microservices-based, event-driven, containerised and cloud-native architectures.
• Define target-state architectures, transition roadmaps and reusable patterns aligned with business capabilities, regulatory requirements and enterprise transformation objectives.
• Design secure, resilient, highly available, scalable and low-latency solutions that meet financial-services regulations, data-residency requirements and enterprise-risk controls.
• Provide architecture leadership for payment processing, digital onboarding, KYC and AML, fraud and risk management, lending, cards, open banking, real-time payments, transaction banking and financial-data platforms.
• Design highly scalable, secure and responsive web and mobile application architectures using modern frontend and cross-platform technologies.
• Define API-led integration, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture and distributed-system patterns for complex financial ecosystems.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Extensive experience in enterprise application, solution and platform architecture for large-scale financial-services environments.
• Strong domain understanding in one or more areas such as digital banking, payments, cards, lending, capital markets, wealth management, insurance, transaction banking, KYC and AML, fraud or regulatory reporting.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale FinTech or banking-transformation programmes and platform-modernisation initiatives.
• Hands-on architecture expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and enterprise Java ecosystems.
• Strong experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, API management and API-led integration.
• Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, domain-driven design and bounded-context architecture.
• Strong expertise in event-driven architecture, messaging and stream-processing patterns.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or equivalent event-streaming technologies.
• Strong knowledge of workflow engines, service mesh, caching, distributed transactions and integration patterns.
• Experience designing modern web applications using React, Angular, TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Experience architecting native or cross-platform mobile applications.