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.