Software Architect

Your future responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and roadmaps aligned with the bank's business strategy
• Own and evolve the bank’s enterprise integration architecture and integration strategy, ensuring a coherent approach across APIs, events, messaging, batch/file integration, and legacy integration patterns
• Define the target architecture and roadmap for the enterprise integration layer, including API Management, Event Streaming, Integration/iPaaS capabilities, service connectivity, and integration with legacy and core banking platforms
• Drive development of the enterprise API and integration ecosystem, ensuring reusable, secure, observable, and well-governed integration capabilities across business domains and tribes
• Establish and govern enterprise integration standards and patterns, including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, request/reply, data synchronization, batch integration, and integration with external partners
• Own and evolve the enterprise API, Event and Integration Catalog, providing visibility of available APIs, events, interfaces, dependencies, ownership, lifecycle status, and reuse opportunities across the bank
• Define governance and lifecycle management for APIs and events, including naming conventions, versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, ownership, SLAs/SLOs, security requirements, and documentation standards
• Establish principles for API-first and Event-driven architecture, reducing point-to-point integrations and increasing reuse and interoperability between domains
• Define clear boundaries and responsibilities between domain services, integration platforms, data platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities
• Facilitate integration architecture decisions for cross-domain initiatives and resolve dependencies and conflicts between tribes and systems
• Develop and govern the Enterprise Architecture framework across application, data, integration, and technology domains
• Maintain and evolve the enterprise application portfolio (1,000+ applications), driving rationalization, modernization, and technical debt reduction
• Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes — evaluate solution designs, ensure compliance with EA principles, and provide architectural decisions on cross-domain initiatives
• Review major solution architectures with particular attention to integration design, service boundaries, coupling, resilience, scalability, security, and reuse of existing enterprise capabilities
• Own and manage the Technology Radar — assess emerging technologies, define technology standards and lifecycle policies, and guide adoption and sunset decisions
• Collaborate with tribe leads, product owners, solution architects, platform teams, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities across 10 domains
• Drive adoption of industry frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, BIAN, and ArchiMate to ensure architectural consistency and banking domain alignment
• Apply BIAN concepts to improve service boundaries, domain ownership, API design, and interoperability between banking capabilities
• Conduct architecture maturity assessments, identify capability gaps, and define improvement roadmaps, including integration architecture maturity and platform adoption
• Provide strategic guidance on data architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data governance and regulatory requirements
• Facilitate cross-tribe architectural alignment, resolve architectural conflicts, and ensure coherent end-to-end solution design
• Work with platform and engineering teams to improve integration observability, reliability, security, and operational governance, including monitoring of APIs, events, message flows, dependencies, and service-level objectives
• Identify redundant interfaces, duplicate APIs, point-to-point integrations, and obsolete integration technologies, and define modernization and decommissioning roadmaps
• Mentor and coach solution architects and engineering leads, fostering architecture thinking and integration design excellence across teams
• Communicate architecture strategy, decisions, roadmaps, and trade-offs to C-level stakeholders and technical audiences alike

Your skills and experience:

• 7–10+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years in enterprise, integration, or solution architecture roles, preferably in banking or financial services
• Strong hands-on background in enterprise integration architecture, including designing large-scale integration landscapes and defining integration strategies and standards
• Strong expertise in: API architecture and API Management, REST and asynchronous API patterns, Event-driven architecture, Kafka and event streaming, messaging technologies, ESB and iPaaS platforms, service integration, external/partner integrations, legacy and core banking integration
• Practical experience designing or governing enterprise integration platforms/layers and defining their target architecture and evolution roadmap
• Experience implementing API and Event governance, including API/event catalogs, ownership models, versioning, lifecycle management, documentation, security standards, and reuse policies
• Understanding of integration patterns and anti-patterns, including point-to-point integration, orchestration vs choreography, transactional integration, eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, and distributed system resilience
• Strong understanding of API security approaches including OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token management, authorization, rate limiting, and API gateway security controls
• Experience with enterprise API Management or integration technologies such as Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Kafka, Confluent, or equivalent platforms
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and modeling notations (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)
• Hands-on experience with EA tooling (LeanIX, Ardoq, MEGA, or similar) for portfolio management, dependency mapping, capability modeling, and architecture repository management
• Deep understanding of banking domains such as core banking, payments, lending, customer onboarding, KYC/AML, cards, accounting, and regulatory compliance
• Experience with BIAN Service Landscape and its practical application to domain decomposition, service boundaries, and integration architecture
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid infrastructure strategies, including Kubernetes, Docker, service connectivity, and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with data architecture concepts including data products, data mesh/data fabric, master data management, data governance, and analytics platforms
• Knowledge of modern software engineering and architecture practices including DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, and observability
• Proven experience in technology portfolio governance, technology radar management, lifecycle policies, build-vs-buy analysis, and vendor assessment
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — ability to translate complex integration and architecture topics into clear business implications for executive audiences
• Experience facilitating Architecture Review Boards, architecture workshops, and cross-functional alignment sessions
• Strategic thinking combined with pragmatic execution — ability to define long-term target architecture while supporting incremental modernization of a complex legacy banking landscape
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken

Nice to have:

• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification
• BIAN certification or strong practical BIAN implementation experience
• Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise integration platform / integration layer in a large financial institution
• Experience building enterprise API and Event Catalogs and introducing API-first / Event-driven governance at scale
• Experience with Agile at scale and architecture practices within tribe/squad organizational structures
• Background in core banking migration, modernization, or large-scale transformation programs
• Experience modernizing ESB/legacy integration landscapes toward APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns, agent/API integration, and data-driven architecture approaches
• Experience with business capability modeling and IT strategy development