Job description

The Solution Architect - Banking Domain operates within the Banking & Financial Services industry and is responsible for designing and leading end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale banking and financial systems in enterprise environments. The role requires deep expertise in enterprise architecture, integration, cloud computing, and middleware technologies, with strong exposure to the Gulf region (KSA / GCC). The architect translates complex business requirements into scalable, secure, high-performance technology solutions across application, integration, data, and infrastructure layers. Responsibilities include defining architecture models for core banking systems, payments platforms, digital banking channels, APIs, and integration platforms, while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, scalability, performance, and regulatory expectations. The role drives API-led and microservices-based architectures, oversees solution delivery across the full SDLC, and ensures architectural compliance throughout implementation. The candidate supports development, DevOps, and operations teams, participates in architecture governance, technical reviews, and stakeholder presentations, and works within Agile / SAFe environments across multiple squads. The role demands experience with AWS / Azure cloud platforms, Kubernetes containerization, enterprise distributed systems, middleware integration, API management and security, and high-availability mission-critical banking systems. Strong collaboration with business and technical stakeholders is required to ensure robust, scalable enterprise solutions.