Role Overview

- Role: Solution & Integration Architect
- Team: Technology
- Reporting to: Global CTO
- Location: Mumbai or Delhi, India
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Experience: Typically 8–12+ years, including at least 3 years in solution architecture or a technical leadership role.

Role Purpose The Solution & Integration Architect is responsible for designing scalable enterprise solutions and seamless integrations between a digital property decisioning platform and banks’ existing technology systems. The role acts as a technical bridge between customers, Product, Engineering, IT Operations and leadership, ensuring that business requirements are translated into practical, secure, and buildable technical solutions. It involves hands-on API design, troubleshooting, customer engagement, and end-to-end integration delivery.

Key Responsibilities

- Solution Architecture

- Lead technical discovery and architecture workshops with banking customers.
- Design solution architectures, application components, data flows, security, and non-functional requirements.
- Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, risks, and dependencies.
- Promote reusable solutions and minimise customer-specific development.

2. API and Integration Design
- Design and document REST APIs, webhooks, callbacks, event-driven integrations, and secure file transfers.
- Develop API specifications using OpenAPI/Swagger, including payloads, validation, error handling, versioning, retries, and idempotency.
- Define authentication, authorisation, certificates, and secure connectivity.
- Work with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure API Management, Service Bus, Functions, and App Services.
- Troubleshoot integration issues using logs, API traces, and monitoring tools.

3. Requirements Definition
- Work with Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and customers to gather requirements.




- Translate business needs into technical specifications, API contracts, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Identify gaps, edge cases, dependencies, and technical constraints.
- Support backlog refinement, estimation, prioritisation discussions, and solution feasibility assessments.

4. Customer Integration Delivery
- Act as the primary technical contact for bank integration teams and third-party vendors.
- Coordinate connectivity, certificates, whitelisting, environments, and security approvals.
- Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, go-live, and post-launch support.
- Ensure integrations are properly documented and handed over to Support and IT Operations.

5. Security and Compliance
- Ensure designs meet banking security requirements and enterprise security standards.
- Address data protection, encryption, data residency, audit logging, and retention requirements.
- Support security assessments and compliance reviews involving RBI guidance, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and CERT-In requirements.

6. Architecture Standards and Continuous Improvement
- Develop reusable architecture patterns, integration templates, and API standards.
- Improve onboarding efficiency across multiple banking customers.
- Capture implementation lessons and collaborate with global architecture, Product, and Engineering teams.

Essential Skills and Experience
- Enterprise solution architecture and integration design,



preferably in banking or financial services.
- Strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, JSON, and XML.
- OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, certificates, and API security.
- Microsoft Azure integration services and API management.
- Event-driven messaging, webhooks, callbacks, batch processing, and SFTP.
- API versioning, retries, timeouts, error handling, and idempotency.
- Experience integrating with loan origination systems, loan management systems, core banking platforms, document management systems, and bank middleware.
- Understanding of banking network security, release governance, SIT, and UAT.
- Experience writing technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and technical troubleshooting skills.

Valuable-to-Have Skills
- .NET or Java development experience.
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Experience working with Indian public sector banks.
- Knowledge of Finacle, TCS BaNCS, Oracle FLEXCUBE, or similar core banking platforms.
- Familiarity with RBI regulations, data protection, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.
- TOGAF or other architecture frameworks.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, and integration monitoring tools.

Key Success Metrics Performance will be measured by:
- Quality and completeness of solution designs and API specifications.
- Clear, testable requirements with minimal engineering rework.
- Successful integration delivery through SIT, UAT, and production go-live.
- Reduction in integration defects and troubleshooting time.
- Reuse of common APIs, templates, and integration patterns.
- Positive feedback from banking technology and security teams.
- Accurate documentation and effective handover to operational teams.
- Reliable technical commitments aligned with platform capabilities.

📌 Solutions Architect (Delhi)
🏢 Straatix Partners
📍 Delhi