Key Skills:

Banking Domain | Enterprise Architecture | Cloud Architecture | Kubernetes | OpenShift | Microservices | API Architecture | DevSecOps | Security | Scalability | Resilience | Technical Leadership

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to define and drive the architecture of enterprise-scale banking applications and digital platforms. The candidate will work closely with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to design scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions for retail and corporate banking.

The role requires strong expertise in banking domain, enterprise architecture, microservices, API-first architecture, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/OpenShift, distributed systems, databases, security, and enterprise integration.

Key Responsibilities

Define and govern end-to-end solution and application architecture for banking platforms.

Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Design K8S, microservices-based and API-first architectures.

Define architecture standards, design principles, technology choices, and reusable frameworks.

Drive modernization of legacy banking applications toward modern digital platforms.

Design solutions supporting high availability, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Design and govern deployment architectures across public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

Define and govern Kubernetes-based application architectures, including containerization, scaling, service discovery, networking, configuration, secrets, and workload management.

Provide architecture guidance for Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and cloud-native application deployments.

Design secure integration with channels, core banking systems, payment systems, authentication platforms, third-party systems, and enterprise services.

Establish API standards including REST, security, versioning, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility.

Work with engineering teams on architecture decisions, design reviews, POCs, and technical governance.





Identify and resolve architecture-level performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.

Define appropriate database, caching, messaging, and integration patterns.

Evaluate and recommend technologies based on business requirements, operational considerations, security, and enterprise standards.

Ensure solutions comply with banking security, regulatory, audit, data protection, and enterprise architecture standards.

Provide technical leadership across multiple development and implementation teams.

Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior developers.

Collaborate with senior stakeholders to communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and technology roadmaps.

Cloud & Kubernetes Expertise

Strong experience in designing and implementing solutions on:

Containers: Docker / OCI containers

Container Platforms: Kubernetes / OpenShift

Kubernetes workload deployment and management

Kubernetes networking and service discovery

Ingress, load balancing and API Gateway integration

Horizontal/vertical scaling and resource management

Configuration and secrets management

Health checks, readiness/liveness probes

High availability and self-healing

Kubernetes security and RBAC

Container image management and vulnerability scanning

CI/CD and automated deployment

Cloud-native observability, logging, metrics and tracing

Service mesh and microservices communication patterns

Disaster recovery and multi-cluster architecture

Technical Architecture

Architecture & Design

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Cloud-Native Architecture

Microservices Architecture

Domain-Driven Design

Event-Driven Architecture

API-first Architecture

Distributed Systems

Design Patterns

High Availability & Resiliency

Backend & Integration





Java / Spring Boot or equivalent enterprise technologies

REST APIs

API Gateway

Kafka / messaging platforms

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

SSO and IAM

Service-to-service security

DevOps & Platform Engineering

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Git-based development and deployment

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes / OpenShift

Docker

Helm

Monitoring, logging and distributed tracing

Production deployment and rollback strategies

Database & Data

Oracle / PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS

SQL and database architecture

Redis / distributed caching

Replication and high-availability database architectures

Performance and capacity planning

Non-Functional Architecture

Robust experience defining and addressing:

Performance and scalability

High availability

Disaster recovery

Resilience and fault tolerance

Security

Data privacy

Capacity planning

Observability

Maintainability

Operational readiness

Production supportability

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Work effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Lead architecture discussions across development, infrastructure, security, DevOps and operations teams.

Review and approve high-level and low-level technical designs.

Establish architecture governance and engineering standards.

Mentor architects, technical leads and senior developers.

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Drive technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives.

Balance business requirements, technical debt, delivery timelines, risk and long-term architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architecture, or equivalent are desirable.

Kubernetes certifications such as CKA/CKAD are an advantage.

Experience with large-scale digital banking transformation programs.

Experience working across multiple geographies/entities is an advantage.

Experience working in regulated financial services environments is highly desirable.

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