Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise across solution architecture, application architecture, cloud-native technologies, and security architecture to support large-scale Digital Products and Digital Onboarding initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in designing secure, resilient, scalable, and high-performance solutions across web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, containers, event-driven architectures, and enterprise ecosystems. The role requires a strong balance of customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security, along with the ability to work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams, information security teams, and other architecture functions. Requirements Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices. Design and deliver end-to-end solution architectures based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders. Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions. Design architectures for web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems. Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements. Design solutions that balance user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security. Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures. Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies. Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data and technology assets. Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements. Contribute to building reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms. Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines. Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through automation and process optimization. Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures. Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams. Coach and mentor associate and junior architects. Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required. Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on Security Architecture. Required Technical & Architecture Skills Solution & Application Architecture Strong overall knowledge of software engineering and solution architecture. Minimum 5+ years of experience designing applications, including web and mobile applications. Minimum 5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs. Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including: Microservices API architecture Application architecture Mobile application architecture Event-driven architecture Distributed systems Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems. Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems. Cloud & Cloud-Native Architecture Minimum 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies. Strong hands-on architectural understanding of: Containers Kubernetes OpenShift Service Mesh Virtualization Experience with cloud platforms such as: OpenShift Microsoft Azure AWS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions. Security Architecture Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cyber Security / Information Security. Strong understanding of Security Architecture principles. Deep understanding of: Authentication Authorization Encryption Logging & Monitoring Application Security