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This position is ideally based in Singapore, with international travel likely to be required.\nThe Senior Solution Architect owns end-to-end solution architecture for complex banking transformation initiatives, from pre-sales and solution shaping through delivery and production. The role combines strong banking domain knowledge with architecture expertise across digital channels, APIs and microservices, integration, cloud, security, AI, data, and emerging AI technologies.\nThe architect works directly with senior client stakeholders, partners, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into pragmatic, secure, resilient, scalable, and deliverable technology solutions. You will collaborate internationally with colleagues, clients, and partners throughout Asia and Europe.\nKey Responsibilities\nCollaborate with technology and functional experts in an agile project delivery model, understand business requirements, lead the development team in technical decisions, and discuss and agree with different customer and partner teams on any open topic.\nCollaborate with technology, and functional experts to understand business requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution architectures.\nLead technical decision-making across project teams and work with clients, partners, engineering teams, and specialist SMEs to resolve architecture and technology decisions.\nLead and contribute to pre-sales and solution-shaping activities, including client discovery, RFP/RFI responses, architecture proposals, estimation, team composition, delivery models, and client presentations.\nOperate in a consultative capacity with senior client stakeholders to evaluate solution options, drive architecture decisions, and guide solutions through implementation and production.\nEvaluate architecture and technology options and articulate trade-offs across business value, complexity, cost, security, scalability, resilience, and delivery risk.\nProvide technical leadership for emerging technologies and new solution offerings, working with specialist SMEs where deeper domain expertise is required.\nOwn the end-to-end solution architecture and provide architecture governance throughout delivery, ensuring alignment between agreed architecture, scope, NFRs, security requirements, and implementation.\nWork closely with engineering teams throughout delivery, providing architecture guidance, reviewing designs, resolving technical challenges, and supporting production readiness.\nRequired Skills\n15+ years of technology experience, including significant experience in Solution Architecture roles within banking, financial services, or fintech.\nStrong banking domain knowledge, with experience across one or more areas such as digital banking, customer onboarding, deposits, payments, lending, cards, core banking, etc.\nExperience in core banking architecture and modernisation is advantageous.\nStrong experience in consultative technical pre-sales and solution architecture, with the ability to support revenue objectives and build credibility with stakeholders ranging from engineering teams to senior executives.\nStrong experience of modern architecture patterns, including microservices, API-led architecture, event-driven architecture, domain driven design, and distributed systems.\nStrong experience of non-functional architecture, including scalability, availability, resilience, performance, disaster recovery, security, observability, and operability.\nStrong integration architecture experience covering REST APIs, messaging, event streaming/Kafka, API gateways, orchestration, and legacy/core-system integration.\nStrong experience of application and platform security, including IAM, OAuth/OIDC, secrets management, encryption, API security, zero-trust principles, and regulatory requirements.\nExperience with cloud-native architecture, including one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers/Kubernetes, managed services, networking, serverless technologies, and cloud landing-zone considerations.\nUnderstanding of DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated quality and security controls, and modern deployment patterns.\nAbility to produce and govern architecture artefacts including solution architectures, integration and data flows, deployment architectures, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and NFRs.\nExperience in commercial solutioning, including scope definition, assumptions, dependencies, estimates, team composition, delivery models, and risks\nWorking knowledge of AI/GenAI architecture, including enterprise AI platforms, agentic solutions, security, governance, and responsible adoption of AI within enterprise environments is advantageous.\nDemonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and develop T-shaped expertise across areas such as infrastructure, cloud, security, databases, data platforms, AI, and emerging technologies.\nExperience leading and working with multiple engineering and delivery teams in Agile environments.Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles, architecture governance, and frameworks such as TOGAF is advantageous.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex architecture concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\n(Note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. 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