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The role requires deep technical expertise, strong solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to design secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and high-performing solutions that balance functional requirements with customer/user experience.\nThe ideal candidate will have strong experience in banking and financial services, with exposure to accounting, payments, lending, credit products, and preferably corporate banking, together with extensive experience in microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, message brokers, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern application architecture.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nLead and contribute to the architecture and solution design of complex enterprise applications across Digital Products and Corporate Assisted Banking.\nTranslate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and high-performance technical solutions.\nDevelop end-to-end solution designs, high-level designs, architecture patterns, and 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technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation and delivery.\nSupport technical decision-making and provide architectural recommendations for complex business and technology challenges.\nEnsure proposed solutions are aligned with relevant cyber security and information security requirements.\nCollaborate with Agile delivery teams and contribute to architecture activities throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.\nSupport architecture governance and ensure adherence to agreed architecture standards and best practices.\nDemonstrate strong ownership, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management across complex technology initiatives.\nContinuously learn and adapt to new technologies, business domains, and evolving banking requirements.\nFunctional / Domain Competencies\nThe successful candidate should demonstrate strong functional knowledge and experience 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and clearly explain their advantages, disadvantages, trade-offs, and business/technical impact.\nMicroservices & API Architecture\nStrong hands-on experience designing and architecting microservices-based applications.\nStrong experience with API-based ecosystems and API architecture.\nExperience designing secure, scalable, reliable, and resilient APIs and distributed services.\nUnderstanding of service-to-service communication and integration patterns.\nEvent-Driven Architecture\nExperience with message brokers and event-streaming technologies.\nStrong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous communication patterns.\nAbility to design resilient and scalable event-based solutions.\nCloud-Native & Container Architecture\nStrong experience with container-based / cloud-native application infrastructure.\nUnderstanding of cloud-native architecture principles and associated technology ecosystems.\nExperience designing solutions for scalability, availability, resiliency, and performance in distributed environments.\nSecurity Architecture\nAdequate knowledge and practical experience in incorporating cyber security and information security considerations into application and solution architecture.\nAbility to ensure security requirements are considered throughout solution design.\nUnderstanding of secure application architecture, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native environments.\nAgile Delivery Experience\nStrong experience working within Agile methodologies and Agile delivery teams is essential.\nThe candidate should have practical experience with:\nAgile Team Concepts\nTribes\nSquads\nCross-functional Agile teams\nAgile Ceremonies\nQuarterly Planning\nSprint Planning\nSprint Refinement\nSprint Retrospectives\nAgile Deliverables\nFeatures\nEpics\nUser Stories\nAcceptance Criteria\nThe candidate should be comfortable collaborating with product, business, engineering, delivery, and architecture teams throughout the Agile lifecycle.\nRequired 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