Software Architect (BFSI)

Surge Global is a digital consultancy that leverages marketing, data, and technology to help businesses grow. As Sri Lanka’s leading digital firm, we employ the best content, creative, design, and engineering talent the country has to offer.

Embracing a culture of transparency and equality in the workplace, we’ve built an environment that helps Sri Lanka’s best marketing and creative talent thrive. Our team approaches complex, multivariate challenges with an open mind and a strong willingness to continuously test, learn, and innovate.

With our headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we support and scale startups to Fortune 500 companies across the United States, Europe, Australia, Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Sri Lanka.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable, secure, and high-performance banking and financial systems, aligned with business and regulatory objectives.
• Lead the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for the full-stack development, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Design and oversee integration architectures with core banking systems (e.g., Temenos, Finacle, Flexcube), payment gateways, and third-party financial services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement architectural standards, best practices, and guidelines.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to achieve optimal system performance.
• Drive architecture for API-led ecosystems (Open Banking), microservices, and event-driven system s to enable interoperability and real-time processing.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural designs.
• Conduct code reviews and oversee the implementation of best coding practices and standards.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and banking trends (Open Banking, ISO 20022, digital payments, fintech ecosystems) and incorporate them where appropriate.
• Support production readiness, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity planning (BCP) for mission-critical financial systems.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating them into the architectural decisions where appropriate.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in full-stack development and architecture, with exposure to banking, fintech, or BFSI domains.
• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, mission-critical financial systems (e.g., digital banking, payments, lending platforms).
• Strong expertise in architecting integrations with core banking systems (Temenos, Finacle, Flexcube, or similar).
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks across both front-end and back-end technologies.
• Ability to understand a business problem and produce technical solutions that provides business value.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing large-scale, complex systems meeting NFRs such as scalability, availability, security, and observability.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns such as Microservices, EDA, Clean Architecture, Serverless, and Modular Monolithic.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture patterns such as Micro Frontends, MVC, MVVM and state management.
• Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong understanding of communication protocols, such as GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, REST and TCP.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, including OAuth2, SSO, encryption, API security, and data protection standards.
• Experience designing systems with high availability (99.9%+ uptime), fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Ability to write maintainable and readable code using SOLID principles and design patterns.
• Proficiency in TDD, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or On-Prem and having a strong understanding of their best practices (i.e. AWS Well Architectured Framework) and compliance considerations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Candidates with Fintec/BFS experience will be given priority.

Note: Employees will be transitioned to the client company upon completing three years at Surge