Application Architect

JOB PURPOSE:
1. Solution Architecture Application Review
Review solution architectures (HLD/LLD) with focus on application design modularity and scalability.
Validate alignment of application designs with the banks enterprise architecture principles standards and target-state blueprints.
Provide recommendations to ensure robust maintainable and high-performing application architectures.
2. Application Architecture Governance
Represent the application domain in Enterprise Architecture Design Authority (EADA) or equivalent governance forums.
Ensure solution proposals adhere to enterprise application standards frameworks and guidelines.
Enforce consistency in design patterns frameworks and technology stack adoption across the bank.
3. Application Design & Best Practices
Define and promote reference architectures for common business domains (core banking lending payments CRM ERP risk).
Recommend design patterns for:
Multi-tiered and microservices applications
API-first and event-driven architecture
Cloud-native and containerized applications
Secure session management caching and transaction handling
Guide teams in application modernization and migration from legacy monoliths to modern platforms.
4. Security & Compliance in Applications
Work closely with Security Architect to embed security-by-design principles in application solutions.
Ensure application designs implement authentication authorization encryption and data privacy controls.
Validate compliance with banking regulations (e.g. GDPR PCI-DSS ISO 27001 Central Bank standards).
Identify risks like insecure coding weak integrations or data leakage and recommend mitigations.
5. Operational Resilience & Performance
Ensure application designs support resilience scalability and high availability.
Recommend fault tolerance load balancing failover and disaster recovery (DR/BCP) mechanisms.
Validate application performance SLAs (response time transaction throughput concurrency).
6. Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment
Partner with solution architects business teams developers and infrastructure teams to ensure end-to-end application alignment.
Act as a trusted advisor to IT delivery leads and program managers on application architecture decisions.
Ensure applications are designed for reusability interoperability and agility across channels.
7. Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Drive adoption of modern application technologies (microservices DevSecOps API gateways serverless computing low-code platforms).
Stay updated on industry trends in banking applications (digital channels cloud-native apps container orchestration).
Continuously enrich the Enterprise Application Repository with reusable design assets standards and lessons learned.
8. Design end-to-end solution architectures for banking applications ensuring alignment with business goals enterprise architecture standards and technology strategy.
9. Evaluate and recommend appropriate architecture patterns tools and platforms for new and existing solutions.
architecture artifacts such as solution blueprints sequence diagrams data flow diagrams integration designs and interface contracts.
with cross-functional teams including business development infrastructure and security teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
business requirements into scalable and modular solution designs. Create detailed solution architecture documents including logical physical integration and deployment views.
non-functional requirements (performance security reliability scalability) are properly addressed.
& document if proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives to validate emerging technologies or solution approaches.
with DevOps teams to ensure that the solution architecture supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
security aspects such as data encryption access control and identity management in the architecture.
architecture proposals and review outcomes to architecture governance boards and executive stakeholders.
architectural risks and define mitigation strategies early in the project lifecycle.
the impact of proposed changes on existing applications infrastructure and enterprise architecture.
and document architecture decisions made during critical meetings workshops and design discussions.
KEY RESULT AREA
Explore & recommend new technologies supporting Cloud On Prem Applications
Present Solution designs and seek approval in Architecture review boards
Should be strong in solution design.
Conduct and drive POCs.
Derive Blueprints High Level Design (HLD) and Notings to Solutions

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline.
Certifications in architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) or cloud platforms (AWS Azure) are preferred.

PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS
Banking Financial Services or Fintech.
Prior experience in large-scale banking transformation or modernization programs.

Required Skills & Experience
10 to 15 years of IT experience with at least 5 years as a Solution Architect for large-scale enterprise systems.
Proven experience in banking and financial services particularly in areas such as Core Banking Payments Digital Banking Lending and Channels.
Strong understanding of banking business processes and compliance requirements.
Hands-on experience in designing solutions using integration tools (e.g. IBM Integration Bus & IBM API Gateway) and messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka MQ).
Familiarity with security protocols and data protection standards in banking environments (e.g. OAuth2 TLS PKI DLP).
Cloud architecture experience (Azure AWSor GCP) with hybrid integration knowledge.
Strong knowledge of DevOps CI/CD microservices and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Familiar with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF or BIAN.