Senior Solution & Integration Architect - Financial Services

What You'll Do

* Own logical, deployment, integration, data-flow and security architecture for the solution.

* Classify components as enterprise reuse, configured capability, reusable accelerator, custom development, third-party service or AI service.

* Design integration patterns across APIs, events/messages, files/batches, content repositories and approved RPA/UI automation.

* Define secure cloud/hybrid deployment, network boundaries, encryption, secrets, service identities, RBAC and segregation of duties.

* Design audit, evidence lineage, records/retention, legal-hold, monitoring, resilience, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.

* Establish failure-handling patterns for unavailable, incomplete or conflicting source-system information.

* Guide selection and safe integration of OCR, document-intelligence and AI/model services, including data exchanged, retention and fallback.

* Partner with engineering leads to keep customizations maintainable, testable, upgradeable and transferable to client teams.

* Support architecture governance, threat modelling, technical deep dives and production-readiness reviews.

What Success Looks Like

* Architecture decisions are explicit, traceable and approved before they become delivery blockers.

* High-risk integrations have feasible primary and fallback patterns.

* Security, privacy, auditability, resilience and records requirements are embedded by design.

* The implementation minimizes unnecessary vendor lock-in and supplier custody of sensitive data.

* Engineering teams can implement the architecture consistently using documented standards and reference patterns.

* 10+ years in solution, application, cloud or integration architecture for enterprise systems.

* Hands-on experience designing secure solutions for banking, financial services or comparable regulated environments.

* Deep experience with REST APIs, API management, event-driven integration, file/batch integration and legacy-system constraints.

* Strong cloud architecture experience in AWS and/or Azure, including identity, networking, security, resilience and observability.

* Experience with workflow/case-management platforms, document/content services and high-volume operational applications.

* Working knowledge of privacy, records management, audit evidence, least privilege, segregation of duties, RTO/RPO and secure SDLC.

* Ability to communicate trade-offs to executives, control functions and engineering teams.

Preferred Experience

* Experience designing RPA as a controlled fallback where supported APIs are unavailable.

* Experience integrating enterprise identity, e-signature, notification and document-repository services.

* Experience with AI/document-intelligence architecture and Responsible AI governance.

* Architecture certification such as AWS, Azure, TOGAF or equivalent.

Role Scorecard: Illustrative Measures

Final targets and cadence will be confirmed for the specific assignment. Typical measures include:

* Architecture decision turnaround and approval

* Reduction of unresolved technical dependencies

* Integration feasibility and failure-recovery readiness

* Security/control findings identified before build

* Conformance to reference patterns

* Technical debt and exception closure

* Quality and usability of architecture documentation

How You Demonstrate Our Core Values

Driven: Moves important work forward, recovers quickly from blockers and focuses on meaningful outcomes.

Takes Ownership: Closes loops, communicates risks early and remains accountable across handoffs.

Creative Problem Solver: Clarifies the real problem and proposes practical options with trade-offs.

Humbly Confident: Brings sound judgment, explains reasoning and actively invites challenge and feedback.

Customer Centric: Understands operational reality, success measures and the impact of decisions on users and the institution.