Senior Solution Architect
Location: Dubai, UAE
Level of Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Dubai, UAE
Experience: 10+ Years
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced Senior Solution Architect with deep technical expertise and strong solution-oriented capabilities to design and architect resilient, reliable, secure, and high-performing applications.
The role will work closely with the Head of Architecture, while also collaborating with the Delivery Head / Lead within the relevant business or functional domain. The Senior Architect will be responsible for developing architecture solutions that effectively balance functional requirements, customer/user experience, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security.
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Architecture & Design
- Design and architect resilient, reliable, and secure applications within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices.
- Create end-to-end design patterns, high-level designs, and solution architectures across:
- Backend applications
- Frontend applications
- Mobile applications
- APIs
- Message brokers
- Event streams
- Microservices
- Design solutions for container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate architectural principles and patterns, clearly articulating their benefits and trade-offs.
Agile & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with Agile Tribes and Squads across Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Collaborate with internal departments and subsidiaries to align architecture decisions with business and technical requirements.
- Work across functional and technical teams to ensure effective solution delivery.
Security & Resilience
- Embed cybersecurity and information security best practices into architecture and solution design.
- Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate reliability, resiliency, security, and performance considerations.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience developing end-to-end design patterns, high-level designs, and solutions across backend, frontend, and mobile applications.
- Strong experience in banking, accounting, payments, lending, and credit products.
- Corporate banking domain exposure is an advantage.
- Must have participated in or led at least 3 projects involving resilient, reliable, and secure applications within microservices and API-based ecosystems.
- Deep knowledge of:
- APIs
- Message brokers
- Event streams
- Microservices
- Container-based infrastructure
- Cloud-native infrastructure
- Strong understanding of embedding cybersecurity and information security into architecture and design.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies, Agile team structures, and Agile deliverables including Features, Epics, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
- Strong willingness to learn and adapt to new functional domains.
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