Solution Architect - Onsite Karachi

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 bank’s enterprise architecture principles, standards, and target-state blueprints.

Provide recommendations to ensure robust, maintainable, and high-performing application architectures.

2. Solution 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. Solution 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).

Required Skills and Experience:

10 to 15+ years of relevant experience.

Proven experience in banking and financial services, particularly in areas such as Core Banking, Payments, Digital Banking, Lending, and Channels.

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, AWS,or 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.

Work Location: In person