We are seeking an experienced and strategic Solution Architect to lead the design and deployment of enterprise-scale solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong client engagement and advisory capabilities, helping customers modernize complex environments leveraging SymphonyAI platforms and solutions.
The ideal candidate will bring strong architecture leadership experience within regulated financial services environments, with the ability to define scalable technical architectures, guide successful implementations, and act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal teams.
Job Description
What You Will Do
Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture and solution design for client implementations across on-premise, hosted, and SaaS deployment models.
- Be accountable for solution scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and overall non-functional requirements.
- Design scalable architectures across cloud, data, AI, analytics, and integration domains aligned to client business and regulatory requirements.
- Define integration patterns and technical approaches across enterprise systems, cloud services, APIs, and third-party platforms.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to Professional Services and delivery teams throughout the implementation lifecycle.
- Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and technical challenges within complex client environments.
Client Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients undertaking modernization initiatives across financial crime, regulatory technology, risk, data, and core banking ecosystems.
- Partner with client business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable solution architectures.
- Lead architecture workshops, discovery sessions, technical strategy discussions, and solution demonstrations.
- Support strategic client engagements, proposals, RFP responses, and technical sales pursuits.
Product & Engineering Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to influence product roadmap decisions, platform scalability, and technical direction based on customer and implementation insights.
- Contribute to reusable architecture patterns, implementation standards, deployment frameworks, and reference architectures.
- Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and delivery teams to ensure scalable and supportable implementations.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with emerging trends in AI, cloud, financial services technology, and enterprise architecture practices.
- Contribute to initiatives that improve implementation quality, customer outcomes, and platform adoption.
About Us
What We Are Looking For
- 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions within financial services, including significant experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles.
- Strong experience supporting large-scale modernization initiatives across banking, financial crime, risk, regulatory, or data-intensive environments.
- Proven ability to design scalable enterprise architectures across cloud, data, integration, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Experience designing and deploying enterprise applications across on-premise, hosted, hybrid, and SaaS environments.
- Strong understanding of non-functional architecture requirements including scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, and security.
- Experience with modern integration technologies and distributed architectures including REST APIs, messaging, event-driven systems, Kafka, Spark, or similar technologies.
- Experience with enterprise databases and data platforms such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or equivalent technologies.
- Hands-on experience with cloud and deployment technologies including AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP, Docker, Helm, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation practices.
- Experience with AI/ML operationalization, analytics platforms, and enterprise data ecosystems.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and consulting skills with the ability to engage effectively with senior client and internal leadership teams.
- Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence technical direction and platform evolution.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and architecture decision-making capabilities.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments and fast-paced enterprise programs.