FinTech Solution Architect

Job Title: Fin-Tech Solution ArchitectJob Type: Contract (1 year+)Location: Dubai (On-Site)Role Summary:Act as the hands-on technical authority for designing and validating solution architectures across a complex, regulated transformation. This role requires deep expertise in API integrations, data structures, and financial transaction flows, with responsibility for assessing vendor architecture, validating feasibility, and ensuring regulatory and technical robustness.Key Responsibilities:Design end-to-end solution architectures across Digital Experience, Core platforms, CRM, Data, and Integration layers.Define and govern experience-led, API first, cloud native, and event-driven architectures for web, mobile, partner, and embedded finance journeys.Own the Digital Experience architecture, including front-end frameworks, experience orchestration, and BFF patterns integrated with core and fin-tech platforms.Design and validate API contracts, integration patterns, and event schemas supporting scalable customer and partner experiences.Define and validate shared data models for customers, products, transactions, pricing, and reporting.Design architectures supporting payments, settlement, reconciliation, and real-time decision-makingsurfaced through digital channels.Review and challenge vendor architectures, proposals, and POCs with a focus on scalability, resilience, and extensibility.Assess technical feasibility, performance, security, and regulatory compliance of proposed solutions in alignment with group architecture practice.Lead platform and vendor RFPs from a FS solution architecture perspective.Required Qualifications & Skills:Proven hands-on Solution Architect experience in Fin-Tech, payments, lending, leasing or regulated financial platforms.Deep technical expertise in API design and integration.Data structures and financial data models.Transaction processing, settlement, and ledger integration.Strong experience assessing and challenging vendor technical architectures.Experience working within regulated financial services environments.Strong understanding of security, resilience, and compliance requirements.#J-18808-Ljbffr