Senior Solutions Architect- Fintech, Banking

Work closely with product managers to transform financial and regulatory requirements into actionable technical designs.Support backlog refinement by breaking architecture down into epics, enablers, and technical user stories.Guide engineering teams during delivery, providing architecture direction during design, development, testing, and go-live.Regulatory, Compliance & SecurityEmbed security-by-design across identity, access management, data protection, encryption, and threat modeling.Ensure solutions comply with CBUAE mandates, financial governance frameworks, and internal risk policies.Validate that all regulatory reporting, audit trails, lineage, and supervisory visibility requirements are incorporated.Define data models, pipelines, and governance frameworks for risk analytics, AML detection, liquidity insights, and financial AI use cases.Collaborate with data scientists and AI teams to ensure explainability, fairness, and regulatory acceptability of AI-driven components.Operational Resilience & ObservabilityDesign for high availability, business continuity, multi-zone resilience, and disaster recovery.Ensure deep observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and operational dashboards tailored for financial operations teams.Stakeholder Engagement & GovernanceLead architecture workshops with CBUAE, financial institutions, and technology vendors.Facilitate design reviews and contribute to governance forums, architecture boards, and regulatory working groups.Produce clear, regulator-friendly architecture documentation and presentations.Mentor engineers and solution designers to uplift architectural maturity.Review vendor proposals, SOWs, and deliverables for technical quality and compliance.Champion engineering excellence and financial-grade architectural discipline across teams.ExperienceBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.8–12+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture.Strong experience designing and delivering financial systems, especially:Regulatory technology (RegTech) and supervisory platformsFinancial data infrastructure, risk analytics, AML/Fraud systemsProven experience building secure, compliant, high-availability platforms operating under strict regulatory constraints.Technical SkillsDesign.Security: Zero-trust, IAM, PKI, encryption, secrets management, threat modeling.Data: Data lakes/warehouses, governance, lineage, streaming pipelines.Financial Standards (preferred): ISO 20022, SWIFT, FIX, AML/KYC frameworks, regulatory#J-18808-Ljbffr