We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Solution Architect to join our client, a leading bank in the UAE. This role offers an exciting opportunity to design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure digital banking solutions.

Domain & Architecture Competencies:

1. Designing systems with high availability, reliability, and security to protect sensitive data and maintain operational integrity that can efficiently handle large-scale API and Event based workloads.
2. Ensuring that all designs are created according to internal ENBD architecture best practices, patterns & technologies used by ENBD.
3. 5+ years of experience designing cloud native microservices applications.
4. Develop and evaluate prototypes or proof of concepts to validate architectural approaches and technologies before full-scale implementation.
5. Worked in Retail Banking domain for customer onboarding, credit card or loans area.

Technical Competencies

1. Experience with building end-end design patterns & solutions
2. Experience in design of cloud native micro-services container-based applications.
3. Deep understanding of architectural patterns like micro-services, saga, pub-sub, circuit-breaker, etc.
4. Good understanding on API gateways, Authorization protocols, IDP, etc.
5. Stay updated with the latest advancements in architecture trends and patterns to recommend and incorporate cutting-edge solutions.
6. Good understanding of CICD, Openshift, Azure cloud services
7. Good experience of enterprise architecture tools (Enterprise Architect), data modeling tools.

Behavioural Competencies

1. Delivery focused while ensuring the right balance of Customer Experience, Business Requirements, Performance, Reliability & Security
2. High energy, enthusiasm & passion
3. Excellent analytical & critical thinking skills.
4. Excellent stakeholder, time management & expectation management skills
5. Autonomous decision-making ability with minimal guidance
6. High learning potential
7. Ability to coach & mentor associate/junior architects.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of microservices, API gateways, event-driven architecture, and security best practices.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Openshift, Kubernetes), Azure Cloud, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in Retail Banking (customer onboarding, credit cards, loans) is a plus.
• Strong analytical, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.