Senior Solution Architect (Fintech)

Location: On-site in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

Company

Professional Services organization delivering enterprise technology solutions.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture initiatives across digital channels, payment ecosystems, APIs, integrations, and enterprise platforms.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Develop and review high-level designs, low-level designs, integration architectures, infrastructure designs, and deployment models.
• Design enterprise integration solutions using APIs, middleware, messaging platforms, and event-driven architectures.
• Architect cloud-native and hybrid-cloud solutions and provide guidance for microservices, containerized applications, and enterprise middleware.
• Establish architecture standards with engineering and DevOps teams, ensure security and compliance, and participate in governance, technical reviews, workshops, and incident analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, enterprise architecture, or a related field.
• 5+ years in a Solution Architect or senior technical leadership role.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions in banking, financial services, fintech, payments, or other highly regulated industries.
• Expertise in enterprise, solution, application, integration, and cloud architecture, including Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, AWS, OCI, or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, enterprise middleware, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and performance management.

Nice to have

• Experience with digital payments, payment gateways, wallet platforms, merchant services, open banking, or ISO 20022.
• Professional certifications such as TOGAF, AWS, OCI, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with business, product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.
• Opportunity to lead technical workshops and strategic architecture initiatives.
• Focus on innovation, continuous improvement, technology leadership, and resilient enterprise solutions.