Senior Solution & Security Architect - Banking

Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Workplace: on_site

Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise in Solution Architecture and Security Architecture to support Digital Products and Wealth Management initiatives within a leading banking environment.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise across modern enterprise architectures, banking and wealth management domains, cyber security controls, and cloud-native technologies. The role requires a highly solution-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities and experience designing resilient, secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise applications.

The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver end-to-end architectural solutions aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end enterprise solutions across Digital Products and Wealth Management platforms.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and reusable solution blueprints.
• Deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture designs aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including delivery, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture governance, peer reviews, and technical design workshops.
• Drive architectural decisions across applications, APIs, event-driven systems, and microservices ecosystems.
• Ensure all architecture designs incorporate performance, reliability, customer experience, resiliency, and security considerations.
• Mentor and coach junior architects and engineering teams where required.
• Contribute to architecture capability building initiatives, technical workshops, and best practice frameworks.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and architecture patterns to improve enterprise delivery capabilities.

Domain Experience (Mandatory)

Strong experience in one or more of the following domains:

• Banking
• Wealth Management
• Asset Management
• Lending
• Financial Services

Preferred:

• Corporate Banking domain experience.

Candidates should demonstrate the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new banking domains and business capabilities.

Technical Skills & Experience

Architecture & Solution Design

• 8+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale solutions and architectures.
• Strong experience building High-Level Designs (HLDs) and end-to-end solution architectures.
• Expertise designing:
• Backend applications
• Frontend applications
• Mobile applications
• APIs
• Microservices architectures
• Event-driven architectures
• Message brokers
• Container-based applications
• Cloud-native applications
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, and scalable enterprise systems.

Microservices & Cloud Technologies

Strong experience with:

• API-based ecosystems
• Microservices architecture
• Event streams and messaging systems
• Container-based infrastructure
• Cloud-native architectures
• Modern architectural design patterns and principles

Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and justify design decisions based on business and technical requirements.

Security Architecture (Mandatory)

Strong understanding of:

• Security Architecture principles
• Data Classification frameworks
• Regulatory compliance requirements
• Threat Modelling methodologies
• Security requirements engineering

Experience implementing cyber and information security controls including:

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Encryption standards and key management
• Data security controls
• Security event logging
• Monitoring and alerting mechanisms

Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge

Exposure to:

• PCI-DSS
• UAE Central Bank regulations
• GDPR
• Banking regulatory and compliance requirements

Cyber Security

Working knowledge of:

• Cyber security controls
• Secure application design principles
• Defensive security practices
• Security architecture frameworks
• System attack and defence methodologies

Artificial Intelligence (Preferred)

Exposure to modern AI technologies including:

• Machine Learning
• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Embedding Models
• Vector Databases
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• AI Agents
• Agentic AI
• GitHub Copilot
• Claude Code
• AI-assisted software engineering tools

Agile Delivery Experience

Strong experience working in Agile environments including:

• Agile Tribes and Squads model
• Sprint Planning
• Quarterly Planning
• Sprint Refinement
• Sprint Retrospectives
• Agile ceremonies and delivery frameworks

Experience delivering:

• Features
• Epics
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria

Required Competencies

• Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder and expectation management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to make autonomous technical decisions.
• Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
• Delivery-focused mindset with attention to quality, performance, resiliency, and security.
• Strong learning agility and passion for emerging technologies.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced Agile delivery environments.

Nice to Have

• Corporate Banking experience.
• Experience delivering architecture education workshops.
• Experience conducting architecture peer review sessions.
• Exposure to modern AI-enabled software engineering practices.
• Experience defining reusable enterprise architecture blueprints and reference architectures.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate will have a strong combination of Solution Architecture, Security Architecture, Banking domain expertise, and modern cloud-native engineering experience. You will be passionate about building secure and resilient enterprise platforms while driving architectural excellence across digital banking and wealth management initiatives.