Senior Solutions Architect

We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to shape the technical direction, design secure and resilient architectures, and deliver critical banking services end-to-end. You will lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery for core banking capabilities, design and implement integrations and service layers, and architect and build highly available, secure, scalable services using Google Cloud Platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading solution architecture and hands-on delivery for core banking capabilities, including accounts, transactions, fees, interest, statements, product configuration, and operational workflows.

• Designing and implementing integrations and service layers that enable seamless digital experiences across onboarding, authentication, customer servicing, account maintenance, and payments.

• Architecting and building highly available, secure, scalable services using Google Cloud Platform (e.g., GKE/Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, Secret Manager, Cloud Logging/Monitoring).

• Defining API standards and integration patterns, including canonical models, idempotency, versioning, and performance/SLA requirements across the bank ecosystem and Ford enterprise systems.

• Driving modernisation into well-bounded services using Java and Spring Boot, leveraging asynchronous messaging and domain events where it improves resilience and decoupling.

• Building 'secure-by-default' services for a regulated financial environment, including PII protection, encryption, audit trails, least-privilege IAM, threat modelling, automated security scanning.

• Setting technical direction, reviewing designs and code, and mentoring engineers through pairing and coaching.

• Establishing high standards for TDD, CI/CD, quality gates, and operational readiness.

• Defining SLIs/SLOs, logging/metrics/tracing standards, and incident response practices.

• Leading root-cause analysis across distributed systems and driving improvements that prevent recurrence.

• Working effectively with Fiserv and internal stakeholders to align implementation choices to platform capabilities, roadmap constraints, and delivery timelines.

• Translating product needs into reference architectures, implementation plans, and iterative delivery milestones while managing technical debt and long-term scalability.