Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain Apis

• Architectural vision, principles, roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs
• Lead end-to-end architecture across domains, products and delivery streams
• Coordinate solution architecture; guide architects and engineering teams
• Identify interfaces, data flows, dependencies and integration requirements
• Establish patterns and standards for discoverable, reusable, governed data products
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, data quality, metadata, lineage, lifecycle
• Promote data product thinking and domain ownership
• API-first principles: design standards, governance, lifecycle management
• Define API contracts, versioning strategies, security mechanisms, reusable integration patterns
• Ensure APIs and integrations are scalable, secure, resilient, observable and easy to consume
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architecture approaches
• Define functional and non-functional requirements: availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience, operability
• Define solution components, interfaces and responsibilities; align with enterprise architecture
• Maintain architectural runway; support CI/CD and DevOps via automation and enablers
• Contribute to solution planning, high-level design and architecture reviews

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience, including significant experience in Solution, Domain or Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API and integration solutions
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or domains
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs and integration patterns
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries and reusable architecture standards
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance requirements
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strong data governance requirements
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes
• Very good English communication skill

Nice to have:

• Core Banking experience is a strong advantage