About Us
Operating from Abu Dhabi since 1985, this financial institution provides personal and business banking services across retail banking, wealth management, commercial banking, corporate finance, investment banking, and cash management. The organisation supports a broad customer and business base through a complex, regulated technology landscape where dependable platforms, secure information flows, and scalable digital capabilities are essential to service continuity and growth. Its diverse banking portfolio creates a substantial environment for architectural innovation, operational resilience, and disciplined technology transformation.
Job Description
The Senior Solution Architect will define and direct technology solutions for core banking sustenance projects and strategic platform initiatives. This position will translate business priorities, operational needs, and technology constraints into architectures that are secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards. Success will be measured through reliable delivery, stronger platform performance, effective integration, controlled technical risk, and architecture decisions that support the institution’s evolving banking services.
Working across business and technology functions, the role will provide senior technical leadership from assessment and design through implementation and transition into operations. The successful individual will guide architecture governance, challenge proposed approaches where appropriate, resolve complex technical issues, and maintain clear oversight of dependencies, delivery risks, quality, and stakeholder expectations. The remit also includes supporting modernisation, capacity planning, end-of-day processing improvements, regulatory obligations, and the continued resilience of a critical banking environment.
Key Responsibilities
Define end-to-end solution architectures for core banking enhancements, integrations, optimisation programmes, and related technology initiatives.
Provide technical leadership for sustenance projects, ensuring proposed solutions address business objectives, operational resilience, security, performance, and maintainability.
Assess existing platforms and designs to identify architectural constraints, technical debt, integration risks, and opportunities for modernisation.
Lead architecture reviews and technical evaluations, documenting decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and recommended actions.
Work closely with business stakeholders, application teams, infrastructure specialists, database teams, security functions, and external technology partners.
Direct the investigation and resolution of complex defects, recurring incidents, performance bottlenecks, and platform stability concerns.
Contribute to capacity planning and end-of-day processing optimisation to sustain dependable service levels as transaction volumes and product requirements develop.
Ensure solution designs support applicable banking controls, information security expectations, regulatory requirements, and internal governance standards.
Monitor technical delivery against approved architecture, agreed milestones, quality criteria, and operational readiness requirements.
Manage architectural risks, cross-project dependencies, escalation points, stakeholder communications, and decision-making throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Requirements
Extensive experience in solution architecture, enterprise technology delivery, or a comparable senior architecture discipline within banking or financial services.
Proven background designing and governing solutions for core banking platforms or other high-availability financial systems.
Strong understanding of application integration, data flows, infrastructure dependencies, system interfaces, and service resilience.
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, design assurance, and structured remediation of complex issues.
Practical experience with platform…