Solution Architect – Banking / E-Invoicing

Design end-to-end solution architecture, including integration patterns, application components, security, error handling, and data flows. Define architecture for e-invoicing and digital invoicing solutions, ensuring seamless integration with banking and enterprise systems. Design and oversee API, middleware, event-driven, and system-to-system integrations across banking applications and external platforms. Develop scalable and resilient solutions aligned with the bank’s enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmap. Define data flows, interfaces, integration mechanisms, and error-handling frameworks across the solution landscape. Design secure solutions covering authentication, authorization, encryption, data protection, and API security. Ensure solutions comply with applicable banking regulations, information security policies, data privacy requirements, and regulatory standards. Evaluate and recommend appropriate cloud platforms and services across Azure/AWS or other enterprise cloud environments. Work closely with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, infrastructure, application, and engineering teams to ensure architecture meets all required controls. Review technical designs, solution specifications, and implementation approaches provided by delivery teams and vendors. Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and integration challenges and provide appropriate mitigation strategies. Support architecture governance, design reviews, technology decisions, and implementation oversight throughout the project lifecycle.

Desired Candidate Profile

Required Skills & Experience 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or technical architecture, preferably within banking or financial services. Strong experience in e-invoicing, digital banking, enterprise integration, or financial technology solutions. Proven expertise in integration architecture, including APIs, REST/SOAP, microservices, middleware, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration patterns. Strong understanding of cloud architecture, preferably Azure and/or AWS. Experience designing solutions with strong security, resilience, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery considerations. Good understanding of banking applications, payment systems, financial processes, and regulatory requirements. Experience working with security architecture, IAM, encryption, API security, data protection, and secure integration patterns. Strong understanding of data architecture, data flows, system interfaces, and integration dependencies. Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks and governance processes. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage with business, technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and senior management. Preferred Experience with UAE banking clients and CBUAE regulatory requirements. Exposure to UAE e-invoicing / FTA requirements and digital tax/e-invoicing frameworks. Relevant architecture/cloud certifications such as TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent. Experience delivering large-scale transformation or integration programs within a regulated banking environment. Skills e-invoicing cloud architecture security compliance Employment Type Full-time

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