Principle Architect

Overview

Lead architecture strategy, modernization, and AI-enabled engineering for Finastra’s Trade Innovation product. The role focuses on scalable, secure, resilient, and cloud-ready financial services platforms.

What you'll do

• Define target-state architecture, roadmaps, reference patterns, and architecture governance.
• Lead modernization from monolithic and proprietary components to modular, service-oriented, and cloud-ready architecture.
• Architect APIs, integrations, event-driven systems, and extensibility patterns.
• Embed AI tooling and AI-ready product capabilities with governance controls.
• Define security, resilience, performance, availability, observability, and recovery requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop architects and senior engineers.
• Design, test, debug, and resolve application and product issues with stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of design and architecture experience.
• Experience with application modernization and modern technology stacks.
• Deep experience with Java, Spring Boot, C#, JavaScript, Angular, and Azure PaaS.
• Expertise with RESTful APIs, HTML, CSS, SQL, and related technologies.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Strong technical, analytical, development, communication, and customer service skills.

Nice to have

• Financial industry experience.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading architecture for enterprise SaaS, hybrid, containerized, or regulated financial services platforms.
• Trade finance, corporate banking, lending, payment rails, or enterprise extensibility experience.
• Architecture, cloud, security, or AI certifications.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.