Solutions Architect - API Integration - Financial Services - FinTech

Solutions Architect - API Integration - Financial Services - FinTech

Excellent opportunity opens for a hands on Solutions Architect to join a fast growing FinTech organisation and play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and governing modern API-led and integration-driven solutions. You will work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, define scalable architectures, and enable seamless connectivity between internal platforms, third-party providers, and external ecosystems. The ideal candidate will bring strong API and integration expertise, a modern cloud mindset, and the strategic vision required to support high-growth, technology-led financial services environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Architecture Design

• Design and document end-to-end solution architectures, API frameworks, and integration blueprints aligned with business and product strategy.
• Define and maintain architecture standards, principles, and best practices for API-led and event-driven architectures.
• Lead the design of scalable, secure, and reusable integration solutions across cloud-native and SaaS platforms.

API & Integration Strategy and Implementation

• Define and oversee API and integration strategies using RESTful APIs, event streaming, Middleware, and microservices architectures.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver robust, secure, and high-performance integrations.
• Ensure integrations support high availability, scalability, and regulatory compliance.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders, providing guidance on API design, integration patterns, and platform strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineers, platform teams, DevOps, security, and product managers.
• Provide architectural oversight and mentorship to development teams, promoting best practices in API life cycle management.

Solution Validation and Optimisation

• Review existing APIs and integrations to identify opportunities for optimisation, simplification, and innovation.
• Ensure solutions comply with architectural standards, security controls, and financial services regulatory requirements.
• Support the resolution of complex integration and performance issues across distributed systems.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing

• Produce clear and comprehensive architecture documentation, including API specifications, diagrams, and technical standards.
• Share knowledge through technical workshops, design reviews, and internal enablement sessions.
• Define and drive an API and integration roadmap aligned with business growth and platform evolution.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience designing and delivering API-led and integration-centric architectures within Financial Services or FinTech.
• Proven experience integrating cloud-native, SaaS, and third-party platforms.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience overseeing/driving technology transformation within the Financial Services sector ideally Banking or FinTech
• Hands-on experience with API management platforms, microservices, and cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Familiarity with Agile delivery models, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and architectural decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, scale-up or high-growth environment while managing multiple initiatives.

Interested? Please apply

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