FREE ACCESS
5,000–10,000 jobs/day
See all jobs on Scoutfield
Search thousands of fresh jobs every day.
Discover
- Fresh listings
- Fast filters
- No subscription required
Create a free account and start exploring right away.
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.
Demonstrates expertise in solution architecture and technical vision for fintech platforms, with a strong focus on API design, data governance, and architectural integrity. Proven ability to lead architectural reviews, mentor engineering teams, and drive down technical debt while ensuring compliance with financial industry standards.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Solution ArchitectureAPI DesignCloud Platforms (AWS)Financial Industry Compliance (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR)Data Lake/Platform Design
ATS Keywords
Tailor your resumeApplicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills
Distributed SystemsMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureInfrastructure-as-CodeRelational DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesEvent-Streaming TechnologiesData GovernanceTechnical Debt ManagementContainerization
Soft Skills
Excellent Communication SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
TOGAFZachman FrameworkAWSGCPAzure
Certifications & Qualifications
TOGAF 9/10AWS ArchitectGCP ArchitectAzure ArchitectCISSP
Industry Keywords
FintechHigh AvailabilityLow-Latency SystemsLegacy System ModernizationData MeshFederated Data Governance
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesNoSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the technical vision and architectural integrity of Fintua’s fintech platform across new and existing systems
- Own end-to-end solution architecture for new product initiatives and production systems
- Assess architectural debt, integration gaps, and duplicated capabilities; define and prioritise remediation roadmaps
- Design integration-ready, debt-conscious new solutions and define target-state architectures and migration paths
- Establish and enforce architectural guardrails and standards, including AI and agentic capability standards
- Build and maintain a platform-wide technical debt register and champion debt reduction
- Identify and eliminate redundant systems, data stores, and integration patterns
- Define definition-of-done standards covering testing, documentation, decoupling, and observability
- Design the integration layer for internal solutions and external parties
- Establish API-first integration patterns and own API strategy and governance
- Evaluate and onboard external integrations and partners for architectural and security fit
- Define the architecture and roadmap for a shared data lake/data platform
- Design data models, ingestion pipelines, access patterns, governance, lineage, access control, and privacy-by-design controls
- Drive migration from siloed or duplicated client data stores to the shared data layer
- Architect for high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency transaction processing at scale
- Lead architectural reviews and set design standards across engineering teams
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and act as technical escalation point
- Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, technical debt registers, and system/data-flow diagrams
- Support due diligence, audits, and regulatory examinations
- Assess emerging fintech technology trends
Requirements
What you’ll need- 15+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in a solution/enterprise architect role
- Proven experience architecting systems in fintech
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and API design
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferably) and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong knowledge of financial industry compliance and security standards (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR or equivalent)
- Experience designing for high-throughput, low-latency, transactional systems requiring strong consistency and auditability
- Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting architecture decisions to technical, executive and high level customer audiences
- Experience with relational, NoSQL, and event-streaming database technologies
- Track record of modernising or migrating legacy systems while live in production without disrupting the business
- Experience designing integration layers across heterogeneous systems using event-driven and API-first patterns
- Experience designing or implementing a data lake, data warehouse, or shared data platform including governance, access control, and lineage
- Ability to identify, quantify, and drive down technical debt at organisational level
- Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and models such as TOGAF or Zachman, and experience applying them in an engineering organisation
- Prior experience in a scale-up fintech environment, including legacy-to-cloud migrations and post-acquisition platform integration (preferred)
- Experience with data mesh or federated data governance models (preferred)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (preferred)
- Familiarity with master data management or customer 360 initiatives in a regulated data environment (preferred)
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF 9/10, AWS/GCP/Azure Architect, CISSP, or Data Engineering/Architecture certifications (preferred)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive pension
- Flexible Working Policy with a combination of remote and office working and a flexible approach to working hours
- Competitive annual leave
- IVF leave
- Compassion leave
- Marriage leave
- Maternity leave
- Paternity leave
- Employee-led CSR Programme, CluneTech Cares, with one paid Volunteer Day per year
- Death in Service Benefit
- Milestone Recognition Programme
- Professional & Personal Development
- Rewards & Recognition
- Employee Wellbeing Programme, CluneTech Life