Principal Architect - Banking Applications

About the role

A hands-on Senior Architect is sought to own architecture direction across multiple banking portfolios in Singapore. The role partners with customer senior leadership, architects and engineering leads to set technology direction, drive modernization and raise engineering standards.

Key responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture and technology roadmap across multiple application portfolios.
• Set architecture standards, reusable patterns and governance, and provide design assurance across portfolios.
• Lead architecture assessments, technology evaluations and POCs, and challenge designs, estimates and delivery risks.
• Drive adoption of microservices, APIs, cloud-native, DevSecOps and observability practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer architects and technology leaders, presenting modernization roadmaps and architecture decisions.
• Mentor technical leads and architects to raise solution quality and delivery outcomes.

Required profile

• 15+ years in software engineering, including significant architecture leadership in large-scale banking or financial services.
• Depth in at least two banking domains.
• Credibility with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Preferred: payments or transaction banking background, regional or global bank experience, and exposure to cloud transformation programmes.

Required skills

• Strong grounding in microservices, DDD, and API-led and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, ReactJS and TypeScript.
• Experience with Azure / AWS / Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD.