Application Solution Architect - Remote

Job Title:- Application Solution Architect with Financial Services experience

Remote

Duration: til end of year, room to extend

Contract

Skills Needed:

Role Description

Application Solution Architect APIs & Real Time Streaming (Financial Services)

• Shape and lead target-state architecture for secure, low-latency API and Kafka-based streaming platforms across client engagements in payments, trading, risk, and fraud - working within regulated financial environments.
• Design and advise on real-time data pipeline architecture using Kafka, Spark, and microservices across hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), tailored to each client's technology landscape.
• Define client-facing architecture guardrails for performance, resilience, scalability, and high availability - spanning throughput, latency, failover, and operational readiness - and drive adoption through governance frameworks.
• Embed security and compliance by design across API gateways, OAuth2/mTLS, encryption, and observability, aligned to financial-grade API standards and client regulatory obligations.
• Lead enterprise modernization engagements - guiding clients from legacy integration patterns to event-driven and API-first architectures - influencing business, engineering, risk, and security stakeholders up to the executive level.
• (Not Required but a Plus) Architect and deliver AI-enabled platform capabilities - including agentic workflows, LLM integration, and intelligent data pipelines - helping financial services clients operationalize AI within governed, production-grade environments.
• (Not Required but a Plus) graph-based architecture solutions using platforms such as Neo4j to model complex financial relationships - entity resolution, risk lineage, fraud network detection - and integrate graph layers into broader data and metadata ecosystems.

Technical Skills

6+ years in enterprise or solution architecture, with at least 3 years in financial services - across banking, payments, capital markets, or lending.

Consulting or advisory background - comfortable owning architectural outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Deep expertise in Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture, and real-time streaming platforms at scale.

Strong hands-on background in RESTful and async API design, API gateway products, and microservices architecture.

Solid grasp of financial services regulatory requirements (PCI-DSS, SOX, DORA, Basel) and how they shape platform design.

Experience with AWS and hybrid cloud architectures in regulated environments.