Enterprise Architect

Job Description: Enterprise Architect
Location: Wilmington,DE

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Solution Architect with strong expertise in designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in modernizing monolithic systems, implementing microservices architectures, and working within banking or payment domains. This role requires a strong architectural mindset combined with excellent stakeholder and conflict-management skills.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Lead end-to-end architecture for large-scale enterprise solutions across complex environments.
• Drive the transformation of monolithic applications to microservices using industry-standard patterns, including the Strangler Fig Pattern.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud-native solutions.
• Apply relevant microservice design patterns (e.g., CQRS, Saga, API Gateway, Circuit Breaker, Service Registry, Sidecar).
• Ensure compliance with architectural governance, security best practices, and performance requirements.

Technical Leadership & Problem Solving

• Provide guidance on distributed transaction management and consistency models in microservices.
• Evaluate and recommend data-management strategies (e.g., ACID vs BASE, eventual consistency).
• Address complex architectural challenges, including scalability, observability, resilience, integration, and legacy-system interoperability.

Domain Expertise

• Apply strong knowledge of banking or payment systems, including regulatory considerations, transactional flows, and system reliability.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, and operations teams to align architecture with organizational goals.
• Lead discussions, workshops, and decision-making sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Handle stakeholder management and conflict resolution effectively to ensure smooth execution of architectural initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or similar roles.
• Proven experience in monolith-to-microservices migration and cloud modernization.
• Hands-on expertise with microservices patterns, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging systems, and asynchronous communication.
• Practical experience with distributed transactions, Saga pattern, and consistency handling.
• Deep understanding of ACID vs BASE principles and their application in microservices.
• Experience in banking or payment domains is mandatory.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and conflict-management skills.
• Ability to guide technical teams and influence architectural decisions across the organization.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with DevOps, API management platforms, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to domain-driven design (DDD) and bounded contexts.