Solution Architect - Digital Banking (AZURE AKS)

Role: Solution Architect – Digital Banking (AZURE AKS)
Location: Remote

Let’s create our future together at The AES Group!

About The AES Group:
The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative solutions that have the greatest positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, engineering, and other emerging technologies.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical direction for Azure-based digital banking MVP. Translate business outcomes into a secure, scalable, integration-ready platform and guide cross-functional engineering teams through design, delivery, and production readiness.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture and key architecture decisions.
• Define cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, Microfrontend, Backend-for-Frontend (BFF), domain-driven, security, resiliency, and observability architecture patterns.
• Guide integration architecture across Fiserv DNA, MuleSoft, Oracle GoldenGate, secure messaging, and branch/ATM services.
• Lead design reviews and resolve cross-team technical dependencies and risks.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, Azure Well-Architected practices, and financial-services security expectations.
• Partner with product, business, engineering, QA, DevSecOps, and security stakeholders through delivery and hypercare.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in solution or enterprise architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• Design and govern Backend-for-Frontend services supporting channel-specific mobile and web requirements.
• Experience delivering enterprise solutions in Agile, cross-functional, and distributed-team environments.
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-approved generative AI or coding assistants across the SDLC, with human review, secure prompt/data handling, traceability, and validation of AI-generated outputs. Ability to define team guardrails, adoption practices, and measurable productivity improvements.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Azure: APIM, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, Durable Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, Monitor, Application Insights
• Cloud-native, microservices, API-first, event-driven, and domain-driven architecture, Microfrontend architecture.
• Microsoft Entra ID B2C, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, Zero Trust, secrets and encryption patterns
• ARM/Bicep, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, AKS, architecture governance, ADRs, and production-readiness reviews
• Digital banking, credit union, or regulated financial-services experience
• Fiserv DNA, MuleSoft, Oracle GoldenGate, Thales Akeyless, or CipherTrust
• Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, or responsible AI architecture

SUCCESS PROFILE

• Takes ownership and communicates clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Balances delivery speed with security, quality, maintainability, and regulatory expectations.

Works effectively across onsite and offshore teams and responds constructively to changing priorities.