Full Stack Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled Full Stack Architect to lead the design and development of business agility layer and integrations for our FinTech. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in full stack architecture API development cloud infrastructure and ensuring seamless integrations with third-party financial services and systems.

Key accountabilities

• Design and oversee the architecture of mobile app backend systems ensuring scalability security and high performance.

• Develop and maintain APIs microservices and backend infrastructure to support mobile applications.

• Lead the integration of third-party financial services payment gateways and banking systems.

• Ensure compliance with FinTech regulatory requirements and security standards.

• Work closely with developers product managers and security teams to align technical solutions with business needs.

• Optimize backend performance and reliability through monitoring logging and automated testing.

• Drive best practices in DevOps CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native solutions.

• Document system architecture integration workflows and security protocols.

• Stay updated with the latest trends in FinTech cloud computing and backend development.
  Certifications in cloud architecture security or backend development.
  Qualifications experience skills and competencies

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience as System architect/Solution architect.
• Experience with financial services APIs payment processors and banking integrations.
• Knowledge of authentication and security protocols (OAuth JWT OpenID Connect).
• Strong Knowledge on designing / building scalable and secure backend/middleware

Minimum Education:
Bachelor degree

Knowledge and skills:

• Expert knowledge in system design especially in fintech space.
• Extensive experience in backend development and system architecture.
• Familiarity with fintech and its nuances in terms of backend design transactional behaviours
• Strong knowledge of API design RESTful services GraphQL and microservices architecture.
• Very strong in integration and interoperable system design with proven technologies.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with programming languages like Java Go Ruby or C#.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in database management including SQL (PostgreSQL MySQL MS SQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB DynamoDB Cassandra).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging queues (Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SQS Pub/Sub).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation) and monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced FinTech environment.
• Knowledge of wallet/core systems would be added advantage.
  Competencies:
  State competency levels from the competencies framework.
  
  • Think strategically (Level 3 of 5)
  • Achieve tangible results (Level 4 of 5)
  • Lead breakthrough change (Level 4 of 5)
  • Exceed customer expectations (Level 2 of 5)
  • Nurture Inspire and Motivate (Level 2 of 5)
  • Target win-win outcomes (Level 3 of 5)

Key Skills
APIs,Pegasystems,Spring,SOAP,.NET,Hybris,Solution Architecture,Service-Oriented Architecture,Adobe Experience Manager,J2EE,Java,Oracle
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1