Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect at ITGoals, you will define secure, scalable, and supportable end-to-end architectures across enterprise applications, integrations, workflows, digital channels, and core-banking domains. You will translate business needs into implementable technology designs, guide delivery teams, and collaborate with business, security, infrastructure, and engineering stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and digital-transformation objectives.

Key Responsibilities Design application architectures using appropriate enterprise architecture patterns and provide practical guidance to delivery teams.

Define integration architecture and select suitable integration patterns for synchronous, asynchronous, API-led, and workflow-driven interactions.

Design APIs in line with OpenAPI standards and establish clear contracts, security controls, ownership, and integration boundaries.

Define modern security patterns across application, API, integration, and infrastructure layers for both internal and external exposure.

Design end-to-end solutions across lending, payments, channels, core banking, and adjacent enterprise capabilities where required.

Provide architecture direction for API management, with IBM API Connect preferred, including exposure, policy, governance, and lifecycle considerations.

Design microservice-based solutions, with Spring Boot preferred, ensuring appropriate service boundaries, resilience, observability, and maintainability.

Design workflow and process-automation solutions, with Camunda 8 preferred, aligned to business processes and integration requirements.

Define container and platform architecture using OpenShift and related containerization patterns.

Apply OAuth 2.0 and related security controls across APIs and application components.

Work closely with business, security, infrastructure, engineering, integration, and delivery teams to translate needs into secure and scalable architectures.

Review solution designs and implementation decisions to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, target architecture, and digital-transformation objectives.

Identify architecture risks, non-functional requirements, dependencies, and trade-offs early and document decisions clearly.

Required Experience Proven experience in application architecture with hands-on understanding of enterprise application delivery.

Strong experience in integration architecture, integration patterns, and API design using OpenAPI standards.

Solid understanding of modern security patterns for application and integration components.

Experience designing end-to-end solutions across multiple technology layers and business domains.

Ability to influence implementation teams and communicate architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Required Skills Application and enterprise solution architecture

Integration architecture and integration patterns

API design and OpenAPI standards

IBM API Connect or comparable API management

Microservices architecture; Spring Boot preferred

Camunda 8 / workflow architecture

OAuth 2.0 and modern application security controls

OpenShift and container architecture

Non-functional requirements, resilience, scalability, and observability

Architecture documentation and stakeholder communication

Banking / Fintech & Nice to Have Banking, fintech, payments, lending, digital channels, core banking, or other regulated financial-services architecture experience is a strong advantage.

Experience governing architecture across multiple squads or delivery partners.

Knowledge of event-driven architecture, messaging, and distributed systems.

Cloud architecture and DevSecOps experience.