Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain APIs

Responsibilities:

• Define and continuously evolve the architecture vision, principles and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs
• Lead end-to-end architecture across multiple domains, products and delivery streams, ensuring alignment between business capabilities, data assets, APIs and technology platforms
• Coordinate solution architecture activities and provide architectural guidance to architects and engineering teams working within individual delivery streams
• Identify system interfaces, data flows, dependencies and integration requirements across domains and support teams in evaluating architectural alternatives
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for domain-owned data products, ensuring they are discoverable, reusable, governed and reliable
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, data quality expectations, metadata, lineage and lifecycle responsibilities
• Promote modern data architecture practices, including data product thinking and domain ownership
• Define and maintain API-first architecture principles, API design standards, governance and lifecycle management practices
• Guide teams in defining domain boundaries, API contracts, versioning strategies, security mechanisms and reusable integration patterns
• Ensure APIs and integration solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable and easy to consume
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architecture approaches where appropriate
• Define functional and non-functional architectural requirements covering availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience and operability
• Define solution components, interfaces and responsibilities while ensuring alignment with the wider enterprise architecture
• Develop and maintain the architectural runway required for sustainable delivery and future technology evolution
• Support Continuous Delivery and DevOps through pragmatic architecture guidelines, automation and appropriate architectural enablers
• Contribute to solution planning, high-level design, architecture reviews and continuous exploration activities
• Communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor architects and engineering teams and support decentralised architectural decision-making within clearly defined guardrails

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience, including significant experience in Solution, Domain or Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API and integration solutions
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or domains
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs and integration patterns
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries and reusable architecture standards
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability and performance requirements
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strong data governance requirements
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes
• Very good English communication skill

Nice to have:

• Core Banking experience is a strong advantage

Offer:

• Private medical care
• Co-financing for the sports card
• Constant support of dedicated consultant
• Employee referral program