# Senior Solution & Security Architect - Banking

> GSSTech Group · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · — · Posted 2026-07-30

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise in Solution Architecture and Security Architecture to support Digital Products and Wealth Management initiatives within a leading banking environment.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise across modern enterprise architectures, banking and wealth management domains, cyber security controls, and cloud-native technologies. The role requires a highly solution-oriented individual with strong leadership capabilities and experience designing resilient, secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise applications.

The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver end-to-end architectural solutions aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Design and architect end-to-end enterprise solutions across Digital Products and Wealth Management platforms.
-   Define and maintain architecture standards, principles, reference architectures, and reusable solution blueprints.
-   Deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture designs aligned with business and technology strategies.
-   Collaborate with cross-functional teams including delivery, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
-   Participate in architecture governance, peer reviews, and technical design workshops.
-   Drive architectural decisions across applications, APIs, event-driven systems, and microservices ecosystems.
-   Ensure all architecture designs incorporate performance, reliability, customer experience, resiliency, and security considerations.
-   Mentor and coach junior architects and engineering teams where required.
-   Contribute to architecture capability building initiatives, technical workshops, and best practice frameworks.
-   Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and architecture patterns to improve enterprise delivery capabilities.

### Domain Experience (Mandatory)

Strong experience in one or more of the following domains:

-   Banking
-   Wealth Management
-   Asset Management
-   Lending
-   Financial Services

**Preferred:**

-   Corporate Banking domain experience.

Candidates should demonstrate the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new banking domains and business capabilities.

### Technical Skills & Experience

### Architecture & Solution Design

-   8+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale solutions and architectures.
-   Strong experience building High-Level Designs (HLDs) and end-to-end solution architectures.
-   Expertise designing:

-   Backend applications
-   Frontend applications
-   Mobile applications
-   APIs
-   Microservices architectures
-   Event-driven architectures
-   Message brokers
-   Container-based applications
-   Cloud-native applications

-   Experience designing highly available, resilient, and scalable enterprise systems.

### Microservices & Cloud Technologies

Strong experience with:

-   API-based ecosystems
-   Microservices architecture
-   Event streams and messaging systems
-   Container-based infrastructure
-   Cloud-native architectures
-   Modern architectural design patterns and principles

Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and justify design decisions based on business and technical requirements.

### Security Architecture (Mandatory)

Strong understanding of:

-   Security Architecture principles
-   Data Classification frameworks
-   Regulatory compliance requirements
-   Threat Modelling methodologies
-   Security requirements engineering

Experience implementing cyber and information security controls including:

-   Authentication
-   Authorization
-   Encryption standards and key management
-   Data security controls
-   Security event logging
-   Monitoring and alerting mechanisms

### Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge

Exposure to:

-   PCI-DSS
-   UAE Central Bank regulations
-   GDPR
-   Banking regulatory and compliance requirements

### Cyber Security

Working knowledge of:

-   Cyber security controls
-   Secure application design principles
-   Defensive security practices
-   Security architecture frameworks
-   System attack and defence methodologies

### Artificial Intelligence (Preferred)

Exposure to modern AI technologies including:

-   Machine Learning
-   Generative AI
-   Large Language Models (LLMs)
-   Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
-   Embedding Models
-   Vector Databases
-   Model Context Protocol (MCP)
-   AI Agents
-   Agentic AI
-   GitHub Copilot
-   Claude Code
-   AI-assisted software engineering tools

### Agile Delivery Experience

Strong experience working in Agile environments including:

-   Agile Tribes and Squads model
-   Sprint Planning
-   Quarterly Planning
-   Sprint Refinement
-   Sprint Retrospectives
-   Agile ceremonies and delivery frameworks

Experience delivering:

-   Features
-   Epics
-   User Stories
-   Acceptance Criteria

### Required Competencies

-   Strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
-   Excellent stakeholder and expectation management skills.
-   Strong communication and presentation skills.
-   Ability to make autonomous technical decisions.
-   Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities.
-   Delivery-focused mindset with attention to quality, performance, resiliency, and security.
-   Strong learning agility and passion for emerging technologies.
-   Ability to work effectively in fast-paced Agile delivery environments.

### Nice to Have

-   Corporate Banking experience.
-   Experience delivering architecture education workshops.
-   Experience conducting architecture peer review sessions.
-   Exposure to modern AI-enabled software engineering practices.
-   Experience defining reusable enterprise architecture blueprints and reference architectures.

### What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate will have a strong combination of Solution Architecture, Security Architecture, Banking domain expertise, and modern cloud-native engineering experience. You will be passionate about building secure and resilient enterprise platforms while driving architectural excellence across digital banking and wealth management initiatives.

## Apply

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