Solutions Architect (Fraud, Financial Crime & Risk) (relocation to Portugal)
We're looking for a Solutions Architect to join our team in Portugal in a remote working mode. This is a senior-level, hands-off role focused on producing end-to-end solution designs for central services in the banking domain, including Fraud, Financial Crime and Risk areas. The position requires strong problem-solving capabilities, the ability to define logical and functional architectures, and ensure alignment with long-term technology strategies while acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design and govern end-to-end solution architectures for central banking applications, ensuring scalability and alignment with strategic architecture roadmaps
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate functional and non-functional requirements into comprehensive Solution Design Documents (SDDs) and architectural diagrams
- Act as a trusted architectural advisor to senior business and IT leadership, providing guidance on technology direction and compliance with governance standards
- Produce practical designs that align with enterprise-level principles, standards and reference architectures
- Peer review solution designs created by other architects to ensure architectural quality, integrity and alignment
- Work closely with engineering teams to validate technical design adherence and support solution delivery
- Support third-party integration designs within the bank's application ecosystem
- Advocate architecture best practices in decommissioning, archival and modernization initiatives
Requirements
- Significant experience as a Solutions Architect within complex financial services or banking environments
- Proven ability to create logical componentized designs, define system interactions and ensure overall solution integrity
- Exposure to central services applications and large-scale enterprise integration architectures
- Experience balancing immediate business priorities with strategic architecture objectives
- Strong understanding of architecture governance processes and practical application in complex organizations
- Ability to manage risk and issues within solution designs and provide mitigation approaches
- Excellent stakeholder communication and facilitation skills, with ability to simplify highly technical concepts for business stakeholders
- Independent and proactive working style with experience operating in fast-paced environments
Nice to have
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, BIAN, ArchiMate or C4
- Exposure to tools such as Avolution Abacus or similar enterprise architecture management platforms
- Understanding of microservices, API design patterns and cloud environments (e.g., AWS)
- Previous experience with insurance integrations or similar domains within banking systems
- Insight into large-scale transformations within global banking environments
