(SG) Senior Solutions Architect

As a Senior Solution Architect at Backbase, you take a leading role in designing and delivering integrated, innovative solutions that leverage Backbase products to help banks and financial institutions meet complex technology and business objectives.

You act as a senior member of the core project team, collaborating closely with customers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Engineering Managers to translate challenging requirements into robust, scalable architectures. Beyond solution delivery, you drive architectural governance, minimize technical debt, and enable clear, traceable decision-making. As a trusted technical advisor, you influence high-level decisions, mentor junior architects, and contribute actively to the continuous evolution of Backbase’s architecture practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• At least 4 years of experience, preferably in Financial Services, Banking, Fintech, or Digital Transformation, playing a key role in solution design, evolution, and governance.

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect (SA), Subject Matter Expert (SME), or consultant.

• Strong technical background in modern software languages and solution design (e.g., Java, Spring, Angular, Microservices, integration patterns).

• Solid understanding and application of SDLC and Secure SDLC principles, with experience balancing functional and non-functional requirements.

• Broad and current understanding of infrastructure patterns and key technologies including cloud, virtualization, containerization, orchestration, security, and connectivity.

• Skilled in applying architectural tools for decision-making (options papers, sequence diagrams, topology diagrams, component illustrations).

• Experience with Backbase architecture is desirable.

• Comfortable working autonomously while contributing to architectural practice improvements and mentoring peers.

Role Competencies

Knowledge & Application

• Experience working as a Solution Architect, SME, or consultant.

• Ability to guide and govern solution design effectively.

• Strong technical expertise in modern software languages and solution design.

• Principled and experienced with SDLC and Secure SDLC.

• Understands the importance of well-defined non-functional requirements and balances them with functional requirements.

• Broad and current knowledge of infrastructure patterns and technologies such as cloud, virtualization, containerization, orchestration, security, and connectivity.

• Skilled at selecting effective tools for decision-making.

• Optional, desired;

  • Previous Backbase implementation experience

  • Previous experience in Financial Services, Banking, Fintech

  • Previous experience delivering Professional Services for a product company