The Senior Architect is expected to possess deep technical expertise, potential leadership qualities & be solution oriented with a core focus on contributing to building products that balance Functional Requirements, Customer/User Experience, Performance, Reliability, Resiliency & Security. This specific job purpose requires deep understanding, knowledge, expertise and experience of Core Banking applications and typical integration ecosystems in a banking & financial services environment.

The Senior Architect is expected to possess deep technical expertise, potential leadership qualities & be solution oriented with a core focus on contributing to building products that balance Functional Requirements, Customer/User Experience, Performance, Reliability, Resiliency & Security. This specific job purpose requires deep understanding, knowledge, expertise and experience of Core Banking applications and typical integration ecosystems in a banking & financial services environment. 1. Domain Competencies: 1. Functional Domain - Strong experience in banking, accounting, payments, or settlements. Prior exposure to the Core Banking domain is preferred. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a strong will to learn and adapt to new domain. 2. Must have participated and/or led at least 3 projects designing and architecting resilient, reliable & secure core banking implementations in conjunction with a microservices & API based ecosystem 3. Develop and maintain architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices 4. Experience working with Agile Methodologies and in Agile teams, that incorporate - Agile Team concepts such as Tribes & Squads - Agile Ceremonies such as Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinement & Sprint Retrospective - Agile Deliverables such as Features, Epics, Stories & Acceptance Criteria All Essential

Technical Competencies 1. 10+ years of experience building end-end design patterns, high level designs & solutions for Core Banking applications (e.g. Finacle, or similar), APIs, message brokers, eventstreams, microservices on container-based / cloud-native infrastructure and its associated ecosystem in consultation with involved internal departments and subsidiaries. 2. Deep technical understanding, knowledge and experience in proposing architectural design principles & patterns and justifying the benefits and drawbacks for Core Banking application architecture & it’s integration ecosystem (e.g. integration with switches, 3rd party ecosystems, REST APIs, ISO8583 or similar et al) 3. Adequate knowledge & experience of baking cyber and information security controls into products via methods such as Data Classification/Asset Valuation, Regulatory Requirements considerations (e.g. PCI-DSS, UAE Central Bank, GDPR), Threat Modelling & Security Requirements (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) 4. Adequate knowledge of and experience in implementing cyber security controls such as Authentication, Authorization, Encryption Algorithms & Keys, Data Security, Security Events Logging & Alerting 5. Some knowledge and experience of attacking and defending systems from a cyber security perspective