Senior Solution Architect – Fintech
Location: Belgrade, Serbia (Hybrid)
About the Role
We’re a fast-growing company supporting global digital banking operations. As our Senior Solution Architect, you will own the end-to-end architecture of core financial platforms—digital banking, payments, card systems, wallets, APIs, and emerging tech like AI/ML and blockchain. Your mission is to design secure, scalable, compliant, and future-ready systems while guiding engineering teams and shaping our technology roadmap.
What You’ll Do
- Define and evolve architecture for digital banking, card/payment processing, wallets, and API-first platforms.
- Translate business goals, regulatory requirements, and fintech trends into practical architectural blueprints.
- Drive adoption of modern fintech capabilities:
- AI/ML for fraud, risk, and personalization
- Open banking, embedded finance, API economy
- Real-time and cross-border payments
- Blockchain/DLT and tokenisation
- Zero-trust, privacy-by-design, regulatory compliance
- Define technology stack and patterns: cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, event-driven systems, containers, CI/CD.
- Lead design reviews and ensure alignment with security, performance, resilience, and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, QA, Compliance, and Security to bring architectures into delivery.
- Maintain architectural documentation, standards, and decision records.
- Track emerging technologies and propose innovation opportunities.
What We’re Looking For
Experience & Background
- 7+ years in software engineering or system architecture, ideally in fintech or financial services.
- Hands-on experience with digital banking systems, payment platforms, wallets, or card processing.
- Strong understanding of open banking, embedded finance, real-time payments, blockchain, and AI/ML in finance.
- Proven ability to design secure, scalable architectures (microservices, APIs, event-driven, cloud-native).
- Solid knowledge of PCI-DSS, PSD2, GDPR, AML/KYC, and financial-grade security practices.
- Strong communication and leadership skills - able to align stakeholders and guide engineering teams.
Technical Skills
- System integration, data modeling, API design, messaging/eventing, high availability architectures.
- Cloud architecture (public/hybrid), Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD and DevOps foundations.
- Experience with blockchain or AI/ML.
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- Equivalent practical experience in complex system architecture, cloud-native engineering, or fintech platform design is also accepted.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation & benefits
- Private health insurance (including children)
- Continuous learning: certifications, training
- Hybrid working model
- Fit pass premium membership
- International exposure
- Ability to directly shape next-generation fintech products
- Collaborative, high-performance environment
Why It Matters
You’ll help build secure, scalable systems that support today’s banking needs—and tomorrow’s AI-driven, real-time, open finance ecosystem.
How to Apply
Send your CV highlighting your architecture expertise and fintech project experience.
