Principal Application Architect leading integration architecture for financial technology solutions and collaborating with cloud and engineering teams for system coherence.
Responsibilities
Define and maintain enterprise standards for application integrations, communication patterns, and cross‑platform design.
Establish and evolve reference architectures, ensuring alignment with cloud platform strategy and long‑term landscape principles.
Own and mature our integration capability, including patterns, tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Provide architectural oversight to ensure platform solutions (Workday, Salesforce, Fabric, Atlassian, and others) align with enterprise‑level principles rather than isolated domain needs.
Design or guide integration solutions in collaboration with platform teams, ensuring they are maintainable, secure, and scalable.
Assess existing integrations to identify opportunities for simplification, risk reduction, and standardization.
Work closely with the Cloud Architect to align application architecture with infrastructure and cloud capabilities.
Collaborate with the IT leadership to ensure architectural decisions support strategic priorities.
Partner with platform teams, business stakeholders, and technical leads to ensure architectural alignment across initiatives.
Act as a mentor to engineers and platform specialists, elevating skills in integration design and architectural thinking.
Promote a culture of architectural excellence, fostering shared understanding and adoption of best practices.
Requirements
Proven experience as an Application Architect, Solution Architect, or senior engineer with architectural responsibilities
Strong background in application integrations across complex SaaS environments
Solid understanding of API design, event‑driven architecture, message queues, middleware/iPaaS tools, and common integration patterns
Experience aligning application architecture with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
Familiarity with MDM, data governance, and enterprise architecture frameworks like Well-Architecture Frameworks is a plus
Ability to translate architectural principles into practical guidance for engineering teams
Strong collaboration skills, especially when working across multiple platforms and stakeholder groups
Curiosity and a continuous‑improvement mindset — always seeking opportunities to raise architectural maturity and system cohesion.
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