Application Architect

About the role

easypaisa, Pakistan's first digital bank, is looking for an Application Architect to define, design and evolve the core application architecture of its digital ecosystem. The architect leads design decisions, guides engineering teams in building modular, resilient systems and acts as a bridge between product strategy and technical execution. The role requires strong leadership, hands-on technical expertise and deep knowledge of microservices, distributed systems and cloud-native design.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end application architecture across all product domains, ensuring consistency, scalability and maintainability.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure architectural blueprints.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and frameworks that speed up time to market.
• Design and evolve microservices, APIs and distributed systems across Dev, SIT, Pre-Prod and Prod environments.
• Define standards for system integrations and enforce architectural standards, coding practices, design patterns and documentation.
• Build systems handling high transaction volumes with low latency, using caching, CDN, partitioning and asynchronous processing.
• Work with Product, DevOps and Engineering leads on releases, technical debt and delivery timelines.
• Embed security, privacy and compliance (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SBP regulations) into designs.
• Coach teams on architecture, performance tuning and clean code, and coach on DDD and modular monolith refactoring.
• Maintain design artifacts such as UML, sequence and Archimate diagrams.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years of software development and architecture experience, preferably in fintech or large-scale products.
• TOGAF or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Experience leading application development teams and participating in architecture review boards.

Required skills

• Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes and Docker; Kafka, RabbitMQ and API gateways.
• Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) and performance tuning.
• CI/CD, GitOps and Terraform/Helm.
• Java 8+, Kotlin, JPA2, Hibernate, SQL and ORM.
• DDD, microservices, SOA, RESTful APIs and event-driven design.