Solutions Architect - Core Wallet Platform

About the role

easypaisa, Pakistan's first digital bank, is looking for a Solutions Architect to drive solution design across its business requirements. The role brings together technical, functional and operational aspects of a solution, manages solutions for all business needs, and aligns the application architecture with Telenor Microfinance Bank, regulatory and international standards. It covers the core wallet platform (EWP) and supporting systems.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end solution and architecture design for designated projects on the core wallet platform (EWP) and supporting systems.
• Complete technical design and evaluation of existing solutions against best practices and industry standards.
• Take part in business requirement discussions, understand current systems and design integration solutions, and review analysis, development, integration and testing to avoid gaps.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and assess operational impact and cost-effectiveness (TCO).
• Perform capacity and performance analysis for new and existing applications.
• Collaborate with Telenor bank's product, business and software development departments to deliver new products and features on time.
• Keep up with fintech, SME and payments trends and regulations, and embed risk and compliance measures with performance measures tied to individual responsibility.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (master's preferred) or equivalent experience.
• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience, preferably as an IT Planner or Architect in digital financial solutions, especially EWP.
• Proven experience with microservices and multi/hybrid cloud architectures, and good knowledge of agile methodology and tools.
• Ability to lead an application design team and supervise design, testing and modification stages.
• TOGAF or Zachman certification is a plus; hands-on development and solution architecture certifications preferred.

Required skills

• Distributed system architecture (SOA, microservices, RESTful services) and scalable, fault-tolerant transaction systems.
• Relational databases, SQL and ORM technologies.
• IS/IT security and quality control regimes, SBP Payments Regulations and risk and compliance management.