Application Solution Architect

Title: Application Solution Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: til end of year, room to extend

Visa: USC or GC

Skills Needed

Role Description

Application Solution Architect – APIs & Real Time Streaming (Financial Services)

Shape and lead target-state architecture for secure, low-latency API and Kafka-based streaming platforms across client engagements in payments, trading, risk, and fraud — working within regulated financial environments.

Design and advise on real-time data pipeline architecture using Kafka, Spark, and microservices across hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP), tailored to each client's technology landscape.

Define client-facing architecture guardrails for performance, resilience, scalability, and high availability — spanning throughput, latency, failover, and operational readiness — and drive adoption through governance frameworks.

Embed security and compliance by design across API gateways, OAuth2/mTLS, encryption, and observability, aligned to financial-grade API standards and client regulatory obligations.

Lead enterprise modernization engagements — guiding clients from legacy integration patterns to event-driven and API-first architectures — influencing business, engineering, risk, and security stakeholders up to the executive level.

(Not Required but a Plus) Architect and deliver AI-enabled platform capabilities — including agentic workflows, LLM integration, and intelligent data pipelines — helping financial services clients operationalize AI within governed, production-grade environments.

(Not Required but a Plus) graph-based architecture solutions using platforms such as Neo4j to model complex financial relationships — entity resolution, risk lineage, fraud network detection — and integrate graph layers into broader data and metadata ecosystems.

Technical Skills

• 6+ years in enterprise or solution architecture, with at least 3 years in financial services — across banking, payments, capital markets, or lending.
• Consulting or advisory background — comfortable owning architectural outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deep expertise in Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture, and real-time streaming platforms at scale.
• Strong hands-on background in RESTful and async API design, API gateway products, and microservices architecture.
• Solid grasp of financial services regulatory requirements (PCI-DSS, SOX, DORA, Basel) and how they shape platform design.
• Experience with AWS and hybrid cloud architectures in regulated environments.