Job Overview
PRINCIPAL – Financial Technology Architecture
📍 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
🌍 Work Arrangement: Remote-First with Strategic Executive Engagements
💼 Employment Type: Permanent
🏦 Sector: Fintech Infrastructure | Enterprise Payments | Banking Technology | Cloud Finance
Position Summary
An internationally focused fintech enterprise is recruiting a visionary Principal Financial Technology Architect to design secure, scalable, and intelligent financial platforms supporting enterprise payment ecosystems throughout the GCC.
This strategic role combines technology leadership, enterprise solution architecture, digital infrastructure planning, and fintech innovation. The successful professional will influence future banking capabilities through advanced architecture design and enterprise modernization initiatives.
Core Responsibilities
- Design enterprise-scale fintech platforms.
- Architect highly available payment infrastructures.
- Lead cloud-native financial technology transformation.
- Define enterprise integration standards.
- Develop API-first banking solutions.
- Oversee fintech modernization roadmaps.
- Guide software engineering architecture reviews.
- Implement resilient disaster recovery strategies.
- Drive automation across financial operations.
- Optimize platform performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with global engineering teams.
- Establish enterprise security architecture.
- Evaluate emerging financial technologies.
- Mentor senior engineering professionals.
Candidate Profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- 8–15 years of enterprise architecture experience.
- Strong background in fintech platforms.
- Expertise in distributed systems.
- Experience designing cloud-native financial applications.
- Knowledge of payment infrastructure.
- Strong communication and leadership capabilities.
- Enterprise architecture certifications preferred.
Technical Competencies
AWS • Microsoft Azure • Kubernetes • Docker • Microservices • Event-Driven Architecture • Kafka • REST APIs • GraphQL • PostgreSQL • Redis • CI/CD • Infrastructure as Code • Terraform • Observability Platforms • Enterprise Security
Rewards Package
- Attractive tax-free salary
- Annual incentive scheme
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Housing allowance
- Flexible remote work
- Professional learning budget
- International conference sponsorship
- Executive pension contribution
- Paid certifications
- Annual leave with airfare support
Play a defining role in engineering the digital financial infrastructure powering tomorrow’s intelligent economy.
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