Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Senior Solution Architect di GFT TECHNOLOGIES Central Region (Singapore) - Maukerja

About GFT

GFT Technologies is an AI-centric global digital transformation company. We design advanced data and AI transformation solutions, modernize technology architectures and develop next-generation core systems for industry leaders in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Robotics. Partnering closely with our clients, we push boundaries to unlock their full potential. With deep industry expertise, cutting-edge technology, and a strong partner ecosystem, GFT delivers responsible AI-centric solutions that combine engineering excellence, high-performance delivery, and cost efficiency. Our team of 12,000+ technology experts operates in 20+ countries worldwide offering career opportunities at the forefront of software innovation.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join the GFT APAC team and help build our rapidly expanding business while creating world-class digital banking and technology solutions with our clients and partners. This position is ideally based in Singapore, with international travel likely to be required.
The Senior Solution Architect owns end-to-end solution architecture for complex banking transformation initiatives, from pre-sales and solution shaping through delivery and production. The role combines strong banking domain knowledge with architecture expertise across digital channels, APIs and microservices, integration, cloud, security, AI, data, and emerging AI technologies.

The architect works directly with senior client stakeholders, partners, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into pragmatic, secure, resilient, scalable, and deliverable technology solutions. You will collaborate internationally with colleagues, clients, and partners throughout Asia and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology and functional experts in an agile project delivery model, understand business requirements, lead the development team in technical decisions, and discuss and agree with different customer and partner teams on any open topic.
• Collaborate with technology, and functional experts to understand business requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Lead technical decision-making across project teams and work with clients, partners, engineering teams, and specialist SMEs to resolve architecture and technology decisions.
• Lead and contribute to pre-sales and solution-shaping activities, including client discovery, RFP/RFI responses, architecture proposals, estimation, team composition, delivery models, and client presentations.
• Operate in a consultative capacity with senior client stakeholders to evaluate solution options, drive architecture decisions, and guide solutions through implementation and production.
• Evaluate architecture and technology options and articulate trade-offs across business value, complexity, cost, security, scalability, resilience, and delivery risk.
• Provide technical leadership for emerging technologies and new solution offerings, working with specialist SMEs where deeper domain expertise is required.
• Own the end-to-end solution architecture and provide architecture governance throughout delivery, ensuring alignment between agreed architecture, scope, NFRs, security requirements, and implementation.
• Work closely with engineering teams throughout delivery, providing architecture guidance, reviewing designs, resolving technical challenges, and supporting production readiness.

Required Skills

• 15+ years of technology experience, including significant experience in Solution Architecture roles within banking, financial services, or fintech.
• Strong banking domain knowledge, with experience across one or more areas such as digital banking, customer onboarding, deposits, payments, lending, cards, core banking, etc.
• Experience in core banking architecture and modernisation is advantageous.
• Strong experience in consultative technical pre-sales and solution architecture, with the ability to support revenue objectives and build credibility with stakeholders ranging from engineering teams to senior executives.
• Strong experience of modern architecture patterns, including microservices, API-led architecture, event-driven architecture, domain driven design, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience of non-functional architecture, including scalability, availability, resilience, performance, disaster recovery, security, observability, and operability.
• Strong integration architecture experience covering REST APIs, messaging, event streaming/Kafka, API gateways, orchestration, and legacy/core-system integration.
• Strong experience of application and platform security, including IAM, OAuth/OIDC, secrets management, encryption, API security, zero-trust principles, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, including one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers/Kubernetes, managed services, networking, serverless technologies, and cloud landing-zone considerations.
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated quality and security controls, and modern deployment patterns.
• Ability to produce and govern architecture artefacts including solution architectures, integration and data flows, deployment architectures, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and NFRs.
• Experience in commercial solutioning, including scope definition, assumptions, dependencies, estimates, team composition, delivery models, and risks
• Working knowledge of AI/GenAI architecture, including enterprise AI platforms, agentic solutions, security, governance, and responsible adoption of AI within enterprise environments is advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and develop T-shaped expertise across areas such as infrastructure, cloud, security, databases, data platforms, AI, and emerging technologies.
• Experience leading and working with multiple engineering and delivery teams in Agile environments.
  Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles, architecture governance, and frameworks such as TOGAF is advantageous.
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate complex architecture concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

(Note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding)

About Us

We show commitment to our investors and stand for solid, long-term growth performance. Founded in Germany in 1987 and in American territory since 2008, GFT expanded globally to over 10,000 experts. And to more than 15 markets to ensure proximity to clients. With new opportunities from Asia to Brazil, the international growth story continues. We are committed to grow tech talents worldwide. Because our team’s strong consulting and development skills across legacy and pioneering technologies, like GreenCoding, underpin success. We maintain a family atmosphere in an inclusive work environment.

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