Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

# Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

> GSSTech Group · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · — · Posted 2026-08-24

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are looking for an experienced **Senior Solution Architect** with strong expertise across **solution architecture, application architecture, cloud-native technologies, and security architecture** to support large-scale Digital Products and Digital Onboarding initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in designing secure, resilient, scalable, and high-performance solutions across **web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, containers, event-driven architectures, and enterprise ecosystems**.

The role requires a strong balance of **customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security**, along with the ability to work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams, information security teams, and other architecture functions.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enforce **architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices**.
• Design and deliver **end-to-end solution architectures** based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions.
• Design architectures for **web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems**.
• Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements.
• Design solutions that balance **user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security**.
• Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures.
• Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including **mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies**.
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the **confidentiality, integrity, and availability** of enterprise data and technology assets.
• Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to building **reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms**.
• Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through **automation and process optimization**.
• Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures.
• Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams.
• Coach and mentor associate and junior architects.
• Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required.
• Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on **Security Architecture**.

### Required Technical & Architecture Skills
### Solution & Application Architecture

• Strong overall knowledge of **software engineering and solution architecture**.
• Minimum **5+ years of experience designing applications**, including web and mobile applications.
• Minimum **5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs**.
• Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including:
• Microservices
• API architecture
• Application architecture
• Mobile application architecture
• Event-driven architecture
• Distributed systems
• Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems.

### Cloud & Cloud-Native Architecture

• Minimum **5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies**.
• Strong hands-on architectural understanding of:
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Service Mesh
• Virtualization
• Experience with cloud platforms such as:
• OpenShift
• Microsoft Azure
• AWS
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions.

### Security Architecture

• Minimum **3+ years of experience in Cyber Security / Information Security**.
• Strong understanding of **Security Architecture** principles.
• Deep understanding of:
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Encryption
• Logging & Monitoring
• Application Security
• OWASP Top 10
• Infrastructure Security
• Cloud Security
• Security regulations and compliance
• Experience collaborating with Information Security teams to embed security into solution architecture and application design.
• Ability to balance security requirements with business functionality, customer experience, performance, and delivery objectives.

### Integration & Enterprise Ecosystem

Strong experience integrating applications with enterprise technologies including

• Mobile applications
• Microservices
• REST/API ecosystems
• Event streams
• Message brokers
• Containers
• Cloud-native platforms
• Distributed services

### Architecture Tools & Platforms

• Experience with enterprise architecture tools such as **Enterprise Architect**.
• Experience with **data modeling tools**.
• Practical experience working with enterprise architecture standards, blueprints, reusable patterns, and reference architectures.

### Behavioral & Leadership Competencies

The successful candidate should demonstrate

• Strong delivery focus while maintaining the right balance between **customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security**.
• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and expectation-management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong time-management and prioritization skills.
• High energy, enthusiasm, and passion for technology and architecture.
• Ability to make autonomous technical decisions with minimal guidance.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• High learning agility and willingness to continuously develop technical expertise.
• Ability to coach and mentor associate and junior architects.
• Ability to work effectively across business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and architecture teams.

### Delivery & Architecture Governance

The role will be expected to contribute to

• Delivery of complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions within agreed timelines.
• Improvement of architecture design workflows and efficiency through automation.
• Development of reliable, resilient, and secure technology platforms.
• Architecture peer review sessions.
• Definition and adoption of reusable architecture blueprints and reference architectures.
• Technical education and architecture workshops for chapter and delivery teams.
• Continuous improvement of architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Ongoing development toward **Security Architecture mastery**.

### Preferred Experience

• Experience within **banking, financial services, or other highly regulated enterprise environments**.
• Experience with large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Experience working on **Digital Products and Digital Onboarding** platforms.
• Experience working with complex enterprise application ecosystems.
• Experience with cloud-native modernization and distributed architectures.
• Experience working closely with Cyber Security / Information Security teams.

## Apply
[Apply at GSSTech Group](https://apply.workable.com/gsstech-group/j/BC65181158/apply)
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