Principal Technical Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Architect reusable services and common components
  across applications, following a "lego block" approach for scalability and maintainability.
• Drive the design and development of
  modern, modular applications
  (not monolithic) using microservices and API-first principles.
• Lead architecture, design, and technical delivery for enterprise-level banking applications.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate lending, loan servicing, or finance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Own end-to-end solution architecture across
  .NET, Angular, API, and Azure Cloud environments
  .
• Guide engineering teams on coding standards, design patterns, quality frameworks, and best practices.
• Provide technical oversight for application modernization, API development, cloud migration, workflows, and integrations.
• Manage delivery activities, sprint planning, estimation, and release coordination across onsite and offshore teams.
• Lead innovation
  by introducing new technologies and approaches to improve solution performance and user experience.
• Ensure compliance with operational, security, and regulatory standards.
• Provide architectural documentation, roadmaps, and technical recommendations to leadership.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect.
• Strong background in banking or financial services; experience with note finance, lending workflows, loan servicing, or specialized financial products is highly preferred.
• Deep hands-on skills in:
• .NET / C# application architecture
• Angular (latest versions)
• API development and Microservices
• Azure Services
  : App Services, Azure Functions, Front Door, API Gateway, Traffic Manager, SQL
• Cloudflare
  for performance and security
• Unit Testing frameworks
• Proven experience managing
  offshore development teams
  and distributed delivery models.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and modular design principles.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps automation, and IaC (Terraform).
• Experience in lending solutions, FIS modules, regulatory compliance, security control implementation, or cloud governance within banking.

Knowledge of data analytics or machine learning workflows is a plus