Solution Architect - Financial Services

About the role

CoorB builds digital solutions focused on process automation, user experience and data analytics, partnering with banks and financial institutions. It is looking for an experienced Solution Architect to lead the end-to-end technical design of complex, multi-service platforms in the financial services domain, bridging business requirements and engineering execution. The role is on-site in Jeddah.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across applications, data, integrations, security and deployment.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into architectural designs and technical decisions.
• Develop architecture documentation, including vision, high-level designs, integration specs and architecture decision records.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, data ownership and event-driven communication patterns.
• Design integrations with external and third-party systems and set non-functional requirements for scalability, availability, performance, resilience and observability.
• Incorporate security and compliance requirements with security and risk teams.
• Lead architecture reviews, assess technologies and vendors, and manage architectural risks and dependencies.
• Support estimation, scoping and delivery planning, and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a Solution Architect or similar role.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, multi-service enterprise platforms.
• Strong software engineering background, able to review code and challenge technical designs.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Required skills

• Distributed systems, microservices, API design and versioning, and event-driven architecture.
• Java and Spring Boot, or an equivalent enterprise backend technology.
• Data architecture, relational data modelling and distributed consistency.
• Security architecture: IAM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, encryption and secrets management.
• Kubernetes or OpenShift and CI/CD pipelines.