Senior Architect – Data Products & Domain Apis

DCG is a company that connects business needs with people's ambitions. They focus on matching candidates with suitable environments and help companies build effective teams. They work closely with people and organizations by listening carefully and responding to their needs, building lasting and valuable relationships.

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience including significant experience in Solution, Domain, or Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API, and integration solutions
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products, or domains
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs, and integration patterns
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries, and reusable architecture standards
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented, and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability, and performance requirements
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strict data governance requirements
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes
• Very good English communication skills

Nice to have:

• Core Banking experience

• Lead architectural vision, principles, and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs
• Coordinate end-to-end architecture across domains, products, and delivery streams
• Guide architects and engineering teams in solution architecture
• Identify interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration requirements
• Establish patterns and standards for discoverable, reusable, and governed data products
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, data quality, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle
• Promote data product thinking and domain ownership
• Apply API-first principles including design standards, governance, and lifecycle management
• Define API contracts, versioning strategies, security mechanisms, and reusable integration patterns
• Ensure APIs and integrations are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and consumable
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architecture approaches
• Define functional and non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience, and operability
• Define solution components, interfaces, responsibilities, and alignment with enterprise architecture
• Maintain architectural runway and support CI/CD and DevOps through automation
• Contribute to solution planning, high-level design, and architecture reviews