Enterprise Architect (FinTech / Crypto)
Role in brief
Ayo Support Solutions is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in FinTech and Crypto. This role focuses on overseeing ecosystem architecture and ensuring the integration of financial products. Candidates with a strong engineering background and experience in system design should apply.
About the role
In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture of financial products and services, ensuring they integrate seamlessly within the company's ecosystem. Your expertise will guide the design of scalable and fault-tolerant systems that can handle high transaction volumes and serve millions of users.
You will collaborate closely with the CTO, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to align technical architecture with business goals. Your decisions will impact multiple engineering teams, making it essential to have a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
Skills that matter here
- system design: This role requires designing architecture for interconnected products and services in the FinTech and Crypto sectors.
- distributed systems: Understanding of distributed systems is crucial for creating scalable and fault-tolerant architectures.
- cloud infrastructure: Proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure is necessary for implementing architectural solutions.
- API design: You will need to make decisions regarding API design and integration patterns across multiple teams.
- stakeholder management: Excellent communication skills are needed to manage relationships with various stakeholders.
Who this role suits
- A candidate with over 8 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years in an architectural role.
- Someone who has a strong engineering background, ideally in a Senior, Lead, or Principal Engineer capacity.
- A professional who thrives in collaborative environments and can align technical and business strategies.
- An individual comfortable making architectural decisions that affect multiple teams and products.
From the employer
Responsibilities
- Oversee the architecture of the ecosystem and continuously develop it
- Define target corporate architecture, architectural principles, standards, and long-term technology roadmap
- Ensure architectural consistency and seamless integration of financial products, payments, wallets, custody, cards, mining services, and core platform infrastructure
- Design scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems capable of serving millions of users and large transaction volumes
- Establish clear architectural boundaries, service responsibilities, integration patterns, and data flows between multiple engineering teams
- Make key architectural decisions regarding microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
- Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, scalability limitations, and excessive dependencies between systems
- Conduct architectural reviews and advise engineering teams
- Collaborate with CTO, engineering team leads, product leaders, and business stakeholders to align technical architecture with business strategy
- Evaluate new technologies, architectural approaches, and infrastructure solutions
- Embed security, reliability, observability, performance, and operational resilience into architectural solutions
- Stay deeply involved in technical discussions, solution design, and implementation reviews
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years as an enterprise, platform, or solution architect
- Mandatory experience in system design within FinTech, banking, payments, digital banking, or cryptocurrency companies
- Proven experience in designing architecture for multiple interconnected products, services, or business domains
- Strong engineering background, preferably in a Senior / Lead / Principal Engineer role
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, and integration patterns
- Experience designing high-load, fault-tolerant, and mission-critical systems
- Proficient knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Understanding of financial transaction processing, data consistency, security, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to define long-term architectural strategy while remaining a practitioner
- Experience making architectural decisions at the level of multiple engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
Conditions
- Full-time employment
- Remote work
- 5/2 work schedule
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
This position is fully remote.
What is the seniority level of this role?
This is a senior-level position.
How can I apply for this position?
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