Senior Solution & Integration Architect - Financial Services (PL6571)

Role Summary

Paralucent is seeking a Senior Solution & Integration Architect to define the architecture for a high-volume, regulated workflow and case-management platform. You will design component boundaries, data flows, trust zones, identity, integrations, resilience and observability while balancing enterprise reuse, configurable capability and targeted custom development.

You will also provide practical options when source systems offer limited or no APIs.

What You'll Do

• Own logical, deployment, integration, data-flow and security architecture for the solution.

• Classify components as enterprise reuse, configured capability, reusable accelerator, custom development, third-party service or AI service.

• Design integration patterns across APIs, events/messages, files/batches, content repositories and approved RPA/UI automation.

• Define secure cloud/hybrid deployment, network boundaries, encryption, secrets, service identities, RBAC and segregation of duties.

• Design audit, evidence lineage, records/retention, legal-hold, monitoring, resilience, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.

• Establish failure-handling patterns for unavailable, incomplete or conflicting source-system information.

• Guide selection and safe integration of OCR, document-intelligence and AI/model services, including data exchanged, retention and fallback.

• Partner with engineering leads to keep customizations maintainable, testable, upgradeable and transferable to client teams.

• Support architecture governance, threat modelling, technical deep dives and production-readiness reviews.

What Success Looks Like

• Architecture decisions are explicit, traceable and approved before they become delivery blockers.

• High-risk integrations have feasible primary and fallback patterns.

• Security, privacy, auditability, resilience and records requirements are embedded by design.

• The implementation minimizes unnecessary vendor lock-in and supplier custody of sensitive data.

• Engineering teams can implement the architecture consistently using documented standards and reference patterns.

• 10+ years in solution, application, cloud or integration architecture for enterprise systems.

• Hands-on experience designing secure solutions for banking, financial services or comparable regulated environments.

• Deep experience with REST APIs, API management, event-driven integration, file/batch integration and legacy-system constraints.

• Strong cloud architecture experience in AWS and/or Azure, including identity, networking, security, resilience and observability.

• Experience with workflow/case-management platforms, document/content services and high-volume operational applications.

• Working knowledge of privacy, records management, audit evidence, least privilege, segregation of duties, RTO/RPO and secure SDLC.

• Ability to communicate trade-offs to executives, control functions and engineering teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing RPA as a controlled fallback where supported APIs are unavailable.

• Experience integrating enterprise identity, e-signature, notification and document-repository services.

• Experience with AI/document-intelligence architecture and Responsible AI governance.

• Architecture certification such as AWS, Azure, TOGAF or equivalent.

Role Scorecard: Illustrative Measures

Final targets and cadence will be confirmed for the specific assignment. Typical measures include:

• Architecture decision turnaround and approval

• Reduction of unresolved technical dependencies

• Integration feasibility and failure-recovery readiness

• Security/control findings identified before build

• Conformance to reference patterns

• Technical debt and exception closure

• Quality and usability of architecture documentation

How You Demonstrate Our Core Values

Driven: Moves important work forward, recovers quickly from blockers and focuses on meaningful outcomes.

Takes Ownership: Closes loops, communicates risks early and remains accountable across handoffs.

Creative Problem Solver: Clarifies the real problem and proposes practical options with trade-offs.

Humbly Confident: Brings sound judgment, explains reasoning and actively invites challenge and feedback.

Customer Centric: Understands operational reality, success measures and the impact of decisions on users and the institution.