Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-25 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Full-time Hybrid Design Architecture

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

AED 45,000–AED 65,000/mo (AED 540,000–AED 780,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect with strong expertise across solution architecture, application architecture, cloud-native technologies, and security architecture to support large-scale Digital Products and Digital Onboarding initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in designing secure, resilient, scalable, and high-performance solutions across web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, containers, event-driven architectures, and enterprise ecosystems . The role requires a strong balance of customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security , along with the ability to work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams, information security teams, and other architecture functions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices
  • Design and deliver end-to-end solution architectures based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders
  • Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions
  • Design architectures for web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems
  • Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements
  • Design solutions that balance user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security
  • Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures
  • Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies
  • Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data and technology assets
  • Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements
  • Contribute to building reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms
  • Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines
  • Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through automation and process optimization
  • Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures
  • Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams
  • Coach and mentor associate and junior architects
  • Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required
  • Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on Security Architecture
  • Strong overall knowledge of software engineering and solution architecture
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience designing applications, including web and mobile applications
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs
  • Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including:
  • Microservices
  • API architecture
  • Application architecture
  • Mobile application architecture
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Distributed systems
  • Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems
  • Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies
  • Strong hands-on architectural understanding of:
  • Containers
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Service Mesh
  • Virtualization
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as:
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)