Architect and lead the design of microservices and API-based ecosystems for mission-critical banking and digital payment platforms.
Own the integration strategy, middleware stack, and streaming architecture including TIBCO BW 6.x, StreamBase, Kafka, Solace, and AWS API Gateway.
Lead end-to-end solution design for real-time payments, cross-border transactions, hosted banking APIs, and partner onboarding.
Design and implement high-availability, low-latency systems using a combination of in-memory processing, distributed architecture, and event-based triggers.
Define and enforce standards around API versioning,authentication, rate-limiting, and traffic management using Apigee, Mashery, and AWS API Gateway.
Translate complex business requirements into scalable and secure solutions in line with internal IT architecture and MAS compliance.
Lead performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, and capacity scaling for event processing systems (TIBCO Business Events,StreamBase).
Provide hands-on architecture reviews, code-level guidance, and mentoring to cross-functional teams during solution implementation.
Interface with senior stakeholders and product managers to conduct technical feasibility analysis and delivery risk assessments.
Spearhead platform modernization and migration strategies particularly cloud-native transformation (AWS/Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Manage technical debt proactively and recommend architecture refinements with long-term sustainability in mind.
Requirements
Minimum 18 years of IT experience, including 10+ years of hands-on integration architecture leadership.
Strong expertise in TIBCO stack: BusinessWorks 6.x/5.x,EMS, Business Events, StreamBase.
Proven ability to architect and implement high-volume microservices, using Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, JSON/XML.
Strong command of enterprise messaging systems (JMS,Solace, Apache Kafka).
Experience with real-time payments, digital wallets,cross-border payments, IBP, UPI, ACH, and hosted payment solutions.
In-depth experience with API Gateway technologies: Apigee, Mashery, AWS API Gateway, including hands-on setup of policies and throttling.
Prior architecture and delivery leadership for Tier-1 clients in banking or financial services is non-negotiable.
Familiarity with cloud-native integration patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployment practices using AWS Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, Jenkins, Ansible.
