Digital Solution Architect (Al Hilal)

About the Position

We are looking for a Digital Solution Architect to join Al Hilal team 😊

The Product

Al Hilal bank is a Shariah compliant digital bank that’s revolutionising the way you bank. We believe in life beyond banking and offer you and the family a personalised, convenient, and tailored experience that meets your banking and lifestyle needs seamlessly in one holistic app, the Al Hilal Digital app. Our innovative banking offering is unparalleled in the market as we are proudly part of the ADCB Group.

Job Description

• Design and define end-to-end digital banking solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, security, and high availability standards.
• Lead architecture decisions across microservices, SOA, and cloud-native environments, selecting appropriate integration patterns (event-driven, messaging, APIs).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to deliver customer-centric, resilient, and high-performance solutions.
• Produce and maintain architectural documentation (including C4 diagrams), ensuring clarity of system design, data flows, and integration points.
• Oversee implementation and adherence to architectural best practices, development standards, and modern technologies across the full software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in information technology where mostly spent in solutions definition, implementation, and architecture.
• Familiarity with drawing design diagrams in C4 standard.
• Programming skills on Java, Kotlin & SWIFT.
• Experienced with virtualization and containerization solutions/environments.
• Exposure to multiple diverse cloud technologies and environments.
• Knowledge of systems, components, and architectural principles and practices followed in distributed computing architecture.
• Banking Domain experience is mandatory & experience working in Agile teams using SCRUM.
• Experienced in different integration patterns, tools, technology & trends.
• Experienced in Microservices and SOA principals, guidelines, and supporting technology.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems.
• Experiences in cloud native principals, designs, and deployments.
• Experience in applying proven architecture design methodologies and tools.
• Wide experience in developing customer-centric solutions.
• Wide experience in developing critical, high resilient, and secured solutions.
• Comprehensive knowledge and outstanding technical skills of software designs, data flow/analytics, and different integration solutions.
• Knowledge of key integration patterns and tools such as event-based, messaging, & microservices-based integration.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Al Hilal bank is a Shariah compliant digital bank that’s revolutionising the way you bank. We believe in life beyond banking and offer you and the family a personalised, convenient, and tailored experience that meets your banking and lifestyle needs seamlessly in one holistic app, the Al Hilal Digital app.

Location: United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi