Technical Architect - Banking & Payments
About the role
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.
Responsibilities
- Leading technical architecture and solution design for commercial banking, retail banking, and payments engagements
- Translating business requirements into detailed technical blueprints, including application architecture, integration patterns, data flows, and implementation approaches
- Guiding engineering teams through technical standards, design reviews, and build activities to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance platforms
- Collaborating with client and Deloitte stakeholders across business, product, technology, operations, and delivery teams to align architecture decisions with program objectives
- Supporting technology transformation initiatives by evaluating solution options, shaping implementation roadmaps, and driving execution across workstreams
Requirements
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Able to meet deadlines
- Able to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in technical architecture, lead engineering, or software development
- 3+ years of experience as a technical lead or architect on enterprise-scale initiatives from architecture through deployment
- 3+ years of experience designing and building systems using microservices and event-driven architectures, including at least 1 production implementation
- Advanced degree or certification in business, engineering, project management, process improvement, or lean methodologies (preferred)
- Experience across payments, core banking, account management, card management, and integration architectures (preferred)
- Experience with Representational State Transfer (REST), gRPC, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (preferred)
- Experience with structured query language (SQL), NoSQL, data modeling, and application or cloud security practices (preferred)
- Experience producing technical artifacts, including data models and architecture diagrams (preferred)
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), DevOps, and infrastructure automation (preferred)
Benefits
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $148,200 to $292,300.
Pay
The salary range for this role is $148,200 to $292,300.
Schedule
The schedule for this role is flexible to accommodate travel and client needs.