Senior Application Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect – Banking & Financial Applications

Experience Level: 15+ years

Location: Hyderabad, Chennai

Job Summary:

Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and solution design for large-scale financial applications.
• Drive modernization and refactoring of legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical strategy, architecture patterns, and integration approaches.
• Provide technical leadership across .NET and Java-based platforms.
• Design and implement data engineering pipelines with Snowflake and other modern data platforms.
• Ensure compliance with banking and financial regulations and security standards.
• Conduct architecture reviews, performance tuning, and optimization of financial systems.
• Mentor development teams and guide them on best practices in software engineering and architecture.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in architecting and solutioning

  Banking/Financial Services applications

  .
• Strong hands-on expertise in

  .NET (C#)

  or

  Java (Spring Boot, Microservices)

  .
• Solid experience in

  Data Engineering

  , especially with

  Snowflake

  , ETL/ELT pipelines, and data models.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with API design, integration patterns, and enterprise messaging systems.
• Strong understanding of financial domain concepts such as payments, lending, risk, compliance, and core banking.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in cloud architecture (e.g. Azure Architect).
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to AI/ML use cases in financial applications is a plus.

Interested candidates can please share your updated resume at vishnu.gadila@cesltd.com