Lead Technology Architect - Core Banking & Digital Platforms

About the role

A major bank is reviewing its core banking and digital platforms and needs a hands-on architect to lead the technical assessment and define how to modernise without compromising financial integrity. The role is based in Doha, Qatar.

Key responsibilities

• Assess the core banking setup: customisations, interfaces, batch/EOD, capacity and dependencies.
• Review digital channels, APIs, microservices, cloud/hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD, security and disaster recovery.
• Weigh retain, upgrade, decouple or replace options for the core.
• Design phased migration paths, including coexistence, cutover, rollback and financial-control sign-off.
• Run workshops with bank and vendor teams and deliver clear findings and roadmap inputs.

Required profile

• 8+ years in technology architecture or engineering, with 3+ in banking.
• Architecture lead on at least 2 complex banking platform transformations.
• Solid grasp of core banking processing (interest, fees, postings, EOD) and distributed transaction design (idempotency, retries, no duplicate postings).

Required skills

• Hands-on Finastra Equation experience (essential)
• Experience integrating cloud or distributed services with a legacy core
• Nice to have: GCC banking, a cloud architecture certification, phased core migration experience