Senior Architect, Data Products & Domain APIs

Quick Facts

Role: Senior Architect for Data Products & Domain APIs

Description

Lead and continuously evolve the architecture vision, principles, and roadmap for Data Products and Domain APIs. You will own end-to-end architecture across multiple domains, coordinating solution architecture activities and guiding architects and engineering teams. You will define data ownership, governance, API-first standards, and ensure integrations are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and easy to consume.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture vision, principles, and roadmap for data products and domain APIs
• Lead end-to-end architecture across domains, products, and delivery streams
• Provide architectural guidance to architects and engineering teams
• Identify interfaces, data flows, dependencies, and integration requirements
• Establish patterns and standards for discoverable, reusable, governed, reliable domain-owned data products
• Define data ownership, product boundaries, quality expectations, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle responsibilities
• Promote modern data architecture practices (data product thinking, domain ownership)
• Define and maintain API-first principles, design standards, governance, and lifecycle management
• Guide teams on domain boundaries, API contracts, versioning, security mechanisms, and reusable integration patterns
• Ensure APIs and integrations are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and easy to consume
• Support event-driven and service-oriented architecture where appropriate
• Define functional and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, security, scalability, resilience, operability)
• Define solution components, interfaces, and responsibilities aligned with enterprise architecture
• Maintain an architectural runway for sustainable delivery and future technology evolution
• Support Continuous Delivery and DevOps with pragmatic architecture guidelines and enablers
• Contribute to solution planning, high-level design, architecture reviews, and architecture exploration
• Communicate complex decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor architects and engineering teams and enable decentralized decisions within guardrails

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience, including significant experience in Solution, Domain, or Enterprise Architecture
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale data, API, and integration solutions
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products, or domains
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data products, APIs, and integration patterns
• Experience with API governance, domain boundaries, and reusable architecture standards
• Good understanding of event-driven, service-oriented, and distributed architectures
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resilience, availability, and performance requirements
• Experience in complex, regulated environments with strong data governance requirements
• Good understanding of banking technology and business processes
• Very good English communication skills

Benefits

• Private medical care
• Co-financing for the sports card
• Constant support of a dedicated consultant
• Employee referral program