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Software Solution Architect
Breezy Digital Solutions
Software & Data
Lagos Full Time
IT & Telecoms NGN 900,000 - 1,200,000
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Job Summary
We are looking for a Software Solution Architect to lead the architecture of our growing fintech product suite. This role is pivotal in shaping systems that are secure, scalable, maintainable, and regulatory-compliant from the ground up. You will design and document robust system architectures and govern technical standards across teams.
- Minimum Qualification : Degree
- Experience Level : Executive level
- Experience Length : 11 years
Job Description/Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Design scalable, auditable systems for remittance, merchant collections, and agency banking.
- Model services, data flows, job queues, and transactional boundaries with high reliability.
- Maintain architectural artifacts including diagrams, API specs, and ADRs.
- Define event handling, service boundaries, data consistency, and recovery strategies.
- Produce detailed Solution Design Documents (SDDs) with rollback, idempotency, and failure plans.
- Establish design standards for fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability.
- Lead pre-implementation design reviews and approve key architecture decisions.
- Define and validate non-functional requirements (SLA, rate limits, availability, etc.).
- Guide schema versioning, API lifecycle, and compatibility strategies.
- Ensure production code aligns with approved SDDs via peer reviews.
- Partner with Compliance to enforce PCI DSS-aligned architecture.
- Architect secure systems with encrypted data flow and strong secrets management.
- Plan for system auditability, traceability, and operational rollback paths.
- Build boilerplate templates and reusable patterns for high-velocity development.
- Conduct architecture walk-throughs and mentor engineers in design-first development.
- Guide developers through reviews, performance tuning, and best practice adoption. Ensure code quality and coverage meet production-readiness thresholds.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- 3+ years as a solution architect or technical lead in a fintech or financial systems context.
- Deep experience with payments, remittance, or digital banking platforms.
- Skilled in Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, and modern cloud-native development (preferably AWS).
- Expertise in microservices, distributed systems, messaging patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Strong grasp of system resilience models (e.g., SAGA, event sourcing).
- Strategic Thinking
- Understands how architecture impacts feature velocity, compliance, and risk.
- Skilled in identifying technical debt and scalability constraints.
- Detail-oriented thinker who anticipates edge cases and failure modes.
- Exceptional communicator across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.