Who we are
Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems.
With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs.
Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.
What is the opportunity?
Reporting to the Chief Architect, the Application Architect you will lead and consult on the technology requirements and strategy for one or many technology modernization initiatives, in a specific product group.
In collaboration with the Product Management group and domain experts, you will try to tie business imperatives tied to strategic innovation initiatives. You will provide technology directions and consult with your peer platform architects and, drive the (mostly monthly) release strategy of improvements.
You will maintain awareness of dependencies between teams and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering and operations excellence in line with the SLAs we have with clients for our SaaS deployment. You will help build the strategy for the engineering teams to architect, design and deliver new products, or refactor/modernize existing ones.
Mode of Work: Hybrid- We are able to accommodate a hybrid work environment, with a minimum of one or two days per week in the office
What will you do?
- Co-Lead teams of talented software engineers, providing technical architecture guidance and oversight on multiple product development, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Work with Product Management and domain experts to extract functional requirements, craft system specifications, propose ADRs for high impact architecture changes and enable the development of complex enterprise grade backend applications.
- Provide insight and approaches to troubleshooting complex application issues as they arise.
- Perform complicated and difficult assignments under direction of the Chief Architect, requiring a high degree of technical competence reflecting knowledge of current state-of-the-art technologies.
- Conceive and plan projects involving the assessment of basic architecture, distributed computing, leveraging automation and cloud technologies as input for, defining and selecting new concepts and approaches.
Who are you?
- You can create documented narratives around complex solutions that have high impact.
- You are hands-on and can participate in the day-to-day product development and delivery
- You are comfortable accepting failure, but able to quickly re-assess and move forward without delay or ego.
- You have a SaaS mindset, which sits on a foundation of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with, and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities.
- Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details
What do you need to succeed?
Must Haves:
- 10+ years of experience in the following:
- Professional experience for designing highly performant and scalable polyglot solutions while supporting Coding and DevOps efforts.
- Leading a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed systems, and full stack systems, to create solutions for financial industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge of application development and integration patterns, application security and database design.
- Working experience in/with:
- 12 Factor Application Design and Headless architectural principles.
- Key full stack technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Node, React, GraphQL, REST and event-based architectures using Kafka, PostgreSQL and CosmosDB (NoSQL).
- Cloud native application development on Azure with an eye on cost control by design.
- Stream processing applications and message brokers like Kafka
- Relational/distributed databases and high-volume data processing in batch and real time. Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL is a plus.
- Ability to explain/defend complex concepts to all layers within an organization.
- Work in an agile (SCRUM-based) environment.
Additional nice-to-have experience!
- 3+ years in a product and engineering work environment.
- Experience with Release Management practices
What’s in it for you
Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers
Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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