Principal Architect, Banking Technology (Singapore)

Contract Type:

Permanent

Location:

Singapore

Date Published:

28-Oct-2026

Salary:

Competitive Salary
About the Role
A technology services provider is looking for a senior architect to lead the technical direction of its banking work in Singapore. You’ll work with client architects and engineering leads, and guide teams here and offshore.

What You’ll Do
  • Design and oversee the architecture of banking platforms, including digital, payments and corporate banking.
  • Guide modernisation of existing applications towards cloud-based, modular designs.
  • Identify where AI and GenAI can add real value in banking, with proper security and governance.
  • Set the engineering and API standards that teams follow.
  • Review technical risk and effort estimates when proposals are being put together.
  • Coach architects and senior engineers.

What You Bring
  • 15+ years in software engineering and architecture, with recent hands-on design work
  • A strong Java and microservices background, plus API design and event-driven systems
  • Experience with high-volume transaction systems and enterprise databases
  • Modern delivery practices: CI/CD, containers, automated and contract-based testing
  • Domain knowledge in payments, transaction banking, digital banking or core banking
  • A practical view of how to bring AI services into enterprise architecture
  • Bonus: Kubernetes, serverless, performance engineering, front-end exposure, agentic AI

What’s on Offer
Large-scale banking work, hands-on influence over AI-enabled modernisation, and regular access to senior client technology leaders.


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