AWS Solutions Architect

About Blankfactor – What We Do

At Blankfactor, we specialize in delivering high-impact technology solutions for global enterprises in highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services. Our teams partner with leading financial institutions to design, build, and modernize mission-critical platforms using cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices.

We combine deep domain expertise with strong engineering culture to solve complex technology challenges and support large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead governance-aligned architecture for a Finacle-based wire transfers modernization program within a highly regulated banking environment
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This role is responsible for defining and operationalizing hybrid cloud solution architecture spanning AWS and on-premises Red Hat Open Shift
, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and internal risk frameworks
.

The architect will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams (Development, Dev Ops, Platform Engineering), infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure architecture artifacts are audit-ready and aligned with the Permit to Operate lifecycle
.

This position requires a balance of deep technical expertise, architecture leadership, and regulatory awareness to support mission-critical, high-volume wire transfer platforms
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• Own end-to-end solution architecture across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security layers.
• Lead the modernization and re-architecture strategy for Finacle-integrated wire platforms, including legacy decomposition, API enablement, and hybrid cloud adoption
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• Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures aligned with enterprise resiliency standards, including clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives
  .
• Lead architecture design across Amazon EKS and on-premises Red Hat Open Shift
  , ensuring secure connectivity and workload portability.
• Define secure hybrid networking, DNS resolution, and cross-environment routing strategies aligned with enterprise governance.
• Establish secure service-to-service communication patterns
  , including mTLS and service mesh strategies where appropriate.

• Ensure architecture supports regulatory reporting, transaction monitoring, AML, and sanctions integration requirements
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• Produce and guide architecture artifacts through Architecture Review Board, Risk, Security, and Control governance forums
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• Develop and maintain regulatory traceability matrices mapping business requirements, control objectives, regulatory obligations, and technical implementations.
• Support regulatory exams, audits, and remediation programs when required.

• Provide architectural oversight of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and Dev Sec Ops  controls
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• Ensure transaction integrity and data consistency in distributed environments using idempotent processing, resilient workflow orchestration, and failure recovery patterns
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• Oversee documentation of end-to-end wire transaction flows, data lineage, integration points, and operational readiness artifacts
  .

• Act as a senior technical advisor
  , translating complex architectural and regulatory requirements into clear technical strategies.
• Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

• 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture or Enterprise Architecture within regulated financial environments.
• Proven experience leading modernization initiatives for wire payments or mission-critical financial platforms
  .
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services
  , including EKS, encryption, key management, and secure hybrid integration patterns
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• Hands-on architectural experience with Red Hat Open Shift in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing hybrid cloud architectures balancing security, compliance, performance, and resiliency
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• Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures with clearly defined RTO and RPO objectives
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• Familiarity with wire payment ecosystems such as Fedwire, SWIFT, and CHIPS
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• Strong experience in architecture governance, regulatory control mapping, risk integration, and audit support
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• Experience guiding architecture through structured stage-gate governance and Permit to Operate processes
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• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as OCC
  , Federal Reserve
  , and Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  .

• Experience with Finacle 11.x or similar core banking platforms supporting wire payments.
• Experience supporting ISO 20022 transformation initiatives.
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency financial transaction platforms
  .
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.