Senior Solution Architect - Capital Markets

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking CorporationNew York, NY
$202,000 - $237,000Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an expert Senior Solution Architect – Director to govern and scale our global integration fabric, real-time message routing ecosystems, and workflow engine. In this role, you will define the technology blueprint that unites Front, Middle, and Back-Office (FOMOBO) platforms across the enterprise. You will lead the creation of our event driven architecture required for data-driven reporting pipelines, transitioning legacy interfaces into a unified, cloud-centric mesh. Your strategic oversight will cover real-time event fabrics (Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK), and cloud-native lakehouses (Databricks). This role ensures that continuous transactional workflows instantly translate into scalable, resilient , low latency business-ready pub-sub driven trade workflow and reporting capabilities.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of enterprise architecture experience within Investment Banking, Capital Markets, or Global Financial Institutions, with deep exposure across FOMOBO environments.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Apache Kafka (or Amazon MSK) deployed on public cloud environments (AWS/Azure). Must understand schema registry governance, cluster federation, and performance optimization for extreme scale.
  • Proven track record of managing enterprise-wide API deployments and enterprise service bus (ESB) workflows using Mulesoft or comparable high-performance API platforms.
  • Extensive production architecture experience designing lakehouse foundations on Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables).
  • In-depth understanding of standard OLTP engines (PostgreSQL, Aurora) and cloud OLAP database patterns (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks Serverless SQL).
  • Experience structuring complex data schemas to simultaneously satisfy low-latency operational reporting and long-tail regulatory or trend analytics.

Nice To Haves

  • Strong familiarity with global financial regulations and data privacy frameworks impacting trading data.
  • Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, or Databricks Certified Enterprise Architect.
  • Active experience driving large-scale digital transformation initiatives or moving monolithic banking systems to cloud-native event meshes.

Responsibilities

  • Define Enterprise Integration Strategy: Establish the macro-architectural roadmaps and patterns for the firm's real-time messaging, API ecosystems, and cloud data platforms across Front, Middle, and Back-Office systems.
  • Govern the Real-Time Event Fabric: Own the design patterns for our globally distributed, cloud-centric Apache Kafka pub-sub architecture, overseeing partition design, event-sourcing strategies, and high-volume stream topologies.
  • Architect API & Hybrid Connectivity: Guide the deployment of containerized services as our primary enterprise integration layer, establishing API gateway standards, contract-first design policies, and secure microservices orchestration patterns.
  • Drive Cross-Domain Data Reporting & Analytics: Design high-throughput transactional and analytics pipelines, enabling seamless real-time operational reporting for Front Office trading, Middle Office risk calculation, and Back Office settlement desks.

Benefits

  • annual discretionary incentive award
  • competitive portfolio of benefits
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