Senior Solution Architect - Capital Markets

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation • New York, NY

4d • $202,000 - $237,000 • Hybrid

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed