Company Overview 10Pearls is an award-winning end-to-end digital innovation company that helps businesses imagine and build the future. We are proud to announce that 10Pearls was named as winner of the Best Tech Work Culture Timmy Award in Washington DC by Tech in Motion, recognized on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List, and was ranked the #1 Most Diverse Midsize Company in Greater Washington. We partner with businesses to help them transform, scale, and accelerate by adopting digital and exponential technologies. Our work has ranged from creating highly usable, secure digital experiences, mobile and software products, to helping businesses modernize through cloud adoption and development and the digitalization of their business processes. Our clientele is highly diverse, including Global 1000 enterprises, mid-market businesses, and high-growth start-ups. But those are just the facts. What makes us unique is that we have true heart and soul. We have a strong focus on a double bottom line and actively support and engage with the communities where we live and work to make the world a better place. In a nutshell, we believe in doing well, while doing good, and know how to balance the two. Job Overview We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design and govern scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise application solutions within the banking domain. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving end-to-end solution architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, business goals, and technology strategy while enabling modernization and innovation across banking platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design
Design end-to-end solution architectures for enterprise and banking applications aligned with business and technology objectives.
Review High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) with a focus on scalability, modularity, maintainability, and performance.
Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and modular technical solutions.
Create architecture artifacts including solution blueprints, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, deployment diagrams, integration designs, and interface contracts.
Evaluate and recommend appropriate architecture patterns, platforms, frameworks, and tools for new and existing systems.
Define and promote reference architectures across domains including core banking, lending, payments, CRM, ERP, and risk management systems.
Architecture Governance & Standards
Represent the application architecture domain in architecture governance forums and design authority reviews.
Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and target-state blueprints.
Enforce consistency in technology stacks, frameworks, integration standards, and design patterns across applications.
Capture and document key architecture decisions, risks, and recommendations during design discussions and governance reviews.
Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing systems, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture landscapes.
Modernization & Engineering Best Practices
Guide teams in modernizing legacy applications into microservices-based and cloud-native architectures.
Recommend and implement best practices for:
Microservices and multi-tier architectures
API-first and event-driven architectures
Containerized and cloud-native applications
Secure transaction handling and session management
Caching, resiliency, and fault tolerance mechanisms
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, API gateways, and serverless computing.
Support Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies and solution approaches.
Security, Compliance & Resilience
Collaborate with security teams to embed security-by-design principles into application architectures.
Ensure application solutions comply with security and regulatory standards including GDPR, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and Central Bank guidelines.
Address architecture concerns related to authentication, authorization, encryption, identity management, and data privacy.
Identify architectural and security risks early and define mitigation strategies.
Ensure solutions are designed for high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, resilience, and operational continuity.
Validate non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, concurrency, and throughput SLAs.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
Partner closely with business teams, developers, infrastructure teams, DevOps engineers, and program managers to deliver enterprise solutions.
Act as a trusted advisor for architecture-related decisions across programs and initiatives.
Present architecture proposals, recommendations, and review outcomes to governance boards and executive stakeholders.
Ensure solutions support interoperability, reusability, and agility across enterprise platforms and digital channels.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
10–15+ years of overall IT experience, including at least 5 years in a Solution Architect role for large-scale enterprise systems.
Strong experience designing enterprise-grade applications within banking or financial services environments.
Deep understanding of enterprise application architecture, system integration, APIs, cloud-native design, and distributed systems.
Hands-on experience with microservices, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
Strong understanding of security architecture, compliance frameworks, and operational resilience.
Experience working with architecture governance boards and enterprise architecture frameworks.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Skills
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API gateways, and event streaming platforms.
Relevant architecture certifications such as TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect are a plus.
