Technical Architect

Who we are

Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems. 

With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs. 

Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.  

What is the opportunity? 

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Engineering, the Senior Architect will be part of the product team and focus on tailoring and implementing cutting edge products for some of the world’s largest banks. Person will lead projects from a technical aspect by providing solution analysis, planning, design, and development, for new client implementations and enhancements to existing implementations.

What will you do?

• Participate in analysis, design and code reviews and provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to Technical Leads and Software Engineers within the Delivery team.
• Understand and analyze business requirements for new and existing systems to design and present efficient technical solutions that cater to the non-functional requirements and adhere to the overall product and project vision.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of solution development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Join calls with clients on solution discussions, converting problem scenarios into solutions.
• Prepare solution flow and present to client and internal teams.
• Participate in the resolution of critical incidents and in incident management.
• Participate in migrations discussions planned by Banks team and plan and implement migration strategies.
• Review and analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of existing processes and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these processes
• Performance Analysis and Application Tuning for improved performance

What do I need to succeed?

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree (relevant experience can alternatively be considered) in Computer Science, or related fields.
• 10+ years of industry application development experience
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or other related field
• Extensive experience in designing strategic solutions and architectural models for business systems
• Hands-on experience with functional and non-functional requirements gathering/analysis
• Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices
• Domain knowledge of banking and financial services, pricing algorithms and high-performance computing.
• Experience in Java technologies
• Experience in multi-threaded server-side programming
• Experience programming in user interface technologies
• Knowledge and working experience to use relational databases
• Familiarity with J2EE application servers, Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
• Familiarity with automation of repeatable processes is desirable.
• Web Services: REST, SOAP
• MS Office Suite - Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Wiki
• Jasper Reports, GWT knowledge is desirable
• Familiarity using development tools: IDE, Unit testing tools, Build tools, Source control and code review tools.

 Nice to have:

• Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environment.
• Basic knowledge of cloud concepts (goal to work towards) and SaaS applications.
• Proactive attitude, high willingness, and capability to pick up and slice complex requirements quickly while collaborating closely within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business accurately to both internal and external stakeholders

What’s in it for you

Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers

Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

Zafin is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information collected from all applicants throughout the recruitment process. The methods by which Zafin contains uses, stores, handles, retains, or discloses applicant information can be accessed by reviewing Zafin’s privacy policy at https://zafin.com/privacy-notice/. By submitting a job application, you confirm that you agree to the processing of your personal data by Zafin described in the candidate privacy notice.