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 Chief Architect, Product Architect II will lead and consult on the technology requirements and strategy for one or many technology modernization initiatives, in a specific product group.
In collaboration with the Product Management group and domain experts, you will try to tie business imperatives tied to strategic innovation initiatives. You will provide technology directions and consult with your peer platform architects and, drive the (mostly monthly) release strategy of improvements.
You will maintain awareness of dependencies between teams and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering and operations excellence in line with the SLAs we have with clients for our SaaS deployment. You will help build the strategy for the engineering teams to architect, design and deliver new products, or refactor/modernize existing ones.
Mode of Work: Hybrid, minimum of one or two days per week in the office.
What will you do?
- Co-Lead teams of talented software engineers, providing technical architecture guidance and oversight on multiple product development, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Work with Product Management and domain experts to extract functional requirements, craft system specifications, propose ADRs for high impact architecture changes and enable the development of complex enterprise grade backend applications.
- Provide governance and review of ADRs and API specifications.
- Provide insight and approaches to troubleshooting complex application issues as they arise.
- Perform complicated and difficult assignments under direction of the Chief Architect, requiring a high degree of technical competence reflecting knowledge of current state-of-the-art technologies.
- Conceive and plan projects involving the assessment of basic architecture, distributed computing, leveraging automation and cloud technologies as input for, defining and selecting new concepts and approaches.
What do you need to succeed?
Must Haves:
- 12+ years of experience in the following:
- Professional experience for designing highly performant and scalable polyglot solutions while supporting Coding and DevOps efforts.
- Leading a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed systems, and full stack systems, to create solutions for financial industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge of web applications, application security (Oauth2/OIDC), and open-source technologies.
- Working experience in/with:
- 12 Factor Application Design and Headless architectural principles.
- Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, Node, React, GraphQL, REST and event-based architectures is an asset.
- Cloud native application development on Azure with an eye on cost control by design.
- Stream processing applications and message brokers like Kafka
- Relational/distributed databases and high-volume data processing in batch and real time. Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL is a plus.
- Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms, especially Java and Spring Boot.
- Ability to explain/defend complex concepts to all layers within an organization.
- Work in an agile (SCRUM-based) environment.
Nice to Have:
- 3+ years in a product and engineering work environment.
- Experience with Release Management practices including automation
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.
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What We Do
Zafin, the global leader in SaaS cloud-native product and pricing solutions, is a trusted partner to the world’s most customer-centric financial institutions. Zafin’s product and pricing platform empowers banks of all sizes to center their customers, grow relationships and drive revenues.
The Zafin platform separates product and pricing from core processing to accelerate progressive modernization, enable digital transformation and deliver personalization at the relationship level.
A typical Zafin installation integrates easily with most back-end systems and customer-facing channels to increase product and pricing efficiency and agility, drive interest and non-interest income, and deliver a positive ROI—often in one year or less.
