At Finastra, we’re a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry. Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
The Lead Software Developer / Software Architect Senior Specialist is responsible for defining and delivering end-to-end technology solutions aligned with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and engineering best practices.
This is a hands-on technical architecture role requiring strong, current expertise in Microsoft .NET and C# technologies. The Architect is expected to actively engage with engineering teams on a day-to-day basis, including solution design, code and design reviews, technical problem-solving, prototyping, and implementation guidance.
The Architect partners closely with Product, Business, Engineering, DevOps, and Shared Services teams to establish architectural direction, translate business requirements into scalable solutions, and ensure successful delivery of complex technology initiatives.
Responsibilities & Deliverables
- Define and deliver end-to-end architecture across applications, integrations, data, APIs, and cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards.
- Develop high-level and detailed solution designs covering functional and non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational resilience.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership in .NET and C#, working directly with engineering teams on solution implementation, technical challenges, code/design reviews, proof-of-concepts, and engineering best practices.
- Establish and promote architecture principles, reusable patterns, standards, frameworks, and engineering best practices.
- Lead architecture and design reviews and provide clear technical direction for complex engineering decisions and challenges.
- Design scalable APIs, microservices, service interfaces, integration frameworks, and data flows supporting reliable communication across distributed systems.
- Drive application modernization and cloud transformation initiatives, including cloud-native and distributed application architectures using Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
- Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to enable CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, containerization, automation, monitoring, logging, and observability.
- Provide architectural guidance for solutions leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Service Fabric, where applicable.
- Ensure solutions meet organizational requirements for security, governance, regulatory compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
- Conduct architecture assessments to identify technical debt, dependencies, scalability concerns, implementation risks, and appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Engineering, Shared Services, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions.
- Present architecture strategies, recommendations, trade-offs, and technical considerations clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Support technical planning, estimation, dependency management, and implementation sequencing to improve predictability and successful delivery.
- Champion technical excellence, maintainability, cost-effectiveness, reuse, and long-term sustainability across solution designs.
Required Skills & Experience
- Significant experience in solution architecture, software architecture, or senior engineering leadership within complex enterprise technology environments.
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications and end-to-end technology solutions.
- Strong hands-on development experience with Microsoft .NET and C# is mandatory.
- Current practical knowledge of the Microsoft technology ecosystem, particularly .NET-based enterprise application development.
- Ability to remain technically hands-on on a day-to-day basis, including reviewing code, troubleshooting complex technical issues, validating designs, developing prototypes, and providing implementation-level guidance.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, including microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, integrations, asynchronous processing, and data architecture.
- Experience designing cloud and cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience with DevOps engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and observability.
- Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of security architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to move from architectural concepts into implementation-level technical decisions.
Preferred / Additional Skills
- Experience with Microsoft Service Fabric and distributed applications built using Service Fabric is highly desirable.
- Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic .NET applications into modern service-based or cloud-native architectures.
- Experience defining reusable application frameworks, service interfaces, API standards, and integration patterns.
- Experience working across architecture, engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and Shared Services organizations.
We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:
Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
Well‑being: Access confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive—inside and outside of work.
Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*
Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation‑matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.
Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra—open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.
Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.
Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.
*Specific benefits may vary by location.
At Finastra, each individual is unique—bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.
Be unique. Be exceptional. Help us make a difference at Finastra.
Applicants for this position need to be located in posted location or their immediate surrounding areas. Due to the requirements of this position, this job posting is not available for, and Finastra will not be considering any applicants who currently reside in New York City or California.
Skills Required
- Professional software development experience spanning architecture and implementation
- Strong proficiency in C# and .NET
- Strong proficiency in Angular for full-stack development
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience with distributed and event-driven systems
- Understanding of secure coding practices
- Experience with automated testing strategies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Entity Framework Core experience, including query optimization, change tracking, and migration management
- Working knowledge of Azure cloud services
- Code review experience as both author and reviewer, focused on quality, security, and maintainability
- Financial services or regulated-industry experience
Finastra Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finastra and has not been reviewed or approved by Finastra.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave is positioned as flexible/“unlimited” in many roles, which can support work-life balance when team norms allow it. Hybrid/flexible working is also framed as a core part of the overall rewards experience.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as relatively generous in the US, with multiple references to roughly three months (or around 12 weeks) fully paid and equal leave for mothers and fathers. This is repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful component of the benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through offerings like an Employee Assistance Program and TaskHuman coaching, alongside volunteering time off and employee networks. These programs broaden total rewards beyond cash compensation.
Finastra Insights
What We Do
At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone & redefine finance for good. We’re the orchestrator of open finance; building and delivering innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTechs, working with over 9,000 customers including 90 of the top 100 banks globally. We’re creating a pioneering open platform that’s disrupting the financial industry, changing how financial software is developed and used. We believe in collaboration for innovation, to unlock the potential of people, businesses and communities. We have an unmatched portfolio of financial software and deliver mission critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud. Our open architecture and platform approach embrace a wide ecosystem of partners and co innovators. Together we're leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services. Our people mission is to be the most loved and inclusive fintech company in the world; a mission we take seriously. DE&I factors into everything we do and every decision we make as a business. When you join Finastra, you open up a world of possibilities. With us, you can supercharge financial institutions, big tech and fintech while also building a more inclusive finance industry. We believe our people thrive when given the opportunity to be their authentic selves and we trust our people to work how, when and where they want; this is OPENworking. Our 2+ policy provides the perfect mix of focused work at home, coupled with the meaningful connection that comes from in person collaboration, coaching and community. We're rolling out a new programme where our people take as much leave as they need; we do not count vacation days and we trust our people to work in a way that suits them, when it suits them. Come join the future of Fintech, and make your world. OPEN.
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