NOVACARD is looking for an Architect & Technical Solution Owner to lead the architecture, delivery, and technical ownership of a strategic banking platform transformation. You will drive architectural decisions, guide development and integration teams, and ensure the reliable implementation, scalability, and long-term evolution of the bank’s new core system.
What You'll Do
- Decompose the project into technical tasks, define implementation plans, and assign tasks to development teams.
- Provide technical leadership for solution delivery and coordinate internal teams and external contractors.
- Ensure compliance with approved architectural solutions, technical standards, and design principles.
- Make key technical and architectural decisions.
- Lead and manage teams responsible for integrations and related system components.
- Organize and control deployments across multiple environments (DEV / TEST / UAT / PROD).
- Manage data migration from the existing core banking system to the new platform.
- Prepare and support pilot rollout, load and performance testing, acceptance testing, and production go-live and commissioning.
- Ensure system support during the post-production phase and drive further system evolution.
- Drive integration of new components into the overall system landscape.
- Take full responsibility for the final result, stable system operation, maintenance, and development.
What We're Looking For
- English level — B2 (Upper-Intermediate): confident reading of technical documentation, professional correspondence, and active participation in meetings and technical discussions.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including experience in roles such as Solution Architect, Technical Lead, or System Owner.
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex distributed systems and integration platforms.
- Hands-on experience leading system implementation from architecture design to production and post-release support.
- Experience coordinating multiple development teams and external contractors or vendors.
- Strong knowledge of system architecture principles (microservices, service-oriented architecture).
- Solid experience with system integrations: APIs, messaging systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines.
- Experience with data migration and legacy system transformation.
- Understanding of cloud and hybrid infrastructure models.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and multi-environment deployments.
- Knowledge of reliability, scalability, security, and performance best practices.
- Experience with load testing and production readiness activities.
- Strong technical leadership skills, mentoring mindset, and ownership of technical decisions and outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with business stakeholders and distributed teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with financial systems, core banking platforms, or fintech products.
- Experience leading large-scale migrations or platform replacement programs.
- Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns.
- Hands-on engineering background in high-load or mission-critical systems.
Benefits & Compensation
- Fully remote work format.
- Official employment under the Russian Labor Code (for residents of Russia); contractor collaboration available for candidates from other countries.
- Opportunity to work in an international team on a new digital product for the Mexican market.
- A data-driven environment where your contributions have a real impact.
Work Mode
This is a global, fully remote position. The company's operational base is in St. Petersburg, Russia.
NOVACARD is an equal opportunity employer.
