Solution Architect
UniCredit · Milan, Italy · 5mo ago
Staff / Lead / PrincipalOn-siteIT & Tech Support
- Design end-to-end solutions — own the architectural design of scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems across complex banking domains.
- Stay hands-on — remain actively involved in implementation, code reviews, and technical problem-solving alongside engineering teams.
- Define the standards — develop guidelines, non-functional requirements (NFRs), archetypes, walking skeletons, and reusable components that set the bar across squads.
- Build for scale and resilience — design distributed systems using microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven approaches capable of handling enterprise-grade, high-throughput workloads.
- Harness AI as a force multiplier — identify opportunities to integrate AI capabilities (including LLMs, agentic frameworks, and AI-assisted tooling) into platform design, and actively orchestrate multi-agent workflows to accelerate project delivery — balancing innovation with the compliance and risk demands of a regulated environment.
- Champion cloud-native delivery — ensure all solutions align with our GCP adoption strategy, DevSecOps principles, and the firm's SDLC standards.
- Bridge business and technology — work closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate complex banking requirements into elegant, pragmatic technical solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence — champion Agile methodologies and best practices, leveraging tools like Jira and Confluence to keep delivery sharp and transparent.
- 7–12 years of experience in software architecture and engineering, with a strong emphasis on hands-on delivery of enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Proven track record in a banking or financial services environment, with a solid grasp of transactional systems, data consistency, and regulatory context.
- Deep expertise in Java and hands-on experience designing and implementing REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- A working understanding of the AI landscape — including LLMs, prompt engineering, agentic patterns, RAG architectures, and AI orchestration frameworks — and how to apply them responsibly within a regulated enterprise context.
- Practical ability to leverage AI tooling as a force multiplier — you know how to harness AI coding assistants, orchestrate multi-agent workflows at scale, and use agentic frameworks to dramatically accelerate delivery cycles, reduce time-to-solution, and free engineering teams to focus on higher-order problems.
- Solid experience across the data domain — both relational and non-relational databases.
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