Associate Architect - Software Engineering

About the role

Bridge Talent is hiring an Associate Architect for software engineering in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on a contract basis. The role provides technical leadership, drives solution design and implementation, and delivers scalable, secure, high-quality enterprise software. It works with customers, architects, engineering teams and project managers, keeping alignment with enterprise architecture, BIAN standards, security and banking requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering teams; lead solution design, implementation and technical decisions across the SDLC
• Define scalable architectures aligned with enterprise standards and promote reusable patterns, modular development and Domain-Driven Design
• Take part in requirements, architecture reviews, development, code reviews, testing, deployment and production support
• Ensure architectural alignment with BIAN standards, design banking services and APIs, define microservice boundaries and support core banking integration
• Drive Design-First API development with REST and OpenAPI/Swagger, defining contracts, versioning, error handling, security and scalability
• Review architecture, code quality and API specifications, conduct code reviews, resolve complex technical issues and evaluate technologies on security, compliance, maintainability, scalability, LTS, cost and viability
• Design solutions meeting NFRs, use ELK Stack or equivalent for monitoring, logging and observability, and apply secure coding, JWT, RBAC, OWASP Top 10 and protection against CSRF/XSS
• Handle PII appropriately and comply with PCI DSS, GDPR and banking regulations

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or a related field
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in enterprise application development
• Strong experience in enterprise applications, APIs, microservices and integration
• Banking/financial services technology experience is highly desirable
• Strong understanding of BIAN architecture is mandatory
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, mentoring and problem-solving skills

Required skills

• Strong Java and OOP, including heap/memory management, memory leak analysis, exception handling and design patterns (Singleton, Factory, Builder, Strategy)
• REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API versioning and governance, microservices and enterprise integration patterns
• Unit, API and performance testing, code reviews, CI/CD, production deployment and incident troubleshooting
• PCI DSS, GDPR and banking regulations