SOFTWARE SOLUTION ARCHITECT (FINTECH) AT BREEZY DIGITAL SOLUTIONS

About Company:

Breezy Digital Solutions is a premier full-service digital marketing and recruitment agency headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. We combine innovative digital strategies with expert talent acquisition to help businesses across Africa achieve their growth objectives. Our mission is to empower brands with data-driven digital solutions while seamlessly matching organizations with exceptional talent to fuel long-term success.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Description:

Architecture Design & Documentation:

• Design scalable, auditable systems for remittance, merchant collections, and agency banking.
• Model services, data flows, job queues, and transactional boundaries with high reliability.
• Maintain architectural artifacts including diagrams, API specs, and ADRs.
• Define event handling, service boundaries, data consistency, and recovery strategies.
• Produce detailed Solution Design Documents (SDDs) with rollback, idempotency, and failure plans.

Technical Standards & Governance:

• Establish design standards for fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability.
• Lead pre-implementation design reviews and approve key architecture decisions.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements (SLA, rate limits, availability, etc.).
• Guide schema versioning, API lifecycle, and compatibility strategies.
• Ensure production code aligns with approved SDDs via peer reviews.

Security, Risk & Compliance:

• Partner with Compliance to enforce PCI DSS-aligned architecture.
• Architect secure systems with encrypted data flow and strong secrets management.
• Plan for system auditability, traceability, and operational rollback paths.

Developer Enablement:

• Build boilerplate templates and reusable patterns for high-velocity development.
• Conduct architecture walk-throughs and mentor engineers in design-first development.
• Guide developers through reviews, performance tuning, and best practice adoption.
• Ensure code quality and coverage meet production-readiness thresholds.

Requirements:

Technical Expertise:

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years as a solution architect or technical lead in a fintech or financial systems context.
• Deep experience with payments, remittance, or digital banking platforms.
• Skilled in Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, and modern cloud-native development (preferably AWS).
• Expertise in microservices, distributed systems, messaging patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Strong grasp of system resilience models (e.g., SAGA, event sourcing).

Strategic Thinking:

• Understands how architecture impacts feature velocity, compliance, and risk.
• Skilled in identifying technical debt and scalability constraints.
• Detail-oriented thinker who anticipates edge cases and failure modes.
• Exceptional communicator across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Salary

Application Closing Date: 08th August, 2025

Application Instructions:

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: breezydigitalsolutions@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail