Architect & Technical Solution Owner

At NOVACARD, we’re redefining how people use credit. We are the first interest-free and no-annual-fee credit card in Mexico, designed to simplify personal finances and give users complete control - all from a mobile app. With NOVACARD, users can access up to $200,000 MXN in credit, only pay when they use it, and manage everything digitally in under 5 minutes. Our mission is to empower people to make smarter financial decisions by offering flexibility, transparency, and the freedom they need to reach their goals. Simple finances, big goals.

About the Role: We are looking for an experienced 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 reliable implementation, scalability, and long-term evolution of the bank’s new core system.

Main goal: Ensure technical excellence and operational efficiency across the development teams through strong technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural governance, enabling successful implementation of the bank’s new core system, as well as its long-term maintenance and continuous development.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

Key Requirements:

• 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.

What We Offer:

• 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.