Sr. Solution Architect
About this role
Position: Senior Solution Architect
Location: Lahore (Preferred) | Islamabad (Encouraged to Apply)
Department: Technology Consulting
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of modern, scalable, and cloud-native enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise, hands-on architecture experience, and the ability to transform legacy systems into future-ready digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect Modern Systems: Design end-to-end solutions for complex domains such as BSS/OSS (Telecom), Payments, Core Banking, or Digital Lending (Fintech), leveraging microservices, event-driven architecture, and API-first design principles.
- Lead Transformation: Analyze legacy monolithic applications and define pragmatic, phased modernization roadmaps toward cloud-native architectures (containerization, serverless, etc.).
- Drive Technology Strategy: Evaluate and select suitable technologies, frameworks, and platforms; make informed build-vs-buy decisions supported by technical and business insights.
- Ensure Excellence: Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices ensuring security, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization.
- Hands-On Leadership: Develop detailed architecture blueprints (C4, UML), lead proof-of-concepts (POCs), mentor senior engineers, and guide implementation teams through technical governance.
Who You Are (Must-Haves)
- Experienced Architect: Minimum 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
- Domain Expertise: Hands-on experience architecting solutions in one or more of the following:
- Telecom: BSS/OSS (Order Management, Billing, Provisioning), 5G Core, IoT Platforms.
- Fintech/Financial Services: Payments, Core Banking Systems, Digital Wallets, Trading Platforms, Fraud Detection, or Lending Systems.
- Modernization Specialist: Proven experience leading modernization from legacy (monolith/SOAP/on-prem) to microservices, RESTful, and cloud-native architectures.
- Cloud Proficiency: Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a solid understanding of compute, serverless, databases, and messaging services.
- Systems Thinker: Designs with non-functional requirements in mindhigh availability (99.99%+), low latency, robust security (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR compliance), and scalability.
Company at a glance
For nearly 40 years, Abacus has been offering cutting-edge business solutions helping organisations to transform their visions into realities through a combination of latest business methodologies and technological tools. The business value offered by Abacus has a deep scale, is industry focused and technology driven with a world class delivery capability. We help to transform the businesses of clients who want to be leaders in their industry.
Abacus is founded on one simple belief, that change is the only constant in our world and that as enterprises and individuals, we must all respond to change with vision, courage and integrity. We are passionate about being partners to our clients, as advisers, consultants, technology specialists, systems integrators and outsourcers. For the people at Abacus, fulfillment is seeing our clients transform into truly great organisations.
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