Backbase

Lead Principal Solution Architect - EMEA

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6 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Understand bank technology requirements and advise customer teams on architecture decisions.
  • Design BankingOS integrations across banking journeys, AI agents, data, and existing systems.
  • Design Agentic Banking solutions involving agent permissions, human approvals, testing, and traceability.
  • Build and test prototypes involving AI agents, knowledge retrieval, tools, and integrations.
  • Evaluate AI reliability, hallucinations, privacy, autonomy, performance, security, reliability, cost, and implementation effort.
  • Document architectures in the Digital Solution Document and align customers, Services, and partners on delivery requirements.
  • Lead architecture workshops, technical assessments, and RFP responses.
  • Create demos, reusable components, and architecture patterns while mentoring colleagues.
  • Share customer feedback and testing lessons with the product team to improve BankingOS.

Requirements

  • Experience designing complex enterprise solutions in customer-facing architecture or technical consulting.
  • Practical experience building AI applications and agent workflows, including their limitations and trade-offs.
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise integration, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native deployment.
  • Engineering experience with Java, Spring, identity and access management, DevOps, and modern cloud platforms.
  • Understanding of security, data privacy, access permissions, and operational resilience in banking or other regulated industries.
  • Ability to explain technical decisions to executives, architects, and engineers and connect them to business requirements.
  • Hands-on approach to testing technologies, building prototypes, and sharing knowledge.
  • Ability to work independently, solve technical problems, and make decisions under ambiguity.
  • Experience mentoring colleagues and willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.

Benefits

  • Bonus on top of base salary and referral bonus.
  • Time for self-development, a training budget, and a clear promotion path.
  • Work-from-home allowance and flexible working hours.
  • Private healthcare through Luxmed.
  • Headspace application.
  • MacBook and necessary equipment.
  • Online and offline team events.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Backbase

1,001-5,000 employees

Backbase builds an AI-native digital banking platform for financial institutions to unify customer and employee experiences across digital channels. It licenses its Banking OS and related services to banks for onboarding, lending, and core modernization initiatives. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it is privately held and used by more than 120 banks worldwide.

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