MD Finance operates a growing lending platform across five countries, supported by an increasingly complex technology landscape. This role owns the platform as a product, defining its roadmap, priorities, and evolution, while ensuring architectural consistency and long-term scalability. The primary focus is product ownership: platform strategy, prioritization, and vendor decisions. Architectural governance, including ADRs, integration standards, and data contracts, serves to support those product objectives, not drive them. Responsibilities: Platform roadmap & prioritization - Own one single backlog of platform work, viewed through an architecture lens - Rank work by impact and urgency relative to effort - explicitly factoring in technical risk, cross-system dependencies, and regulatory pressure (GDPR / DORA / NIS2) - Translate business needs from 5 markets into platform capabilities - Spot cross-product dependencies early - before they turn into blockers Data flow design - Own how data moves between systems - Design data contracts (what fields, what format, what versioning rules) - Define data-lineage standards for every cross-system integration - Ensure data-residency rules are respected in every market Solution design & integration ownership - Design integration patterns: API contracts, event-driven vs. polling trade-offs, schema versioning, idempotency - Keep a live integration map that actually matches production - Set architectural guard rails for new integrations - and enforce them Expected results: - Full takeover of platform-product ownership: a single prioritized platform backlog, established and operational, replacing today's fragmented backlog ownership across teams. - Measurable platform improvement against a baseline: initiatives that reduce cross-product blockers and integration-rework incidents, and accelerate time-to-deliver for new market-driven capabilities. - A technical-product governance layer in active use: a live integration map that matches production, a data-contract registry covering every cross-system integration (fields, format, versioning, duplicate-prevention, data-residency), an operational ADR process for architectural decisions, and a vendor-assessment framework - bringing the platform's architecture, documentation, and integration standards in line with industry best practices. Requirements: - 6+ years in a Solution Architect role, or as a Tech Lead with significant product-ownership responsibilities, within fintech or another regulated international industry. - Proven hands-on experience designing system architecture and data flows - including APIs, webhooks, and event-driven integrations across multiple systems. - Experience leading or actively contributing to Architectural Decision Record (ADR) processes. - Experience evaluating and selecting vendors based on technical and architectural criteria. - Working knowledge of GDPR, DORA, and NIS2, and their impact on platform and integration design. - English B2. Nice to have: - Data platform / DWH product ownership - Experience operating across multiple regulatory jurisdictions What We Offer: - Join a fast-scaling FinTech company where your decisions shape the business and your contributions truly matter. - Enjoy 20 paid days off annually, flexible scheduling, and a supportive, people-first culture. - Partial compensation for medical insurance, sports activities, and foreign language. - Work in an international, agile team with ambitious goals, modern tools, and a strong sense of purpose.