FS Architecture & Design, Tech Lead

Vodafone

Tech Lead driving architectural governance across Payments, Cards, BNPL, Savings, and Insurance. Aligning technology with Vodafone Group strategy to support growth and operational excellence.

Posted 7/26/2026full-time🇪🇬 EgyptSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in architecture and design authority within IT and FinTech, focusing on scalable and secure solutions across Payments, Cards, BNPL, Savings, and Insurance. Proficient in aligning technology roadmaps with business strategies and leading the adoption of microservices architecture to drive operational excellence.

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Architecture And Design AuthorityMicroservices ArchitecturePayments Solutions DesignTechnical Stakeholder ManagementBusiness Requirements Translation

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Hard Skills

Solution DesignTechnical GuidanceProgramming Standards DevelopmentAutomation SupportArchitecture Documentation

Soft Skills

Conflict ResolutionLeadershipCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Distributed SystemsFault-Tolerant SolutionsIT Governance

Industry Keywords

FinTechPaymentsCardsTokenizationBNPLSavingsInsurance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Microservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the Architecture and Design Authority across IT and FinTech, driving the design and governance of scalable, secure, and innovative solutions across Payments, Cards, BNPL, Savings, and Insurance domains.
Align technology roadmaps with Vodafone Group strategy, translate business needs into technical solutions, resolve architectural challenges, and lead the adoption of modern, microservices-based architectures to support business growth and operational excellence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Act as architecture and design authority across IT-FS organization.
Responsible of aligning Fintech and IT roadmaps with group strategy and guidelines.
Responsible of designing full-edged solutions for the below Services: Cards, Tokenization, Soft POS, Payments, Settlement & Recon, BNPL, Savings & Insurance.
In charge of resolving Technology disagreements among different IT teams.
Responsible of auditing/review IT processes and solution.
Instruct/follow up on delivery teams to modify them according to IT strategy.
Lead design for major business and technology projects across IT/Fintech in a way that directly impact revenue, cost saving initiatives and NPS.
Translate the business requirements into technology requirements.
Lead Vodafone Group activities that require cooperation with Group Architecture Team(s) and adapting Vodafone Group Products & Services related architecture initiatives within Vodafone Egypt in a way that suit local targets and strategies.
Manage business requirements planning to make sure they are reflected into technology enablers to be implemented by delivery teams to make sure overall business objectives will be realized.
Authorized to take necessary decisions to resolve technical conflicts among different delivery functions.
Lead technical stakeholders to produce system roadmaps that meet architecture guidelines and business requirements.
Develops detailed programming instructions to solve business problems through automation support.
Craft the code standards for our products.
Use modern software architecture techniques and technologies to design, develop distributed, fault-tolerant solutions.
Create and maintain the architecture documents.
Provide technical guidance to development teams.
Building FinTech platform and make use of microservices architecture.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Core competencies, knowledge and experience: Engineering or computer science Bachelor degree.
Engineering master degree is a plus.
At least 5+ years technical experience in IT.
Fintech and Payments experience.
Hands-on knowledge of Microservices, big data technologies, containers, API designing and implementation.
Software engineering and Design-Patterns.
Microservices architecture & distributed systems Proven Business acumen/Solid business analysis skills.
Must have worked in at least 2 different Technology areas before.
Vendor background is a plus.
Solid development/database knowledge.