Polaris Bank Job Vacancy – Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office

Polaris Bank established by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on September 21, 2018 to offer commercial banking services to the Nigerian public, is seeking suitably qualified candidates for the position of an Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office, if you are interested in this position continue on this page for more information on the job description, the job requirement and the official online portal to begin application.

Applications are invited for the position below:

Job Title: Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

About the Role

The Head, Solution Architecture & Standards Office owns the technology architecture, standards, and governance framework that ensures every development initiative across Polaris Bank’s digital and retail banking arms is scalable, secure, and well-integrated.
This is a leadership and governance role: you will set direction, define standards, and provide architectural oversight across three specialist domains — Solution Architecture, Security Architecture, and Integration & API Architecture — working through and with specialist architects and leads in each area, rather than executing all specialist work personally.

Key Responsibilities
Governance & Standards:

Define and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, technology standards, and design principles applied across all development initiatives
Chair architecture review boards; approve or escalate designs that deviate from standards
Own the technical governance process, ensuring traceability between business requirements and architectural decisions

Solution Architecture:

Oversee the design of end-to-end solutions for major business initiatives, ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards
Guide the application of microservices architecture, domain-driven design, and cloud architecture patterns across teams
Ensure solution designs are maintainable and support long-term platform evolution

Security Architecture:

Set secure-by-design standards and oversee their application across all solution designs
Ensure threat modeling, identity & access management design, and cryptographic standards are consistently applied
Partner with Information Security to ensure architecture decisions meet regulatory and compliance requirements
Oversee remediation of architecture-level vulnerabilities identified through security assessments

Integration & API Architecture:

Set standards for integration patterns, API design, API gateway usage, and middleware architecture
Oversee API lifecycle governance to ensure consistency, reusability, and performance across the API portfolio
Guide adoption of event-driven architecture patterns for high-throughput, real-time use cases

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; relevant certifications (TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, CISSP, or equivalent) an advantage
Demonstrated track record leading architecture functions in a regulated industry, ideally banking/financial services

Core Competencies:

Enterprise architecture leadership and technical governance
Working knowledge across solution, security, and integration architecture disciplines (deep expertise in at least one is expected; working fluency across the others to lead specialist teams credibly)
Stakeholder management across engineering, security, product, and compliance functions
Ability to translate business requirements into architectural strategy

Familiarity With Tools (used by the function, not a personal daily requirement):

Enterprise architecture tools (BizzDesign, Sparx EA), Draw.io/Lucidchart, Confluence, JIRA; OWASP tools, Burp Suite, IAM platforms; API gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Mulesoft, Apache Camel, Kafka, RabbitMQ.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.