The posting
You will become the technical lead of a dedicated payments task force in a leading bank, turning enterprise architecture and regulatory requirements into solutions the team can build. You set the technical standard: the quality, security, and integration of what ships rest with you.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role inside a cross-functional team of analysts, developers and QA specialists, working alongside the task-force’s Agile Product Owner. You partner daily with enterprise and solution architects, platform teams and the bank’s architecture and delivery forums, and you are the person the team turns to when a design decision needs to be made.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate architectural requirements and regulatory needs into solution designs and technical implementation plans
- Define and maintain technical standards, development principles, and solution patterns
- Lead technical design discussions and validate implementation approaches
- Support estimation, technical planning and execution feasibility assessments
- Guide development and QA throughout delivery
- Ensure built-in quality, security, performance, and operational readiness of solutions
- Oversee integration of delivered solutions into the Baltic Payments ecosystem
- Take part in architecture, integration and delivery forums where relevant
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and dependencies
- Support environment setup, infrastructure changes, migrations and other technical initiatives assigned to the task-force
What We Expect
Must-have:
- Strong experience leading complex enterprise application deliveries
- Deep knowledge of Java-based architectures and modern integration patterns
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, APIs, orchestration design, event-driven architecture, microservices and distributed systems
- Experience translating enterprise architecture into implementation-ready solutions
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps practices and cloud (Azure) environments
- Proven experience in financial services
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Based in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania, able to work on-site three days a week
Nice-to-have:
- Payments domain experience
- Camunda for process orchestration
- Background in regulated environments
- Management experience
What’s in it for you:
- Technical ownership of a high-visibility payments programme at one of the region’s largest banks
- B2B contract with competitive senior hourly rate
- Hybrid(3 days on-site)
Interview Process:
1. Teamence - HR Interview
2. Consultancy interview - Fit & Technical assessment
3. Client interview - Fit & Technical assessment



