Senior Architect – Data Products & APIs
What if your architecture decisions could shape the future of banking?
Location: Oslo, Norway
Work Arrangement: 75% remote
Assignment Period: 1 November 2026 – 31 January 2027
Application Deadline: 16 October 2026
Assignment Description
Ready to shape the architecture behind the future of banking technology? We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to lead the architecture of domain-oriented data products and APIs supporting critical business capabilities across a banking organisation.
You will work across business, technology and data, providing architectural leadership across multiple delivery streams and enabling teams to deliver scalable, secure and resilient solutions within clear architectural guardrails.
Responsibilities
Define the architecture vision, principles and roadmap for data products and domain APIs.
Lead end-to-end architecture across multiple delivery streams, aligning business capabilities, data, APIs and technology platforms.
Establish standards for governed, reusable and trustworthy data products, including ownership, quality, metadata and lineage.
Define API architecture, contracts, security, versioning, governance and reusable integration patterns.
Define functional and non-functional requirements covering security, performance, scalability, resilience, availability and operability.
Identify interfaces, data flows and cross-domain dependencies, and guide teams in evaluating solution alternatives.
Build the architectural runway needed for sustainable delivery and enable Continuous Delivery, DevOps and automation.
Collaborate with business, product, engineering, enterprise architecture and supplier stakeholders.
Communicate architectural decisions clearly, mentor architects and engineering teams, and support decentralised decision-making.
Requirements
Must Have
Significant experience in Solution, Domain or Enterprise Architecture or a comparable senior architecture role.
Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data products, APIs and integration solutions.
Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or technology domains.
Strong understanding of banking technology and business processes.
Experience working in complex, regulated environments with demanding security, resilience and data governance requirements.
Proficient English.
CV must be submitted in English.
Good to Have
Experience with Core Banking platforms.
About Sperton
Sperton is a global recruitment and consulting company with offices across Europe, Asia and the Americas. We help organisations find and engage skilled professionals through flexible recruitment, consulting and global mobility solutions.
- Department
- Consultant jobs
- Locations
- Oslo
- Employment type
- Contract
- Job location
- Oslo (NO)
- Employment Level | Seniority
- Senior Level
Workplace & Culture at Sperton
At Sperton, we believe that great results come from great people.
Our culture is built on trust, collaboration, and a shared passion for delivering quality in everything we do.
We are a Norwegian-owned international company with colleagues across Europe, Asia, and the USA, working together seamlessly across time zones and cultures. Our teams are diverse, yet united by the same goal — to connect people and companies in meaningful ways.
We value openness, initiative, and continuous learning. Everyone at Sperton is encouraged to take ownership, share ideas, and challenge existing ways of working to make our solutions even better.
Even though we operate globally, our approach is personal. We take pride in creating a supportive and inclusive environment where people feel heard, respected, and motivated to grow — both professionally and personally.
