About the role

  • Senior Solution Architect leading design of complex solution architectures for a banking group. Collaborating across teams to deliver resilient and scalable technology solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of complex, end-to-end solution architectures across teams, labs, and platforms.
  • Shape the solution architecture forward look to inform product roadmaps and technical planning.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to align designs with strategic goals.
  • Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including resilience, security, and scalability.
  • Drive innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
  • Participate in agile ceremonies and deliver iteratively, ensuring continuous feedback and value.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering and architecture background, with experience across the full solution development lifecycle—from inception through to production.
  • Proven experience designing complex, cross-platform solutions in a large-scale agile environment.
  • Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, microservices, and API design.
  • Experience with architectural governance, risk management, and technical debt mitigation.
  • Experience with Public and Private Cloud Solutions, ideally including Google Cloud Platform and OpenShift Container Platform.
  • Excellent partner collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience delivering Digital Transformation Solutions, with a deep understanding of system design decisions and their impact on scalability, resilience, and supportability.
  • Experience with data modelling and understanding of Data Architecture is desirable.
  • Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes is a plus.
  • Understanding of authentication and authorisation concepts, including experience designing and implementing zero trust models.
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and resilience-by-design principles is beneficial.

Benefits

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
  • Share schemes including free shares
  • 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
  • Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Job title

Senior Solution Architect

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£104,000 - £123,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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