Enterprise Solutions Architect - API-First & AI Cloud

Lynx Recruitment Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Lynx Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead enterprise-scale technology solutions for major Financial Services organisations in Manchester. You will design API-first architectures, govern integrations, and drive cloud-native delivery across AWS/Azure/GCP.

You will guide architecture decisions, create HLDs and roadmaps, and support bids and client engagements while leveraging Generative AI capabilities to unlock value.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technology transformations.
• Strong expertise designing RESTful API architectures and API management.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed platforms.
• Cloud-native delivery across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Knowledge of API security and integration patterns (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, REST, JSON).
• Experience producing HLDs, solution options, and governance documentation.
• Engineering mindset focused on scalability, resilience, security, and operations.
• Understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ownership of end-to-end solution and technical architectures across enterprise environments.
• Define scalable, secure, and resilient architectures spanning RESTful APIs, enterprise integration, microservices, event-driven services, and cloud technologies.
• Design API strategies, API governance models, and integration patterns enabling connectivity between systems and data platforms.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Produce architecture deliverables including HLDs, solution options, roadmaps, and impact assessments.
• Guide clients through architecture best practices and technology decision-making.
• Support delivery teams through the software development lifecycle from concept to operations.
• Design next-generation solutions leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI architectures.
• Provide technical leadership during client engagements, bids, and strategic discussions.
• Contribute to architecture standards, reusable frameworks, accelerators, and GTM propositions.

Skills

RESTful API design

API governance

Microservices

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

OAuth2 / OpenID Connect

TOGAF

Tools

API Gateway technologies

Job description

Lynx Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead enterprise-scale technology solutions for major Financial Services organisations in Manchester. You will design API-first architectures, govern integrations, and drive cloud-native delivery across AWS/Azure/GCP.

You will guide architecture decisions, create HLDs and roadmaps, and support bids and client engagements while leveraging Generative AI capabilities to unlock value.