Hybrid Senior Solution Architect – FinTech SaaS & Cloud

Starling Bank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Birthday leave

Enhanced pension

Life insurance

Volunteer time

Family-friendly policies

Retail and wellness perks

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Starling Bank's Engine by Starling is seeking a seasoned software engineer and solution architect to translate complex banking requirements into scalable client solutions. You will shape technical designs and support the delivery of Engine deployments across Europe.

This client-facing role requires strong API, cloud, and integration expertise, excellent communication, and the ability to work across sales, delivery, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience across the software delivery lifecycle for end-to-end solutions.
• Experience designing and integrating software services (REST, OpenAPI, sequence diagrams).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and large-scale cloud apps.
• Client-facing role with stakeholder relationship building.
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience delivering complex messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent English language skills.
• Multilingual能力 with European languages (French/Spanish a plus).
• Experience in retail/business banking or payments.

Responsibilities

• Explain Engine technology and architecture to uncover client requirements and support design of client solutions.
• Engage in both sales and delivery phases and ongoing client success.
• Collaborate with Engine Technology, Delivery, Product, Client Success and Business Development teams.
• Become an Engine expert to communicate capabilities to diverse audiences.
• Lead on technical designs during Engine implementation.
• Build relationships with stakeholders within clients and SI partners.
• Work with clients and SI partners on implementation details of Engine.
• Provide solutions to identified requirements and work with Product and Engineering to fulfill them.
• Shape product roadmap and support clients with additional capabilities.
• Help clients maximize Engine capabilities to meet requirements.
• Document scope and roadmap decisions for future delivery waves.
• Act as technical champion for existing clients and ensure ongoing success.
• Own technical aspects of client deliveries and collaborate with SI partners to overcome challenges.
• Provide guidance to client engineering teams using API specs and diagrams.
• Collaborate with Client Success to troubleshoot issues and architect innovative solutions.

Skills

End-to-end software engineering

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

English fluency

Multilingual (French/Spanish preferred

Tools

RESTful APIs

OpenAPI

Sequence diagrams

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Starling Bank's Engine by Starling is seeking a seasoned software engineer and solution architect to translate complex banking requirements into scalable client solutions. You will shape technical designs and support the delivery of Engine deployments across Europe.

This client-facing role requires strong API, cloud, and integration expertise, excellent communication, and the ability to work across sales, delivery, and product teams.