Senior Banking Solutions Architect – API & Cloud Strategy

Clearwater People Solutions Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearwater People Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom is recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to shape the architecture roadmap for core banking systems. You will provide senior technical leadership and ensure change initiatives align with architecture standards, governance requirements and the organisation's wider technology strategy.

You will collaborate with technology teams, programme managers and external suppliers to review designs, guide integration into the target architecture and

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise architecture experience across information, integration, security and application architecture.
• Strong knowledge of API-centric architecture, microservices, data integration and architecture governance.
• Experience with architecture frameworks, reference models and high-level design artefacts for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Help mature and support the design approach for banking systems and integrate third-party designs into the target architecture.
• Develop and maintain an integrated view of technology architecture using reference models and artefacts.
• Provide technical oversight and governance across change initiatives, reviewing designs for alignment with standards and business needs.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams and suppliers to define pragmatic solutions and enable effective technical decisions.
• Contribute to architecture roadmaps and governance processes to improve architecture governance.
• Present complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

API-centric architecture

Microservices

Architecture governance

Senior stakeholder communication

Education

Architecture qualifications advantageous

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365

Dynamics 365

Job description

Clearwater People Solutions Ltd in the United Kingdom is recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to shape the architecture roadmap for core banking systems. You will provide senior technical leadership and ensure change initiatives align with architecture standards, governance requirements and the organisation's wider technology strategy.

You will collaborate with technology teams, programme managers and external suppliers to review designs, guide integration into the target architecture and