Senior Solution Architect

Backbase; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in the UK is seeking a Solution Architect to translate customer requirements into scalable designs. The role involves leading workshops, partnering with engineering teams, and ensuring high-performance solutions in financial services. Ideal candidates will have expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and architectural patterns like Microservices.

Qualifications

• Experience in creating solutions specifically for financial services.
• Familiarity with architectural patterns like CQRS and event sourcing.
• Experience in server virtualization and container technology.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements into distinguished designs.
• Lead technical workshops and partner with engineering leads.
• Take ownership of production performance and incident resolution.

Skills

Solution architecture for financial services

Scalable web application development

Mobile app delivery

Microservices architecture

Docker and Kubernetes

Integration platforms and API gateways

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Solution Architect, you translate customer requirements into distinguished designs, lead technical workshops and board-level sales presentations, and partner closely with engineering leads to build, run, and scale secure, high‑performance, scalable solutions.

You provide guidance and oversight to the development team, define architectural assets, drive CI/CD pipeline implementation, ensure non‑functional requirements are met, and take ownership of production performance, incident resolution, and continuous delivery.

Qualifications

• Created solutions for financial services (especially banking).
• Experience with scalable Web application development as well as Mobile App delivery.
• Familiar with architectural patterns such as Microservices, CQRS, and event sourcing.
• Experience with server virtualization and containers technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Professionally used Integration Platforms and API Gateways.

Backbase is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate.