Senior Solution Architect - API & GCP Platforms

Intec Select; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Intec Select is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to define and own architectural direction for API and cloud environments. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to shape secure, scalable enterprise platforms and drive governance across programmes.

You will design cloud-native solutions, influence API strategy, and lead technical decisions in multi-cloud settings while ensuring resilience, security and performance across complex systems.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• Expertise in API architecture, API management and security across large ecosystems.
• Experience designing cloud-native, scalable architectures including microservices and event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end solution architecture across API and cloud environments.
• Lead architectural decisions and provide technical direction across complex programmes.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient cloud-native solutions using GCP.
• Define API architecture, integration patterns and technical standards.
• Shape technology roadmaps with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and design governance.
• Assess technology options and provide clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, scalability, performance and governance requirements.
• Support adoption of modern engineering and cloud-native practices.

Skills

Solution Architect

API architecture

API management

GCP

Cloud-native

Microservices

Event-driven

Azure

AWS

Hybrid/Multi-cloud

Tools

Apigee

Kong

IBM API Connect

Azure API Management

Job description

Intec Select is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to define and own architectural direction for API and cloud environments. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to shape secure, scalable enterprise platforms and drive governance across programmes.

You will design cloud-native solutions, influence API strategy, and lead technical decisions in multi-cloud settings while ensuring resilience, security and performance across complex systems.