Senior Solutions Architect

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

Job summary

Unknown Financial Services Organisation is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape the architecture roadmap for core banking systems and lead architectural governance. You will work with technology teams, programme offices and third-party suppliers to ensure designs align with strategy.

You will review solutions, provide technical oversight and present complex concepts to senior stakeholders. Strong enterprise architecture experience in financial services is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise architecture experience across information, integration, security and application architecture.
• Strong technical analysis and design capability.
• Experience with API-centric architectures and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Mature and support the design approach for banking systems, ensuring third-party designs align with target architecture.
• Develop and maintain an integrated view of technology architecture using frameworks and artefacts.
• Provide architecture governance across change initiatives and review designs for alignment with standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers to define pragmatic technical solutions and decisions.
• Contribute to roadmaps, assurance processes and governance improvements.
• Present complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

API-centric architecture

Microservices

Data integration

Architecture governance

Tools

Temenos

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft 365

Dynamics

Job description

An established financial services organisation is currently recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to join its technology architecture team. The Senior Solution Architect will help shape the architecture roadmap for core banking systems, provide senior technical leadership and ensure change initiatives align with agreed architecture standards, governance requirements and the organisation's wider technology strategy. You will work across technology, programme teams, senior stakeholders and third-party suppliers, reviewing solution designs and helping ensure they integrate effectively into the target architecture.

Key Responsibilities for the Senior Solution Architect:

• Help mature and support the design approach for banking systems, ensuring third-party solution designs integrate coherently into the target architecture
• Develop and maintain an integrated view of the technology architecture using repeatable frameworks, reference models and architecture artefacts
• Provide technical oversight and architecture governance across change initiatives, reviewing designs and delivery artefacts for alignment with agreed standards and business needs
• Work with business stakeholders, technology teams and third-party suppliers to define pragmatic solutions and support effective technical decision making
• Contribute to architecture roadmaps, technology assurance processes and the continuous improvement of architecture governance
• Present complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior audiences

Skills Required for the Senior Solution Architect:

• Extensive enterprise architecture experience across information, integration, security and application architecture, with strong technical analysis and design capability
• Strong knowledge of API-centric architecture, microservices, data integration, middleware, messaging technologies and architecture governance
• Experience of architecture frameworks, reference models, architecture repositories and creating high-level design artefacts for technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong leadership, analytical, planning, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholders
• Experience within financial services, banking platforms, Temenos, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 or Dynamics, and relevant architecture or assurance qualifications would be advantageous