Solution Architect

Napier Technologies Limited.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Flexible work arrangements

Pension plan

Job summary

Napier Technologies Limited is seeking a Solution Architect in London to bridge clients, Sales, and delivery within Professional Services. You will own solution design and architecture from discovery through implementation, ensuring robust, scalable, secure outcomes while de-risking deals and maintaining architectural integrity post-signing.

You will collaborate with Sales on feasibility, guide delivery teams with blueprints and standards, and drive repeatable patterns for faster, safer

Qualifications

• Experience in financial crime, compliance, or AML domains.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and secure deployment.
• Broad experience across business, data, software and technology architecture.
• Expertise in API-based integration, ETL, data transformation, and orchestration technologies (NiFi, Kafka, API gateways, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of data formats and transport protocols.
• Familiarity with information security best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and perform under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Client Solutioning: Rapidly understand client environments and tailor designs to audiences.
• Integration Leadership: Architect end-to-end solutions focusing on data integration and orchestration.
• Technical Pre-sales: Support discovery, de-risking, RFPs and lead proof of concepts as needed.
• Deliery Architecture Ownership: Own end-to-end design and governance through delivery.
• Standardisation & Reuse: Drive repeatable patterns to reduce bespoke delivery.
• Data & Architecture: Map data flows, formats, and transports; address async/sync and retries.
• Security & Compliance: Explain security controls and ensure regulatory alignment (GDPR).
• Documentation & Enablement: Produce technical documentation and mentor teams.

Skills

Financial crime domain

Enterprise software

Cloud infrastructure

API integration

Data transformation

Security practices

Stakeholder management

Independent working

Tools

NiFi

Kafka

API gateways

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

TimeSeries DB

Job description

Solution Architect

Application Deadline: 31 October 2026

Department: Professional Services

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Description

Imagine catching criminals before they strike - that’s exactly what Napier’s AI-powered platform does! By analysing transactions and customers in real time, Napier AI’s technology empowers financial institutions to spot suspicious activity, like money laundering, and stops it in its tracks.

Napier AI’s technology works like a digital detective, combining AI with smart analytics to outthink criminals and protect people’s money from becoming criminal proceeds. It’s not just about stopping crime - it’s about making the financial world safer and more trustworthy for everyone.

Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.

Overview of the role:
As a Solution Architect, you will act as the technical bridge between clients, Sales, and delivery - while sitting primarily within Professional Services. The core purpose of the role is to reduce delivery risk by owning solution design and architecture from discovery through implementation, ensuring robust, scalable, secure, and supportable outcomes. You will partner closely with Sales to validate feasibility, de-risk deals, and shape realistic commitments, then remain accountable for architectural integrity once the deal is signed. This is a hands‑on, client‑facing, revenue-generating role requiring both technical depth and commercial pragmatism.

Your day to day: Solution Architect

Client Solutioning:

• Rapidly understand client environments, data flows, and business needs. Tailor solution designs and communications to diverse technical and business audiences.

Integration Leadership:

• Architect and document end-to-end solutions, focusing on data integration, transformation, and orchestration using modern tools (e.g., NiFi, API gateways, Kafka, Kubernetes), integration patterns for asynchronous, event driven systems.

Technical Pre‑sales (Discovery & De‑risking):

• Partner with Sales during technical discovery to validate feasibility, surface constraints and dependencies, and shape pragmatic solution approaches. Support sales cycles with solution recommendations, responses to technical queries, and contributions to RFPs/RFIs. Lead targeted proof of concepts where needed to validate assumptions and de‑risk integrations.

Deliery Architecture Ownership:

• Own the end-to-end solution design and architecture through implementation once a deal is signed. Provide architectural governance across build, configuration, integration, and deployment; review designs and changes; and ensure delivery teams have clear blueprints, standards, and decision logs to reduce complexity, timelines, and risk.

Standardisation & Reuse:

• Drive standard patterns, reference architectures, and repeatable integration approaches to reduce bespoke delivery over time. Identify opportunities to simplify implementations, improve margins, and feed recurring delivery learnings into pre‑sales discovery and product/service improvements.

Data & Architecture:

• Specify and map data flows, formats (JSON, XML, CSV, graph), and transports (HTTP, S/FTP, Kafka, MQ). Address challenges of async/sync and streaming communications, including idempotency, retries, rate limiting, error handling, and timeouts

Security & Compliance:

• Confidently explain the platform’s information security controls and data protection measures to clients, translating concepts such as encryption, access control, and regulatory compliance into clear, business‑friendly language. Apply information security principles (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and ensure solutions meet regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR).

Documentation & Enablement:

• Produce clear technical documentation and mentor internal teams.

Do you have what it takes?

Essential:

• Experience in financial crime, compliance, or AML domains.
• Strong background in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), and secure deployment.
• Broad experience of business, data, software and technology architecture and the inter‑relationships.
• Expertise in API‑based integration, ETL, data transformation, and orchestration technologies (NiFi, Kafka, API gateways, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of data representation formats and transport protocols.
• Familiarity with information security best practices and secure data transfer (encryption, key management).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to establish credibility with client architecture teams.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and perform under pressure.

Desirable:

• Experience with large data sets, distributed systems, and performance testing.
• Knowledge of SSO/OIDC/SAML/SCIM and identity providers.
• Hands‑on with Elasticsearch, TimeSeries DB, or similar.
• Experience with SaaS platforms in regulated industries.

Why Napier?

• Comprehensive private healthcare through AXA covering optical, audio & dental.
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday and a wellness day
• Dedicated pension plan through Aviva.
• Life Insurance 4x your annual salary.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave.
• Income protections policy.
• Work from anywhere for up to 1 month.
• Access to our employee wellbeing programme.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Flexibility in work schedules and locations, ensuring a work‑life balance.
  • This role can be fulfilled either with a hybrid approach or fully in‑office – depending on your preference.
• An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you.

Please note applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom. We are unable to offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.