Software Architect

Investigo; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Investigo is seeking a Solution Architect to join a growing technology function in a leading financial organisation in the UK. The role acts as the design authority for application and platform architecture across a significant AI and digital transformation programme.

The candidate will own architectural landscape, influence build-versus-buy decisions and enable scalable innovation while managing risk and technical debt. Strong governance and collaboration with delivery teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Must provide architectural vision and governance across applications and platforms.
• Define and maintain integration patterns and data flows.
• Guide build-versus-buy decisions and vendor evaluations within the programme.
• Identify and manage architectural risks and technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Act as design authority for application architecture across the organisation.
• Define and maintain integration patterns, data flows, and interoperability standards.
• Shape and enable a fast-moving AI and digital innovation programme with well-governed architectures.
• Identify and manage architectural risks and debt across the estate.

Skills

Solution architecture

Architectural governance

AI architecture

Integration patterns

Vendor evaluations

Job description

A Solution Architect is required to join a growing technology function in a leading financial organisation, acting as the design authority for application and platform architecture across a significant AI and digital transformation programme. This is a high-impact role ideal for someone who enjoys owning the architectural landscape, influencing build-versus-buy decisions, and enabling innovation at scale without introducing unnecessary risk or technical debt.

Role Highlights

• Act as design authority for application architecture across the organisation, assessing and approving proposed applications, platforms, and system changes against agreed standards, and providing architectural input into build vs buy decisions and vendor evaluations
• Define and maintain integration patterns, data flows, and interoperability standards, ensuring the full application estate is secure, well-integrated, and aligned with the broader technology strategy and governance framework
• Shape and enable a fast-moving AI and digital innovation programme, supporting Labs initiatives by designing scalable, well-governed architectures that allow safe experimentation without creating complexity or debt
• Identify and manage architectural risks and technical debt across the application estate, collaborating closely with delivery teams, product owners, and security and compliance stakeholders to guide solutions without owning delivery timelines
• Own the application landscape documentation, maintaining clear capability maps, system relationship diagrams, and data flow models that give the business a well-understood, consistently governed view of its technology estate

The organisation is looking to move quickly. If you are an Application Architect with a strong platform background and want to shape architecture at a genuinely exciting point in a business's digital journey.