Solutions Architect

PURVIEW; Greater London; On-site; GBP 1,107,000 - 1,845,000; Full time

Job summary

PURVIEW in London is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect contractor to own end-to-end solution architecture for FICC applications across on-prem, AWS and Azure, with hands-on IAM and security design.

You will author governance documents (SDD/ADD/ASA, HLD) and lead on migration strategies from on-prem to cloud, including EKS/Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and IAM tooling like Okta/SailPoint/Entra.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on end-to-end solution design experience in financial services/regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for FICC applications (compute, networking, security, resilience) across on-prem, AWS, and Azure.

Skills

Solution architecture

Kubernetes/EKS

AWS

Azure

On-Prem to cloud migration

Governance

Security reviews

IAC

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud design

Tools

Terraform

Okta

SailPoint

Entra

Job description

Job Location: London, UK - 2 Days Onsite

Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35

Reporting/working model:

Reporting into Lead Cloud Architect, sharing the architecture and governance-documentation load.

Core responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end solution architecture (compute, networking, security, resilience) for FICC applications, largely On-Prem, AWS-hosted, some Azure.
• Author governance documentation - SDD, ADD, ASA, HLD - and take designs through our internal ARB/governance process.
• Hands-on knowledge of IAC, CI/CD, Terraform, pipelines personally, not just review/approve others' work.
• Kubernetes/EKS migration design, including ownership of on-prem to cloud migrations end-to-end.
• IAM/IdM design and security reviews (Okta/SailPoint/Entra-type tooling).

Must-haves:

• Financial services / regulated environment experience - not generic experience.
• Can PROVE hands-on experience, owning end-to-end solution design not just "I designed it and a team built it".
• Has personally owned an EKS/Kubernetes migration end-to-end (not just coached/advised one).
• Has AUTHORED governance docs (SDD/ADD/ASA), not just reviewed/signed off on them.

Nice-to-have:

index/benchmark/market-data platform experience, data migration experience (DMS, Sybase/Mongo to Aurora-type work).