Senior Solution Architect

LA International; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design, govern, and deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions across complex environments. You will lead architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains, shaping cloud adoption, modernising legacy platforms, and ensuring alignment with business outcomes.

The role blends hands-on depth with governance and leadership, ideally within BFSI or regulated sectors, and requires collaboration with risk, audit,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Solution Architecture or Technical Architecture roles.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and API-led architectures.
• Strong experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP) and security focus.
• Knowledge of architecture governance, diagrams, and modelling standards.
• Experience in BFSI or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end architecture across applications, data, cloud, and integration layers.
• Lead architecture reviews, design assurance, and governance.
• Design scalable, secure architectures using microservices and cloud-native patterns.
• Drive cloud migrations, modernisation, and hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.
• Mentor engineers and stakeholders and communicate complex concepts to leadership.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

API-led architecture

Microservices

DevOps / CI/CD

Security & compliance

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Ardoq

Visio

UML

Job description

Senior Solution Architect

6 Month contract initially + Extensions

Based: Hybrid working. 2 days p/w onsite in Bristol or London

Rate - £500 - £600 p/d via Umbrella

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Senior Solution Architect on a long term program of work.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Solution Architect to design, govern, and deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise solutions across complex, regulated environments. You will act as the architectural authority across business, data, application, technology, and integration domains - shaping architectures, driving cloud adoption, modernising legacy platforms, and ensuring alignment with business outcomes.

This role requires a blend of hands-on technical depth, architecture governance, and stakeholder leadership, ideally gained within Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) or similarly regulated sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Solution Design

• Define and own end-to-end architecture across applications, data, cloud, and integration layers.
• Translate business requirements into high-quality architecture artefacts including MVDs, HLDs, integration maps, data flow models, and sequence diagrams.
• Lead architecture reviews, design assurance, and architectural governance to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and principles.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure architectures leveraging microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and modern cloud-native patterns.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and tools aligned with strategic platforms and standards.

Cloud, Integration & Modernisation Leadership

• Architect and guide solutions across Azure / GCP, with practical understanding of containers, serverless, networking, IAM, and cloud security.
• Lead implementations of cloud platforms or equivalent enterprise systems where relevant.
• Define modern API-first, microservices, and event-driven architectures using REST, etc.
• Drive modernisation initiatives, cloud migrations, ERP/EPM transformation, and multi-/hybrid-cloud strategy.

Domain, Security & Compliance (BFSI-focused)

• Ensure architectures meet regulatory, audit, and compliance obligations (As prescribed by enterprise Architecture governance)
• Embed security-by-design, IAM, encryption, data governance, and operational risk controls in all solutions.
• Work closely with risk, audit, security, and compliance teams to ensure solutions are accredited and operationally ready.

Stakeholder Management & Delivery Leadership

• Partner with business, finance, engineering, product, and operations teams to shape solution direction and trade offs.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams through delivery - from design to build to deployment.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both senior leadership and non-technical audiences.

Governance, Standards & Coaching

• Champion architectural best practices, reusable patterns, and reference architectures.
• Contribute to and manage architecture repositories, modelling standards, and documentation quality.
• Mentor engineers, junior architects, and cross-functional stakeholders; foster continuous learning and architectural excellence.

Key Skills & Experience

Core Architecture Expertise

• 10+ years in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, microservices, API-led architectures, and integration-heavy solutions.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies (AWS / Azure / GCP) including networking, IAM, compute, storage, container platforms, and cloud-native services.
• Practical knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, and SRE practices.
• Strong grounding in data architecture: warehousing, streaming, governance, lineage, and analytics.

BFSI / Enterprise Domain Experience

• Experience delivering solutions within Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, or similarly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with ERP/finance platforms, GL systems, payments, risk, regulatory reporting, EPM, Financial Planning Budgeting & Reporting or financial data flows.

Documentation & Governance

• Expertise producing MVDs, HLDs, LLDs, sequence diagrams, and architecture roadmaps.
• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and modelling tools (UML, ArchiMate, Ardoq, Visio).

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem solving, and decision making capability.
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, cross functional environments with matrixed stakeholder structures.

Tech Stack

• Cloud: GCP/Oracle EPM Cloud
• Integration: REST API , OIC, Others relevant
• Containers: Any
• Data: SQL, NoSQL, BigQuery, Dataflow, Oracle DB
• Frameworks: TOGAF, ArchiMate, Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.

We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply.

If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.