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Salary: £31,000 - 49,000 per year
Requirements: 15+ years of experience in enterprise, solution architecture, hands-on software engineering, and distributed systems design.Deep functional and technical knowledge of banking domains, including retail/commercial banking, payments ecosystems, transaction processing, lending, or capital markets.Deep, hands-on architectural expertise in at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.Professional-level cloud architecture certifications are highly preferred.Proven understanding of AI-native paradigms, multi-agent frameworks, LLM orchestration, semantic vector search, and modern data streaming architectures.Expertise in microservices, modular monoliths, domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architecture (EDA), and REST/GraphQL API ecosystems.Proven ability to engage, influence, and build trust with C-level stakeholders, client architecture boards, and cross-functional engineering teams. Responsibilities: Lead large-scale architectural and digital transformations for Tier-1 and growth banking and financial services clients in the UK and Europe.Define target-state enterprise architectures and bridge legacy core banking platforms with modern cloud-native ecosystems.Architect robust, highly resilient, and scalable target-state solutions on a major hyperscaler for complex banking environments.Pioneer the integration of AI-native architecture patterns, including agentic workflows, autonomous systems, RAG pipelines, and model-driven orchestration, into core banking, payments, and risk operations.Translate complex business requirements across retail banking, corporate banking, payments, and open banking into modular, event-driven, and API-first architectures.Partner with client CTOs, enterprise architects, and our sales leaders to lead technical discovery, respond to complex RFPs, design proof-of-concepts, and deliver C-suite architectural blueprints.Ensure target architectural blueprints align with UK and EU financial regulatory standards, cyber resilience frameworks, and data sovereignty mandates.Guide multidisciplinary engineering squads, establish architecture guardrails, and conduct rigorous design reviews to ensure alignment with target-state blueprints. Technologies: AIAPIAWSArchitectAzureCloudDDDGraphQLLLMRAGRESTmicroservicesGCPSwift More:
We are Coforge, and we are seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Solutions Architect for a permanent hybrid role based in London, UK, with three days per week on-site at our London (Fenchurch Street) office. This role sits within our Banking & AI-Native Solutions domain, supporting our Tier-1 and growth Banking & Financial Services clients across the UK and Europe. You will work on strategic transformation initiatives, modern cloud-native banking platforms, and AI-native engineering across critical banking workloads.
last updated 36 week of 2026