About this role
An established financial services organisation is currently recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to join its technology architecture team. The Senior Solution Architect will help shape the architecture roadmap for core banking systems, provide senior technical leadership and ensure change initiatives align with agreed architecture standards, governance requirements and the organisation's wider technology strategy. You will work across technology, programme teams, senior stakeholders and third-party suppliers, reviewing solution designs and helping ensure they integrate effectively into the target architecture.
Key Responsibilities for the Senior Solution Architect:
Help mature and support the design approach for banking systems, ensuring third-party solution designs integrate coherently into the target architectureDevelop and maintain an integrated view of the technology architecture using repeatable frameworks, reference models and architecture artefactsProvide technical oversight and architecture governance across change initiatives, reviewing designs and delivery artefacts for alignment with agreed standards and business needsWork with business stakeholders, technology teams and third-party suppliers to define pragmatic solutions and support effective technical decision makingContribute to architecture roadmaps, technology assurance processes and the continuous improvement of architecture governancePresent complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior audiences Skills Required for the Senior Solution Architect:
Extensive enterprise architecture experience across information, integration, security and application architecture, with strong technical analysis and design capabilityStrong knowledge of API-centric architecture, microservices, data integration, middleware, messaging technologies and architecture governanceExperience of architecture frameworks, reference models, architecture repositories and creating high-level design artefacts for technical and non-technical audiencesStrong leadership, analytical, planning, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholdersExperience within financial services, banking platforms, Temenos, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 or Dynamics, and relevant architecture or assurance qualifications would be advantageous Please apply as directed!