Spencer Rose are urgently seeking an experienced Solution Architect to work for our Banking client for a minimum 6 month contract (extensions highly likely), to start ASAP.
Start: ASAP (allowing up to 2 weeks for vetting and onboarding)
Day Rate: £500pd Inside IR35
Hybrid: 2 days a week in the office
Duration: 6 months initially
We are looking for a highly experienced Solution Architect with extensive Banking and Financial Services domain expertise to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale technology solutions.
The ideal candidate should possess strong architecture skills across cloud, integration, data, and application domains while having a deep understanding of retail banking, commercial banking, payments, lending, trade finance, treasury, risk, and regulatory requirements.
The Solution Architect will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, enterprise architects, and engineering teams to define solution architecture, technology roadmaps, and transformation initiatives.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale banking transformation programs.
- Strong experience engaging with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with business and technology strategies.
- Create architecture blueprints, high-level designs (HLD), and low-level designs (LLD).
- Lead architecture reviews and ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions.
- Lead cloud transformation initiatives across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Design cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
- Drive Legacy modernization and platform transformation programs.
- Define API-led and Microservices-based architectures.
- Design enterprise integration solutions using APIs, ESB, Event-Driven Architecture, and Messaging platforms.
- Define integration patterns between banking applications and third-party systems.
- Architect Real Time and batch processing solutions.
- Ensure architecture compliance with banking regulatory requirements.
- Define security architecture, authentication, authorization, and data protection strategies.
- Support audit, governance, and risk management initiatives.
Preferred banking platform experience required:
- Temenos
- Finastra
- FIS
- Oracle Banking
- Murex
- Calypso
- SAP Banking
The interview process will take place from next week, so APPLY NOW for immediate review.