Solution Architect (Open Banking experience)
Summary: The Solution Architect role focuses on leading solution architecture in complex environments, particularly within the Open Banking sector. The position requires a deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and the ability to influence stakeholders at senior levels. The architect will collaborate with product owners and delivery teams to shape roadmaps and ensure alignment with customer value. Strong communication skills are essential for articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead solution architecture in complex, multi-domain environments.
- Shape solutions involving distributed ownership and architecture across multiple parties.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and delivery teams to shape roadmaps and architecture runways.
- Create clear, concise, and executive-ready architecture artefacts and presentations.
- Influence stakeholders at senior levels and represent organizational positions in complex forums.
- Work in agile, product-led environments focusing on outcomes and customer value.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in solution architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
- Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Strong collaboration skills with Product Owners and delivery teams.
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with modern architecture and data concepts relevant to industry-wide digitization.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Key Skills & Experience
Architecture & Technical Expertise
- Strong experience leading solution architecture in complex, multi-domain environments
- Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems
- Strong data architecture capability, including external data exchange, data modelling, and ecosystem data considerations
Industry & Ecosystem Thinking
- Experience working across organisational boundaries, ideally within regulated or consortium-led environments
- Ability to shape solutions where ownership, control, and architecture are distributed across multiple parties
Stakeholder & Influence
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills across internal and external audiences
- Proven ability to influence at senior levels and represent organisational positions in complex forums
Delivery & Product Alignment
- Strong collaboration with Product Owners and delivery teams in shaping roadmaps and architecture runways
- Experience working in agile, product-led environments with a focus on outcomes and customer value
Communication & Artefact Quality
- Ability to create clear, concise, and executive-ready architecture artefacts and presentations
- Strong communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Relevant Technology & Architecture Experience
Experience with, or strong understanding of, modern architecture and data concepts relevant to industry-wide digitisation, including:
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and tokenisation approaches for asset representation and transaction flows
- Smart data contracts / programmable workflows within multi-party ecosystems
- Event-driven architecture and asynchronous integration patterns for real-time data exchange
- API-first and ecosystem integration approaches
- Enterprise and domain data modelling, including canonical models and data standardisation
- Data sharing frameworks and secure external data exchange patterns
- Cloud-native and distributed systems architecture
- Identity, consent, and trust frameworks across organisational boundaries
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