Alba Partners is an independent, specialist consultancy with offices in Edinburgh, London and Dubai. We deliver complex, regulatory change for financial services and public sector clients, across risk, resilience and cyber, data, analytics and AI, and change and transformation.
Our work is senior led. The people who shape the strategy are the people who deliver it, and our leaders have worked inside the types of institutions we now advise. We have no product to sell, so our advice serves the client.
Alba Partners is looking for a Solutions Architect to join a professional services client as they bring in new SaaS platforms for HR, CRM and KYC.
You will work alongside the business Project Managers who run each implementation. Your job is to design how each platform fits into the client's existing technology estate, covering integration, data, identity and security.
What you'll do
- Act as the architecture lead for business Project Managers on HR, CRM and KYC SaaS solutions.
- Produce solution designs and architecture documentation for each implementation.
- Support vendor and product evaluation against business, technical and security requirements.
- Design integrations between SaaS platforms and existing systems.
- Define data, identity, access and security patterns.
- Assure delivery against agreed designs and contribute to architecture standards.
- Work with the Technology Project Manager, vendors and the managed service provider.
What you'll bring
- Proven experience as a Solutions Architect.
- Experience designing and integrating SaaS solutions, ideally HR, CRM or KYC platforms.
- Strong knowledge of integration approaches, including APIs and Middleware.
- Knowledge of identity, access management and security for cloud services.
- Experience in professional services, financial services or another regulated environment.
- The ability to explain technical design clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- TOGAF or a cloud architecture certification would be an advantage.