Solutions Architect

Solution Architect

Location: London (1-2 days per week onsite)
Sector: Banking & Financial Services
Domain Experience Required: Retail Banking and/or Credit Cards

Are you an experienced Enterprise or Solution Architect who thrives in complex banking environments? We're recruiting for two Enterprise Solution Architect positions to play a critical role in shaping, designing and delivering strategic technology solutions across a major banking organisation.

These roles will suit architects who can combine strong technical leadership with exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, operating confidently at Managing Director and Executive level while remaining hands-on in architecture development and solution design.

Technical Environment

The successful candidates will have strong experience designing solutions across:

• APIs and API-led Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Data Architecture & Integration
• BPM / Workflow Platforms
• Cloud-based and Distributed Systems
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Modern Application Architecture

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution Architect within Banking.
• Strong Retail Banking and/or Credit Cards experience.
• Proven ability to operate at enterprise scale across complex transformation programmes.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior executives and business stakeholders.
• Track record of delivering architecture from concept through implementation.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture principles and patterns.
• Experience driving architectural governance and technology strategy.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently whilst providing architectural leadership across multiple teams.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.