Solution Architect

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

SALARY: £81,999 - £95,000

LOCATION: London

HOURS:  Full time  

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London office.

About this opportunity… 

Great opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our Payments Platform to orchestrate complex solution architectures with a broad architectural significance for key outcomes or epics by defining the architectures and designs that deliver our key outcomes aligning with our technology strategy. You’ll play a substantive role in enabling teams to deliver at pace by shaping the solution architecture forward look for a lab or platform, and partner with Product Owners engineering teams and Enterprise architects.

About us… 

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too… 

What you’ll do…

• Lead the solution architecture of solutions for products that deliver customer value and meet our quality, resilience, financial and technical objectives.

• Support the definition a solution architecture forward look within the QBR planning horizon to inform the product roadmaps.  Considering currency and technical debt and key outcomes and epics, work ahead to shape the technical activities needed that allow teams to deliver and meet our architecture roadmaps in support of the product vision.

• Analyse options and implementation alternatives to propose solutions and create designs using relevant architectural building blocks delivering modernised architectures

• Align with architectural standards, protocols, principles and patterns and support the development of local standards and patterns as required.  Where it is not possible to align with standards and patterns ensure an agreed position is reached, and technical debt or non-compliance is captured.

• Provide technical direction or guidance to engineering teams on architectural solutions.

• Research and recommend new technologies and tools to support solution development.

• Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable, meeting key non-functional requirements which align with enterprise architecture and our technology strategy.

• Participate in solution reviews to ensure compliance with standards.

• Identify and help mitigate risks associated with solution architecture driving resolution through architectural or agile practices.

• Contribute to innovation and continuous improvement in solution design and delivery.

• Deliver solutions in an agile manner, participating in agile ceremonies and using agile tools, working with feature teams in the flow of the work, ensuring iterative development and seeking continuous feedback to enable incremental customer value delivery.

• Maintain and enhance technical skills sufficiently to provide technical guidance and stay current with technologies industry trends and standards.

What you’ll need…

• Microservices and event-driven architecture

• API design and integration patterns

• Domain-driven design and service orchestration

• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security

• Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ

• Jenkins, UrbanCode, Maven, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration

• Experience of either Azure, AWS, GCP, private cloud platform

• Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, BigQuery

• TLS v1.2+, secure credential handling

It would be great if you also had… 

• Payments architecture and integration (transaction processing, authorisation, reconciliation)

• UK Domestic Payments (Faster Payments, BACS, Cheques), International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA)

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.  We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes… 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance  

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!