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**Job Title:** Solution Architect **Key Responsibilities:** - Define and develop architecture strategies, technical roadmaps, and solution designs across a portfolio of products - Lead architectural decisions across cloud-based applications, distributed systems, and integration platforms - Design scalable, resilient solutions using modern technologies and architectural patterns - Work closely with product owners, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders to align technology with business objectives - Evaluate technology options, assess technical risks, and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions - Provide architectural guidance across complex programmes and support engineering teams through delivery - Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and security requirements - Identify opportunities to modernise technology platforms and improve architectural consistency **Key Requirements:** - Proven experience in a Senior Solution Architect, Product Architect, or similar architecture role - Strong knowledge of AWS and modern cloud-based architecture - Experience across event-driven architecture, microservices, APIs, and enterprise integration - Good understanding of distributed systems, application architecture, and data integration - Understanding of data architecture and AI/ML technologies, including how modern architecture can support AI adoption and emerging use cases - Experience defining technical strategies, architecture roadmaps, and solution designs - Ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering and product teams - Experience within Financial Services highly desirable, but not essential - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills - Comfortable operating at a strategic level while maintaining sufficient technical depth to challenge and guide engineering teams **No sponsorship available.** **Get in touch for more details – [ncarolan@mcgregor-boyall.com](mailto:ncarolan@mcgregor-boyall.com)** **Job Summary:** A leading global
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Solution Architect
- 130000.00 - 130000.00 per annum
- Manchester, Manchester, M2 4PD, England, United Kingdom
- Permanent
Senior Solution Architect
Financial Services
Location: Manchester
Working: Hybrid
Salary: 130140k + bonus & benefits (total compensation up to circa 200k)
The Role
- Joining a leading global financial services organisation within a growing technology function, working on strategic architecture initiatives across a key area of the business.
- You'll shape technical direction and architecture across complex technology environments, spanning cloud, data, application and integration architecture.
- This is a senior, strategically focused role with significant scope to influence technology decisions, drive architectural improvements and work closely with engineering, product and business leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and develop architecture strategies, technical roadmaps and solution designs across a portfolio of products
- Lead architectural decisions across cloud-based applications, distributed systems and integration platforms
- Design scalable, resilient solutions using modern technologies and architectural patterns
- Work closely with product owners, engineering teams and senior stakeholders to align technology with business objectives
- Evaluate technology options, assess technical risks and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions
- Provide architectural guidance across complex programmes and support engineering teams through delivery
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, governance and security requirements
- Identify opportunities to modernise technology platforms and improve architectural consistency
Key Requirements
- Proven experience in a Senior Solution Architect, Product Architect or similar architecture role
- Strong knowledge of AWS and modern cloud-based architecture
- Experience across event-driven architecture, microservices, APIs and enterprise integration
- Good understanding of distributed systems, application architecture and data integration
- Understanding of data architecture and AI/ML technologies, including how modern architecture can support AI adoption and emerging use cases.
- Experience defining technical strategies, architecture roadmaps and solution designs
- Ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple engineering and product teams
- Experience within Financial Services highly desirable, but not essential
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable operating at a strategic level while maintaining sufficient technical depth to challenge and guide engineering teams
No sponsorship available.
Get in touch for more details ncarolan@mcgregor-boyall.com
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