Senior Solutions Architect - Bristol or Leeds

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and become permanent and will be a hybrid role based in Leeds or Bristol.

Our client is looking for a passionate and experienced Solutions Architect to join the Segments and Propositions Platform to help run and evolve one of the group’s most valued platforms. You’ll be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and scalability of services, supporting the organisations digital transformation and long-term technology vision. 

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution architecture for products that deliver customer value while meeting quality, resilience, financial, and technical goals
• Define and align solution architecture plans with product roadmaps, ensuring technical feasibility, managing technical debt, while guiding teams through structured delivery aligning with business outcomes
• Engage in solution reviews to ensure standard compliance while identifying and addressing risks in solution architecture, using architectural or agile methods
• Research and recommend new technologies and tools to support innovative solution design and delivery
• Ensure solutions are resilient, secure, and scalable, meeting non-functional requirements, aligning with enterprise architecture and technology strategy
• Evaluate solution options while designing, using appropriate architectural building blocks for modern architectures
• Work with stakeholders, across the organisation, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical team members
• Deliver solutions using agile practices, collaborating with feature teams and promoting iterative development for continuous customer value
• Align with architectural standards and best practices, developing local standards as needed, while documenting technical debt or agreed non-compliance
• Maintain and improve technical skills by guiding engineering teams on architectural solutions while staying updated on industry trends and best practices
• Contribute to financial and technical planning, supporting product owners as well as platform leads

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Solutions Architect, using a range of modern technologies (Single Page Applications technologies such as ReactJS), Mobile Native and Cross Platform Apps (Apple iOS, Android or React Native), Microservices, APIs and cloud technologies
• Experience in Event Driven Architectures & Streaming Platforms such as Kafka
• Proficiency in working with API standards, security and gateway patterns
• Skilled in working with data technologies such as SQL/NoSQL and Big Data
• Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms, specifically GCP
• Experience with API Gateways and Management Platforms such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee or Microsoft Azure API Manager
• Good understating of cloud storage, security, networking and resource provisioning

Desirable

• Certification in GCP Professional Cloud Architect
• Expert in data analysis with experience in agile / iterative design working practices
• Knowledge of AI

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM 

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.