Solution Architect - Cloud/Microservices Architecture

About the Role:

A leading UK-based financial services organization is undergoing significant digital, cloud and platform transformation. The Solution Architect will design end-to-end solutions across business initiatives, partnering with engineering and platform teams to deliver resilient, secure, and cloud-native architectures at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define end-to-end solution architectures for complex business initiatives.

- Create scalable, resilient, and maintainable architectures using modern design principles.

- Produce high-quality architecture artifacts including HLDs, solution designs, sequence diagrams, and deployment architectures.

- Design and govern microservices-based architectures using API-first solutions.

- Architect solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP leveraging containers and Kubernetes.

- Embed security-by-design principles (IAM, OAuth2, mTLS) into all solutions.

- Design operational and analytical data architectures.

- Champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, and observability practices.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders and present architecture decisions to senior leadership.

Tech Stack & Requirements:

- 8 - 15 years of experience in solution/enterprise architecture roles.

- Expertise in microservices, API-first design, and integration patterns (Kafka, Pub/Sub, MQ).

- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

- Solid understanding of security-by-design (IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, SSO, mTLS).

- Experience with relational, NoSQL, and distributed data platforms.

Contact:

Sinchana, sinchana@theedgepartnership.com