Solutions Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Experience in solution architecture and system design
• Experience with cloud-native architectures
• Data architecture and modelling skills
• Knowledge of data integration and transformation patterns
• Experience with large-scale data migration programmes
• Knowledge of security, governance and design assurance
• Architecture documentation and stakeholder management skills
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Banking or financial services experience is desirable
• Experience with Foundation Data Product (FDP) architectures is desirable
• Familiarity with dbt and modern data platform tooling is desirable
• Knowledge of event-driven and distributed architectures is desirable
• Experience with GCP and cloud data services is desirable
• Knowledge of data quality, reconciliation and migration controls is desirable

• Define end-to-end migration architectures, patterns and technical solutions
• Produce and govern solution designs, high-level designs and architecture decision records
• Ensure migration designs align with enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards
• Define migration approaches for data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation and target consumption
• Provide design oversight and technical guidance to Data Engineers and Software Engineers
• Identify and manage architecture risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies
• Support tooling and platform decisions across migration programmes
• Collaborate with business, engineering and platform teams to shape migration roadmaps and delivery plans
• Drive reusability, standardisation and continuous improvement across migration solutions

• Architect
• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• Security
• dbt

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We are seeking a Solutions Architect to work with our banking client in Manchester. This is a 6–12 month contract, with an immediate start, and requires on-site work two days per week. The role focuses on governing end-to-end architecture for large-scale data migration and supporting delivery across Migration Factory, Data Engineering and business teams. The contract is Inside IR35. Interviews are scheduled to take place next week.

last updated 43 week of 2026