Senior Solutions Architect

TL;DR

Senior Solutions Architect: Leading the design of cloud-native, event-driven microservice solutions for a banking platform with an accent on optimizing for cost, performance, and security. Focus on translating business requirements into technical solutions and mentoring engineers to deliver high-quality, cloud-led solutions.

Location: Hybrid, requiring 40% (two days) in the office in Leeds, Bristol, or Birmingham.

Salary: £72,702 - £80,780

Company

hirify.global is an innovative financial institution that is shaping the future of finance and empowering its people to innovate and grow.

What you will do

• Lead and manage the design of cloud-native solutions, considering functional and non-functional aspects.
• Optimize cloud-native solutions for cost, performance, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and implement event-driven microservice architecture.
• Mentor other engineers to deliver high-quality and cloud-led solutions.
• Lead and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with Enterprise, Security, Data, and Infrastructure architects to create customer value.

Requirements

• Strong Solution Architecture experience with modern technologies (Single Page Applications like React, Mobile Native/Cross Platform Apps like iOS/Android/React Native, Microservices, APIs, cloud).
• Experience in Event Driven Architectures and Streaming Platforms (Kafka).
• Strong experience working with API standards, security, and gateway patterns.
• Working experience with data technologies (SQL/NoSQL, Big Data).
• Implementation experience in one of the cloud platforms, specifically GCP.
• Good understanding of cloud storage, security, networking, and resource provisioning.

Nice to have

• Certification in GCP.
• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices.
• Knowledge of AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and ensures people feel they belong.
• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Flexible benefits that can be adapted to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.