Solutions Architect
Licensed sponsor London Contract Posted 3 weeks ago
Role: Solution Architect & FICC
Job Location: London, UK - 2 Days Onsite
Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35
Reporting/working model: Reporting into Lead Cloud Architect, sharing the architecture and governance-documentation load.
Core responsibilities
- Own end-to-end solution architecture (compute, networking, security, resilience) for FICC applications, largely On-Prem, AWS-hosted, some Azure.
- Author governance documentation - SDD, ADD, ASA, HLD - and take designs through our internal ARB/governance process.
- Hands-on knowledge of IAC, CI/CD, Terraform, pipelines personally, not just review/approve others' work.
- Kubernetes/EKS migration design, including ownership of on-prem to cloud migrations end-to-end.
- IAM/IdM design and security reviews (Okta/SailPoint/Entra-type tooling).
Must-haves
- Financial services / regulated environment experience - not generic experience.
- Can PROVE hands-on experience, owning end-to-end solution design not just "I designed it and a team built it".
- Has personally owned an EKS/Kubernetes migration end-to-end (not just coached/advised one).
- Has AUTHORED governance docs (SDD/ADD/ASA), not just reviewed/signed off on them.
Nice-to-have: index/benchmark/market-data platform experience, data migration experience (DMS, Sybase/Mongo to Aurora-type work).
